CHAPTER 15
I woke with the world's largest headache, when my eyes finally opened. Groaning, I struggled to sit up. When I did, there was a sound of metal clinking together, and I noticed something around cold around my wrists. Shackles. My eyes snapped all the way open, and I looked around me. Ok, where the hell was I? Definitely not the warehouse. I seemed to be in a basement, and…By golly I was chained to the wall!.
I sat up too fast and it increased my headache. Ignoring the pain, I struggled against the chains that held my wrists.
"Bella?" a voice called from the stairs. A voice that had been in my head too much and right now one that I didn't want to hear. I slumped against the concrete wall. Oh, God what had he done?
"Edward." I said, struggling to keep my voice calm. "How long have I been here?"
"I didn't mean to-"
"JUST TELL ME HOW LONG I'VE BEEN HERE!" I roared and lunged at him, s he came to me, but I was still held by the chains. He momentarily paused, but was not shaken by my outburst. Of, course. This is Edward were talking about.
I focused my attention on trying to get my cuffs off. He walked towards me, I raised my gaze to glare at him. He crouched down to my level.
"Almost two days." His words pierced my heart. Two days?
"No." I struggled against tears. "I'm not losing her." Edward looked confused by my words. This was a dream; it had to be. Wake up wake up WAKE UP! I moved back to the wall and started banging my head on the cement. I had to get out.
"Stop. Bella, cut it out!" His arm snaked around my waist an pulled my away from the wall.
"Let me go!" I sobbed, growing weaker. I wasn't dreaming. Jess was dead. Edward cradled me in his arms, and he couldn't figure out why I was crying.
I realized that I was clutching him and let go. I wiped my eyes. Oh, yeah. I was more than ready to kill Angel now. I presented Edward my wrists, and stared him in the eyes.
"The cuffs. Take 'em off." I demanded.
"We need to talk first." He replied shaking his head. Anger bubbled up in me.
"No, we don't need to talk about anything. The cuffs, Edward. NOW!" He stood up, but didn't budge. I rose also, to get a better grounding. "Damn it, you don't get it do you!"
"That's why we need to talk." He shouted back. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and didn't answer for a minute.
"Listen to me carefully," I said softly. "There is someone out there who is eat- murdering all my friends to get to me." A tear fell silently down my cheek. "I have to stop him" He just shook his head and crossed his arms.
"I'm not letting you go." His tone was deadly serious.
"Fine then." My tone matched his. I'd been testing the strength of the chains; they weren't that strong. I relaxed my arms for a moment, then brought my arms forward in a hugging motion. The chains were ripped from the wall, concrete fell around me. But I was free. That was all that mattered. Taking a deep breath I looked into his beautiful eyes, that had widened about an inch. I didn't want to hurt him, but that didn't mean I wouldn't.
"What are you?"