Chapter 9
BELLA POV
I drove straight to my house after sending the text. Her car was in the driveway, and I thanked God she was home. I ran into the house. I was trembling and tears were falling down my face.
"Rose!" I all but yelled.
"Rose! Where are you?" I was panicked.
"Bella, what's wrong?" The voice surprised me. I didn't expect to see him here.
"Emmett, where's Rose?" I managed to get out.
"Bella?" Rose said coming down the stairs. "I just got your text. What's wrong?" She asked taking in my appearance.
I must have looked a mess. I didn't really want to discuss this in front of Emmett.
"Em, can we have a minute please?" Rose must have realized I wasn't going to say anything in front of him.
"Sure thing beautiful. I'll be outside." He said and walked out the front door.
"You're scaring the shit out of me Bella. What the hell is going on?" She said.
"Rose, he's here. I just saw him." I sobbed.
She immediately pulled me in her arms.
"Baby girl, you really need to calm down. You are trembling. Now tell me who did you see? Edward?" She asked clearly confused.
"Not Edward. Riley." As soon as his name fell from my lips that nausea feeling was back and I barely made it to the waste basket before I was throwing up.
"Oh My GOD!" Rose said pulling my hair back.
"It's okay. He's not going to hurt you again. I promise." Rose tried reassuring me.
I rinsed my mouth and sat in the kitchen chair.
"Rose, I don't know what to do." I said feeling completely helpless.
She sat across from me holding my hand. It had only been a few minutes when Emmett came back in.
"I'm sorry to interrupt but I couldn't help it. Something's wrong, and I need to know what it is." He said standing with his arms crossed.
"Not now Emmett." Rose said trying to keep my secret.
I battled with the decision to tell him, and in the end I realized that no matter what it was better if they knew.
"It's okay Rose. You can tell him." I said.
She looked at me like I had lost my mind.
"Are you sure?" She asked.
"Yeah, they're going to find out one way or the other, and this way at least I know you will be better protected." I said truthfully.
I knew Emmett. He was very protective, like all the Cullen's, but he especially. He liked Rose, and I knew that he would do anything to make sure she was safe.
I sat there for what felt like an eternity after she told him all about the last year of my life in Phoenix. I saw many emotions change on Emmett's face. Pity, Anger, Disgust, Hate…
He looked at me for a second, and then stood up. I wasn't sure what he was going to do, but I didn't expect for him to pull me up and hug me. I lost it at that point. I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. I sobbed for myself, and for the pain I caused his family. I cried for everything I missed out on, and for the things that Riley had taken from me.
I eventually pulled it together and Emmett released me, but not before walking over to Rose and kissing her tenderly and excusing himself for a second.
"Bella, I think you should maybe lie down for a minute. You clearly have been through a lot today, and I am sure you need a moment to rest. Let everything settle and when you get up we can come up with a game plan. You're safe here, and I'll make sure Emmett stays until we talk again later." Rose said.
I nodded and made my way upstairs. I changed my clothes, and threw on my old ratty Cullen baseball t-shirt. I wore it when I needed to comforting, and now more than ever that's what I needed.
EDWARD POV
I received a text from Emmett and drove straight to Bella's house. I saw Emmett sitting outside on the porch. I knew something was wrong just by looking at his face.
"Bella?" I asked wanting to make sure she was okay.
"She's okay. She's upstairs resting." He said sadly and then looked away. It was so unlike Emmett to be quiet and distant. He knew something and it wasn't good. He wouldn't look me in the eye. It was bad.
"What is it?" I needed to know what the hell was going on.
"Edward, man. I don't think I can tell you, and before you go and get all pissed. It's not that I don't want to because trust me you need to know. I actually can't. I don't think I can say it to you. It was hard enough listening to Rose tell me. I think you should hear it from Bella." He said still not wanting to look me in the eye.
"Emmett, what the fuck? You are you freaking me the fuck out man." I was getting angry.
