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Chapter 13

EDWARD POV

We had only been on the road for ten minutes, and Jane was already driving me crazy. When we first got into my car I thought she was going to climb into my lap, she couldn't get close enough. I tried to scoot away from her as much as possible, and I think she finally got the hint.

"Edward, it's been way too long." She said.

"It has been awhile, Jane. How are things on your end?" I asked politely but not really giving a rats ass.

That one question had somehow led her into the ten minute rant on how her life has changed for the better and I was only missing it. She painted her life out to be the perfect fairytale and all she was missing was her prince charming. I couldn't help but laugh at the scenario. Jane dressed in a puffy ball gown. It somehow didn't work in my mind, and I was less than convinced of the perfect storybook ending that I was missing.

"You know Edward I still think about you all the time. About us." She said putting her head behind my neck.

I knew I had to keep things cordial for both our families sakes. I had to let her down gently, but friendly.

"Jane, you know how I feel about you." I said to her. If she only really knew how I felt about her, obviously I couldn't tell her the whole truth.

She smiled and starting rubbing the back of my neck.

"We could be so good together Edward. You know it's what I want, what my family wants, hell even what your mom wants." She said like it was no big deal.

"The reasons it wasn't right then are the same now." I said and her smile faded into an evil smirk.

"You just need a little convincing. Don't' worry I have waited this long, a little more time isn't going to hurt anyone." She said running her hand that was behind my leg to my thigh.

This was not what I needed tonight. The last thing I wanted was to show up to the club with Jane all over me when I invited Bella. Fuck my life. This has disaster written all over it.

We had made it to the club, and it seemed my long lost friend wasn't going to leave my side. She had her arm wrapped around my arm. Jaspers eyes met mine and he laughed. I could have punched dead in the arm, but he was too far away.

We entered the club through the back, and I quickly scanned the overcrowded patrons. We had to be running close to our capacity. They definitely had some fine ass woman in the club, but the one I was looking for was no where to be seen. Jane didn't like that my attention was no longer on her, and she quickly said the words that would draw my sole attention back on her.

"So this Agent Riley Biers, I have done a little checking on him." She said while pulling me up the stairs to the VIP section.

We had sat in our private booth and I leaned in closer to hear her.

"He is from Arizona." I knew that already, but I didn't want her to know exactly why I was gunning for that dick so hard.

"And?" I asked waiting for her to continue.

"Look I called in a few favors. All I was able to find out was that he was in a serious relationship with someone down there. It ended badly. One of his coworkers said he would follow her to the ends of the Earth, and then he asked to be transferred here to investigate you. I haven't put the connection together, and I am not sure why he is here, but whatever it is, it's personal." She said and before I could continue Victoria had interrupted us to take our drink order.

"Nice cleavage." Jane observed.

"It is." I answered.

"Should I be jealous?" She asked leaning a little closer to me.

I looked up and saw Rosalie and Emmett walk in, and I couldn't help but wonder if Rosalie and Bella had made up yet.

I looked down at my phone. Where the hell is she? I was about to text her when I heard yelling.

"Oh Shit!" I said and shot up out the booth.

BELLA POV

"Vic, have you met Edward's new friend?"

I turned and came face to face with the bitch from downstairs.

"Excuse me?" The red head answered.

"Yeah, this is Bella. You know Bella right? I mean you have to know Bella." Her words laced with hate.

I felt like I was in an episode of Jerry Springer.

I looked towards the redhead and it was like some kind of light bulb went off.

"You!" she yelled towards me.

After that one little word, hands started flying.

The red head, whose name I am guessing was Vic shot across the bar and tried to make contact with my face.

I grabbed her hand before she made contact and didn't let go.

I looked towards Tanya wanting to know what the hell I was missing. These two bitches obviously had some serious ass issues with me, but I had no idea why the hell they had a problem with me. I had a strong feeling it had something to do with Edward.

"I warned you." I said while still holding Vic's wrist but speaking to Tanya.

"I can't help it if you can't stand a little competition." She said getting into my face again.

"We're all used to it. Aren't we Victoria?" Tanya said towards the red head.

I let go of her wrist.

"Fuck you Tanya! Edward wants me!" She yelled and the two girls were now face to face.

