Prologue
I cant stop running. I have to run … if I don't, I will die within two milliseconds. And Edward will be alone for eternity. I just can't do that to him.
"Run Bella! You have to run!" I felt my heart stop as I heard those dreaded words. Jake had said them to me too many times in my nightmares 2 years ago. When Edward wasn't here. The pain ripped through me again that had cut a hole in my chest for 6 months the same year as those nightmares. And I don't know why. Edward is here, - somewhere - no doubt running behind my attacker, quickly catching up with him. Maybe it was because I had the possibility of loosing him forever, even though I wouldn't know about it, Edward would. And I can't do that to him.
"Bella! Don't stop!" A terrified Jacob screamed at me from somewhere in these woods. "Edward is closing in on him … I …" He stuttered trying to find the words that would motivate me. "I promise to find you. Don't give up, for me! FOR EDWARD!" At that point I knew I was running out of time. I had been running for far too long, and human speed like mine would soon be outwitted by something as unhuman as this. I heard Jacob crying in the background as he tried to get over the fact that he had been betrayed. That I had been betrayed.
Then I heard a scream. It was a manly scream, of pain and sorrow. I had heard this before just once. Once was too many times. It was Edward. Screaming. There was only one thing that could make him scream like that. Jane, from the Volturi. She was here. She was on the thing's side.
"EDWARD!" I stopped dead at the pain of my love's cry. The monster closed in on me, and I heard a high – pitched scream so loud that dogs would wince and the sound of it. This scream could have been my own. I was not aware of it being my own though, my throat didn't hurt at all.
"Bella! Not my Bella please! Kill me instead! Just leave her alone!" Edward screamed at the monster. Jane was still torturing him and he couldn't get out of her grasp. And I couldn't get out of the monsters. "Bella! NO! I LOVE YOU BELLA! YOU ARE MY LIFE! HOLD ON FOR ME DARLING! BELLA! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH SWEETHEART! PLEASE … NOOOOO!"