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Chapter 10
EPOV:
I was watching Bella who was watching Eric play. When he was benched for a period of time Bella tried to get his attention but he wouldn't look at her, he knew that we were here. It was kind of hard not to, we took up the whole row, when he scored the basket we would all cheer loudly for him. The first time he looked over to see who it was and when he did his eyes got big and you could visibly see him swallow hard. Every time he would score we would cheer and yell he started to ignore us after that. His team mates were giving him a hard time about us it looked like, he would just shake his head and sit down for a few minutes to catch his breath then get back out on the court again. It was a good game so far, they were winning, and Bella was grinning every time that he would get the basket. I was also keeping my eyes out for anyone that I knew was in the underground world but so far I haven't seen anyone, but that doesn't mean they might not be here just hidden out of sight. My phone alerted me that I had an incoming text message; I knew that it had to be someone here.
"Right side back," it was from Jasper telling me that someone was here. I discreetly turned around like I was just rolling my neck to see who it was. Whoever it was didn't want to be seen because they weren't there anymore.
"Gone," I replied I didn't see anyone so I hope that he was able to get a good look at them.
"What's going on Edward? You seem to be watching for something," damn she was good. I thought that I was being discreet about it but she was able to pick up on it.
"Jasper just text me letting me know that someone was here, I was trying to see who it was but they were already gone. It's nothing that you need to worry about baby, just watch the game ok." I whispered into her ear, I didn't want to alert people around us. She nodded her head in understanding and then leaned her head against my shoulder, I thought that maybe she was tired so I placed my arm around her for support incase she fell asleep. "Are you having fun watching your brother play?"
"Yeah but he seems to be off tonight. I don't know if it's because we're here or if there is something else going on with him. He normally does so well and tonight he's not doing that great, I mean yes he has been getting baskets and assists but he usually does so much better then this."
"Why don't you wait until tonight and see how he acts then, maybe it's just the stress of his first game that had him off." I was thinking that it was something else all together but I wanted to be 100% sure before I said anything to her about it.
"I think I'll wait until this weekend before I say anything to him give him a chance to de-stress himself before I pounce on him."
"You can pounce on me tonight if you like," I said as I gently bit her ear. I could see the shiver go threw her body and was happy that I was able to affect her that way.
"Maybe I will," she said in return and kissed the underside of my jaw making my eyes roll back. My phone went off again but this time it was Sam texting me.
"Black third row up straight ahead," he said, I looked to where he said and sure enough there was Jacob Black sitting in the third row from the bottom on the opposing side. I knew that he didn't have any kids so there was no reason for him to be at this game so I knew that he was up to something. Black also knew that Bella has a brother who plays so what did he want, was he here for Bella or was he here for Eric?
"Seen him, how long," I wanted to know when that bastard got here and how long he has been watching us.
"10 tops."
"Follow when leaves/"
"Yes sir," that was the end of our texting for now, he was going to watch him and if he were to leave then Sam was ordered to follow him.
BPOV:
I was sitting next to Edward with his arm wrapped around me and my head on his shoulder when the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I got this uneasy feeling in my stomach, I could feel someone's eyes watching me. I looked around to see if I noticed anyone, and there was a guy sitting in the third row on the opposing side just staring at us. I was going to tell Edward but he was texting to someone again so I decided to wait until he was done, finally he was so I snuggled into his side more and lifted my head so that I could talk to him without anyone hearing me, I didn't want this guy to know what I was doing.
"There is a guy staring at us, I don't know who he is but he's not giving me a good feeling. It feels like I'm going to be sick but I know that I'm not, do you know who he is?" I asked him as I was kissing on his jaw and neck, it took him a few minutes before he could answer me, I didn't mean to distract him that much.
"I know who he is and I'm having him watched, why are you kissing me like this and talking about him at the same time? Not that I'm complaining but I'm curious to your motives here."
"I didn't want to make it look like I was talking about him just incase, I thought this would be better but I can stop if you like me to."
