Bella POV

"Well my dear it looks like you and our little Edward are getting rather comfortable in here." Caius narrowed his eyes at me with a dark smirk on his face. It made me shutter in fear.

"Uh um huh?" I was pretty sure I sounded dumb.

"You uneducated fool. You see another reason why you don't belong with Edward. You are absolutely useless to anyone." Aro tsk at me. I felt the tears sting my eyes.

"Aww, Aro shut the hell up. Bella is my baby and I won't stand for you bullll." Edward carried out the last word on his tongue.

Edward attempted to get up but he fell on the floor again. I quickly went to help him up. Before I could get to him, guards came out of nowhere and shoved me away from him. I knew that I would have bruises on my body for sure.

"Edward get up! You're making a fool of yourself. You have no business sleeping with this whore." I was shocked that he actually thought we were sleeping together.

"How dare you! We're not sleeping together at all. Hell, we're not even friends or anything close to it. We've never fucked, we've never even kissed." I was beyond angry at his assumption.

Aro whispered something to the guard on his left. The guard came over to me and then I felt a sharp pain against my head. Blackness surrounded my vision.

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I couldn't help but groan. I had a major headache and my cheek hurt badly. I squinted my eyes a little before opening them fully. I was in some kind of warehouse. I began to shake in fear.

I was tied down to a chair. I didn't understand what was happening. All I was remembered was one of Aro's guards coming to me. I felt another sharp pain hit my head. I heard chuckling coming from one of the corners to my right.

I turned my head towards the sound but I had turned too quickly. Another wave of pain hit me that made me whimper. A man I didn't quite recognize came into view.

"Well, well, well, looks like Aro left me a little present." This guy freaked me out a lot.

"The names James sweets. I always wondered what your body looked like. The way Aro described ain't do you no justice at all. You're a fine piece of meat girly." As he was about to approach me, a woman walked into the room.

"JAMES! What the hell do you think you're doing?" The woman looked really pissed off. She glared at me before looking back at James.

"Vic, I'm just having fun. Aro said I could have fun with this one so mind your own damn business." I noticed how Vic shrunk away from him as he sneered at her.

"Whatever." She mumbled before walking out of the room.

"Don't mind Victoria sweets. She gets real jealous easily. Now that I got myself a new toy, perhaps you could take care of my little problem." He walked toward me while unzipping his pants.

I began to shake in fear. I was going to get raped. How could Aro be so cruel? I never done anything to hurt him or his family. What did I ever do to deserve this?

"Please don't. I…I won't tell anyone, I promise." I tried to plead. I know I sounded weak and defeated but there was nothing else I could do.

"Of course you won't tell anyone sweets. You'll be dead by then." He chuckled while exiting out the room.

The sobs became too much to hold in. Tears leaked from my eyes quickly blurring my vision. I heard a series of voices coming from the other side of the door. All too soon I heard gun shots being fired.

I was freaking out because I didn't know what to do. I couldn't scream for help, I knew no one could hear me. I came to the conclusion that I was going to rot here.

Just before I closed my eyes the door busted open. An angry looking Carlisle rushed into the room.

"Isabella are you alright?" He asked me in a soft voice. It actually shocked me that he cared.

"I'm fine. Could you please help me out of here? I will do anything. I promise." I'm pretty sure I sounded desperate but I didn't care.

Carlisle shook his head as low chuckles left his body. He begin to untie me and once he was done I got up out of the chair. I almost fell over but Carlisle caught me before I fell.

He picked me up bridal style and rushed out the room. Soon enough we were outside. There was so much blood and dead bodies. It took everything in me not to throw up right then. Gun shots were heard in the distance.

Carlisle rushed us to a black Mercedes and put me in the passenger seat.

"Isabella your safe okay. Nothing will happen to you." Carlisle promised as he got into the driver's seat and pulled off. Just like his son, he drives really fast. I held on the seat trying to keep myself from feeling nauseous.

We got onto the high way and kept driving. I read the signs and was shocked. They had took me all the way to Tucson, Arizona. I began to freak out.

"Isabella calm down okay. I don't want you fainting on me. I will explain once we get to the diner up ahead." I didn't notice the diner before. It looked dull and disgusting.

We pulled into the parking lot and went inside. Carlisle got us a booth in the back and we sat there.

"Okay I know that you have a lot of questions. Ask away."

"How did I get into Arizona?" I still couldn't stop shuttering at the very thought.

"It looks like Aro kidnapped you and handed you over to his old friend James. I swear that man is insane. You've been missing for 5 days. Edward began to worry and Alice told us that Aro had something to do with it. I don't know what got into my son lately but he seems drawn to you.

