Rated M/ Disclaimer: Twilight and the twilight characters are owned by Stephenie Meyer. No copyright infringement intended. I own nothing but the plot and some of the personality traits the characters may have.
I am reposting this story back on this site, it is not beta'd so please keep that in mind as you read. It is a sequel to my story Resisting the Inevitable
A Nightmare
Isabella POV
When we arrived in London, the kids were asleep so I put them to bed before I called Edward to let him know we arrived safely. He didn't answer and that worried me, especially when Emmett or Vincent didn't answer either. The kids were sleeping so I walked to go find Seth who was sitting with a crying Rose.
"What's wrong? Is Emmett alright?" I asked worried that was why they didn't answer the phone. Then before he could answer my phone started to go off with text messages and then it started to ring displaying my father's name and Seth jumped up taking the phone out of my hand.
"What the hell is going on?" I asked him reaching for my phone and he tossed it to Rose who caught it and put it on the table. I watched her get up from the table and the look in her eyes told me that whatever they were about to say was anything but good news.
"No." I said shaking my head before they even told me what they needed to tell me. I didn't want to hear it I wanted to talk to my husband.
"I'm calling Edward…" I said trying to walk over to get my phone and Seth stopped me shaking his head at me. My heart was racing as I looked at him.
"Move damn it! I need to call him!" I yell using more force to push past him but he held me in place as Rose came over and took my hand into hers.
"Bella you have to calm down before you wake the kids."
"Then let me the hell go so that I can call Edward." I snapped and Rose looked at Seth.
"Will the two of you stop with this damn silent conversation bullshit and tell me what is going on!" I yelled at them feeling the tears in my eyes.
"Bella after the press conference Eric showed up. Emmett and Edward got into a little of an argument with him…"
"…What did Eric do?" I asked swallowing hard.
"Nothing other than piss them off, Edward walked away with Vincent while Emmett warned Eric that he wasn't going to get away with what he was trying to do. When Emmett turned around to go back to Edward he saw a good aiming a gun at him and…"
"…Oh my god! Was he shot, is Edward hurt? Is he...oh god I need to sit down." I said and Seth and Rose help me into a chair.
"Vincent shielded Edward. Emmett shot and killed the guy but not before he got off two shots killing Vincent."
"What?!" I yelled
"Also there was no sign of Edward…"
"What do you mean no sign of him?" I asked and Seth and Rose looked at each other again then back at me.
"Bella,, Edward is missing…" Seth said and I blanked after that. I didn't hear anything else Seth said but I saw his mouth moving. Rose kneeled down in front of me and her lips were moving but I couldn't hear her. The words just kept repeating in my head over and over again.
Edward is missing
Edward is missing
Edward is missing
My heart felt like someone had stepped on it, rolled a car over it and set it on fire. How did he just go missing? How does one of the most famous and powerful men in the fucking world just go missing? My heart was pounding so loudly I could hear it in my ears. The deathly sound of those words eating me alive, he was missing.
The love of my life, the father of my children, my reason for breathing was just missing. I mean this made no fucking sense. The paparazzi were there and no one saw anything. No one did anything. They just let someone take my husband and leave?
What if we never found him? What if our children never saw their father again? What if Elijah never got to meet him? What if I never felt him hug me again? Kiss me? Touch me? Whisper in my ear that he loved me? What if that phone call was the last time I would ever hear his voice? What if our children had to grow up without a father? What if the girls don't have him to walk them down the aisle? What if the boys never get to have him at their little league games?
This wasn't happening, this wasn't supposed to happen. Edward was supposed to meet us here in London. I knew Rose and Seth were still calling to me but I looked at the door, waiting for it to open. Waiting for Edward to come through that door and pull me into his arms and call me chéri.
I felt the tears coming down my face as I chewed on my lip, waiting. It was all I could do was wait. I couldn't live my life without him. He is supposed to be here with me. Then the door opened and I stopped breathing. My heart almost stopped as the door slowly opened. I felt hope, hope that they were wrong. Edward was fine, he was here.