"Yes, only because I want to take you here on the bleachers in front of everyone right this minute, it's giving me a major hard on and if something happens it's hard to deal with that while thinking about you and your mouth."
"Sorry, I didn't mean to make it hard for you," I snickered at him; he just gave me the evil eye in return. "You said that you know who he is are you going to tell me or do I need to…shit I think I know who it is now."
"You are probably correct baby; I want you to stick with Liam and don't leave his side. If you have to pee I want him in there with you, I don't know why he is here but I don't want to take a chance either. I do know that he doesn't have kids but he knows that your brother is on the team. Sam is watching his every move right now, if he leaves so will Sam."
"Ok but you're not going anywhere right? I mean you'll stay here with me until the game is over?"
"Unless I absolutely have to I will be here with you, if something happens though I want you to leave with Liam and go home."
"Ok I will," I said giving him another kiss on the jaw; it seems to be his weak spot.
"You need to stop doing that missy or you're going to regret it later."
"Is that a promise?"
"You better believe it baby; I will make you pay for this and hard too." I was getting wet just thinking about all the things that he could do to me, damn I was going to need to change my panties now.
"I promise to behave then if you promise that it will be hard later." Just as he was going to respond Sam got up from the bench and started walking towards the stairs, I looked across to see that Black had already left as well. "Do you need to go with him?"
"Not right now, let's just watch your brother play; the game's almost done anyway." I turned back and started to watch my brother again, this time he was on the bench. He wasn't really doing anything just sitting there but I did notice that he was watching Black or maybe it was Sam I didn't know leave. I watched as they walked out of the gym and into the hall but the door closed so I couldn't see them anymore. I turned back to Eric who had this look of confusion on his face, he got up and went to talk to his coach, I couldn't hear what was said but coach nodded his head and then Eric left threw the same doors as Sam and Black.
"I'm going out there, Eric just left as well and I want to know what is going on." I didn't even give him a chance to respond to me before I got up and started walking towards the door; I reached to open it when a hand stopped me.
"I don't think that would be a good idea, Black could still be out there and we don't know where Eric went. Just wait for him to come back in ok?" I wasn't going to listen to him, for all I know my brother could be in trouble and I wasn't going to wait around for Sam to take care of him. As soon as I walked out of the door I was grabbed from behind with one hand over my mouth and the barrel of a gun pointed at my temple.
"Look what we have here my, my you really are a beautiful thing."
"What do you want Black? Bella has nothing to do with us just let her go and you and I can talk alone." Edward said, I was looking around for Eric when I seen him standing right in front of me looking at the ground.
"I don't want anything from you Edward; I'm simply taking back what was rightfully mine to begin with. You are the one who took what didn't belong to you."
"What are you talking about Black, Bella isn't property, and she doesn't belong to anyone but herself."
"See that's where you are wrong, Eric over there promised me that I could have her in exchange for something he wanted." I looked at Eric surely this guy was wrong he wouldn't do something like that to me, I've been taking care of him since the accident almost 2 years ago. This guy still had his hand around my mouth stopping me from asking what the hell he was talking about, but I shouldn't have worried about it Edward asked for me.
"What the fuck are you talking about Black?"
"I'm talking about money, he wants to go to the best school there is and the only way to do that is to have money. I would provide the means for him to go to school; tuition, rent, books, and even money for him to spend all paid in full."
"What does that…FUCK! Eric why would you do that to your sister? You sold her for money?" I was floored, how could my own brother sell me for money, I wasn't something that could be sold. "How much Black, how much are you going to give him? I'll give you the fucking money if that's what you want and then you can leave Bella alone."
"I don't want your money Edward, plus he signed the contract it's a done deal. Bella is mine and there isn't anything that you can do about it." He started to walk toward the doors; I wanted to struggle but didn't think it would be a good idea with the gun pointed at my head. I couldn't even look at Eric right now; I was so disgusted with him.
