Chapter Nine

"He wasn't offered bail" Jasper sits on the couch exhausted "I thought you were taking this case Isabella."

"No she isnt" Edward says trying to force his daughter into a sweater. She giggles as she dodges him. He grunts clearly frustrated.

"But she said she was" Jasper frowns

"I'm sorry Jazz. I'll support you in the case but I don't want to go to court."

He narrows his eyes at me but shrugs "Okay"

"Lily, its really cold. You need to put on this sweater"

"No daddy. It makes my body itch"

"Lily listen to your father" I say frowning at her. She pouts and walks over to Edward who puts the sweater over her head and winks at me.

"You'll make a really good mother" Alice whispers startling me.

"Uh what? Mother?"

"You like them"

"Well yeah, Ed's my friend and his daughter is just lovable" She crosses her arms and smiles at me "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Oh nothing. It's just that I really want to win my bet with Jasper so you guys should hurry this up."

I gape at her "What bet?"

She shrugs still smiling sheepishly then walks away, more like jumps away. She was always so excited.

"Those two are up to something" Edward says from behind me. Why was everybody startling me today?

"I know"

"I feel she listens to you more than she does me." he says turning to his daughter.

I laugh "You're too nice to her. sometimes you just need to be strict."

"But look at her, I cant say no to her she's so adorable."

"That's why I'm here" I stop realising what I just said.

"Isabella" I turn to look at him "I…I want us to go out sometime. I know we have a lot going on here…"

"Okay let's go over the plan to get Riley. Two days people, two days.." Alice interrupts as she and Angela sit beside Jasper on the couch."

"We'll talk about this later then" I say to Edward as we join the meeting.

…

I unlock the door and step inside the cozy apartment. We had no idea whether this would work but it was the best plan we could come up with. Alice had texted Riley that she was coming to the house to get her things along with the divorce papers. Despite being on the run, I knew Riley wasn't going to miss an opportunity to get his wife back for calling the cops on him. He was going to be really surprised when he finds out its not his innocent wife waiting for him but Edward and I. Edward locks the door behind me

"Lets get on with it then" he takes my hand and we walk to bedroom. I had been here a couple of times, it was a really nice three bedroom bungalow. We enter Alice's room and I hurriedly pack some clothes into the bag I had brought while Edward searched around the room for anything that could be of help. I hear the main door open and I stiffen. Edward puts his finger on my lips to stop me from bitting it then he enters the closet.

I had almost forgotten how scary Riley was till he enters the room bending at the doorframe. His eyes widen with confusion "Where is Alice?"

"Uh she couldn't come so she sent me instead to get her stuff"

He chuckles bitterly "It was a mistake for you to come here Isabella"

I gulp "I don't want to fight with you Riley, I didn't even call the Police"

He pulls out a gun "Sit"

I obey immediately sitting on the bed "You are going to call your friend and tell her to come here if she doesn't want me to kill you."

Little did he know that Alice was actually here. Her and Jasper were to put a tracking device on the car Riley had brought here so we can follow him to the next place for the auction. I on the other hand was to stall him as they do that and in the process try to find out something about the auction, I don't know how I was supposed to do that but Edward was there to make sure I don't get killed in the process. We were relying on luck in everything we were doing.

I take a deep breath then smile "Come on Riley, do you think we need to call Alice into this? I can answer any question you have for her. I can do anything you want, you don't have to kill me." I say looking at him from under my eyelashes, my heart was beating so loud I was surprised he couldn't hear it.

He drops his gun on the small stool in the room and slowly walks around. "You are smarter than this Isabella. You wouldn't have come here without some sort of help or back up."

He suddenly turns towards me and shakes me "Do you think I'm stupid uhn! Do you?" I thought he was too stupid to figure it out. I thought my charms would work and he wouldn't even think about anything, that he would try to have his way with me and I would plant a bug in his jacket or something or that he would slip then when things are about to escalate Edward would come out of the closet and hit him on the head with a table and then we all go home happy. Thinking about it now, it felt stupid. At the thought of Edward my eyes flicker to the closet door, he was probably hearing what was happening, he probably knew I had failed. Riley catches the small movement of my eyes and he smiles. Sh*t sh*t.

