Chapter 9
Michel POV
I sniff the air, ahh. We are getting close. It's been close to three years since I seen Bella Swan. And I am getting closer to finding her.
Flash back
Another Saturday with Bella, she is so wonderful; not the dream girl but she does me good.
We are back at her place, in her room alone. Her parents are out again, they always leave her when we go out, strange but it gives me time to let my hands wander.
Bella and I are kissing passionately on her bedroom sofa., I move my hand up her shirt and begin to message her mound, and she don't seem to mind. So I move my lips down kissing her neck, I can hear her breath pick up, almost moaning. I can tell she wants me. And I know my hard on pressing against her she can tell that I want her.
Then she gently pushes me away, my signal to stop. So I move slightly away from her, just far enough away for her comfort but close enough that I can continue my assault quickly.
"Michel I'm not ready for this I told you." She says, blushing. Right, but my body wants her, how could she deny me, this fragile little girl. I could crush her. If we don't hurry this up I will end up hurting her, the moon is almost completely up, she knows what happens to me when it's up.
"If you love me" I lean back into her neck, kissing so softly, she pushes me away more roughly, trying to get her point across. I move away yet again but this time I groan in frustration.
"And if you really love me Michel you would just stop"
I look into her chocolate brown eyes, and sigh. I twirl her beautiful long curly brown hair. She smiles; she must think I have given up.
I have about one hour before the moon is completely up.
"I love you Michel" She leans in and kisses me, I take it a step further; I pick her up and put her on the bed.
Bella then giggles thinking this just one of the games, but I am tired of these games. I get on top, this time I use my full force, I grab her hands and yank them up over her head, hand hold them there with my left hand.
"Michel stop! This isn't funny. Please Michel!" She already knows, how sad.
I rip her shirt off, I hear her cry out in pain. She tries to fight against me, thrashing her body, struggling to get her hands free. But it's pointless my strength is fifty times stronger than hers. She is just hurting herself.
"Please Michel, I thought you loved me" She cries, tears falling down her cheek, smearing her makeup. I can see it in her eyes, the betrayal, and the hurt I am causing. But what do I care, I am getting what I want.
"I lied" Her eye go wide then it's like she shut down, I crushed her simply with words. She stops fighting and lets me get on with what I want.
I finish up; I throw some blankets at her.
Bella's eyes are empty, cold. There are tears streaming down her face as she covers up. She doesn't look at me directly; good I don't need to feel guilt. She did this to herself. All she had to do was give it up.
I take one last look at her, I never seen her so cold and empty, I took her soul. It doesn't bother me that much.
I jump out her window, and howl at the moon.
We are back in Phoenix, my pack and I followed a false lead that led us to New York, then to Michigan.
When Bella put me in 'prison', I had to get pay back so I had her parents killed. My right wing wolf Kevin did the deed for me. He made it look like a drunk driver.
I was in prison for a few hours then my pack got me out, another upside to being a werewolf, friends in high places.
My mate Kendra walks up to me, her white blonde hair hangs to her hips, which are swaying ever so seductively. She is slender but has all the right curves, perfect hips for us to have some pups. My Kendra was bitten by another werewolf which is the common way to be changed, very few are born werewolves. I was one of the few, thus giving me the advantage and making me an alpha. I found her when we were in Florida, another false lead to where Bella was.
"She gave birth to twins while in foster care." She says to me.
"What?" I ask shocked. I have some pups out there. They would be two by now close to three. Wow, I would take them away then finish Bella off. I am sure that Kendra will make a better mother considering that they are werewolves and Bella is not.
"Yeah, she had to stay here a year after she got emancipated from the courts then she moved."
"Do you know where?" I ask intensely, I have to find her now, more than before.
"Not yet, she obviously knows that you would be looking for her. She covered her tracks well. No one knows where she went; she told everyone a different story. Some say she went to Seattle. Other says Orlando."
I nod my head. I stand up feeling the burning sensation throughout my body; I howl to the full moon, my pack follows my lead. The rip of our skin follows suit.
Edward POV
All day excitement ran through me. She said that she likes me too much. Bella Swan likes me more than just another guy.
Throughout the day I would peak in Angela's mind, considering I couldn't read Bella's. Frustrating as that is, I think I prefer it this way; it gives her more mystery and excitement. I can actually get to know her from talking to her, something I have never done since being a vampire.
One time when entering Angela's mind, I caught them in a conversation about me, it was after my dramatic appearance to get her attention.
"You should feel so cool Bella; Edward doesn't talk to anyone, unless he is turning them down. It's so weird too, half the time they didn't get the whole question out before he tell them ever so politely that he isn't looking for anyone." Oh Bella you have no idea, not that I am into him much I love my Benny.
"I will give in to the fact that he is absolutely hot, and I would gladly go out with him, but I have two kids to worry about, and I don't want drama and that's what high school boys create, drama." Bella's voice echoes in her mind.
Drama, girl, Edward is so amazing and polite I wouldn't think drama when it came to him.
I smile at Angela's thoughts, but it bothers me that Bella would think that. Then again I am a vampire, it can get complicated. We do drink animal blood, but it doesn't always sustain us. Plus Jasper is the newest to our way of life, which could get complicated. Dam, I am not a high school boy, but I would most likely make her life more complicated. But she is just so memorizing. The way she walks and talks. How she is so fragile even entices me.
Lunch arrives and I see Bella across the cafeteria, furthest away from every one, but not close to where my family is sitting. Jessica and Angela are eating with her, dam I want to talk to her I have to be with her.
