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Chapter 10
Riley
"DNA results are in...You are not the father."
"Fuck yeah!" I cheer and throw a pillow at the old T.V and the antenna stumbles but stays, "Whore is trying to do him dirty! Bitch was proved wrong! If she hadn't been such a slut she wouldn't be there!"
The door to my left bursts open and Victoria comes in, "Riley, shut the fuck up!" She stands with a hand at her hip and glares.
"I'm learning, Vick. How to make sure bitches don't trick me."
"What did you do to them?"
"To who?" What the hell is she talking about.
"The parts, what did you do with the parts you removed from Marshall?"
"Oh!" I say brightly and turn towards my nightstand rummaging for the pictures. "You're going to love this." I pull out the envelope and hand it to her, going to stand behind her as she flips through them. "I have the parts in storage, I figured he might have some use for them. Want not, waste not. Something like that."
"Riles, this is just disgusting!" She flips through them but I can hear the smile in her voice. "You've gotten better."
"Well, after working with him so many times, I was bound to learn from the master."
"Well, soon enough you might actually be better than him."
I blush and take the photos as she hands them back. "I figured you would enjoy these photos." I grab her around the waist and pull her closer to me, kissing her forcefully. "Why don't you show me just how much you enjoyed this little souvenir."
She giggles and pulls my face close to her, grabbing the pictures once more from my hand and falls back to the bed, pulling me on top of her.
Bella POV
My eyes sting all morning and I find it a little had to talk.
"Okay, let's go." Edward sighs late in the afternoon.
"What, where?" I glance at him from my spot from the floor in front of the sofa.
"You're sulking. You have managed not to sulk this much all of this time, you're not about to start now." He extends his hand for me to take and pulls me up from the floor and drags me up the stairs. I frown as he pushes me into my room.
"You have," He starts at his wrist, what I assume is an imaginary watch, "30 minutes before I come in and take you out. Whether you are ready or not." He turns and shuts the door behind him and I hear his feet retreat down the hallway towards his room.
Since when is he the one that drags me out? I head towards my closet and take the first thing I can find before heading into the shower shuffling my feet slowly, grumbling over Edward's sudden change of attitude.
We spend the day walking around Millennium Park as Edward explains all the tourist spots around the city and I slowly start to grow excited about visiting these places. I forget about the body and soon enough I find myself wishing I had brought the camera from home. It's not like I can share the photos with anyone, but maybe when this is all over I could keep everything and show it to Alice.
From the park there are tours that head around the city and I make Edward promise to take me on one soon enough and he laughs and cringes at the thought of citing on top of a bus with all the tourist. "Chicago is the best city for you to be in, there is so much to do and see. Trust me, you won't see that on top of a bus. I'll take you myself. After all, i was born and bred here, who best to show you around. Some of the tourist guides haven't even been here more than 5 years."
We sit under Cloud Gate and talk about our upbringings and popular sites up around our hometowns, mostly his, until we have to head back home to get ready for work.
When we are in the car, my thoughts start to run away from me and back towards the body as my hand inches towards the radio. I turn the radio on and hesitate for a minute before deciding on a music station, fighting against myself to keep my mind off from anything upsetting. At home we get our uniform before heading back out to Grizzel and I once again play music, turning it louder as the struggle against myself grows. Inside, Edward holds my hand in front of everyone and I sigh in relief, knowing that even if I wanted news, I can't get ahold of them here.
"Bella, we are going to need you and Edward to help serve tonight. Eric and Ben will help with stock today. We have a full house today so we are going to need all the help we can get. We have some guys you haven't had a chance to meet, you'll see them around." Rosalie hands us our earpieces and goes around explaining assignments to everyone.
When Grizzel opens up there is what seems like hundreds of people waiting outside which makes me question just how many people can fit inside. I run around the whole night taking orders right and left and making runs to the bar, never having more than 30 seconds to take a breathe.
"Hey, I'm Henry." A man from behind the bar briefly extends his hand towards me, shouting over the music. I shake his hand and he continues, "You must be Bella, I heard you're one of the new hires. Rosalie's sister right?"
