Next chapter as promised.

EPOV

If I had a soul it would be ripping form my body. When Bella is away from me I feel incomplete, like part of me is missing. I miss her smell, her touch, her laugh, her love. I miss her. She is all I can think about.

In all of my eighty years I never thought that I could feel this way for another being. I didn't think that my feelings for her would get stronger but they did. When I finally relented and made love to her for the first time, I thought I would explode with love and adoration for her.

The way her body moved with mine, the heat from her body, the sound of her speeding heart, the way she felt wrapped around my most intimate part, so warm, all of it was mind altering. Everything about that moment was like a black hole, sucking me in deeper and deeper in love with her.

My phone rang, pulling me from my internal musings. I glanced at the Caller ID and answered before it got to the second ring.

"Bella" I breathed.

God how I loved this woman.

"I just called to tell you that my dad took the day off and he is going to stay with me today. So you know what that means," she sighed and I couldn't help but sigh too.

I didn't want to be away from her longer but I knew how Charlie felt about me being there when he was. He thought that he could keep her safe and it did make me feel better that he was the chief of police and he knew how to use his gun. I didn't want Bella to feel bad about this so I tried to sound happy even though I was anything but.

"Well that's good, you need to spend more time with him," I hoped she didn't hear the sadness and longing in my voice.

"I'll see you tonight though right?" she asked. Like anything would keep me from her.

"Of course. I was going to go hunting but I will do that now so that I can stay with you all night." I assured her.

"Okay, I'll miss you till then," she breathed.

"No more than I you. I love you Bella," How true that statement was.

"I love you too Edward, see you tonight," she sighed and hung up the phone.

I sighed to myself. Now I wouldn't see Bella until later than expected the separation is agony. The only good thing is that I won't have to leave her tonight to go hunting.

"Alice," I sighed again. She was instantly at my door knowing what I wanted to ask.

"Yes, she will be fine while you are away," she smiled at me.

She knew how hard it was for me to leave Bella. I hated to be too far from her but unfortunately I could not deny myself the need to feed. It was a risk to be anywhere near Bella when I was thirsty not only because of my nature but because of the way she smelled so much better to me than any other human.

"Are you coming too?" I asked Alice.

"Yeah, I think we all are but we don't want to hunt around here. We have already hunted most of the game close by and you know Emmett, he doesn't like the easy game. We will have to go farther out this time because since we have been hunting so close to home lately things are a little thin now," she laughed.

"Alice, I don't think that is a good idea," I argued.

I didn't want to be any further away from Bella than I had to. What if she needed me and I wasn't there.

"Edward, I know what you are thinking and I already told you that she will be fine. We won't go that far, just far enough to get to some big game. Besides I think you could use a mountain lion or two, don't you?" she laughed.

"I guess you are right. I still don't want to be more than an hour away and I want you to keep an eye on Bella for me please," I gave in.

She nodded and left to tell the others of our plans. We all left the house and ran past our normal hunting range. Well normal as of late. We had been sticking closer to home because of the whole Jacob thing but Alice was right, we had already hunted most of the larger game in the area and we were impacting the environment more than we had wanted to.

We had been running for a while when we came across the scent of a lion. It was stalking a heard of deer so there was plenty of prey for everyone. I quickly took my stance and went after the lion. It wasn't hard for me to capture it and sink my teeth into its soft flesh. I felt the burn in my throat calm as I suck mouthful after mouthful of the animals' blood into me.

I could barely hear the rest of my family as they caught their meal and started to fill themselves until Alice's harsh screech caught my attention.

"Edward!" she screamed.

I dropped the lifeless body of the lion and ran as fast as I could to where the rest of my family stood, all crowded around Alice.

"Alice, what is it? What's wrong?" I asked as I got closer.

Normally I wouldn't have to ask but her mind was all over the place and I couldn't make out anything she was thinking. All I could get from her was sheer panic. I grabbed her around the shoulders and forced her to look into my eyes to try and get her to focus. The terror in her eyes was enough to almost bring me to my knees. I had only seen that look once before.

"Alice, tell me. Is it Bella? Is she hurt?" I pleaded.

"I don't know," she replied shakily.

"What do you mean you don't know?" I shook her shoulders trying to get some answers from her. I could feel myself losing control but I didn't care, I needed to know what was happening.

"I don't know. I saw Bella going to her truck and then she just disappeared. I can't see her anymore," she sobbed.

I didn't wait for any response from my family. I turned and ran as fast as I could back to Forks, back to Bella. I knew this had been a bad idea. I felt it in the pit of my stomach when Alice had mentioned it but I ignored it because she had said that Bella would be fine. Well now she isn't and I didn't know what is going on. I had a suspicion that it was Jacob because the only time this had happened before was when he was around Bella. Her future would disappear, we didn't know why.

I could hear my family following behind me but I was still faster than the rest of them so I would make it there before they would. I could hear all of them inside of my head pleading with me to slow down so we could stay together but I didn't listen. I had to get to Bella as fast as I could and if that meant that I would be alone then so be it.

When I finally got to her house I saw that her truck was missing. I ran to the door and wrenched it off the hinges before rushing in. Charlie looked like he had been sleeping in the living room when I had woken him with my abrupt entrance.

"Where is Bella?" I demanded.

He looked at me questioningly and yelled through the house for her. I knew she wasn't there so I asked again.

"She isn't here. Where is she?" I repeated.

"What do you mean she isn't here?" he asked.

This was getting me nowhere so I turned and used my nose to find her most recent trail. I followed her scent from the living room into the kitchen where I found a note to Charlie stuck on the refrigerator.

Dad,

I had to go to the store for some potatoes. I hope you don't wake up but if you do I will be back in fifteen minutes.

Love Bella.

I didn't stop to explain what was going on to Charlie. I just turned and ran out of the house, pulling my cell phone out of my pocket and hitting Bella's number; it went straight to her voice mail.

"Bella call me as soon as you get this. I need to know where you are," I said to the recording.

When I was done I closed my phone and I was standing in the parking lot of the grocery store where Bella's truck was sitting with the door wide open. I stepped closer and saw a bag of potatoes broken on the pavement by the door. I could smell Bella's scent.

My heart sank as I caught the other smells around me. The first one I knew for sure what it was from the burn it caused in my nose but there was another that shook me to my core. Just under the dog stench was the burning sensation in my throat that could only be caused by human blood, Bella's blood.

I will kill that dog.

I turned and followed the scent around the side of the building as rage started boiling up inside me. I stopped dead in my tracks as I spotted blood on the ground at my feet. I smelled harder but the trail ended here. He had put her in a car and took her away from me. How was I going to find her now? I yelled as loud as I could, as loud as I ever had.

FUUUUCK!

Ok well there you have it. I will work on the next chapter and try to get it out as fast as I can. Again please review and make me feel a little better about not posting sooner.

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