Go sit with her Edward, I think you will get your answer Alice says in my mind. I smile to her, and then make my way to Bella's table.
I can her then laughing at something, they are talking about boys and how Bella needs to go shopping with them, but she tells them she doesn't have time for fun stuff like that, Piper and Chris get bored too quickly.
Wow, she doesn't like doing much without them, what a wonderful women, her kids come first.
"Good day ladies, may I sit with you?" I ask a sweetly as I could, Jessica and Angela's jaws drop at the sight of me. Bella almost did but then she got her composer back.
"Yeah sure" She gestures to a chair away from her, sorry Bella not going to happen.
Oh my god Edward Cullen is sitting at this table, wanting to talk to Bella, oh my god Jessica, what a normal teen, so boring.
Bella so needs to give him a chance, come on Ang think of something so they can talk alone Angela the sweet heart.
"Thank you" I reply and sit next to Bella.
Bella clears her throat I think she is trying to get Jessica and Angela back to the conversation.
"So what are you guys planning for this weekend?" She starts a conversation, clearly ignoring me, so I just watch her.
She flings her hair out of her face, her waist long curly brown hair, I just want to touch it, play with it. She is wearing a cute blue t-shirt and nice tight fitting blue jeans.
"Ben is taking me out to Port Angelus, he won't tell me where, it's a surprise" Angela answers Bella.
He is planning a romantic dinner then taking her to the beach then giving her a promise ring at sunset. I have been hearing his plans for the past several weeks. He has a lot of money into this, it's for an anniversary, I wish that I could do that with Bella have a nice romantic date. I have to get her to yes.
"That's awesome, I am going shopping in Seattle with my dad, he's picking me up Friday right after school and then we will be spending the weekend there." Jessica loves her dad, she greatly missing him and wishes that she was living with him. It was her mom's fault that her parents divorced. Her mother cheated on her dad with a mechanic in Port Angeles.
"What are you doing Bella?" Jessica asks Bella, I am still looking at Bella, ignoring every thought in the cafeteria, only concentrating on her.
"Um, a family friend, the twins and I are going out and doing stuff." She says quickly. Wait she is going to go on a date with someone, but can't go with me. What the hell? Wait, the kids are going also, oh I get it. Ok I feel better about this.
I can say that I am going to talk to Ben and make Jess come with me
"Cool, hey I think I am going to see what Ben is up to, Jess you coming with" Angela says winking at Jessica,
Oh Jess please understand, please Angela pleads in her head.
Oh smart think Ang, I will tell her that after we get out of hearing range. .
"Yeah, see you later Bella" Jessica says.
"Yeah bye" Bella says, clearly understanding why they left.
"They did that so we could talk, that was really nice of them" I state trying to get a conversation going, and that is all I can come up with.
"Oh, aren't you smart, did you read their mind to figure that one out." She says sarcastically not looking at me, and then it looks at me, trying to get a rise out of me I suppose. It does at first, thinking she knows about me, and then I hear the sarcasm, oh it's going to be like that.
"Yeah I guess you could say that"
"Nice, so what do you want to talk to me about?"
"I think you really like me, but you are afraid that I am going to cause you too much drama."
Her jaw drops and a gasp of air escapes, shit she caught that, shit I said too much.
"Whatever" She gets up and leaves.
I let her get a little ways ahead of me then I go after her.
"Come on Bella, just one date" I plead, I just want to get to know her more. I just want to spend every second with her, the day I saw her at our table I knew that she was the one for me.
"No" She picks up speed, but I don't notice that much it's still slow to me.
"Why?" I touch her shoulder trying to get her stop and look at me; she turns to me and looks at me hard right into my eyes sending me into a trance. I am so caught up with her; her face is round, and her big brown eyes, that compliment the face, along with her short round nose, Agh, so beautiful.
"Edward, maybe later after I have been here for a little while"
"Ok" I smile. Yes I begin to jump for joy on the inside. I am going to talk to her every day the entire time just find out more about her and she can know more about me except the vampire stuff.
We walk to class together, we talk about random stuff like hobbies, she says her only hobby is her kids, and when she talks about them, you can hear it in voice how much she adores them. We have music in common we like a variety of genres.
I ask her about the family friend.
"Oh um well they live in La Push" She says in an uncomfortable voice. So what they are Quileute no big thing.
"What's their name?" I ask the follow up question.
Bella makes a face, like she could get sick.
"Billy Black, his Son Jacob is the one taking us out." She answers and looks at me like she is expecting something.
Black, Black, oh jeez Black was the last name of the Quileute that we made a treaty with. Is that why she is uncomfortable because she knows the story or legend in her eyes? No, no way or she wouldn't even talk to me.
"Do you know them?" Bella asks.
"No, it doesn't ring a bell" she looks at me skeptically. Ok maybe she does know something. But then she smiles, the most wonderful smile. I want to always see that smile on her face.
I walk her to gym the last class of the day then after school got out I walk Bella to her car.
"Thanks Edward it's nice to know there are still gentlemen." She smiles that wonderful smile at me.
"Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow Bella" I give her a smile, then shut her door and watch her drive off.
I turn around and walk to my Volvo where my family is patiently waiting for me.
"So did you get your answer?" Alice asks smiling.
"She said she wants to be her for a little while before going out on a date with me" I reply.
"How is it going to work? You are a vampire and she is a human." Rose asks with concern. She doesn't want me to slip and kill Bella, leaving her two children without her.
"Rose trust me it's going to work out" Alice tell Rose, still continuing to smile.
We get into the car and drive home.