I decided he wasn't going to say anything and was making my way into the door when he grabbed me and stopped me.
"Look whatever you do. You need to calm the hell down. Don't go in there screaming and yelling at anyone. It's not going to help the situation any. It's not going to help Bella." I was done with the cryptic shit. Emmett walked in and went sat by Rose and hugged her.
I followed him into the living room, and was met with Rose's sad blue eyes. I was surprised to see how loving Emmett was being to Rose. I knew he was very caring especially with the women in our family, I just didn't expect to see his so intimate with Rose. He was a very private person, and usually held back all PDA.
She pointed up the stairs signally for me that I could go up and see Bella.
"Edward?" She said stopping me from turning towards the steps.
"Don't hurt her please." She said quietly.
I nodded and made my way to Charlie's old room. I passed Bella's and was instantly pulled back into a memory
"Edward, you are going to break your neck. My dad's going to kill you." She said while I was climbing the tree to get in her window.
"Move back Bella." I said about to jump from the tree branch.
I jumped and grabbed onto her window sill. I climbed in, and took in her appearance.
She was wearing a spaghetti strap shirt and those panties that looked more like men's underwear, and I grew instantly hard.
"Uh Huh Cullen. Don't get any ideas." She said and went to grab a shirt to wear.
I instantly pulled off the shirt I was wearing. It was my Baseball shirt with Cullen on the back.
She smiled, and pulled it over her. It fell right above her knees, and she smelled the collar.
She looked sexy wearing my shirt, and I was more than happy to know that she was sporting my name on her. The next week was when she surprised me with the tattoo.
I thought the shirt was sexy, but seeing my name permanently etched on her skin and the Cullen Crest on her lower back that was the absolutely most fuck hot thing ever on this planet.
I didn't knock and opened the door. She was curled up in the fetal position clutching the blanket. I didn't wake her at first. I just stared at her sleeping figure. Even in sleep, she is looked frightened. One of the first things I noticed was the fun on her nightstand. After about twenty minutes of watching her sleep I decided I needed some answers. I moved a stray piece of her hair and she stirred.
Her eyes met mine, and she instantly sat up.
"Edward?" She said.
I didn't answer her at first, I was in shock. Bella was wearing my baseball shirt. I was at a lost for words that she still had, and that she was still wearing it was a lot to take in. She looked at my eyes and then looked down and then her cheeks turned pink. She was embarrassed.
I took my hand and touched her cheek where her blush had formed. We just stared at each other for a minute. I wanted so bad to grab her and hold her to me, but right now I needed to get answers. No more waiting or wondering.
"Bella, I need you to tell me the truth." I said.
Her eyes filled with tears and fell down her cheeks. She instantly wiped them and pulled her knees up to her chest.
"Edward, before I tell you anything. I need you to realize I didn't come back for you to save me or protect me. I didn't know that I even needed it when I left. I thought I put this all behind me until today." She said sadly.
"Tell me." I demanded.
"I met someone in Phoenix. It was great at first. He was the perfect gentleman, great job, sweet, funny, but it was all a lie." she said looking away from me.
I instantly grew jealous knowing that she was with someone else, but I needed to reign that shit in and deal with it later. I needed her to continue.
