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Chapter: 21

As we made our way down by the banks of the warehouses close to the Hudson, I heard more. Alice—Mary—nit-wit-twit, was still crying and spilling info to us. My brothers were no longer wearing the expressions of this being a big joke—they got the severity of the situation.

"You've got to be kidding me Bells, you're gonna marry into the fucking mob?" Jaymee said after it clicked for him.

"Are you off your rocker, like your man always seems to be?" Emmett added.

"I can't tell either of you anything, and you don't really want to know. But what you do need to know right now, is that I love Edward and I would die to protect him."

"Don't worry, we'll help you, and you know that," Jaymee said and Emmett nodded in agreement.

"Let's go kick some of this crazy chick's, family's ass," Emmett added pointing his thumb at Alice—Mary—whoever the fuck she was.

Pointing my gun back in her face, I gave her an evil smile. "Give me one solid reason why I shouldn't blow your fucking brains out now?"

"Because, I'm on your side," she cried.

"Sure, sure," I stated with a sigh. I didn't believe her as far as I could throw her. "If she has to die I call dibs."

"Bella, I have it on good authority that she is telling the truth. She actually came to me and warned me to tell Edward that this shipment was in danger and so was he. I told Edward that he should stay home, while we checked out her story. He brought in your brothers to be with you, but refused to back down. I hid the tracker chip in his shoe so we'd be able to find him, and I trust that until the shipment the Volturi's want is in their hands, he will be safe. No one but Edward can take possession of the shipment. He's the only one who can decode the pickup location."

"So what, Aro, you're telling me Edward knew he may be in danger and that he brought my brothers here to help keep me safe?"

"Yeah," Aro claimed. Oh I was going to hit him when I saw him.

"Does he know you were coming to kidnap me to help break him out?"

"Nope, but I know you're capable and I can't trust anyone else right now."

"Why?" I asked.

"Because there's one other person who has infiltrated the organization and right now he's being dealt with, but I had to make sure that you were safe with me. Alice actually saved all of you. Esme's guard is the other rat. Caius is not a Volturi, he's one of the Mallory crew, but he's a triple agent in a way, because he's feeding info to the Volturi and the Mallorys."

"Wow, Caius has been with Esme since I first came into the family."

"Yeah, and he and his sharing of our business over the years is why Edward was the only person who knew when the shipment was coming and the only one who knew the code."

"Fine, what's the plan?" I asked.

After going over our plans and making sure we had our bases covered, we waited for night to fall. Two hours went by before the text that everyone from Edward's house was now at the Cullen compound, and that all of them were safe. Aro was threatened with death, for having Alice and I with him, but he refused to back down. No one in the Cullen compound knew the whereabouts of where the Volturi were holding Edward. Carlisle had officially taken down Caius and there were no other known threats in the compound.

Confirming that all was well, we started our mission. The warehouse behind where Edward was being held was empty, and Alice knew the codes to get into the building. We quickly and quietly entered the backside of the building. We made our way to the south wall that was the dividing wall between the two warehouse areas. Alice knew there was a trap door in the one corner, which would provide a quiet entrance for us.

We slowly made our way into the warehouse where Edward was being held. There were boxes of stuff stacked everywhere. Emmett, Aro, and Alice, all take the way to the right as planned and Jaymee and I move to the left.

When there was a break in the stacks, I was able to see three guards and a man I didn't recognize at a table. Tied to a chair opposite him was Edward. His hands were behind him and he looked like he had been bleeding for a while. He was conscious, but clearly hurt. I was ready to go in guns blazing at that point, but Jaymee made me hold my cool.

"I need to go to him," I whispered as I cocked my gun.

"Just wait for Aro and Emmett," he whispered back to me. I watched Edward as he laughed at one of the guards. The guard walked over to my soon to be husband and hit him with the end of his gun. I went to enter the room, but Jaymee kept a hold of me.

"They'll kill us. You can't go in there without the others," he said holding me tight to his chest.

"What if this is a set up?" I asked starting to have second thoughts.