But that hope was soon replaced with anger as Emmett walked in. Anger fueled my blood, boiling as I rose to my feet and walked over to him. He looked at me with sad eyes and I slapped him across his face.
"Where were you! Why didn't you protect him! You were supposed to protect him! I trusted you! I trusted you!" I yelled over and over again at him as my fist pounded into his chest. The tears streaming down my face as I hit him repeatedly. I heard Seth and Rose calling me telling me to stop but I was angry. My husband was missing and Emmett was supposed to protect him and he didn't.
I was hurt.
Broken.
"Leave her alone!" I heard Emmett yell out as his arms wrapped around me. It was wrong it wasn't supposed to be his arms. Edward should have been holding me, Edward should be here. Not missing.
"Bella, I swear to you I will find him…" I hear Emmett whisper in my ear in a broken voice and I my hits on his chest slow down as my crying, starts to be more hysterical. I cry in Emmett's arms. I felt myself being lifted and then placed on the couch.
"Do they have anything yet?" I hear Seth ask as my tears continue to fall.
"The license plate thanks to Vincent and a video from the garage camera of them putting Edward in the car."
"Them? How many did it look to be?" Seth asked
"At least three, four if you count who was driving."
"How the hell did they get three idiots to help them do this?" I heard Seth ask and I inhaled a deep shaky breath.
"Money talks, and with Eric involved who knows how much he offered to pay them."
"They're going to kill him…" I say before I even realize it and they all stop talking and look at me.
"You can't think like that Bella…"
"What reason do they have to keep him alive? Orlando wants him dead, we all know it!" I yelled and I saw the sad look on Roses faces as she looked at me.
"We have to fly back to the states…"
"Yeah, but the kids can't go back so Charlie and Renee are flying out here to stay with the kids."
"My children are staying with me…" I snap roughly wiping the tears from my face but they kept coming.
"Bella, it's crazy back home, I mean the press are everywhere and…"
"…My children are staying with me! You fucking idiots already didn't listen to me and look my husband is missing so you listen to me carefully, MY children are going where I go and they are staying with me!" I snapped at them and they all looked at each other then looked at me nodding their heads.
"Momma what's wrong?" I hear Kiah ask and I turn to see Kiah, Keiara and Ethan standing there rubbing their eyes. Rose starts to walk over to them and I yell at her to stop. I get up from the couch and walk over to them. I pick Ethan up with the protest of everyone in the room. I ignore them and take the girls hands and walk back to the bedroom.
We all climb into the bed as I held them all as close I possibly could. Elijah moved against my stomach and the kids giggled. It made me smile, but that didn't last long knowing there was a chance that Edward may never hear those giggles again.
It was then I decided, I was going to find my husband and ruin anyone who stood in my fucking way. I told the kids a bedtime story, it was really just the story Edward had a habit of telling them before they went to bed. They soon fell back to sleep. I couldn't sleep, I didn't want to. Lying there in the bed I couldn't help thinking about our third wedding anniversary.
"Cheri this shirt doesn't fit?" Edward said to me as he started taking it off and I laughed walking over to him. I helped him remove the shirt moving my hand slowly over his arms.
"I think you might have gained a few pounds baby…" I told him with a smile on my face and he gave me that sexy grin of his completely making me melt.
"Is that right?" He asked wrapping his arms around me and placing his hand on my ass. I smiled at him my cheeks flushing. How he still made me blush after all this time puzzled me but I loved it.
"Of course in all the right places baby, you never hear me complain." I told him.
"Not everyone can stay as hot as you Mrs. Cullen."
"Oh please." I replied stepping back knowing that if I didn't we wouldn't make our reservations. Edward pulled me back against him and placed a searing kiss on my lips. I melted against him, my arms slowly wrapping around his neck.
"Thank you for marrying me three years ago…" He mumbled against my lips.
"I had nothing better to do…" I joked smiling against his mouth. He swatted me on my ass and pressed me tighter against his body. I lifted my lips from his and looked up into his green eyes.
"I would marry you a million times Edward, spend a billion lifetimes with you and it still wouldn't be enough…"
"…So you haven't gotten sick of me yet?"
