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Thanks to everyone hanging with me and all the encouragement! If you're not showing love, you should start now. Don't make me send Carlisle over! If you're good I'll send Mobward or Aro! I'm having a blast writing this story, there is plenty more to come so kick back and have a drink!
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"The very spot ya standin' in then is where I'll leave you."
- T.I. ASAP
Edward's POV
"You ready?" I asked rolling my eyes as Aro got in my car. He reeked of sex. I couldn't stand the thought of my sister having sex, but I couldn't say much. I had spent the afternoon buried in Isabella.
"Where's Em?" Aro asked lighting a cigarette.
"He'll meet us later. We have to go pick up a package."
He nodded, exhaling smoke.
"How are things with Isabella?" Aro asked wriggling his eyebrows at me.
"Don't be a dick."
"What? You always talked about chicks before."
"Isabella is different."
"Gotcha."
"Do you?" I asked raising my eyebrow.
"I do. Since Esme and I got together I look at things differently. I never imagined settling down, least of all with your baby sister. Not that she is a baby anymore." He laughed.
I reached across the console and punched him in the arm.
"What was that for?" He laughed harder rubbing his arm.
"That's still my baby sister, asshole. If she's happy, you live."
"I know, man. I would never hurt Esme."
"As long as it's understood."
We drove the rest of the way making small talk about sports.
We pulled up around the block from the club I knew James was at. One of the bartenders had called telling me his plans for the night. He was actually out with regular whores, not the Denali kind.
"Clearwater? This club is shit." Aro complained as we walked silently into the alley. James would be coming out the back entrance and I made sure he would be alone.
"Fits the man." I shrugged my shoulders.
"Yea."
We waited for about fifteen minutes when the door finally opened. Aro went to step forward when I grabbed his arm. James was a bitch, but I knew he wasn't wearing the perfume I smelled.
"I can't believe you're going to leave me alone tonight! This was supposed to be our night together!" A familiar female voice complained.
"Baby, I have work to do. I'll make it up to you." James tried calming her.
We stayed back in the shadows, listening to their conversation.
"Whatever, I knew you wouldn't be on the same level as Carlisle. This is BS James."
Who the fuck was she?
James punched the side of the building.
"Don't you ever compare me to that piece of shit!"
He paced in the alley while the girl mumbled in a low voice.
I strained to hear what she said but I couldn't make it out.
He threw his hand up telling her he didn't want to hear it and began walking away when she stepped out from behind the door.
"James, baby I'm sorry! Please don't leave like this!" The blond whore pleaded.
Roxy.
I would have to call Carlisle as soon as we got out of here.
I didn't know if Roxy was still around, but I knew she knew enough to cause damage.
I wondered if her father knew she was running around with a low life Denali associate.
Marcus wasn't going to be pleased.
"I'll call you later." James barked at her before turning to walk off.
She stood there for a moment longer before going back in, letting the large steel door slam shut.
I motioned to Aro and we quietly began creeping up behind that sorry piece of shit.
I let the crowbar slip down my jacket sleeve, gripping it tightly.
I never said a word as I ran up behind him, cracking him across the back of his skull.
He grunted loudly before hitting the filthy ground.
"Let's go!" I shouted at Aro as we picked him up rushing to my car.
We tossed him in the trunk and got the hell out of there.
I stood before James' unconscious body.
I broke an empty beer bottle over his head causing him to rouse a little.
"Wake up you filthy pig!" I yelled at him kicking his shin.
His eyes popped open and he looked around trying to focus on something.
Aro, Emmett, and Casrlisle stood behind me.
I was going to kill him, but we had alot of questions first.
"Do you know why you're here?" Carlisle asked looking at his fist like it was the most interesting thing in the world.
James shook his head, coughing. Blood was sliding down the side of his face.
"Are you really that stupid?" Carlisle asked giving him an evil grin.
"Tell us what you know." Emmett barked opening a pack of three inch nails.
"Nothing. I don't know anything."
Aro held the pack of nails for Emmett and handed him a couple along with a hammer.
"You're making me do this asshole." Emmett scolded James as he stepped forward getting on his knees.
"What are you doing?" James asked as his eyes grew wide.
"Getting information." Emmett laughed at him like it was obvious.
"I don't have anything to tell you."