"You're one of the best marksmen I know, kill them all and just don't think about it."

"They're in there?" Aro asked as he came close to me.

"Yeah and Edward's hurt," I told him. "I just want to say thank you for everything you have ever done for me."

"Shut the fuck up and stop acting like you're going to die," he said as I held back my tears. I hugged Aro tight and kissed both my brothers telling them to stay behind me. If any of us were going to die it was going to be me. My brothers needed to go back to their families.

"I'll go first. They won't shoot me," Alice said.

"I hope they do," I said to her as she walked in the door leaving it open.

"Hey, Daddy," Alice said as he entered.

"Hello, piccola. You have done exceptional work," her father said. It was very hard for me to believe that she was going against her father.

"Hey, Edward, doing okay?" she asked my boy.

"You do understand that you will die for this," he said sounding horse.

"I doubt it," Alice said nonchalantly. "When are we leaving?"

"As soon as Caius gets here and that should be any minute," her father said as I tried not to laugh. We all knew he wasn't coming. "You two, go check to see if he's here. I'm not sure if he got my text about the front door." I blew out a big breath knowing that they weren't going to see us.

"On three," Aro whispered. I swallowed hard and nodded my head. "One... two..."

As soon as we are through the door I fired and killed the first guard before he could pull his gun. Aro grabbed Alice and held his gun to her head.

"Put your gun down or I will kill her," Aro said as Demetri, Alice's father, laid his gun down slowly.

"Now, lets not be hasty," Demetri said. "You can take Edward and go, just don't kill my daughter."

"Fuck your daughter," I said as I aim down and pull the trigger. Hearing Alice scream made me smile.

"My guards will be back any minute and then you're all going to die," Demetri said.

"I can't believe you shot me!" Alice cried.

"You're lucky it was just your foot. You over there by that door and you over there by that one," I said to my brothers pointing to each door.

"I thought the prime and proper Cullen ladies weren't allowed to shoots guns? I would never have thought the great Edward Cullen would allow his girl the chance to kill him," Demetri said as I laughed.

"No one tells me what to do," I said. It may have been a lie, but no one needed to know the truth. "You okay?" I asked Edward as I untied his hands.

"I'm okay," he said as we started at one another. I was so happy to see him, but I knew I couldn't break down yet. Just as he was untied, we heard gun fire and I was face down on the floor and Edward was on top of me. I felt my gun being pried from my hand and I heard my brothers.

"He's dead," Jaymee yelled.

"This one too," Emmett said.

"Are you okay?" Edward asked as he helped me off the floor.

"I'm good, give me my gun," I said as he took my hand and pulled me behind his back. I chuckled when Aro gave me an extra gun he had in the back of his pants.

"Lets kill this fucking asshole and get the fuck out of here. There has been guys in and out of here all afternoon," Edward said. With his hand around my waist holding me to him, I could feel him shaking and I never thought he ever got scared enough to shake.

"Please don't kill him," Alice cried.

"You're next so it doesn't matter," I said to her.

"I love Jasper so much, why do you think I told you all about this?" she cried as her father stood. We all pointed our guns at him.

"What did you just say?" Demetri asked.

"I told Aro everything, because I truly want to marry Jasper. I'm not dumb and I know there is a chance he won't want me now, but I need to try," she begged looking between her father and Edward.

"Why would you betray me like that?"

"Because stealing from others and hurting people I love isn't right. The Cullens may not do things completely legal, but they don't steal! The women may throw slaps or punches, but they want to protect their family. The men love their women and they don't think of them as dispensable. They may be controlling and demanding, but there is love! The love that I have seen in the short time I've been there is more than I have seen my whole life. I hate you," Alice said raising her gun, pulling the trigger, and shooting her father right between the eyes. Jaymee quickly took the gun Alice had away from her.

"Shit," Emmett said as he came up to me.

"Agreed," I said hugging Edward. "Lets go home."

A/N: We're totally sitting here beside ourselves, wondering what you're thinking about this one...