"Not a chance…"
"A billion lifetimes is a lot, you might change your mind…"
"…What if I do?" I teased and he smiled but with all seriousness in his eyes he said.
"I'll have to tie you up and hold you captive. See even a billion lifetimes couldn't fill my hunger for you Isabella. You are my everything and without you I am nothing."
"Ditto." I told him and he kissed me again and we were late for our reservations.
I woke up in the middle of the night. Lying there in the bed I felt the tears prick my eyes again. Some part of me still refused to believe that he was missing, that no one had any idea where he was. I mean I kept feeling like that I was failing him, like our love should have meant I would know where he was. It was so damn irritating.
My stomach growled and though I didn't want to eat I knew I needed to for Elijah. I could hear Emmett and Seth in the other room talking. This didn't really surprise me because I knew they probably wouldn't sleep until Edward was back home with all of us. I slipped from the bed being careful not to wake the kids. I used the bathroom then walked out into the room where I saw Seth and Emmett sitting at a table looking at a large map with red large circles on some areas.
As I approached the table they both looked up at me concern plain on their faces. I appreciated that neither of them asked me if I was alright.
"What are you doing?" I asked them and they looked down at the map then back at me.
"We've been in contact with the police back in Chicago, they are checking these areas and Vincent's…" Emmett paused and I could understand why. Knowing that we lost Vincent was devastating in so many ways.
"…the agents from the agency are covering this area." Seth continued and I bit my lower lip and nodded my head.
"We're going to find him Bella…" Emmett told me and I felt a tear fall from my eye on to my cheek. I quickly wiped it and nodded my head again.
"I'm sorry Emmett, you too Seth." I told them feeling bad for taking my anger out on the two of them.
"I should have stayed…" Seth said shaking his head.
"I shouldn't have left his side…" Emmett said pulling at his hair.
"Don't guys…no more pointing fingers alright? Let's just find him and bring him home." I say and they both nodded their heads and looked at me.
"We're sorry Bella…" They said at the same time and I inhaled a deep breath and nodded my head again.
"Elijah and I are hungry how about you guys?" I asked them and they both said that they were. I walked to the penthouse kitchen knowing that the staff recently filled the refrigerator. I made the three of us some sandwiches and I listened to them as they talked about all the places they still had to look. Eventually I couldn't take it anymore and went to sleep making Emmett and Seth promise to get some sleep.
"Bella we need to…"
"…I know Emmett but you two can't find him if you're dead on your feet now can you?" I asked. I gave them both a hug and then went back to bed. Holding my children I cried myself to sleep wishing their father was here with us.
~~~~~~FTI~~~~~~
I had never been more thankful for having access to a private jet. We were able to avoid the press as we all got off of the plane. Nahuel and Jacob met us at the airport because I was going to hold a press conference about Edward missing. Esme and Carlisle were meeting me here as well for the added support.
Jacob, Nahuel, Carlisle and Esme all walked out towards us as we all got off of the plane. The kids ran to their grandparents. Jacob got to me first as he pulled me into a hug whispering a sorry and they he would help bring Edward back up to all of us. Once he released me from his hug Esme and Carlisle pulled into another. I couldn't help crying in their arms again.
I knew he wasn't dead, well god I prayed that he wasn't but that's what was killing me the not knowing. The fear that we would receive a phone call that they found his body; it made me sick just thinking about it. I cleaned my face up and looked at Jacob and Nahuel.
"Do not let them out of your sight under no circumstances." I said pointing my finger at them.
"Of course Bella…" Nahuel answered and I nodded my head and then kissed each of the kids telling them to stay with Nahuel and Jacob and not to run off for any reason. They took the kids back to the Cullen Estate where we were meeting with the rest of the family.
"Are you ready dear?" Esme asked and I shook my head.
"I'm as ready as I can be." I tell her and she nods her head and takes my hand. We all start walking to where the press conference was to take place and the camera's when wild catching a glimpse of me as I approached the podium. Esme and Carlisle stood behind me while Emmett and Seth stood next to me.
