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Trust Chapter 35.
"Isabella…I have been looking for you." He spoke with a voice that made me feel sick.
He was too close to me, I knew I would not be able to out run him, I had tried that before.
I had almost forgotten how huge Jacob was.
He was leaning over me…growling.
"What do you want Jacob?"
"You, I want what's mine."
He sat down beside me, effortlessly pushing me along the bench with a slight movement of his body.
"I don't belong to you. I don't belong to anyone in the way you mean."
"Oh you are feisty today, in your fancy new clothes…where have you been? What have you been doing to pay for these…fine…items? Selling that pathetic body of yours?" He lifted up the edge of my blouse and tugged slightly at the edge of it.
I tired to push his hand off me.
He threw his arm around me and started pulling me closer to him. His grip was hurting me. I tired to break away.
"Do not fight me! You pathetic nasty slut! You are lucky I am will to take you as a favour to Charlie."
"I don't belong to Charlie for him to give away…"
"I am going to have you Isabella. You know I am. You have no where else to go."
His free hand moved to go under my blouse…this was not going to happen.
I needed to take control of this situation. He would only have power over me if I let him.
"Stop touching me…NOW!" I tried to move his hand away but he grabbed onto me, gripping me, holding me still.
I looked around for help. Where was Edward?
A police officer was walking along near by.
"Officer… Can you help me please?"
He heard me and came across to investigate.
"Are you ok Miss?" I stood up throwing Jacobs arms off me and stood beside the officer.
"NO, please officer I am not ok. This man is bothering me. I have a restraining order out against him. Please help me!"
"Miss…?"
"Bella Masen. My name is Bella Masen."
"Your name is Bella Swan!" Jacob spat at me! "And you will regret sending me those papers! You won't keep me away from you! YOU ARE MINE! YOU FUCKING BITCH YOU BELONG TO ME!"
"Step back from Miss Masen please sir…"
"HER NAME IS SWAN! FUCKING LYING BITCH!"
The officer tried to move between me & Jacob but he lunged forward, slapping my face with the back of his enormous hand bursting my lip and causing me to stagger off balance. I hit my head on the edge of the bench as I fell, twisting my wrist as I landed on the ground.
He attempted to grab me again. I crawled back from him.
The police officer, had radioed for back up, reached out attempting to restrain Jacob. He was really pissed now and swung round, attacking the police officer.
Not a smart move!
They both started trying to get the upper hand over each other.
Suddenly Edward came running over and wrapped his arms around me, pulling me back from the fight.
More police arrived really quickly and restrained Jacob who was swearing and throwing punches.
The first officer came over to check I was ok. He handed me a clean tissue to hold to the cut on my head. I hated blood and felt myself start to sway. "Bella, sit down honey. You are ok now. I am so sorry I should never have left you."
He pulled me over to sit down on another bench.
"Can I ask you Miss Masen? It is Masen?"
"Yes I changed my name at my lawyers, and I do have a restraining order out against Jacob Black in my new name and my old name Swan." I gave him all the details including Aro's number.
I was amazed at how calm I was considering my worst dreams were here in front of me trying to take me away from Edward.
"One more thing Officer. I am estranged from my birth parents. I live with a new family and I do not want anything to do with the Swan family."
"Can you come down to the station to make a statement please Miss Masen?"
"Can I call my Father please?" Edward asked.
"You are Sir?"
"Edward Cullen, my father Carlisle is Bella's chosen guardian. We are in the middle of making it legal."
He nodded and Edward called Dad.
The family would meet us at the police station. Aro was coming too. The police had taken Jacob away.
I was still strangely calm. "Are you ok Edward?"
"Yes Baby I am, more to the point, are you ok?"
"Yes I think so, my wrist hurts and my face stings a bit. But I am ok."
"Do you need an ambulance Miss Masen?"
"No thank you officer…Sorry I don't know your name..."
"Laurent Jones, you can call me Laurent."