"Wait Black, I want to say something to you before you take her with you."
"Fine what is it, I don't have all day." He replied in a board tone, I was worried about what he was going to do to me when he took me wherever we're going.
"I will get her back and there better not be a single hair on her head out of place or a bruise anywhere on her body." He looked him dead in the eyes letting him see the seriousness in them, and then he looked over at me with soft eyes. "I will come and get you I promise," I blinked at him letting him know that I knew he would do what he could to get me back. With that we walked out of the building with Eric following us, I didn't know what he was doing but it was probably for the best I think Edward would have killed him at this point for his stupidity. I was thrown into the back of a car and then a cloth placed on my face, I knew that I shouldn't breathe it in but I thought that maybe the dark was better.
EPOV:
To say that I was pissed would be wrong, I was almost glad that Eric went with them because I could have killed him right now. I had to watch as Bella was taken away by Black and his men and thrown into the car, I was serious when I told him that I would get her back. I turned around to see that everyone was there waiting for there orders, even Alice and Rachael wanted to help.
"Sam, Liam I want you both to follow them and don't lose them if you do it will be your jobs lost too." They both nodded and got into separate cars immediately and took off after them.
"Alice I want you to go back to my house and have all of Bella's things moved around so that they mingle with mine, she has most of her stuff in the storage garage right now. Also move her stuff into my room please; I don't want her going anywhere when I get her back home to me."
"Sure, can I do whatever I want?" Alice has been dying to decorate the house again.
"Go crazy Alice and here take this too, Rachael you and the girls could help Alice if you want," I told her as I handed her my gold card. The girls took off with mom in tow leaving Rose with me; I would need her mechanical skills later when we find out where Black was at.
"Jasper call up Corin and tell her what happened she's going to want to know so she can handle this." Jasper got on the phone instantly, and started to fill her in on what was going on.
"Emmett, how many more people can you get together for when we get to Blacks place?"
"I can get you about 3 more people who would be ready but that's it, the rest won't hack it and are too weak."
"Get them to the warehouse now; I want to meet everyone there. Alec and Brady you are with me for now, Riley you go with Emmett."
"Son is there anything that you need me to do?"
"Actually yes I do, can you come with me to the warehouse? I might have to bounce things off of you and get your input on it."
"Let's go then, everyone move out." Just as he said that the buzzer went off signaling the end of the game.
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We have been here now for about 4 hours and still nothing is coming together, Liam and Sam have both checked in saying that Black was still driving around but nothing looked familiar to either of them. I didn't know if he knew he had tails on him and was trying to loose them or if he was going to be taking her far away from here, I was hoping for the former. Corin said that she would look at this like a kidnapping and that when Eric was caught he could face jail time for human trafficking. I wasn't sure how I felt about that but it wasn't something that I was going to worry about it right now, I just wanted to get Bella back home safely.
"Char what have you found, anything yet?"
"No they are still driving; there is no way that he's taking her to his house unless he lives out in the middle of nowhere."
"Keep tacking them then he has to stop at some point even if it's just for gas." I got on the phone with Sam and Liam then. "If they stop anywhere I want you to get Bella and get out, they are going to have to stop for gas at some point you've been driving now for almost 4 hours."
"Yes sir," they both said and hung up the phone. I was hoping that at some point we might be able to get her and not have this become a blood bath with her ending up in the middle of it and getting hurt or killed.
"How are you holding up son?"
"I'm doing my best dad, how did you do this with mom?"
"Well luckily for me your mother wasn't taken from me, so in this case I really can't say. But if I were in your place I would be doing the same thing which is anything possible to get her back unharmed. You know as well as I do that Black is one sick fuck and she's going to have bruises on her right? Even if it wasn't something that he did on purpose it's going to happen. She may want to talk to someone about being kidnapped and finding out that your brother sold you for money that is going to bother her for a long while."