I suddenly felt like the stupidest idiot on the planet. I pride myself on being a smart, educated, classy woman, a doctor even, but I am standing in a club facing two of Edward's "friends" and I use the term loosely. I can't defend myself to them. At this moment, I am not better than them. It's true I was invited by him, and I thought he wanted me to meet him here, but obviously I am just as common as these two no good trash whores. He hadn't even acknowledged my presence. He was too busy with the blonde at the booth. I looked at both of the two "friends" still screaming at each other and wished them luck.

I turned around and met Alice's eyes. She had an apologetic face and I just shrugged my shoulders. It wasn't her fault. I was the stupid one. I was better than this. I was making my way downstairs when I was grabbed and pulled into a big hug.

EDWARD POV

I pretty much jumped out of the booth and was headed to the bar. I was chastising myself for not noticing Bella's arrival. There she was blocking Victoria's arm and standing toe to toe with Tanya. I would be lying if I didn't find that sexy as hell, but the other part of me had to get her the hell out of that situation. I didn't want Bella any where near those two. Before I even made it over to them, Bella was gone.

"What the fuck is going on?" I screamed at both of them.

"You tell me Edward? Is she the reason why you haven't called me?" Victoria yelled.

"I don't know what the fuck you two are tripping on, but this is my fucking club, and unless you want to be fired, and you thrown out I would calm the fuck down." I said lowering my voice.

They both seemed to back off a little.

"And I am going to say this once. Leave Bella the fuck alone. My personal life is my business, not yours." I turned around and all but ran into Jane.

Shit. I am sure she heard everything I said.

"Trouble in paradise?" Jane asked.

"You have no idea." I said not wanting to talk about.

"I think I do." She said and walked back to the booth.

I scanned the room, and saw Alice coming back up the stairs without Bella, and she was fuming.

"I'm sorry but I need a word with my brothers." She said to the table.

Emmett and I looked at each other, and before we could say anything she yelled.

"Now!" I thought I saw her stomp her foot. A pissed off Alice is scary as shit.

"Rosalie and Jasper could you please join us." She said pointing towards our office.

I thought about it, and almost decided to stay with Jane. I didn't want go into my office with Alice. I had only seen Alice furious a couple times in my life, and I didn't want to be on the receiving end of that anger. I looked back at Jane and she smiled, and then I rethought my statement. Alice it was. I followed her and sat in my chair giving her the floor.

"I don't know what the fuck is your problem?" She was looking at everyone and I wasn't sure who she was referring to.

"How could you, Rose? I mean seriously. Bella is supposed to be your best friend. She cares about you, and she was worried. She voiced her worry about your relationship with Emmett and what do you do? You throw her past in her face. I don't know which is worse for her, the fact that she's in love with Edward and has done nothing but fight with herself to stay away from him or the fact that she was in abusive relationship and ended up losing her b…"

"Alice!" Rosalie yelled.

Rosalie jumped up and stopped Alice from talking. Alice collected her thoughts and began again. I knew I had not done right by Bella tonight, but I was angry with Rosalie for hurting Bella. I didn't know what the fight was about but throwing me and that dickhead into any kind of pot together pissed me off.

"Yeah her relationships have been less than stellar, but she doesn't want the same thing for you. You hurt her today Rose! She's fragile enough as it is, and you just made it worse." Alice said towards Rose. I looked at her and Emmett had his arm around her, and I saw a tear fall down her face.

Before I could say anything Alice's rage turned on me. She was pointing at me and yelling. "And you. You Dick! Why would you be so stupid? Why the hell did you even invite Bella here if you were going to be laying all over Jane anyway? She was here for thirty minutes and you didn't even notice her. Do you know how that must have made her feel? Do you want to push her away? That's all your doing. She needs friends. She needs support, not all of this bullshit. You better ran in your exes. I know you don't want me to go off on them because I will, and it wont be pretty. And don't think for one second I am worried about getting bloody, that's why I married a surgeon." She winked at Jasper and I could see some of the anger falling away.

"You better fix this. Both of you." She said and walked over and sat on Jasper's lap.

I stood up to make my way out the door to find Bella.

"You can't fix it tonight." She said to me.

I quickly turned around to face her.

"What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"She's gone already. She got a ride home with Jacob and some of his friends." She said like it was no big deal.