"Thank you for helping me Laurent. Call me Bella please. I am so grateful you were near by and helped me out."
"No problem Bella, but I would be happier if you would get your injuries looked at. We also need to take some photos of them to use against Black. Do you wish to press charges against him?"
"Yes I do, he scares me. I have had problems with him before."
"Will you be able to drive Bella down to the police department Edward?"
He nodded. He looked more shaken than I was.
"Edward its ok, come on lets go get this sorted."
"I shouldn't have gone to get you these flowers I should have stayed by your side Love!"
He had thrown down the most beautiful pink roses.
"Oh Edward, you didn't know he would be here. I love you, you have done nothing wrong! They are beautiful flowers! No one has ever got me flowers before!"
I jumped up to kissed him & throw my arms round his neck, only then to suddenly remember the pain in my wrist. I hissed and jumped back grabbing at my wrist.
"Bella gently baby. Let me see your wrist."
I lifted it up and he places a soft kisses on it and then on my cheek and edge of my lip that was cut."
"OK you two. Lets get you down to the station and you can go back to all this loving when we are finished."
Laurent chuckled.
"Thank you again Laurent." I leaned over and gave him a one armed hug. "We will meet you down there."
I smiled at the police officer. He nodded and headed off to his car.
"I guess we knew I would need to face Jacob soon."
Edward nodded. "I am so sorry I should have been with you."
"You are here now my Love. Please do not say sorry."
I reached up and touched his face.
"I love you… I couldn't do this without you."
"I love you too Pretty girl. Come on let's go deal with this and get Dad to look at your injuries."
The drive to the police department was quiet. I knew Edward was blaming himself about not being with me, but I was relieved he had been safe from Jacob's anger. I could not bear the thought of Edward being hurt. "Baby…I love you, you know that?"
"I do pretty girl. I am sorry-"
"No, don't say it again. I need to get you to understand that I am not angry or upset that you had gone to buy me a surprise. Please don't beat yourself up over this."
"No need, Emmett and Jasper will do it for me…" He sighed.
We arrived at the police station to find the family all waiting for us.
"Edward…what the fuck-"
"DON'T! Emmett! Do not blame Edward. He thought he was doing a nice thing getting me flowers. We didn't know Jacob was there…if you are angry be angry at the brute that hurt me. Not at Edward please…Emmie please don't be angry at Edward…"
Now the tears came.
I felt my legs give way as I collapsed to the floor.
Edward and Emmett both held on to me.
Emmett handed me to Edward. "Sorry Man, I just panicked." Edward nodded at his brother and took me to sit on his lap at the reception area.
"Let me see little one." Dad came over and looked at my face and wrist. "I think we need to get this x-rayed. Don't think it is broken but I want to check it out."
I couldn't speak. I wanted my family to be away from my past. I didn't want these people I loved to be tainted with anything to do with my birth family.
The tears were streaming down my face. My body shaking with sobs.
My family were all around me. Comforting me, touching me and telling me they loved me.
"Bella?"
I looked up. Standing before me and my family was Charlie.
I couldn't speak to him.
"Can I help you Mister?"
"Swan. Charlie Swan, who are you anyway?"
"Carlisle Cullen. Mr Swan. Bella has been staying with my family."
"Oh that's where you were? Right well you can stop this nonsense with Jacob now and come home."
My family moved around me, their protection obvious.
"No. I don't live with you any more. You gave me a choice. Live with Jacob or leave. I left."
I tried to say it out loud and strong.
I couldn't stand up but I needed to look this man in the eye. "Edward, can you help me up please?"
"Sure baby."
With his arm gently around me I wobbled but was on my feet. Jasper now stood beside me too. Emmett had moved and was up front with our Dad. Rose, Alice and Mum stood to the side, protecting each other. Were we going into battle? It felt like it.
"You made me choose. You didn't want me, I left. It is simple. You don't have to worry about me being around you any more. I left."
