Carlisle's POV

After making sure Bella was safe, I slipped through the wet grass in search of the man who had inflicted the terror and pain on my darling daughter. As I neared the spot where I had previously dropped him I realised he had crawled off, probably to go and hide. I closed my eyes and listened carefully, I could hear his heart softly thumping a few metres away. I set off in the direction it was coming from, following his rancid scent. I saw him cowering under a large tree, trying to sink as small as possible, hoping that I wouldn't see him. I was curious to know how he knew how to cast Bella's leg so well but I was too filled with hatred to think about it at that moment.

I slowly stalked towards him, my marble body wracked with pure anger. The dishevelled man caught sight of me and started to whimper while trying to get to his feet. I flitted over at vampire speed, eyes black with fury and grasped him by the shoulders. I held him up against the tree as he kicked his dangling legs out like a small toddler trying to get away from an angry parent. His face was panic stricken as he tried in vain to break my grip. I changed the position of my hands, lowering his feet to the floor to hold his neck with my left and grasp his cheeks with my right. I forced him to look at me.

'How dare you!' I spat, looking him in the eyes 'how dare you even touch my Bella!'

'P...p...please!' he wheezed, I loosened my grip on his neck allowing him to talk, 'I...I was h...helping h...her!'

Confusion edited my features and I took my right hand away from his face to run my hand through my hair. This gave the man hope of escape and he tried to wriggle away. Picking him up, I threw his gangly body over my shoulder and carried him towards the house to look for clues as to what went on.

As I opened the door to the basement and descended the staircase, I saw where my poor Bella had been kept. I saw the chains, the table and the medical equipment, every inch of my human compassion burned away in an instant. I threw the man down on the table and dragged the heavy cold chains across him, securing him to the table. I knew I needed to calm down and think things through otherwise I would do something I would regret. As I stared down at the sobbing man I let a low growl rumble through my chest. This scared the man witless, his face turned as white as a sheet and his eyes rolled back into his head before they closed fully. He had fainted. I glared at his unconscious body before noticing his doctor's coat which filled me with curiosity. My emotions and feelings were so mixed and mangled together that I used the last ounce of rationality I had to tear myself away from the basement and out of the house. I needed to hunt to calm down or I would lose control. I sprinted past the car, stopping for a brief moment to check Bella was okay, then off into the nearby forest to satisfy my hunger brought on by hatred. My vampire instincts were battling with my human ones and I knew that blood would allow me to calm down and think logically before acting. I wanted with every inch to tear that lowlife to shreds, however there were questions that needed answering and I couldn't really kill him... Could I?