CPOV

The sun was almost at its highest in the clear sky. I would soon be in the town that the kidnappers had told me to go. The money was in the back seat, we had succeeded to fit all the fifty millions in three sport bags. If it would get Bella free we didn't know, Alice hadn't seen anything because the vampire hadn't made the decision yet.

While I was driving I thought back at these hard months. After we had left Bella and Forks, had no one of us been happy. Of cause had Edward been miserable and fled from us to suffer alone and try to track Victoria. All of us missed him and thought of him with pain in our unbeating hearts. And Bella crossed our (exempt Rosalie's) minds often. Like I missed my son, I also missed my daughter. Alice had lost her best friend and sister. Jasper and Emmett had lost their little sister. And Esme had also lost her daughter.

I also remembered the call from the kidnappers when the vampire had asked Bella to make the decision of whom of us that would come to deliver the money. Esme and I were the two options, because were in fact the most harmless to them. And I was relieved that I was the one Bella had chosen, both for my and Bella's sake. My because I didn't want Esme to met them alone and Bella's because the vampire would see the memory of the one who came and I was sure that she would suffer for lying to him.

The trees at the rode started to decrease and houses started to show up. Soon I was in the center of the town and at the parking lot that the vampire had described. I looked after a blue BMW Sedan and found one. Then I came close enough I heard them.

"It's soon twelve o'clock now. Where is he?" It was a girl's voice. I haven't heard it before but the voice that answered her I recognized. Ash.

"If he doesn't show up, can I have her? Please…"

"He's here! So shut up!" the vampire said and the humans kept quiet.

I heard a muffled cry and knew that it was Bella, they had gagged her it seemed.

The spot beside the car was free and the parking lot was empty of humans. So I parked beside them. Like my car, the windows where tinted and human eyes would not see through it. I could. I didn't bother to look at the humans in the front seats. My eyes went for Bella at once. Her hands were cuffed together in front of her, a blindfold covered her eyes and, as I had guessed, she was gagged. I noticed that her body was thinner and the weight loss also showed in her face, her cheekbones were more defined than I remembered.

"Hello, Carlisle", the vampire said and I turned my eyes to him.

The hood was made of a fabric that even vampire sight couldn't see trough. So all I could see was his eyes, ruby red and filled with evil, and his smiling mouth. His clothes was dark and expensive looking, he liked to spend money it seemed.

"I would greet you too, but I don't know your name." He heard me even if my voice, like his, was low.

"You don't need to know my name, but you need to know that I am in charge."

"Right." I knew that he was the one who made the rules now. He had Bella.

"Do you have my money?"

The humans' heart beats picked up with excitement when they heard the word money. Was he going to share it with them?

"Of cause. I get Bella and you get the money."

This was the tricky part. I couldn't get out of the car, I was stuck. So was the vampire, but he had his little human companions who could.

"That seems a bit off. I think that this will end better if I get the money first and then you get Isabella."

"No."

I would have agreed if Alice had seen that he would let Bella go. If I got Bella first I would for sure give him the money, because they didn't matter to me. But he could easily leave with Bella if he got the money first.

"Who is in charge here?" the vampire asked and put his hand around Bella's neck and tighten it. "Oh, I remember. I am." Bella couldn't breathe and tried to get free from his hand.

"Alright! Alright! Take the money first", I nearly screamed and he stopped squeezing her neck but still had his hand there, reminding me that he could end her life if I didn't obey.

"Kelly. It's in the back seat."

The girl in the front seat reacted at once by opening her door. She got out, got to my car opened the door to the back seat. When she reached for the bags, her eyes locked with mine. Surprise filled her eyes as she saw the color of mine. She froze. Maybe the vampire hadn't told the humans about how me and my family lived. It seemed like they were like puppets to him, toys that entertained him but that could be trusted.

"Kelly!" growled the vampire, both the girl and Bella flinched.

Kelly grabbed all the bags and put it in the trunk of their car.

"Now you have the money so release Bella", I said and glared at the vampire.

"Oh, Carlisle. I can't do that", he chuckled.

"You lying…"

"I said that I would have the money and then you get Isabella, right? Now is after and in one, two, three years are after that. So you'll have her back, in time. But I still need her. I don't know if your family is coming here to kill us. I may see your memories but if they decided to come when you had left I can't know. Therefore, I keep Bella until I feel safe."

Bella screamed behind her gag, denied of her freedom. My heart broke as I took in her fear for staying with her kidnappers.

"No, please", I begged. "No one is coming. I swear! Let her go!"

"Sorry, Carlisle. But we need to go now. Don't follow us. I will kill her if you do."

No, no, no! I felt so helpless. I couldn't do anything. Just see them driving away with Bella.

My phone vibrated in my pocket. Alice must have seen this scene and they all knew that I had failed to get Bella back. I opened the phone and heared Esme's sad but calming voice.

"There was nothing that you could have done, honey. Alice thinks that it's best that you return to the house."

I didn't speak. I don't know if I could. Bella was still in the hands of the sadistic kidnappers and we didn't know their next move. Would we get Bella back alive?

I know that I take forever to update, but I been quite down these days and so my mind was blank... But I promise that I will write the next chapter so I can update on Sunday, because you all know that the Eclipse trailer will launch tomorrow (or later for us in Sweden, 2 o'clock at night on Saturday :/ I want to live in U.S.A) and that will make me happy :)

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