Charlie looked at me then looked at the people around me.
"You look awful fancy in your expensive clothes."
"The colours will match the new bruises that Jacob gave me again tonight Charlie, they are not the first he has given me, and they won't be the last if I was stupid enough to go with him."
Emmett growled. "YOU won't be going with Jacob Bella. Not tonight, not ever."
"Who are you to order my daughter around?" Charlie looked at Emmett, but was obviously intimidated by his huge body.
"This is my family Charlie. They have loved and cared for me more in the last 5 days than you or Renee has done my whole life time." I tired to smile at my family.
They all looked at me and smiled or nodded encouragement. They made me stronger every day.
"5 days? You have been away 5 days?"
"When did you notice I was gone Charlie?" I wasn't surprised he hadn't missed me at all but it still stung.
He muttered something under his breath.
"You noticed I was gone on Monday or Tuesday I bet. No food on the table? No clean clothes for you? What gave it away?"
"Do not speak to me like that! I deserve better than that! I am your father!"
"No, no you don't. You never loved me, you never cared for me. You wanted a house keeper. You are the man who impregnated Renee! She is no more a parent to me than you are!"
Charlie looked shocked but not angry. "I was hoping she would come back to us, but you reminded me so much of her. I loved her. I waited for her to come back to me."
All I saw before me was a broken man.
He never said anything about loving me.
Yet I felt nothing for him. He still never realised how much he let me down.
"You should have looked after me. You should have loved me Charlie. You chose not to, you made me feel worthless, you made me think no one would want to love me. You gave me to Jacob to get rid of me like trash to be thrown away. YOU gave him the idea it was ok to hurt me, to take me, to keep me, with me having any say in the matter. You failed me."
He looked at his feet.
Edward kissed the side of my head. I felt Jasper touch my lower back. They soothed me. They allowed me to speak my mind. I felt calm and in control.
"I want something from you."
Charlie looked at me confused. "You want to come home?"
"No I am home, with these people around me. I want you as my legal guardian to sign away your parental rights. You gave me away to Jacob, I won't go. I want you to give me up completely so my family here who want me can be my legal family."
I am not sure what he thought my request would be, but it sure wasn't that.
"You are serious? You serve me with a restraining order and then this?"
"Yes. I can't survive living that way anymore, I need to move on and I need to let go of the past. That includes you, not that I figure you will miss me anyway."
"Is that why you are calling yourself Masen?"
"Yes, partly, dose it matter what I call myself?"
"I guess not. If this is what you choose. I have no money to give you. How will you survive? Take from these folks?"
"Bella has wanted nothing from us Mr Swan." Carlisle looked angrily at the man who should be my father.
"Everything we have given her has been under her protest. She deserves so much more than we have or will ever give her."
Charlie looked at Carlisle, the rest of my family and then finally back to me.
"What do I have to do to give you what you want Bella?"
"You just need to sign some papers. Renee has not been in my life to sign away anything. I am 18 in 9 days and I won't need you to be anything to me, but I want this. I have not asked you for anything Charlie. But this, this I want from you. Call it my only ever birthday gift."
"I will see, not sure I can get that done in 9 days…I am a busy man. I have to work in the shop and have things planned with Billy."
"I have papers ready here Mr Swan." Aro stepped forward. I smiled at him and he gave me a slow wink.
"Do you have a layer Mr Swan?"
Charlie nodded. "Tell me who he is and I can deal with him.
"No need. If this is what she wants then so be it. Don't want to spend money on some lawyer reading all this to tell me to sign it and charge me top dollar for his time."
With that, Charlie signed the papers and gave up all rights to me.
Done!
I was no longer his responsibility. Not that I really ever had been in any sense.
My heart sank as I realised although this is what I wanted, he didn't question it or fight to keep me.
He had made it easy for me to walk away.
I had no reason to stay.
He didn't love me at all.