Author Note: As promised a chapter this morning. Well it is morning on the East Coast of the United States. None the less, two chapters were uploaded less than 24 hours apart. I wanted some suspense for you guys, but didn't want you leave you all hanging for a long period of time.
Chapter 31
BPOV
Edward and the rest of the men had been in the "business" meeting for about a half an hour, but it felt longer. The nervousness had crept back and felt like it was going to turn into a full force hurricane.
"Bella, you're going to chew your lip off if you keep it up." Alice replied.
"I'm a little nervous." I said, trying to sound indifferent.
Alice raised her eyebrow. "A little?"
I rolled my eyes. "Not helping, Alice."
She let out a sigh. "I'm sorry. I just want help you relax, and also make sure you don't do enough damage to yourself to require plastic surgery."
I laughed.
"See!" Alice replied perky-like. "It's working."
"Thanks Alice." I said with a smile.
"Shit." She replied under her breath.
"What?" I was on red alert now.
"Jane is walking over here. Let's make a trip to the ladies' room, shall we? If not, I may cut that bitch myself."
Alice could be a fiery pixie when needed. She linked her arm with mine and we headed to the restroom, well one of several. The restrooms were more like lounge areas, complete with couches and everything. After walking into the restroom, Alice checked to make sure no one else was in here, for safety reasons and also for privacy. I looked at my reflection in the mirror and saw that majority of my makeup was still intact, but I should probably touch it up. Alice was sitting on a lounge chair taking her shoes off so she could rub her achy feet. I was digging through my purse when I heard a shuffling sound. I whipped my head to the side and saw him.
Vladimir.
He had a syringe and was injecting Alice in the neck with whatever concoction was in the needle. Alice's panicked expression faded, her eyes closed and she slumped into the chair.
"You're a hard women to get alone, well mostly alone." He glanced at Alice during the last statement. "I expected more of a fight from her, but that is the beauty of these drugs." He said and looked at me. "Seeing as I only had one needle, I guess I'll get the fight from you." He said with sickly, evil smile.
My stomach was doing flips. Don't panic Bella. Panicking gets you killed. He said he doesn't have another syringe, so that's a plus. Or he could be lying and does have another, but wants to throw me off. Come on, Bella. Be strong.
"Cat got your tongue?" He said with a smirk.
"Go to hell." I said with hard tone.
"I probably am, but I plan to send a few people there before me." He said with indifference.
"Well see about that." I replied. I was holding my confidence together pretty well.
"Oh Bella, I don't plan on killing you today. I have other plans, one of which is going to put that tongue to better use."
I felt sick. The sick bastard wasn't done with me yet. Who know how long he planned to use and abuse me.
"Stay the fuck away from me." I said with as much as authority as I could muster up.
"Oh I'm not staying away." And with that he took a step in my direction, and I took a step back to match. "But I do have a question?"
What the fuck could he ask? I didn't respond so he proceeded.
"Where is our son? He said in a flat tone.
I was surprised he said "our" son, and not try to say Liam was just his.
"He is here, somewhere in the building, which I'm sure you already know. You know how these families are. They think the kids should be with a nanny." I said trying to keep my voice even.
He laughed, the fucker actually laughed. "That ploy may have worked for everyone else, but I know better. I know you better Isabella. I've watched you for a long time. You are very protective of our child. If he was here, you wouldn't have left his side, which makes me believe he isn't here in the building. At first, I didn't believe you would leave him in someone else's care, that you would be able to part from him. But then I thought about how selfless you are. You always put Liam's safety first. So even if it would break your heart to be away from him, you would still do it, because it would protect Liam." Fuck. He moved closer, but I didn't step back this time. "That is one of things I love about you Bella." He was moving closer again. "So selfless. So protective." He was now standing in front of me. He moved next to me and whispered in my ear. "You're perfect for me." He tucked a strand of hair behind my ear. "We will be perfect together. You and Liam by my side as I'm the leader of the Volturi family."
He moved to kiss my neck. My breathing hitched and he must of thought I liked his touch. His hand moved my knee length dress up. I placed my hand on his guiding him to further raise it up.
"That's my girl. I knew you enjoyed last time." He kissed my neck as our hands hiked my dress to the desired spot. Well my desired spot.
I quickly grabbed the knife that was tied to my upper, inner thigh. I plunged into his gut since that was the closet thing. He had been distracted kissing my neck and trying to feel me up so it surprised him. I yanked the knife out so he would began to bleed out. But before I could plunge it another body part, I felt pain across my face.