"Are you sure you can do this?" Emmett asked me and I nodded my head.
"If I don't Faith and Eric will think they got the best of me." I tell him and he nods his head. I walk up to the microphones and the flashing of the cameras were making my head hurt.
"Thank you for meeting here with me today..."
"Bella is there any news on Edward?" Someone yelled and I inhaled a deep breath.
"No, but if ANYONE has any news please call us on that 1-800 number on your screen. We are offering $500,000 in the return of my husband."
"How have you been Bella? How are the children?" Another reporter asked.
"We are all doing as good as can be expected."
"What about the show?" Another asked and I couldn't believe they would ask me that damn question.
"Under the circumstances the show is not a priority." I replied and I felt Emmett's hand on my upper back while Esme took my hand in hers.
"What about Masen Corp? What is going to happen now that the CEO is missing?" They asked and I hated they were asking me about business as if my husband missing was nothing.
"The family and I trust it to Masen Corps Vice President Jessica Howard and Our Executive Masen Carter." I replied knowing that Mac and Jessica could handle running the business for the time being.
"Masen Corp is the least of our concern right now and I would appreciate you all not asking my daughter in law about it as if it should be. We miss Edward and we want him back home safe with all of us." Esme and another tear fell and I placed my head against hers.
"Esme how are you and Carlisle taking this?" A reporter asked.
"How the hell would you be taking it if it was your child missing? My son has a wife, children who miss him greatly. We are all taking this a day at a time."
"Carlisle, do you have nothing to say?" A reporter asked and Carlisle came over placing his hand on my and Esme's back.
"When I get my hands on the people responsible for this nothing can save them, and I mean nothing." Carlisle said and I could hear Esme whisper something to him.
"Bella what do you have to say to your husband's kidnappers?" Another reporter asked me and I felt the tears feel my eyes again. This was real, this was fucking real. My husband was missing, he wasn't about to walk through any door and surprise me like he did while I was at the radio station. He wasn't about to send me any flowers, or call my cell phone and tell me how beautiful he thought I looked on television.
But if Orlando, Faith and Eric were as sadistic as I knew they were, they were making him watch me right now. They would want him to see the pain on my face, to see the tears in my eyes as I begged for them to give me my husband back. So I inhaled a shaky breath,
"Edward if you are watching this I love you more than my next breath, I miss you, are children miss you, are family miss you and are friends miss. We will stop at nothing until we find you baby and we will find you. To the bastards who took my husband may god have mercy on your soul because I won't." I said then I walked away from the podium as the questions started to come faster. I hear Emmett tell them that the interview was over as Esme and Carlisle take my hand as we walk away and head for the car that Seth was leading us to. Emmett was close behind me.
~~~~~~~~~FTI~~~~~~~~~
The moment we walked into Esme and Carlisle's family room to meet with the rest of the family I saw the tears in everyone's eyes, the obvious pain on all their faces. I always knew Edward was loved, that his family loved him but he wasn't always sold on the idea. He used to say they would sell him piece by piece if it meant they would have more of the Masen fortune. By looking at each of them now I knew that was not the case at all.
One by one they approached me hugged me and told me they were there for me if I needed them for anything. When my parents hugged me my father whispered in my ear that every police connection he had was out looking for Edward. I was surprised when Elizabeth hugged, some part of me wanted to tell her to stay the fuck away from because I knew her son was behind this, but by the look of distraught on her face I knew she had no idea. Priscilla came over to me and I wouldn't hug her, I couldn't. She knew, she knew all along that her brother was up to something and it took Jane to come to me, to tell me. When Emily and Bree came over to me we cried the hardest as the three of us stood there holding the other.
My eyes felt puffy and they were burning from all the crying. I told everyone that I would be right back. I needed to check on the kids. I needed to see their faces, sit with them in their untainted world. I found them outside in Esme garden and the moment they saw they ran over to me.
"Mommy we were playing tag and Uncle Jake is it." Keiara told me and I smiled down at her.
"Is that right?"
"Yeah, can you play with us?" Kiah asked me.
