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Chapter Twenty-five: The Finding Out
CAROL-O POV
After talking with the Chief, I call hospital security to search the premises, but to no avail. Rosalie didn't waste a moment making her escape.
This whole scenario bothers me. How did Rose leave that quickly with Kate at the front desk or did Kate disappear once again disappear into room six-twelve?
I ask Carmen to sit for a minute as I check something out down the hall.
Walking into Garrett's room, I find him sitting up and watching TV. He turns and smiles, "Ah, my white-haired beauty, how lucky can a guy get?"
I smirk, "You're lucky?"
"Well, two beautiful nurses giving me time in a matter of minutes," he flirts.
My light bulb goes on. "So, Kate checked in on you, too?"
"She stayed a few minutes to fluff my pillows," he boasts bring his hands behind his head and smirking.
"Shall I assume you are happily fluffed?" I edge on with an eyebrow raised.
"Let's just say, she would have gone beyond the call of duty," he plays.
I nod, "That would have been compromising."
He blushes, "Well, not to fulfillment, Carol-O."
I shake my head and cross my arms over my chest, "Are you okay for the night?"
He tests, ""Not unless you have something to add."
I smile, "Enema?"
He squints, "I'm good."
I start to walk out, "Night, Garrett."
"You're a hard ass, Carol-O," he shouts.
And I mumble, "You have no idea."
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BPOV
I enter a full living room, just in time to see Charlie making his exit and I question, "What's going on?" I point towards the door.
Edward stands at attention, his eyes wide, similar to a deer caught in headlights. Alice looks down at her hands. Emmett begins to speak, but Edward interrupts him, "You had better not utter a word."
Emmett closes his mouth and sits next to Alice.
Edward finally answers, "Bella, Charlie placed an APB on Rosalie."
I bite my bottom lip, slowly nod and sit on a chair. Edward moves closer to sit on the arm. "You okay?"
With all eyes on me, I slightly smile, "She keeps outsmarting us …" I look off. "She's always one step ahead."
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RPOV
I am a smart cookie changing my Washington, license plates. As cop cars whiz by me, I giggle to myself. "I'm right here, boys, under your nose and in plain sight."
And I never leave anything to chance, so with radar warnings on, I drive at a high rate of speed leaving Forks far behind, driving the fifty-six miles in less than forty minutes. Before I make my turn onto E101, I head into the Texaco station, parking the car off to the side and checking my license plate. All is good.
Still in disguise with the scarf over my hair and keeping my eyes down, I ask for the bathroom key, toting a small bag and locking the door. I pull the scarf off my blonde hair, pinning it up under a warm, brown, shoulder-length wig with bangs. Fluffing it naturally into place, I continue with my charade by darkening my eyebrows, putting in brown contact lenses over my baby blues and painting my lips a dark mocha. To give me a shorter appearance, I remove my heels and slide into ballet flats. Oh, I don't look like me. Ah, I resemble Bella. I smile broadly into the mirror and throw myself a kiss.
I make sure when I hand the key to the attendant that I closely bat my brown eyes and smile seductively. I purchase gas, snacks, energy drinks and a few bottles of water shaking my ass on the way out.
I have a very long drive, almost twenty-six hours, and plan to go straight through only stopping for gas and food.
I am under the radar. They won't find me. They have yet to …
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CHARLIE POV
By the time I reach the station, I see Carol in my office. I walk in and close the door. "What happened?"
Carol sighs, "I didn't anticipate working with an idiot, Charlie. I was in the bathroom a matter of five minutes. In that time, the other nurse was making goo-goo eyes with a male patient. The night house keeper went into Rose's room and was assaulted. Carmen's outside. She can tell you the rest."
I shake my head, lean on my desk and rub my mustache. "Damn, that girl is long gone, Carol. Her car was not seen on any of the roads. "
Carol huffs, "Oh, she'll be back." She points at me. "And you'll get her, Charlie."
"Yeah, let's talk with Carmen."
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EPOV
No one wants to leave Bella. Jasper and Alice take my room, Emmett settles himself on the sofas and Bella and I go into her room.
"Would you prefer if I join Emmett in the living room?" I ask her.
I can see she is on edge.
"No Edward, I'd like for you to hold me right now," she quietly requests.