He had hit or slapped me and with such force that I stumbled. Before I could compose myself, I felt another hit to my back. I landed on my stomach and partly caught myself. I had gripped the knife not wanting to drop it, but also being careful to not accidently stab myself.
"Bitch! Seems like you need a lesson in respect." Vladimir yelled. I felt him yank my dress and heard a ripping a sound. I turned to face him since being on stomach made vulnerable. As I turned more of my dress ripped, and it looked like my dress was now as short as mid thigh.
I tried to kick him, but he grabbed my ankle. I then used my other foot to quickly land a blow to his head.
"Shit." He yelled.
I used both of my ankles to wrap around his neck and slam his head into the floor like Stephan had previously showed me.
Vladimir was yelling profanities. Shit he was still conscious.
I scurried to get up, but felt a stinging pain on my leg. I looked down to see blood trickling on my calf. He had cut me.
Shit. He had a knife. I didn't think he had a gun. He wasn't stupid enough to bring one here. If he had got caught with a gun before finding me, he would have been killed on the spot. Only certain people were permitted to bring guns.
I gripped my knife harder and tried to turn around to face him. He continued to grab at me, trying to get me on my stomach in a vulnerable position.
"Stop fighting, Bella. You know I'm going to win. Just give in already."
That pissed me off and gave me the boost I needed.
With as much force as possible, I whipped and delivered a blow. He was on his back and I quickly straddled him and proceeded to stab him directly in the heart. I then saw his face register what happened. The light from his eyes faded. He was dead. Oh shit. I killed him.
I did it. Oh shit, I actually killed someone. I started to shake. I got off of his body and then realized I was crying. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Alice!
Just as I walked over to her, the restroom door opened.
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EPOV
I didn't want to go the meeting, but I had to. It was required, even though I felt like saying "fuck it" and getting up. I'm not sure how long the meeting had been going on for. Maybe a half an hour? Just then then the door swung on and abruptly closed.
I was surprised by who stood in front of us. Not just because they had the balls to crash a mafia meeting, but I never thought I would ever see this person again.
Victoria.
Before anyone could draw their guns, Victoria delivered two shots into Demetri's chest.
Mayhem ensued. Guns were drawn and bullets fired. After an adrenaline filled five minutes, the smoke cleared. I leaned over the table to see Victoria's dead body on the floor. People were shouting, but I wasn't sure what was being said. I was still processing what just happened. Victoria, who had been MIA, showed to kill Demetri knowing full well that it was a suicide mission.
"Edward!"
What? Oh someone was yelling my name. I turned to see that it was Emmett.
"Yeah." I replied.
"Have you been hit?" He asked with worried filled eyes.
Had I been hit? I then saw the blood on my clothes. I didn't feel any pain, but adrenaline could mask it. I checked myself, but I was fine. I looked to my left and saw that Caius was dead. He had been sitting next to me. The fucker had been trying to intimidate me when we took our seats.
Emmett had been to my right, with Jasper to him, and then Carlisle. Carlisle and I always sat furthest apart in case we were both targeted seeing as he is the Cullen family leader and I'm his successor. I checked and all the Cullen men seemed to be fine. I then looked back down at Caius. Had I been the target and she missed? No, she killed Demetri also. I then looked around and saw that someone else had been hit.
"Marcus." Emmett said. "She pulled out a second gun, and managed to shoot Marcus and Caius at the same time. She was skilled. She took out three of the Volturi before being shot down.
I couldn't believe it. How the fuck did this happened?
Why though? Yeah Victoria had a vendetta against the Volturi, but to go down guns a blazing?
I didn't have to time to figure it out right now, though. I needed to find Bella.
"I need to check on Bella." I said.
"No one is leaving yet." Aro yelled.
"We need to check on the women. If there is more unwelcome guests, then they could be targeting the women." Garret said with authority.
"We can call for a guard." Aro replied.
"Yeah, because they have done such a great job not letting anyone into the building." Garrett scoffed.
Other men agreed with Garret. We designated who would go check on the women and who would stay and help with the situation in here.
I hurriedly left the room. I spotted my mom and Rosalie.
"Oh god! What happened. Are you hurt?!" My mom shrieked.
"No, I'm fine. Where's Bella?"
"The restroom with Alice. They have been in there for a little while." Rosalie replied. "I'll show you which one they went into to."
Rosalie led me to it. I didn't like the location. Someone could come from the other direction and not be detected. I opened the door and my breath caught.
Bella's eyes meet mine. She was bleeding, her dress was torn, and looked like she been through an ordeal. I then took in the scene in it's entirety. Alice was on the chair and looked unconscious. Vladimir was on the floor with a knife in his chest.
"I killed him." Bella said.