Emmett pulled out one of the nails placing it over James' right shoe. James started to fidget and Aro grabbed his leg holding it still. Emmett held the nail between his thumb and forefinger, studying it as if to make sure he was hanging a picture straight. He grinned at James before dropping the hammer down.
James screamed and tried to thrash around the best he could.
"Alright!" He yelled.
"Alright what?" I asked taking a long drag from my cigarette.
"I'll tell you what you want to know."
"Start talking."
"Frank had us selling the drugs. He didn't care about us, knew you would kill a couple. He would just find another stupid motherfucker to replace them. It was his idea. I swear!"
I glanced at Carlisle waiting for him to ask the question. I knew he didn't want to with Aro here but we lived by a code. Girlfriends weren't a new thing.
"How did you get involved in this and why were you with Roxy Martin?"
James looked at Carlisle as if he was thinking about what to tell him.
He took too long.
Emmett drove a nail into his other foot sending him into a fit of screams again.
"Kate! I was fucking Kate and she set me up with her father! Roxy was just for fun. I have women all over town."
"Do you have any business with Martin?"
"No, but he has been to see Frank a few times. I wasn't allowed in the meeting, I don't know what was discussed." He mumbled out with his face scrunched up in pain.
"What do they have planned for our family?" I asked him flicking my ashes in his face.
"He wants to take down the Volturi family. I don't know when, but he plans to strike."
I nodded at Emmett and walked over to Carlisle.
Emmett and Aro went back to driving nails into James' legs from the ankle up. They could have their fun with him, then it was my turn.
"We have to strike first Carlisle."
"I know. All of it gets done this weekend."
"Do you really think we should wait that long?"
Carlisle glared at me.
"Are you questioning me?"
I threw my hands up to placate him.
"I'm just asking. They have already hit us, went after our women, maybe not directly, but their associates, those working for Frank. I think we should put an end to it now."
"What I say goes." Carlisle spoke before walking away.
He was being stupid. His head was clouded with everything going on in his personal life, and I wasn't waiting when my family, my Isabella, were on the line.
Carlisle was slipping and if he didn't watch out, someone else might take his place.
"Had enough fun?" I hollered at Emmett and Aro.
Emmett stood up grinning from ear to ear.
"Hell no, but I guess it's your turn. After all, it's your woman he wants." Emmett's voiced boomed through the warehouse.
He and Aro stepped back allowing me room to approach James.
"Tell me about Renee. What's she got going on?"
"She's a golddigger, she wants to live the high life and Frank can provide it."
"What about Isabella?" I asked pulling a knife out of my pocket.
"She wants to look like the good parent. As much as Frank has, she wants what her husband has, too. She's greedy."
I nodded as I cleaned the blade with a handkerchief.
"What does Frank want with Isabella?" I looked up to meet his fear filled eyes.
"To get to you. She's the easiest target."
I said nothing more to him. He had given me all the information I needed.
"Are you going to kill me?" He asked with a hint of hope in his eyes.
"I'm going to let you deliver a message for me."
His frame relaxed slightly before I plunged the knife into his throat, cutting down until I reached his groin. He coughed and gagged as the blood poured from him.
"Wanna load him up with any more nails?" I asked Aro casually.
He shrugged his shoulders but grabbed the hammer.
James would spend the last conscience moments of his life with Aro and Emmett driving nails into his body.
He made gargled noises and tears fell down his face.
We sat back and sipped whiskey, waiting for him to bleed out.
Once he was dead we put him in the back of my trunk.
"Aro, go home. I got this." Emmett told him tossing him the keys to his Hummer.
Aro nodded and took off.
"Thanks." I told him starting my car.
We rode silently until we pulled up to the large gate outside of Frank Denali's estate.
"What ya wanna do?" Emmett asked looking around.
"Hang him from the fucking gates, set an example."
Em nodded and I killed the lights, but left the engine running.
We quietly pulled James' body out and hung him by his jacket on the top of the iron gates, leaving quickly before anyone could see us.
Frank would know who had done it.
That was the point, but I didn't want to be there when he did.
We would sit back and wait.
Strike when he least expected.
James' body would deliver the message I wanted it to.
At this point I didn't know which of Isabella's parents to deal with first, her mother or her father.