"How could he do that to her? I mean I understand wanting to go to the best school and all but why not apply for grant or loans or something, and how did he go about this anyway? I just don't understand him; I don't know that he really cares about her either. When that whole thing happened at the house, when we found out it was pig's blood, she passed out and he just walked away and went into his bedroom. The next day he barely said anything to her, he didn't ask how she was feeling just ate breakfast and then left for school."
"Wow that's harsh, maybe he felt guilty even then about what he did, any idea how long ago he made this deal with Black?"
"He didn't say, I'm thinking that it has to be recently. You don't start looking for collages until you're in your junior / senior year."
"Call Emily maybe she can look into this whole contract thing, granted I don't think that it will be on record because it's human trafficking but she might know of someway around this too. If anything at least she will be aware of the situation and will be of help later on when Bella needs her."
"I didn't even think about calling her, thanks dad." I pulled out my phone and called Emily, when I ended the call she said she would look into it and that any contract dealing with trafficking wouldn't hold up. I just hope that she was right.
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Another 2 hours have passed, I thought for sure that Black was going to be stopping for gas but instead he had another SUV pull up next to him and fill him up as they were going down the road so that he didn't have to stop, I think that he knew he was being followed and didn't want to take the chance of being caught. Unfortunately for my guys they did have to stop, but they took turns one would fill up and then catch up and then the next. I was getting worried now they were close to the state lines and I didn't now how much longer they had planned to drive for.
"Hey boss it looks like they are stopping." Char alerted me, she had been tracking Bella's phone since she was taken. On the map it looked like they were out in the middle of the woods, there was nothing surrounding where they had stopped. I called to Liam and Sam to find out where they were now.
"Where are you now?"
"I just passed where they stopped boss, I didn't want to tip them off that I was following them so I'm going to keep driving until I get further down the road and they can't see me anymore." Liam said Sam checked in next with his location.
"I pulled over just before they stopped, I noticed that we were slowing down so I pulled off and cut the lights. I can still see the car in front of me, they haven't gotten out yet they're just sitting there right now."
"What's around you anything?"
"No boss nothing; I don't see any houses, just land."
"What about you Liam is there anything further down? Did it look like there was a drive or anything they could be going down?"
"No sir, they're just off on the side of the road. There has to be something around here though or they wouldn't have stopped." Just then there was a gun shot in the background of Sam's phone.
"What the hell was that?"
"I don't know, there was a shot in the car, it looks like someone is getting out. Shit its Bella sir," I could hear him throw the phone down and open the car door. There was another gun shot and I heard Sam tell Bella who he was. Liam was racing back to the area where they were and stopped just as Sam was approaching her, she got into the car with Liam.
"I have her sir, she's safe for now. I'm on my way back home with her," he was going to say more but I just wanted to hear her voice and know that she was ok.
"I want to talk to her now, put her on the phone."
"Edward," she whispered it was like she wasn't sure if I was really here or not.
"I'm here baby, are you ok did they hurt you?"
"No they didn't hurt me, just knocked me out with something. I actually just woke up," she was lightly laughing, it was good to hear her voice and I could feel myself calming down now.
"Liam is going to take you home; I'll be waiting for you when you get there. Have Liam text me when you're about 15 minutes away and I will start a bath for you, what kind of bath salts do you want?"
"I just want to sleep right now; the bath can wait until tomorrow. I just want to curl up in bed with you and go back to sleep."
"You can sleep on the drive back home baby it's going to be about 5 hours before you get here."
"WHAT! They had been driving this whole fucking time! I'm so glad I shot that fucker I hope he rots in hell. If you're going to kidnap someone you don't drive around the whole fucking time what a bunch of morons!" She muttered I wasn't sure who she shot but I didn't want to bring it up right now.
"Yep so get some more sleep because it's a boring ride and I will have a bath ready for you when you get home, now what type of salts did you want?"
"The strawberry one is fine with me, thank you for saving me again."
