Hello everyone, I would like to clarify 2 points that I was asked in the last chapter:

1.- The effects of people to medicines like Valium vary from person to person, but Bella's reaction is fairly realistic. I did not use another sleeping pill because Valium, according to my research, is apparently the least harmful to the fetus... We don´t want an abortion or a wolf with malformations, right?

2.- Someone asked me why Edward does not hear the heartbeat of Bella's puppy. The reason is that the heartbeats of babies are not heard until the 8th week of gestation, and in the stage where Bella is pregnant, the heart is not yet formed.

That for now, enjoy. Love.

I approached step by step towards him, who looked at me coldly. A wave of nausea ran from my stomach to my throat, but I it held back.

I'm sorry, Paul... Everything is for my... No, not mine; for our puppy, I thought.

And then, I kissed Edward fully on the lips.

Capítulo 20

If you're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
what shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart still beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

Help, I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft, tough to be tender
Come take my pulse, the pace is on a runaway train
Help, I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer.

Help I´m alive / Metric

Bella POV

I kept my mouth shut all the time, trying to kiss him with pursed lips, but Edward for once didn´t settled for that. He took me by the cheeks with one hand and with his fingers he forced me to open my mouth to put his tongue in it, claiming my mouth with this invasion, kissing me more aggressively than ever before.

But fortunately it didn´t lasted long and he soon released me panting and with his eyes completely black with thirst and lust. I recoiled stumbling but thank God I didn´t fall.

He looked at me and made a grin of mockery and disgust and took the phone to order room service while I locked myself in the bathroom and washed my face and mouth with soap and water trying to eliminate his taste and smell from my mouth...

No matter how much I washed the area it wasn´t enough to feel clean, and I decided to take a shower.

Half an hour later I came out of the bathroom completely dressed in the same clothes that I entered, and I saw a room service cart with a tray covered with a silver lid.

Edward was sitting in an armchair watching the news on CNN and he completely ignored me, which I appreciated.

I was really hungry, but when I pulled the lid off the tray my stomach revealed itself. It was a huge, stinky, disgusting, tuna sandwich! I covered it with the lid immediately and ran to the bathroom to do dry retches... I had nothing inside my stomach to return.

-"Bella, love... Are you okay? Are you sick?" - Asked Edward, sounding genuinely worried.

-"Fine" - I said as tears ran down my cheeks and I got up to wash my face.

-"What happened to you?" – He asked.

-I feel a little sick and that sandwich... it smells horrible... And I hate tuna… - I told him, trusting that by not eating human food he could not distinguish between appetizing and repulsive dishes. For him everything I ate was basically disgusting.

-"I'm sorry... Do you want me to ask for something else for you...?" - He asked kind and worried, looking like the Edward I once loved.

-"I'm hungry, but my stomach is a little delicate with all the gas station food and the sleeping medication... I must have eaten something that made me sick... Can you order a chicken soup?"

-"Of course love" – He said kissing my hair. I tried not to recoil from his touch, but I failed miserably.

-"And other another thing... can you get rid of the tuna? I can smell it from here... - I said wrinkling my nose.

-"Straight ahead" - He said, and pushed the cart out of the room. Then he called to order my chicken soup, and I in the meantime chose a pajama from among the shopping bags, changed my clothes in the bathroom, and then went to bed.

"Puppy please don´t start manifesting now… We don´t know what Edward would be able to do if he found out"… "Please that Edward do not notice, please, please..."

Fortunately, Edward didn´t doubted my words and he laid down playing with my hair beside me while my soup came, and then he brought me the tray so that I could dine in bed.

I got up one more time to pee and brush my teeth, and went to bed, ready to be handcuffed.

But I didn´t see Edward anywhere, and as I walked to bed I felt a movement behind me and a prick in the neck.

-"I'm sorry, love, it's for your sake... Sweet dreams..." – He said while I fell unconscious in his arms.

oooOooo

I woke up the next day with my mouth dry and my head confused, my limbs felt heavy as if my blood had turned into lead... I only managed to moan... I felt almost hungover... My eyelids felt heavy and my breathing was slower than usual.

