Authors Note:
Hello everyone! This is just a small preview of the sequel: Down the Rabbit Hole! I should have the full first chapter uploaded sometime this week!
Summary: A lot has changed in the past ten years. Edward Cullen is the FBI's top special agent. He's dedicated his life to protecting others and now he and his partner are tasked with the most difficult case of their lives: infiltrate the Volturi. On the other hand, Isabella Swan is dead. Only Marie remains. She's not really living, she's just breathing. Marie doesn't dream of escaping but just of surviving to the next day. Both Edward's and Marie's worlds will be shocked when they meet again.
"Agent Cullen," Lahote greets the young man. "Please sit."
"Hello, sir." he replied, stiffly settling into the red plastic chair.
Next to him was a young girl; wait not just a young girl… a newbie. As in she just graduated from Quantico.
"What's the case?" Edward gets right to the point.
He focuses his attention on the brown-eyed, tan-skinned man sitting in front of him. He wanted to get this over and done with. He was flying back to Forks tonight to meet his family for Alice's birthday.
Edward could feel the girl's eyes on him. His square jaw clenched and he ran his hands through his wildly untamable hair.
"First I'd like to introduce you to your partner, Agent Tanya Denali."
"Hello," she squeaks.
Edward gives a brief nod in greeting. "Agent Cullen." he says.
The first thing he noticed was her wavy strawberry blonde hair. She had cold ice blue eyes that were full of the same look Edward once had: passion and excitement. She was skinny but had some muscle that he could see through her blouse.
"You two are going to be spending quite some time together in the upcoming months."
Lahote slid two manilla folders across the desk. "The mission that you'll be working on is in this folder. I understand, Tanya that this is your first case and I promise that you can count on Edward. He'll be more than helpful."
He looks at Lahote sharply, knowing what he was implying. He didn't want to babysit this newcomer. If they screwed up, it was on her. Edward hardly made mistakes and he wasn't about to lose this mission.
The two agents open the folders to see the image of a dead girl. Edward's eyes harden as he examines the photo.
"She has the mark," he murmured. "Sam, she has the Volturi mark."
The agent nods his head in confirmation. "Three days ago, this Jane Doe was found dead in an abandoned warehouse in Seattle. Some teenagers had broken in to hang out but found her body instead. The local police would have handled the murder if it hadn't been for the brand on her thigh."
"What is it?" Tanya asks. The girl was naked in the photo with a, 'V' burned into her thigh.
"That brand symbolizes The Volturi. It's a sex trafficking ring located in Washington State but they operate all over the world. They've been in business for over a decade and all of our attempts to shut it down have failed."
Edward flips through the rest of the photos taking in as much information as he could. From the image, the best that he could guess was that the girl was probably between fourteen to sixteen years old. Her breasts had just started to develop, she had very light body hair, and from what he could see her hips were just starting to widen. She had the bluest eyes that he had ever seen and hair the color of the sun.
"There are lacerations around her neck. That means her throat was slit, right?" asks Tanya. Her voice quivered at the end.
"Yes," Edward says. "Based on the deepness of the cuts I would assume it was from a knife."
He heard her suck in a deep breathe. All newcomers were emotional on their first mission. They didn't understand how he could be so emotionless when talking about the victims and looking at the photos. Edward learned a long time ago to compartmentalize. Having emotion during a case is what got you killed.
"What are we going to do to stop them?" asked Tanya.
"You and agent Cullen are going undercover as Master and Slave."
Tanya doesn't respond. She stares at Lahote as if he had two heads. She was not expecting this to be her first assignment especially with a veteran agent such as Edward Cullen.
"We're infiltrating the Volturi," Edward mutters under his breath. This is what he had been waiting for. This was the whole reason he became an agent so he could take down the Volturi.
"Agent Cullen, you're going undercover as Anthony Masen. He is a wealthy businessman who is relocating from Hamburg, Germany to Seattle, Washington. Masen is rich, powerful, and dangerous. He is not a man to be messed with. All of his possessions have already been brought to a Seattle Penthouse and the only thing he is arriving with is- Irena. She has no identity. No name. No freedom. Her sole purpose for living is to please Anthony Masen- her master. As far as she's concerned, no life exists outside of his world. Masen acquired her from a friend who was deep in debt. He has had her for the past fifteen years and is looking for a change. He wants a new girl and knows that the Volturi can provide him with that."
"Do you have a girl in mind that I should want to buy?" Edward's voice is hard. His knee bounces up and down, anticipating what his supervisor is going to say.
"Isabella Marie Swan."
To be continued...