"Please…" All three of them said pouting. I couldn't deny them anything and even a little moment of normalcy was necessary.
"Yeah but we better run Uncle Jake is coming." I tell them and we all took off through the garden. I played with them loving their giggles and taunts as they ran. It made me think about when Edward and I would play tag and hide and go seek with them. I had to stop running I lied telling the kids I just had to catch my breath.
The tears started down my face and I could hear Edward's laugh in my head, see his smiling face whenever the girls would giggle or the pride in his eyes every time Ethan called him daddy. My chest hurt, this was wrong, it was fucked up.
"Bella…Bella what's wrong? Is it the baby?" I hear Jacob ask me and I shake my head placing my hand over my stomach. I feel Elijah move and it brings a little calm to my body.
"Mommy, when is daddy coming home?" I hear Ethan ask and I had to swallow the tears in my eyes. I hadn't told the children that their father was missing, I mean how could I?
"I don't know baby, he has a lot of business to take care of, but you know daddy he can never stay away from us for long." I told them and they nodded their heads.
"Yup, daddy said he loves us more than anything." Kiah said.
"And that he would always come home, right momma?" Keiara asked and the tears started to fall from my face and I quickly had to wipe them away.
"Hey munchkins why don't we go play on the water slide." I hear Nahuel say and the kids take off running to him. He picked up Ethan and takes the girls hands as they walk away. I look up at Jacob feeling my heart break some more.
"He has to come home Jake…"
"He will Bella…" Jake told me and I wanted so much to believe that, to believe that at any moment Edward would come strolling through the door and pull me into his arms.
"Bella everyone here…" I hear Emily say and I look up and nod my head at her. Jacob said he was going to meet up with Nahuel and the kids and Emily came over taking my hand in hers.
"Are you hungry?" Emily asked placing her hand on my stomach.
"I don't have an appetite." I answer
"You have to eat for him Bella." She said and I knew she was right. Of course I still needed to take care of myself. Edward and my child life depended on it. We stopped in the kitchen first and she made me some eggs. When Jenks came in telling us that everyone was waiting for us, Emily damn near bit his head off.
"Let them fucking wait, she needs to eat." She snapped at him and he nodded his head and walked back out of the room. After I finished eating Elijah felt very pleased with himself. Together Emily and I walked to the family room and Rose quickly came over taking the hand Emily wasn't holding. I looked over and saw Bree sitting with Esme and Carlisle.
"Now that we are all here, I want to first tell everyone how sorry I am that this has happened." Jenks says and I inhaled a deep breath.
"And while I know that it is not important to any of you concerning the company it is still important. Jessica and Mac can only do but so much without Edward's presents…"
"So what are you saying we have to appoint someone CEO until he returns?" Emily asked with irritation in her voice.
"If he comes back, I mean we don't know what these kidnappers want. They haven't made one ransom call to any of us." Edward's uncle William said and I shot daggers at him as I looked at him.
"He's coming back." Bree snapped at him.
"I know we all want him to, but we have to think rationally here. What if he doesn't?"
"And what if I put my foot in your ass?!" Emmett barked getting pissed off and William looked surprised. Jenks cleared his throat.
"The family actually doesn't have to appointment anyone. See Edward wrote up a living will years ago, and it left the company to Bella in the event of his absence or death." Jenks said.
"What?" I said thinking I heard him wrong.
"He said he knew that you would treat the company and everyone in it the same way he would." Jenks said and I shook my head having trouble to believe my husband would leave the responsibility of the family billion dollar company to me.
"Just me?" I asked still not able to believe any of this.
"You, Emmett and Emily, but ultimately you are CEO until Edward's return Bella." Jenks informed me and I just kept shaking my head.
"She's what?!" I hear the voice of the biggest snake in this family. My nose flared as I looked at Eric and I watched Emmett's fist ball at his sides.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Emily snapped at him.
"This is a family meeting and I am family in case you forgot." Eric replied smiling in my direction and Seth quickly stood in front of me as if to shield me from his glare. Then I watched as Carlisle charged over to Eric and slammed him up against the door of the family room.