Emmett whistled and Jasper's eyebrows raised.

Anger and Jealousy flooded through me. It was my own dumbass fault. How could I have been so ignorant.

We all exited the office and sat back down. I didn't feel like clubbing any longer and asked Jane if she minded getting a ride with someone else.

She said she was pretty tired, and was ready to leave as well. Fucking great, now I had to ride back to my parents house with her. We excused ourselves and made our way out the club. I quickly saw flashes of brief light and loud gunshots rang out.

I quickly grabbed Jane and threw her under me and covered her head.

I pulled my gun and started shooting at the Black SUV going up the road. I had a brief license plate. I took it my surroundings; it was chaos. People were running and screaming. Great fuckin publicity for our club. It didn't take long for my brother and the rest of the crew to run outside.

"Are you okay?" I asked Jane helping her up.

"Fine." She said pulling her gun out. She seemed a little angry with me for pushing her under me, but it was a gut reaction, protecting woman and all.

Her brother ran up to her, checked her out, and insisted she ride with him. He gave me a set of eyes that sent a message loud and clear. He didn't want me around his sister, and I couldn't agree more. I was more than relieved; it's like the shit was getting worse and worse.

Emmett, Rose, Jasper, Alice and I all piled into Emmett's jeep. Safety in numbers. Carlisle would be pissed if we weren't with Alice after this. Emmett was on the phone with our father the whole way back to their house. Fellix and Demetri were out trying to find out anything about who was hired or who had set up the hit on me. This happened so often, but when it did retaliation was quick and swift.

I was honestly happy for once that Bella wasn't still here when it happened. I wasn't happy she went home with Jacob, but happy she wasn't in the line of fire. I was even more unhappy that I had texted her and called her and still hadn't received a reply. I made Emmett drive in front of her house, but there were no lights and no car in the driveway. My worry only increased, and I had Rose and Alice both trying to get a hold of her.

My feelings for Bella were so complex. They were there. Worry, Anger, Lust, Jealousy, Love, Happiness all there. I had feelings for her, strong feelings. I hated it, and wished I could will them away, but they obviously weren't going anywhere. I was done trying to fight them and act like they didn't exist or that they were only old feelings. It was time to figure the shit out. Something had to be done, and quick.

BELLA POV

I was struggling to get out of the bear hug I was currently encircled in. I didn't know who had grabbed me, but as soon as I was set down relief washed through me.

"Hey Bells!" Jacob said.

"Jake!" I said happy to see him.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him. He looked nice. He was wearing a button down purple shirt and dark denim jeans. Jacob was definitely a looker.

"Embry wanted to get out of the house. Quil and him drug me out with them." He said pointing towards the boys behind him. I knew Quil and Embry from the reservation. It had been a long time since I had seen them. I couldn't help but wonder what the hell was in the water down there. It's like they fed these boys steroids.

"You going somewhere?" Jacob asked while I waived at the boys.

"Yeah I was headed home." I said pointing towards the door.

"Come on, we'll take you. We were about to head out as well." He said throwing his arm around me.

We sang songs the whole ride home. It was nice to just hang out with them. There wasn't any expectations, altercations, or motives. It was drama free and felt great. Before we arrived into Forks, the guys made me promise to go out and visit them on the reservation. I was actually looking forward to it, and told them on my next day off I was there.

We pulled up to my house, and Jacob insisted on walking me to my door.

He grabbed my hand, and I didn't pull away. I walked up to the front door and Jake hugged me. I unlocked my door and stepped in.

I took a step and then grabbed the mail on the floor in front of the door. We had one of those mail slots built in where the mailman just dropped it through the front door.

There were a few bills, and then I spotted it. There was a brown envelope. I grabbed it, and as soon as I opened it I froze.

It was pictures of me. There were pictures of me in my house reading on my couch, pictures of me walking to my car, pictures of me out at the club. There were several of me at work. The last pictures I looked at were from the night of the sleep over. There were pictures of me and Alice and Rose dancing in our pajamas. The last ones were of Edward and me lying on my bed the night of the sleep over. Edward's head had a big red X on it. I pulled out a note and read it.

"It's amazing what you can still see when you are a hundred feet away, Isabella."

I went to turn around to get Jake, but of course he was gone already. I grabbed my keys and the envelope and jumped in my car.

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