"You don't need to thank me; I would do it over and over again if I have too. Get some sleep and I will see you when you get home." She handed the phone back to Liam who was waiting for further instructions.
"Just take her home, text me when you're about 15 minutes away. Is Sam still behind you?"
"I'm still here boss; I'm right behind them now."
"Good stay with them, I'm going to let everyone else go home for the night. Do you know who it was that she shot?"
"Yeah she shot Black in the arm, and the driver in the head," he told me laughing.
"Damn she got a good shot on the driver then, so that means that Black is still alive then. Was Eric still in the car with them?"
"Don't know, I saw her come running out of the car and just took off for her. Once she was in the car with Liam I went passed the car but I didn't see much just that the driver was slumped over the wheel and Black was clutching his arm where there was blood coming out. I didn't stick around because I wasn't sure if there was anyone on the way or if he was alone and I didn't want to be there, it wouldn't have been a fair fight."
"Not a problem, Black is hurt and one less person on his side to help him out later."
"Bella's already asleep sir, I'm going to need to stop off for gas again soon and then we should be good to go after that."
"Ok see you when you get here then," I said as I hung up the phone. I turned to look at everyone who was still here in the warehouse waiting for news about what happened. "She's safe for now, she was able to get them to stop the car long enough to escape but not before shooting the drive and Black himself. The driver is dead and Black is only injured but it's his arm so he may be out of commission for a little while at least. They are on there way home now, Liam said he would need to stop off for gas but they would be here. Sam didn't stick around due to not knowing if there was someone on the way of Blacks men and being out numbered, can't blame him there."
"I'm glad to hear that she's ok son, now you can get home and get some rest before she gets home herself."
"I don't think I can do that, rest I mean, not until she is home safe and sound. I need to let off some steam though so I'll probably hit the gym when I get there." He nodded in understanding, "I want to thank all of you for your help, go home and get some rest tonight. The next couple of days are going to be long so take advantage of that now and get plenty of rest." Everyone took off after that, dad and I rode to my house so that I could wait for Bella to come home.
When dad and I got home the house was a mess, Alice and Rachael were in the middle of the living room going threw Bella's things picking out what should go where.
"If I would have known that when I got home I would be walking into this mess then I wouldn't have let you redo anything."
"Have you heard anything?"
"She's on her way home with Liam right now; they knocked her out and were driving around still when she woke up. I don't know what all happened but she shot the driver in the head and Black in the arm then got out of the car and started to run. Sam and Liam where there and picked her up, she's tired but hopefully she'll be sleeping the whole way home too. How much longer before you're done in here? I want this place back to normal before she comes home, she'll think that she needs to clean it up and then will put her things back in the box."
"About 2 maybe 3 more hours, the rest of the house is done. All of her stuff is in your room now along with the bathroom items. I also put her dishes in the kitchen to be used as well; they went with the décor in there so that was good."
"Thanks Alice, don't say anything to her when she gets here though. I want her to see that her stuff does go in the house and I want to see her reaction."
"Ok, when will she be here?"
"They have a 5 hour drive ahead of them before she'll be here. Liam is going to text me when they're 15 minutes away, I would like the house to be empty when they get here."
"Ok I can take the hint, but I will be here tomorrow afternoon to check on her myself."
"That's fine, but it better be after 2pm before you get here not at 8am or I will personally beat you." Though I never would actually hurt her, it was the thought that I would that might save me from her coming here at 8 in the morning. About 4 hours later the house was back to normal and everyone had left for the night with the promise of being here in the afternoon, I told everyone they were welcome to come over but it had to be after 2pm.
I just got a text from Liam telling me they were 15 minutes away from home so I went into the bathroom and started a bath for her using the strawberry bath stuff that she wanted. I made the water a bit hotter so that it would be nice and warm when she got home. Once that was done I waited by the door for Liam to pull up in the drive. After what felt like forever she was finally home, I walked up to her door and opened it then pulled her into my arms.