With two long strides, I grab her in my arms and hold her tightly. "We won't allow anything to happen to you or the babies, Bella."
She looks up at me, "Edward, I know that. I just hate everyone having to be on guard. Until Rose is found, this is going to be a three-ring circus."
After we change, we both crawl into bed. Bella rests her head on my chest; I wrap my arms around her and play with her hair.
"Bella, when I was a sophomore in college, I got very drunk at a frat party one night and slept with a girl I barely knew outside one of my classes. Five weeks later, she came to me professing she was pregnant. Naive nineteen-year-old as I was, I took her at face value and did what I thought was the right thing to do. She moved in with me and I took full responsibility for her care and expenses. Between school and working full time, I was rarely home."
I clear my throat. "One afternoon, with a bouquet of roses in hand, I came home to find her rolled up in a ball on the bed, bleeding and moaning. Her intentions were never to have the baby. She took every dime I gave her, saved it up and went to some hack for an abortion. She was going to tell me she had a miscarriage."
Bella squeezes my hand. "Oh, Edward, I'm so sorry."
"I still don't know if the baby was mine, but at the time I never questioned her," I snort.
"That's horrible."
"I took her to the hospital with all her belongings, left her there and never looked back.
"Did she ever try to contact you?"
"What would be the point?"
Bella quietly remarks, "Now, I understand why you distrusted me so much."
"I didn't bring this up to belittle you or rehash the past. I want you to know how important you and the babies are … to me. She didn't even try to communicate her decision. She executed, hmm, great word … She accomplished her plan and she honestly believed she could pull it off and I would never be the wiser."
"I'm so sorry, Edward," she sympathizes.
"It was a long time ago." I kiss the top of her head. "Let's try to get some sleep." I rub her arms. "You have a houseful of people on watch."
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BPOV
The following morning, I carefully slide out of Edward's hold, take a quick shower, dress and quietly make my way to the kitchen. I find Emmett wearing one of my aprons with the ties undone and frying bacon over the stove. The coffee pot's on, bread is in the toaster, eggs in a carton on the counter, and fresh-squeezed orange juice in a pitcher on the island.
I hug him from behind. "Emmett, this was so sweet of you."
He shrugs, "I thought you might be hungry and I was up. I love you, Belly. Did you get any sleep?"
I smile. "Yeah, a little. You?"
He smiles, "Yeah, a little."
The doorbell rings.
We look at one another and simultaneously say, 'Charlie.'
I open the front door to two, large, Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls with dad in between.
"Dad, really?"
"Isabella Marie Swan, you have to indulge your father. I never had the time to buy you anything before you were born, I worked double shifts and you came early," he pleads.
Charlie throws the dolls onto a chair and surprises me with a tight huge. "I love you, Bells. You have to let me be a granddad. You have to let me be your father."
I roll my eyes, "When you put it that way …"
He interrupts, "You can't say no."
Emmett made breakfast. Are you hungry?" I ask him.
"Coffee would be great." He follows me into the kitchen. "Hey, Emmett."
"Mornin', Chief, any news?" Emmett talks with a mouthful of bacon.
Charlie explains the situation with Rosalie giving his officer the slip and the nurse in question receiving a serious reprimand.
I hand him a mug of coffee.
He stands with coffee in hand, "We have road blocks on all highways, back roads, and residential roads, in and out of Forks. If Rosalie Hale is still in the area, she will be apprehended."
And Emmett mumbles, "What if she's not?"
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RPOV
I inch my way closer to the Canadian border patrol. The attendant stands near my window as I roll it down. He bends, looking down at me, and asks for all the necessary documents. I hand him everything.
After he looks them over, ransacks my car, he gives me a nod and hands everything back to me. "Well, Miss Debrovsky, it seems everything is in order," he smiles. "May I ask how long you plan to stay in Canada?"
I smile back and speak with a Russian accent, " Actually, I am cutting through and on my way to Alaska."
"Aw, I see," he flirts.
"I still have a long drive ahead of me. Thank you for being so quick," I humbly gush.
"Have a safe trip."
"I will." Zipping the window up, I speed forward singing 'Goodbye, Forks, I love you'. I giggle loudly, "I'm coming, Alaska!"
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So, she left the country for Canada and back through to Alaska. Wonder where she is going and who will she be meeting?
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