"We had been dating almost a year, when I noticed his snooping through my phone. I had asked him what he was doing, and he said he was looking for a number. I didn't think anything of it at first, but a few weeks later I ended up coming home from work early, and found him going through my closet digging in my old boxes. I questioned him, we argued. I don't know why he began to doubt me, but he said he felt like he couldn't trust me. I didn't feel like I was hiding my past at the time, but I guess I was. I tried to see it from his perspective, but I still wasn't comfortable enough telling him about my past, about my name change, or about you. Things were better awhile after that. He was acting like his normal self, when one day I got a call from my storage manager saying someone had broke into my storage unit. I went and accessed the damages, but nothing was missing. The only thing disturbed was a box of stuff labeled Home. It was pictures of us, and things that reminded me of you, and it had this shirt in it. I got home later that night, and he was there drunk. I instantly realized it was him that had broken into my unit and called him out on it. He demanded to know who you were and why I felt it necessary to keep all those things from my past. I couldn't tell him, and I was so pissed at him for doubting me and my feelings for him. I would have told him eventually but I just wasn't ready yet. I insisted that he leave, and he refused. I went to grab the phone to call the police and that's when he grabbed me. I don't remember much after the first punch because I was knocked unconscious. I woke up in the middle of the beating and heard him whisper that no one would believe me if I said it was him, and that for my sake I shouldn't tell a sole. He left after that, and I barely managed to get to the phone and call an ambulance. Rose met me at the hospital, and stayed with me. She wanted to kill him, still does. She helped me get a restraining order on him which wasn't easy considering who he is. In the end the judge granted the RO only because he was fond of Rose, but it took a few weeks since I wasn't pressing criminal charges on him. Rose made me promise that I would leave Phoenix. Forks was the only place I felt safe, and that's why I came back. He's dangerous Edward and I'm scared." She finished and I couldn't say a word.
She looked up at me and all I could do was pull her into my arms.
"I'm sorry, Bells." I said rubbing her back as her tiny body was racked with sobs.
I had killed many people in the last ten years. I had felt every emotion under the sun, but the fury that consumed me was like no other. The person that had touched her was going to know pain for along time. He would beg me for death, but it wouldn't be quick. It would not be that easy. He would suffer. He would pay.
"Name?" I asked to the crying angel on my lap.
"Riley Biers." She said and my whole body went slack.
She had dated a FBI agent. That stupid motherfucker who was on my turf today. That bastard had the nerve to fuck with my girl in my town. It was no wonder she didn't want to press charges, and I was honestly surprised that she did get a restraining order. Obviously, he wasn't charged since he was walking around with that shiny FBI badge. He was in for a rude awakening. I didn't fucking care who he was or what kind of badge he had, but he would know who the hell I was when I was threw with him.
"It's okay Babe." I said consoling her.
"Bella, I am going to go downstairs and get Rosalie for a minute okay?" I said running my hand through her hair.
"No. Please don't leave me!" she cried. " I need you, please." She said so brokenly.
"Okay. Okay. I wont." Lie down and I will stay with you until you fall asleep.
She laid on the bed and I put my arm around her. We must have laid there for an hour when I finally heard her breathing even and relaxed. She had fallen asleep. I carefully made my way down the stairs and was greeted with four concerned faces.
Jasper and Alice were sitting across from Rose and Emmett at the table.
"I figured that you wouldn't want to leave her unprotected." Emmett said motioning toward Jasper.
"Your right, and I think I might need you." I said to Emmet. I needed to be smart with dealing with Riley. I wasn't stupid and I knew I couldn't just walk into the police station and blow his head off, but I sure in the hell was going to let him know that I knew who he was and was definitely going to warn him to stay the fuck away from Bella.
"Stay here, and if she wakes up tell her I'll be back." I said to Jasper and a worried Alice.
Emmett followed me and we both got into my car.
I called my mom and sure enough he was still at the carnival. I saw my mother as we walked passed her towards the police booth.
"Excuse me, Agent Biers. Mind if I have couple minutes of your time." I asked as polite as could be.
He eyed me and Emmett and then handed the spatula to another deputy to take over. He pulled the apron off and walked around the table. He was headed for the bench when I whispered. "Not here."
I wanted to get my point across this wasn't going to happen in public.
"Follow me." I said walking towards the park pavilion.
He went inside and I turned towards him.
"What do I owe the pleasure?" He asked smartly.
I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pushed him up against the wall.
"Assaulting an FBI agent not too smart." He said smiling. "Fuck you, Dick. I just want to warn you. I know who you are, and I know what you're doing, and it ends now. You so much as look or breathe in her direction and I will end you. You got that asshole?" I was inches from his face.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." He insisted.