"I'm so glad you're home love, I was so worried about you. I have a bath ready for you also with the strawberry stuff that you like." I told her as I carried her into the house, I didn't want to let her go yet.
"I'm glad to be home. You don't have to carry me I can walk you know."
"I know but I don't want to let you go yet, just humor me for a little bit." She put her head down on my shoulder and nodded. I got us up to my, now our, room and went straight for the bath not giving her a chance to see anything yet.
BPOV:
I slept the whole ride home, when we got there Edward was waiting in the driveway for us just like he said that he would be. He carried me up to his room and into his bathroom where he had the bath ready for me. I started to strip out of the clothes that I was wearing then threw them into the trash. There was no way I was going to wear them again because they had blood stains on them. I slowly slipped into the bath; I could literally feel my muscles relaxing as I got in and let out a long sigh. I noticed that Edward had left the room with the trash bag in hand; when he came back he placed a new bag in the can and then washed his hands. When he was done he sat on the outside of the tub and started to wash my body for me, it wasn't anything sexual about it just relaxing his way of taking care of me further.
"How are you doing?"
"I'm ok I guess, a bit shook up. I can't believe that I killed someone and injured another person." I was still trying to wrap my head around that but it didn't seem like it was going to happen anytime soon. "Shouldn't I feel bad about that? I mean I don't really feel anything other then happy and I know that can't be right, what the hell is wrong with me?" I didn't realize I was crying until Edward slowly brought his hands up to my face and gently wiped away the tears on my cheeks.
"You are not a bad person love, don't think like that. You did what you had to so that you could live, I'm grateful that you did too. We have no idea what Black was planning to do or where he was going to take you either, he just kept driving around. I'm proud of you for shooting him in the arm even if it didn't kill him, you did kill one person who was helping him but that doesn't make you a bad person. I have killed many people, love, and most of the time I don't feel anything for them, they have wronged me and they knew the choices they made would lead to death. I don't want you to feel guilty about this ok?"
"Yeah I'll try not to; I can't say what will happen tomorrow though. I'm glad you were able to find me, how did you anyway?"
"Remember when you first moved in here about 4 months ago, I said that I was going to place a chip on your phone?" I nodded yes, "that was how we knew where to find you. Char kept you on her computer while Liam and Sam were both behind you shortly after Black took off with you. I think that he knew he was being followed because instead of stopping for gas he had another SUV come up and put gas in the car while he was still driving."
"What? Isn't that dangerous, I mean it could have caught fire and then the whole car would have exploded killing everyone."
"Yes it was, but he didn't want to take the chance in getting caught I guess. I'm not sure what he was doing or thinking." I just shrugged my shoulder because I didn't have a clue either. He continued to wash my body and then he washed my hair for me, it felt nice when he would scratch my scalp lightly.
Once the water was cold I knew I needed to get out, just as I was standing up my stomach let out this loud growl saying that it was hungry. I turned bright red as Edward started laughing; he reached over and grabbed a towel for me to wrap myself up in. I was walking out of the bedroom to my room when Edward grabbed me from behind stopping me and directing me towards his closet.
"I don't want you across the hall from me anymore so while you where gone Alice and Rachael moved your stuff around. Everything is now in here with mine, I want you too sleep here in my arms every night. I love you too much to let you go now." I just stared at him in shock; I had no idea that he loved me. "I know that it might be too soon for you and I didn't tell you this so you would say it back, I just wanted you to know that I love you and will do everything in my power to try and keep you safe." I stopped him from talking further by kissing him with everything that I had.
"I love you too; I don't think that it's too soon and if others do then screw them." He kissed me back then stopping me from going further, he picked me up and carried me to our bed. That night and well into the next morning he made love to me several times. When the sun was coming up we were finally going to sleep, we never did get to eat.
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Whew that was a long one for me. Next chapter Edward is going to get his team together and start a war with Black, there may be other families involved too. See you next week hopefully.