"Edward he…" my head was ringing as Riley slaps me across the face with the back of his palm. I thought seeing stars when someone slapped you was an exaggeration till now. I had to shake my head for the stars to disappear. Riley walks slowly to the door and is about to open it when the door hits his face. Edward had pushed it open. He staggers back and Edward kicks him in the tummy.

Riley falls and Edward rushes over to me. "Are you okay Bella?"

My head was banging but I manage to nod "The plan, I'm sorry about the plan"

"F*ck the plan" he says touching my face but the nice feeling of his hand on my face was short lived as Riley had gotten up. He pulls Edward from the back of his shirt and throws him across the room. Edward hits the wall with a loud bang. He tries to get up as Riley reaches for me pulling my leg, he throws me off the bed. My head hits the floor and I touch it reflexively, I hated the smell and sight of blood especially my blood and I wanted to throw up. I look up as I hear Edward grunt, he runs into Riley and they both fall to the ground. I had to admit, Edward was really good. He is able to land a few punches on Riley's face but Riley quickly recovers, he pushes Edward off him and starts punching him. Oh no not his face, not that face. I quickly get up and throw myself on Riley putting my hands around his neck. He easily shrugs me off and I fall to the ground but I had given Edward sometime to recover, he kicks Riley in the not kickable area. Riley screams but he doesn't get up, he keeps Edward pinned down, he was too huge. Edward tries to punch him but it doesn't work out as Riley wraps his hands around his neck. Edward was fighting back, not giving up, he scratches Riley's eyes but Riley doesn't remove his hand from his neck. I realised then that if I didnt do anything he was going to kill Edward. I stand up frantically searching the room for something to use. Edward wanted to bring a gun but I had told him there would be no need, stupid me. My eyes see the gun, Riley's gun that he had dropped on the table, it was on the floor. I hurriedly pick it up, I had never shot anyone before but I knew how to use a gun thanks to my lovely father.

I cock the gun and point it at Riley "Leave him alone or I'll shoot"

He laughs but he doesn't turn away from Edward. He must have heard the fear in my voice, I was shaking. "You don't have the guts to…"

Bang!

I quickly drop the gun as Riley crumples to the floor. Edward gets up choking, his face was bloody and he couldn't open his left eye well. I still thought he was devastatingly handsome as he tries to smile at me but he winces. I wished I could smile back "I killed him."

Edward walks over to me and touches my face, I was trembling "You saved my life". I was crying as he pulls me to his chest hugging me "You are so brave and strong, I admire you." How could he always know the right things to say? I hastily wipe my tears as he releases me. He goes to check Riley's unconscious body.

"He's not dead. You shot close to his shoulder but he's breathing." I didn't know I was holding my breath till I let it go.

I walk over to where my purse was and bring out my phone dialing 911. Edward walks over to me "Let me talk to them" he says stretching out his hand. I give him the phone and walk over the Riley's body. There goes our plan to catch those traffickers. Well, at least we got Riley, that's something.

I hear vibration coming from the body. I take a step back, for a second I thought Riley was waking up then I realise it must be a phone. I move closer to the body. Bending down, I hesitantly reach into his pocket and bring out the phone, a message must have entered. It needed fingerprint to open so I carry Riley's hand up and use his index finger to open the phone. I open the message.

"Edward"

He had ended the call, he walks over to me and reads the message. "Oh Swan, we are so darn lucky" I giggle as I re read the message

'Saturday

6pm'

And the message was from none other than Mr S. Very subtle Riley very subtle. Hopefully this was what we needed. Edward was right, we were lucky. I was about to drop the phone when another message enters from same Mr S.

New location- 22, Darn street.

My face lights up like a christmas tree as I run to show Edward the new message.

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