"I'm talking about Bella. If you go near her, you're dead." I released him and he started fixing his shirt.
"Oh, Isabella. I understand you two had a thing back in the day. I can understand your frustrations. I am here on official police business, Edward. I can promise you that work is my top priority, however, all work and no play makes Riley a dull boy." He laughed and my fist met his face.
Emmett pulled me off of him.
"Not here, Edward. Not now." He said.
"It's amazing what you miss about someone when there gone. I mean I miss the way her mouth used to …." I was out of Emmett's arms again and had gotten about a good three punches in when another set of arms was pulling me off of him.
"Edward calm down." He said.
Carlisle was holding me back along with Emmett.
"You're Dead." I told him and meant it.
"Are you threatening me?" He asked wiping his bloody lip.
"It's not a threat you asshole, that's a fucking promise. Watch your back?" I seethed.
"Edward, let's go." Emmett said pulling me by the arm.
"Now." Carlisle demanded.
It took everything in me not to go back in there and finish what I started.
As soon as we were outside, my mother was instantly next to my farther inspecting me. I had blood spots on my shirt from where his blood must have splattered and my knuckles were red and swollen.
"Jesus, Edward are you okay?" She said looking over my whole body for any more damage.
"I'm fine Ma." I lied.
"I don't know what the hell is going on, but I want to know why you just threatened a FBI agent, son" Carlisle spoke calmly. "Meet me at the house in an hour." He said.
"I can't." I responded.
"The hell you can't Edward. You will be there in an hour. I don't want any excuses." He said grabbing my mother and pulling her away.
"Fuck!" I said.
"I'll go back to the house with Rose. You go get cleaned up and talk to dad." Emmett said patting me on the back. "She'll be safe." He promised.
It wasn't the fact that he was going and I wasn't. It was the fact that for the first time in almost ten years, I didn't care about the family or what this may have done to hurt us. I may have just royally fucked our whole family in the process of my stupid need to protect Bella. I only hoped history wouldn't repeat itself, and that somehow I didn't fuck us over too bad. I was adamant I was going to protect Bella at any cost, but I really wasn't going to lose or hurt my family in the process. I may have already screwed up once, but I was going to prove to my father that this mistake wasn't going to happen again. I was going to find a balance between Bella and my family, and I hoped my dad would help me do it.
OKAY SO ITS ALMOST 1:30 AM HERE. I COULDN'T TURN MY BRAIN OFF AND FELT BAD THA T I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO UPDATE FOR A FEW DAYS….I HOPE THIS CHAPTER LIVED UP TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS. I REREAD IT A FEW TIMES, AND APOLOGIZE FOR ANY MISTAKES. I AM HAVE ASLEEP. PLEASE REVIEW. I LOVE READING THEM AND IT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS I GOT UP AT MIDNIGHT AND TYPED THIS CHATPER. IF ANYONE IS WONDERING YES, MY STORY IS INSPIRED BY THE SHOW SONS OF ANARCHY BUT ISN'T A CROSSOVER. I JUST LOVED THE PLOT AND DECIDED TO INCORPORAT IT INTO TWILIGHT. THINGS WONT ALWAYS HAPPEN LIKE IT DID ON THE SHOW, BUT SOME IDEAS ARE INSPIRED BY IT. IF YOU DID WATCH THE SHOW AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING PLAYED OUT IN THIS FANFICTION PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I ALREADY HAVE ONE FAN THAT GAVE ME HER OPINION AND I AM HAPPY TO SAY THAT IT WILL BE IN THE STORY. I AM SURE SHE KNOWS WHO SHE IS. WELL ANYWAY. IT'S LATE. I'M SORRY IF THIS ISN'T MY BEST CHAPTER AND I PROMISE TO UPDATE IN A FEW DAYS. KEEP REVIEWING THOUGH AND I MIGHT JUST GET INSPIRED TO WAKE UP AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND TYPE ANOTHER CHAPTER.
LOVE TO ALL.
