A/N: Thanks Sherry xx
Chapter 50
EPOV
"Edward, Edward." I could hear someone calling my name but they sounded so far away. I was in a deep haze, floating toward the abyss. My wolf urged me to wake, something was wrong, but he too was struggling to fight the effects of whatever was holding us down. "Edward, please… Bella is gone." Bella, my mate, she was gone? I started fighting the darkness around me harder, knowing that I had to wake. My wolf fought with me. I have no idea how long it took us, but eventually I saw the light. I fought with everything I had and then I was able to open my eyes. I was in a cave, lying on a bed. Emmett and Jasper were standing over me, concern etched all over their faces. "Bella," I croaked. "Where is she?"
"She's gone," Jasper answered. "We found the pup and when we were heading back to the cave we found you unconscious on the forest floor. There was no sign of Bella. We looked, but we couldn't find her anywhere. There was no sign of a struggle either. What happened? Can you remember?"
I sat up, swaying as I went. Jasper reached out to help me, but the second his hand came near me I growled. I had already been knocked out. I expected my position would already be called into question without doing anything else to make myself appear weaker. I struggled through the fog in my head, trying to recall what had happened. "I sent you to go after the pup," I muttered to myself. "Bella and I talked… when we turned to head back to the cave there were three men standing there? At least they looked like men. I couldn't scent them to be sure what they were. They moved fast. They weren't interested in fighting. They drugged me as soon as they got the chance. Whatever they used was strong. It knocked me out straight away. How long have I been out?" I asked, looking up at them both.
"Eight hours," Emmett grimaced.
Eight hours? I have been out for eight hours, meanwhile Bella was gone to god knows where. They could have her on the other side of the country by now. I shoved my legs off the bed and forced myself to stand. My body felt weak. Jasper reached out to support me again, but I growled. "You need to rest," he objected.
"I have rested, for eight hours," I growled. "My mate is out there and I need to find her."
"We have been looking," Emmett assured me. "We haven't had much to go on, but we have been looking. You said you couldn't scent the men, but they were close enough to drug you. How is that possible?"
I shook my head
"I've never come across anyone without a scent before. It could be another type of shifter, one perhaps that we don't know about or maybe they have come into possession of something that masks their scent," Jasper mused. "I think the last is the most logical."
I nodded my head in agreement. "You said there was nothing to go so we go with that. We find out where you can obtain something to mask your scent and see where it leads. I'm gonna assume that these men where shifters and not humans because if they weren't shifters, then that opens a whole another load of problems. If humans know about us there is no telling what they will do."
