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Leah and Edward had been on their way to the bluffs when Jacob came running towards them. There were tears in his eyes, threatening to spill down his cheeks, and his breathing was labored, leaving the mind-reader and the winged woman to think he had been running after them for a while. Leah knew Jacob, so she could tell that, because he was about to start bawling, something must have gone down.

"Jake?" she asked, taking a step closer to him. "What's wrong?"

"R-Rosalie," he stuttered, as even more tears gathered in his eyes. The pain he was in was palpable. "Sam, h-he sold her out again for a night. Th-there was nothing I could do, he locked me up in that damn cage! When I found her this morning, she had slit her wrists." His voice broke on the last word. "I bandaged her up the best I could, but she's in some sort of shock. Leah, I don't know what to do." He was shaking, vibrating with the agony.

"Take me to her," Leah commanded, clenching her fists. She knew she should probably explain to Edward what was going on, but Jacob was already near hysterical and so she figured the best way would be by projecting her thoughts towards him. Sam loves to sell out the females for the highest paying customer to have a night together. Rosalie's always been his top seller because of her beauty. She's been pregnant three times and two of those times Sam beat her until she miscarried. She did carry her third child to teerm, but he was stillborn. This isn't the first time she's tried to kill herself, and I doubt it'll be last. She was doing so much better until today. I really did believe Jacob was the one helping her. She loves him so much, and when Sam found out, he threatened to kill Jake unless she stopped putting up a fight with the male customers. He did the same thing to Alice until the stress of the trauma got so severe that she was unable to get visions.

Edward couldn't believe what his girlfriend was telling him. How any man do such horrid, terrible, evil acts to a woman or even allow such things to happen was beyond him. Only a coward would sink so low, and now he knew without a doubt Sam Uley was the biggest coward of all. The mind-reader might not have been close to Rosalie, but she meant something to Leah and because of that she meant something to him. He couldn't even imagine what Jake must've been feeling and he tried not to peek into his mind because, honestly, he wasn't sure he could handle what he would hear. The bronze-haired male knew that if it had been Leah, nothing anyone said or did could make it better again, unless someone had told him that Sam Uley had been shot in the face a thousand times and his corpse had been devoured by bloodthirsty alligators.

It didn't take long for Jake to bring them to his trailer. He made sure to call out and let her know it was only him because she was always so paranoid and jumpy and terrified after she was pimped out – not that anyone could blame her – that, whenever she didn't know who was coming for her, she'd assume it was Sam or another guy coming to rape her and she tended to attack first.

"Oh my God!" When Leah let her eyes fall on her blond friend, she could have sworn she felt her heart shatter inside her chest. Her face and what Leah could see of her body were covered in bruises. There was a deep gash on her left cheek, her right eye was black, and both of her lips were swollen to the point where Leah wondered if Rose would be able to talk. There were bruises on her throat, indicating that she'd been choked, bite marks marred her neck and shoulders – some of them bleeding – and her nose was gushing blood. Unfortunately, that wasn't the only thing gushing blood – Leah could see a small pool of blood forming underneath where Rose was sitting, running down her pale legs, staining the wooden floor, and Leah knew that the bastard that had raped Rosalie had been so rough that he'd damaged her insides. The beautiful woman was so utterly broken.

When Leah spoke, she made sure to use the gentlest tone she could muster, and tried to keep her pain out of it for her friend's sake. "Rose, honey, I need you to stand up for me so we can get to the bathroom and clean you up. Can you stand up for me?"

Edward and Jacob helped lift her off of the floor, and the mind-reader examined the pool of blood on the floor, a worried look in his eyes. "I think we should get her to the hospital. There's an awful lot of blood. She could be bleeding internally."

"No hospitals." The words came out as horse whisper and everyone in the room turned to look at Rosalie. She had a terrified look in her eyes that stomped on the shattered pieces of Leah's broken heart. "Nobody can know, I don't want them to know. Leah please, don't let them know!"

The winged woman nodded as she continued to help her friend to the bathroom. "Nobody has to know, Rosie, I promise. Let me get you cleaned up, and then you're coming to my place so I can keep an eye on you."

She paused before addressing both Edward and Jacob next. "Jake, I need you to go get her a fresh change of clothes, and find Alice to tell her what happened. Edward, if you could do me a huge favor and go back to my place to get the first aid kit under the sink, that would be great. If either of you run into Sam, don't, for the love of God, do NOT confront him. The last thing I need is another patient to take care of. We'll deal with Sam after we get Rose all patched up."

Jacob left to do as she asked, but Edward was frozen for a few seconds. All he could think was, What if it had been Leah? "I'm going to kill him. He'll never touch any of you again."

Whipping around, his Quilette girlfriend shook her head frantically. "Don't go doing something like that when you're so unstable. As much as I would love to see him dead, I know that you'll regret it. You're a killer right now, but I need you to stay calm. I love you so damn much, Edward. We will deal with Sam, I promise you that, but right now is not the time. Rose needs all of our focus right now."

TBC...

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