Chapter 16

EPOV

I knew the moment the guys asked me to hunt with them and she didn't join us that something was wrong. Bella and I always went together. These past few days something has changed with her, and it scares me.

"Come on Eddie, stop mopping about, whats wrong with you?" Emmett joked. But it hit to my core, something was wrong.

"cool it Em, something really is bothering him" Jasper said "Whats going on Edward?"

I looked into his face and knew he had the answers.

"Bella has been lying to me hasn't she?" I asked. No answer. "I know something is going on. She isn't as sneaky as she thinks. I can tell every time she lies, but I let her think I don't know. That I don't see it in her eyes, the fear that our time together is limited."

"Eddie…"Emmett started, but Jasper stopped him. "Shut up Em, Edward you need to talk to her about this. Its not our place to."

My mind was made up in that instant, I turned on my heels and started back to the house. I would get the truth from her.

BPOV

I cried for the first time in many years, and I never thought it would stop. "Carlisle, I can't tell him the truth, I just cant. If he knew, really knew what was in store for us, he would worry and the time we have together would be ruined" I Confessed to him.

"What do you think you have done, you are the one causing the problems now," Edward told me. I must have been so broken I didn't hear him coming. "I can see it in your eyes every single bloody time you look at me. I see the fear, and I let you think I don't because I knew that was what you wanted but not anymore. I wont let it end like this," he declared.

"You think I want it to end like this? You think I want it to end at all? If there was a way to save us, to keep us together I would do it. No questions asked and Aro knows just that. He WILL USE that" I told him. I stayed quiet allowing my words to sink in. When his eyes locked mine, he knew.

"He will want us both. He will take me, and threaten me to get you" he growled. I nodded. "If he comes for me, don't follow" Edward stated.

I snarled at him, "I wont lose you again. I cannot bare it. You didn't have to remember. I DID! I had to live all these years remembering you. Remembering every last detail of the life we had and of the future we planned. I didn't forget it, I wasn't like the others. I WANTED to forget!" I paused "I didn't want to remember your face, your touch, your kiss. But they haunted me. And now here you are, back in my life. I can feel you again, smell you, touch you. And I wont lose that again. I will not bare it!"

Edward and Carlisle just stared at me, I could hear the others gasps in the other rooms of the house. They had returned just in time to hear my rant.

Maybe it was heavy but it was how I felt and there was no going back now anyways.

"You can't mean that" Edward whispered. I flinched, "I do. I hated remembering you. And if I lose you again, I will die. One way or another it will happen. So don't even think of giving yourself up."

"Isabella, I love you more than anything in this world or the next. I wouldn't want to hurt you or leave you. But I will not let you give yourself to him just to save me. You are a Cullen and they are your family."

"you are a part of this Family now to Edward" Rosalie told him. I was shocked that she said that. I thought Rose hated him, but it seems she loves him too. It warmed my heart to know she cared.

You never realize how much someone means to you until you don't have them anymore. I knew what it was like to be without Edward and I cant be without him again. "Rose is right Edward, You are part of this Family just as much as I am. I love you and I will not ever let you ago again. NEVER!" I snarled at him.

"Then what are we to do?" he asked. That I did not have an answer for. "I do not want to think of it this way but if it comes down to it I will fight them. They are no match for us." With Edward's mental and physical shield and my mind reading they couldn't touch us or so I hope.

I do not know what to do. Aro would come and soon if my feelings are right. And I still do not know what to do to protect Edward and myself.

"Bella come hunt with me," Alice demanded. I nodded and took her hand. Edward went to join us but Alice put her hand up, "No, not you. Just me and Bella. We need some girl time."

He didn't seem to like that not one little bit, but there was nothing he could do about it. We ran pretty far before she finally stopped and turned to face me. "What's going on Alice?" I asked her. She grimaced like she didn't want to tell me anything. "Alice," I sneered. She sighed, "Fine, fine. Don't get worked up. I had another vision and I wanted to talk to you about it."

Fuck! This cant be good, can it? "Alice…" I started but she stopped me. "Before you say anything just listen to me first. I can't pin the time down, but they are coming and soon. And from what I see they will succeed with getting Edward" she told me. How could this be? Could we really be they lowly that we cant protect our own. "Alice, how?" I asked her.

"I don't know. But he is alone, I don't know where we are or why you aren't with him." She answered.

That's when we heard an earth shattering scream, one of pure pain. "Jane" I gasped. They were here, and we would never get to Edward in time. I took off running faster than I ever had before, but by the time I got home all that was there was a battered Esme. I knelt before her, "Esme are you alright?" She looked at me with fear, "Bella they took Edward. I tried to stop them really I did." I followed her eyes down to her foot or I should say where her foot should be. It was on the other side of the room. I ran and got it then held it in place to start the healing. "You will be fine," I told her "Everything will be." The last part was more for me then her. At that moment Alice returned, "I followed their scent but they most of had a car waiting. Imma call Carlisle, he needs to be here."

She left to call him leaving me with Esme. What was I going to do? Exactly what I thought would happen did. They have him and they want me. "Bella, Jane told me tell you personally that Edward is going to tortured every single hour of every day until you join them," Esme cried. They others walked in then just in time to hear her message.

"We will fight, they cant beat us," Emmett boasted. Rose hit him over the head, "you idiot that is just what they want. A reason to kill us all."

How was I going to free him from Jane's rath without giving in to them? How?