"Sister-in-law. What happened to Ana?"
"Other side of the bar, we switch once in awhile." He looks over my order and starts making them. I take a minute to look him over, wondering why I didn't notice him before today. Dark well groomed wavy hair, light tan skin and as he starts to place drinks in front of me I notice he has two different colored eyes. One is a light blue and the other a chocolate brown. At first I blame it on a trick of the light and when he places another drink in front of me, I smile and notice it's not.
"Why didn't see I see you before?"
"I mostly work weekends." I load my tray and motion I'll be back and deliver my orders.
About 5 minutes later I am back with Henry, "Why didn't I see you yesterday?"
"I was feeling under the weather, I still have a bit of a headache but weekends offer too good of tips to skip out on." He wiggles his eyebrows at me before taking my order once more, furiously mixing drinks.
"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, Henry." I smile towards him and he smiles, without looking up from his work.
"Pleasure to meet you, Bella."
I take my tray from the bar once more and walk between the booths before finding the right one and setting down the drinks in front of me.
"Took you long enough, Sweetheart." I hear a voice slur next to me seconds before I feel a hand on my ass. I stand sharply, beer still in hand, spilling some on the table. I look to the owner of the voice and a man with a large pink face, red and sweaty with a mustache that from my point of view looks like ants running away from his mouth, smiles at me. He steps towards me and I take a step back as he reaches for my right wrist.
My heart starts to pound and I hear a roar growing in my ears as he pulls me closer to him. His large round belly digs to my side, "Let me go." I shout over the music and pull back sharply. He places a hand on my forearm to keep me in place.
"Don't be like that, doll." He shoves a bill into my apron and keeps his hand there and at this point I am starting to freak out. His friends laugh as I look around frantically and I see Rosalie at the bar, her eyes wide open. I loose sight of her and everything seems to slow down. As I struggle to free myself once more, ignoring the rubbing of the skin on my arm, I look around for anyone who could help. "You're new here, aren't you?"
"Leave me alone." I scream out as I reach for a drink in front of me, not yet knowing if I plan on throwing it at his face, with or without the glass. Suddenly I am jerked free from him and I stumble to the left, spilling the contents of the drink down my front. People around me move, finally looking and I turn to find Emmett and one of the guards whose face I can't distinguish holding back the man. In between the man and Edward, stands Henry, pushing Edward back. I can't hear anything past the now steady roaring in my ears. Rosalie is at my side, an arm out in front of me as she looks at the group, signally for them to move. I can't hear what she says even though she standsnext to me, she turns and her eyes land on me. She puts her hands around my face and looks me up and down for a moment before putting her arm around me once more and dragging me away with an angry look on her face. I look back towards the group and watch as Edward pushes Henry out of the way, looking murderous as he lunges towards the red faced man once more before I loose sight of everyone again.
The roaring goes down as my heartbeat takes over and I can almost swear I can hear my own breathing as she pulls me into the brightly lit kitchen. I squint my eyes at the sudden change and blindly follow her towards the back corner of the kitchen. Jasper looks over his shoulder from the stove and I turn towards Rosalie once more. She sits me down on a plastic table at the back and sits in front of me in a chair, holding out a water bottle towards me. I can see her lips moving in front of me and I shake my head and hold my ear. I hop up from the table as I remember Edward and I start to walk towards the door before Rosalie grabs me by the wrist. I look at her with wide eyes, "Edward. I need to find Edward." I try to pull free from her grasp already past the point of caring if I get in trouble or not. I already caused a scene and she is probably considering firing me for it already. I need to find Edward. The loud heartbeat in my ears starts to go down and I hear the loud music once more as the kitchen door is opened and Emmett rushes in with Edward. I pull my wrist hard from Rosalie and head towards Edward. I reach for his face and he stops my wrist half way, before putting his own hands around my own face and looking me up and down. "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
"No. Are you?"
"Don't worry about me, Isabella. Where are you hurt?"