"Where the fuck is my son!" Carlisle yelled, Eric tried pushing Carlisle off of him and Emmett stormed over. Before I knew it was like every man in the room was trying to break up the fight. All I could see was fist flying and yelling. Once they had them separated Eric had a bloody nose and what was soon to be a swollen eye.
"What the hell is going on? Carlisle why would you think Eric has any idea where Edward is?" Elizabeth asked looking from her son to her brother in law.
"Because he's the reason Edward is missing." Esme says glaring at her nephew.
"Eric what the hell are they talking about?" Elizabeth asked walking over to him.
"Mom you're just going to believe them? I don't know where he is!" Eric yelled and I pulled away from Emily and walked over to him punching Eric in the face followed by spit from my mouth.
"You a fucking liar! Where is he?" I asked and he glared at me and lied with a straight face.
"I don't know."
"Let me kill him." I hear Emmett say as they hold him against the opposite wall.
"Let me go." Eric said shaking the arms off that were holding him.
"I can't believe any of you would think I had something to do with this."
"Eric you…"
"…shut up Priscilla!" Eric yelled at her and Elizabeth slapped him across his face so hard it rung through the entire room.
"What did you do?!" Elizabeth yelled at him. Then she hit him again.
"What the hell did you do?!" She repeated slapping and pushing him up against the wall. I've never seen her like this, not on one of her own children.
"Your blood Eric, he's your fucking blood! What did you do! Where is he?" She yelled lifting her hand to hit him again and this time he gripped her wrist stopping her.
"That is the last time you will put your hands on me." He told her with so much anger in his eyes I feared he was actually about to harm his own mother.
"Let her go Eric." Seth says and Eric flings her as if she was nothing and Esme went to Elizabeth catching her before she lost balance.
"I don't know where he is, but what makes him any more important than me uh? He goes missing and you all turn on me?"
"Eric where is my husband?" I asked him again not in the mood for his lying bullshit.
"I don't know Bella, maybe he staged all of this to get away from your nagging ass and the gang of brats you keep piling up." Eric said and Rose hauled off and punched him in his throat making him choke.
"None of you have any proof that I had anything to do with this, and I'm going to tell you the same thing I told the police when the pet over there…" He said pointing at Emmett.
"…sent them to question me. I don't fucking know where Edward is, but about damn time someone took care of him." he continued and I hit him again. So hard I swore I might have broken my hand this time. When I screamed out in pain Carlisle came over to me to check my hand. Eric left and as much as I wanted to make him say and tell us where Edward was I knew he wouldn't. He would get more enjoyment at seeing us trying to get it out of him.
Once he was gone and we knew he was off the estate Elizabeth turned to Esme.
"I'm sorry Esme, I-I goodness I don't even know how to make this up to you." She said and the two sister cried. I flinched when Carlisle trying flexing my hand.
"Are we really just going to stand here and let Eric go, I mean he knows something?" Edward's favorite cousin Grace said.
"There's been an agent following Eric from the moment we thought he was involved. It hasn't made any direct contact with who we think took Edward so the police can't make a move on him. Edward's phone has been off so we can't trace it. We know Eric is involved but he's kept his hands clean so far." Seth told them and I could see the disbelief on everyone's faces.
"Bella I think you broke your hand, let's go up to my office," Carlisle said and I nodded my head as I felt the tears in my eyes. I watched as Priscilla approached me.
"I'm sorry Bella…" She started and I shook my head at her.
"…Don't you fucking dare, you are just as much to blame as he is." I spat at her and everyone in the room looked at her.
"I swear I didn't think he would…I never thought…" She said then stopped shaking her head. I told Carlisle to take me to his office while I could hear the rest of the family start to dig into Priscilla. All I wanted was for this nightmare to be over.
As Carlisle checked my hand I heard a lot of commotion out in the hall. Then I saw Emmett run into the room with a frantic look on his face.
"Bella the police got a hit on Edwards's cell phone, we think we found him." He said and hope filled my chest as tears fell from my eyes.
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