He went us to Aro and confronted him. Of course he denied it but Marcus being the good person that he is confessed. Aro was livid and declared war with Marcus. Marcus has a bunch of friends around the coastal areas and in Italy as well as France. Aro didn't have a chance.

Edward began to ask around and found out they took you somewhere in Arizona. Edward, Alice and myself came here to find you. Esme decided to tag along because she was worried someone would get hurt. We tracked down James once we found out he was the one that has you.

I got some of my men and we ambushed James. Of course Aro had some of his guards there. We had a shootout and we won of course. They were outnumbered but a large amount of people. Well that's the story. Any other questions?"

I was beyond shocked. All of this has happened. It was a lot to take in all at once.

"Where's Edward?"

"He's with Esme and Alice. We're staying at this hotel in Phoenix. That's about an hour and a couple of minutes from here. We could hit the road once you get some food and water in you. You look awfully pale." Carlisle actually looked concerned.

"Okay."

We ordered burgers and fries. I asked the time and Carlisle had said it was 3:45 in the morning! It looked dark outside but I didn't know it was that early in the morning. I got me a large glass of water and chugged it down quickly. Carlisle chuckled at me.

After we ate, we left out to the car. We drove off quickly and started speeding down the road.

"I thought you all hated me?" I just had to ask. I couldn't help but wonder.

"I'm sorry for that. We don't usually let our guard down around guest. Once you mentioned your father was a chief of police, we automatically had to take action. For all we knew, you could be a spy or worse. I can't put my family at risk." Carlisle sounded truly honest.

"Why does Rosalie treat me so horribly?" She was like a she-devil or even much worse than that.

"Rosalie has her issues of her own. She is cruel to everyone since her parents died. It is how she is. Rosalie is very picky with the people she has around her family. She is overly protected of sorts. Rosalie saw you as a threat and decided to treat as though you are one." He gave me a one shoulder shrug like it didn't matter.

"SHE BEAT ME LIKE I WAS A PIECE OF TRASH! I'm not a whore or a filthy person. I'm just human like the rest of you. Just because I'm a stripper," Carlisle gave me a stern look, "…a dancer I mean, I'm not less than any of you. It isn't fair at all that I'm treated that way." I felt the tears in my eyes.

"If Edward was here right now and heard that, Rosalie would be 6-feet under for sure." Carlisle smirked.

"You like it when your family argues and fights?"

"No I don't. I try my hardest to keep them civilized. Edward has a temper that he can't control really. He takes pills for it but it doesn't help much. He will be taking over the family business soon and I don't want him shooting up every person that tries to cross him. He has to be calm and collected.

There is one key to this life style that Edward has to understand. Being calm and letting the enemy come to you is the key. They will be setting themselves up for failure not Edward. I will not have my son burn this business to the ground after everything I built. Any way the only ones that fight is Edward and Rosalie.

I guess that don't really have anything in common. They never got along even as kids. Even though Edward is a gentleman and learned to respect woman he doesn't respect Rosalie." He laughed at the last part.

"Why does Aro hate me so much?"

"Aro craves power and money. He cares for no one but himself. He even neglected his own children, the sick bastard. As children, Aro and I were friends because we were forced to be. I grew to be able to stand him but he never treated my family with respect. He wanted his son Alec to run the family business but it didn't work.

To say the least, his son is a pussy. Aro decided to have Tanya and Edward married. He wants to combine the families but I will not let that happen. I see how much Edward despises Tanya so I don't want to force him to do anything he doesn't want to do. The thing is my time is coming up short lately. I will be gone soon and Edward still isn't married or even have a girlfriend." Carlisle looked disappointed.

"Who's Tanya exactly?" I was curious. I was actually stunned that Carlisle was telling me all of this.

"I don't know how to put this. You see Aro slept with Marcus's wife and they had Tanya. Marcus never found out because he was away on a business tripped for the months his wife was pregnant. She died after she gave birth to Tanya but Aro told Marcus that she died from cancer. It was a cruel thing to do but there was no other way.

Marcus would have killed Aro and burn his empire to the ground. It would be a very ugly war. I never told anyone because saved my life and Alice's. I can't tell you that story because it's private. I owed him the favor."

"Okay." It was silent for a long time. After a while we passed the sign that said welcome to phoenix.

"Get into the back and duck down. I can't afford having anyone seeing you. Aro is on the run and has asked people to search for you. You have a heavy price over your head and anyone would do anything for that money. I believe it's just about 45 billion dollars." I gasped in shock.

Someone would pay that much just to have me dead. I couldn't stop the fear that creeped up my spine.

I got into the back and ducked down. What have I gotten into?