It took me several minutes to manage to turn around and as many minutes to sit on the bed, dizzy. Edward was by my side looking at me closely. I just grunted and turned my head away.

I tried to stand up and stumbled but I leaned against the wall. My legs felt weak and my muscles hurt, but I needed to get away from Edward and his shit.

I barely reached the toilet when I fell to my knees and vomited.

oooOooo

Edward decided that I was too ill to travel, so he allowed me to stay that day in bed, which I appreciated. I didn´t wanted to spend another day traveling further and further away from my Paul... The pain in my chest was increasing, but this time I had to take extra care of myself for my puppy... This time I would not let myself die.

oooOooo

Alice POV

I couldn´t believe it... Despite having seen it with my own visions... I simply could not, I did not want to believe it.

But it was precisely like I´ve seen it.

Edward had been my brother for decades and while he has always had that dramatic streak, I never imagined that he would take Bella's rejection so badly...

It started with disbelief, followed with arrogance, then defeat, and when we were returning each of us to our normal lives, I think he fell apart and returned to disbelief...

And the most frustrating thing is that since Edward broke Bella's truck, I couldn´t see him anymore. When he met Bella in the road, he disappeared from the map.

oooOooo

My family is equally scandalized.

Esme cries and laments wondering what she did wrong, Carlisle refuses to accept that Edward can be a kidnapper and has taken Bella against her will, no matter how much evidence he has that Bella was happy in her life in Forks... He believes that they eloped...

Emmett and Rose are furious. Emmett because Bella for him is his younger sister, and Rosalie because what Edward did seems too similar to what they did to her in her last moments as a human: Take her against her will, take away the life she deserved, take away her choices.

Jasper on the other hand can´t stand being in the house with all the circulating emotions added to the collective suffering of The Pack. Jazzy says that in particular the pain of Bella's boyfriend Paul, is almost invalidating.

That's why Jasper decided to travel to Seattle to talk to Jenks, who runs all the secret accounts of the family, in order to track down Edward, since Emmett had not yet managed to discover a clue that told us which of his Aliases was using Edward and consequently could discover something that would guide us to Bella's whereabouts.

We spent two horrible days waiting for news from Jazzy until at noon on the fifth day of Bella's disappearance, I had a vision of Jasper calling with good news.

At last we had the clue that would take us to her rescue.

oooOooo

Paul POV

The pain of the separation became stronger and stronger as my bones and wounds began to heal.

By the fifth day of separation from my Bella, my body was almost recovered from the beating my brothers gave me, but at the same time I was almost crippled by the effort it cost me to just breathe.

At 2:30 pm I received Sam's call, one that would change everything.

-"Paul get up, it seems we have them!" - He exclaimed.

-"Where? Where are they?" - I asked, jumping up from the bed, ready to shift.

-"Salt Lake City, in Utah. The Cullen's attorney was able to detect movement on a credit card in a hotel for more than 2 days in a row. We know its exact location and we are going there right now".

-"I'm going to your house" - I said and cut the communication.

oooOooo

Fucking planes and their fucking recycled air! The smell of vampire is only intensified with the passing of the hours, but in reality nothing really mattered to me... Every second I was closer to her, every second I came closer to reunite with my family.

oooOooo

Bella POV

Edward was in a bad mood. He wanted us to get back on the road, but I convinced him that I suffer from a stomach virus and that I need rest and rehydration... And it seems that it was true! My body temperature had increased and I had a fever almost constantly.

Edward studied medicine and couldn´t contradict me that the best thing for me is to rest until I feel better, so he required me to drink lots of water, while he walked around the room mumbling and forced me to take lots of chicken soup. That is the only thing that my stomach resists for the moment.

I think that never again in my life I will go back to try a dish of fucking chicken soup.

But in the midst of my physical discomfort (which I know is largely due to being separated from Paul), I have a plan.

A plan that basically includes pushing Edward to stay in the same place as long as possible... I know that if I stay put, somehow Paul will find me. And as soon as Edward gets a little careless I'm going to make my move to help my wolf by sending him a clue.

And Edward is going to be so screwed.

Short chapter, I know, but the next is coming soon.

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Why is Bella so sick?