"I'm not. I'm not. What…" I look towards Emmett as I see him through my peripheral vision, holding a towel towards his face. "What happened?"
"He punched me in the face." Emmett shrugs and I frown looking back at Edward.
"What happened?" Edward holds my arm out and sees the angry red mark from where I was grabbed. He reaches for the towel Emmett holds and Emmett hands it to him without hesitation.
"It doesn't matter." He gently holds the towel, which must hold ice inside, towards my arm and the change in temperature stings before relief spreads.
"What does matter is that Seeley and Jared are taking care of it." Emmett starts.
"I hope you mean that we are pressing charges." Rosalie looks at him with a serious look.
"No." I say and look towards Edward, "He didn't really do anything." I don't really know if the police will or won't know if my identity is fake but I would rather not have my name on record.
"Bella, he had his hands all over you." Rosalie says angrily. "We are pressing charges."
"Rosalie, please just… I want to forget about it. I don't want him to come back but I don't want to make this longer than I have to." I look towards Edward, hoping he understands my reasoning without having to say anything. He shuts his eyes and pinches the bridge of his nose.
"Take care of it, Emmett. Please." He looks towards Emmett and Emmett gives a small grin before dropping his towel wrapped ice and leaving the kitchen without a word.
"Why don't you guys head upstairs to the office. Relax for a bit, you should eat or… I don't know. Something. You guys are done for the week." She pats my shoulder and heads out after Emmett.
"Am I in trouble?" I ask Edward, not wanting to look at his face.
"What? What makes you think you could possibly be in trouble?" He asks, baffled.
"Making your job harder," I explain.
He sighs, he wraps an arm around my shoulder, "You don't make my job harder. Everyone else does. Let's go upstairs."
We head out of the kitchen as Jasper promises to send a tray of food up behind us. Once inside the office, I quickly verify that no one is around before I start, "I didn't want to press charges because I don't want the police involved."
"I realized that but you would've been safe if you pressed charges. To the world, you truly are Isabella Cullen."
I hear the lock click and we both go silent as Ben comes in with a small tray of food and hands it to Edward before leaving back towards the kitchen. Edward sets the tray on the sofa and sits.
I take a seat across from him, taking a small piece of bread and start to pick at it. "What happened."
"I was getting drinks from Henry and I turned to look for you while I waited and I saw you from the bar. I started heading towards you and Henry must have seen as well because he called for Emmett and backup towards your table. When I finally reached you, Emmett and the guys had already reached you, they must've been closer. I lunged for the guy but Henry got in the way."
"Not for long, I saw that much."
He scoffs, "Emmett got in the way after that."
"Where did Henry go?"
"He had to go back to the bar. Once the guys took the man away he let me go and went back."
"I never heard you guys through the radio." I reach for it and find that it's gone from my apron. "Well maybe that's why."
"Let's just go home. I just want to get you out of here for tonight."
I nod and place the pieces of bread from my hand into the trash can before we go get our things.
In the car I change the stations looking for something to fill the silence on the way back.
"Finch-" I continue to change the stations before I stop and quickly backtrack. "Indeed, our deepest condolences go out towards the Finch family. If you remember correctly a few weeks back his father mentioned his refusal to drop the case, confident that his son would be brought back safely."
"Let's not go there right now, John. It's a little early to start pointing fingers. Well, at anyone expect James Martin according to the team. James has been on the watch but surely after this, with it being so close to the case we can guarantee he will now be watched 24/7."
"That's right. What are your thoughts on the leak?"
"Oh… I warn any of our listeners, if you have a weak stomac, not to search for the photos as they are very graphic. Definitely something that many will be looking at for clues. Right now everything is-"
I turn sharply towards Edward as he shut off the radio probably already guessing what I will be doing the moment I get home, unable to listen to any warnings.
And that is IT for today! A bit longer than last time! Please let me know what you thought of THIS chapter! Its super important to me.
Speaking of IT have you guys seen the movie? Like damn!
-Luna Riley
