All things twilight= stephenie meyer

***a short chapter, but it let's you know where this is heading***

Chapter 6

Well, wasn't he just as intuitive as always. At least this wasn't hurting Charlie's mind or his personality.

"You have a guess?"

"No, I just figured there was more to this than me being your pretend role model, Cullen. If you're doing this just to get to Bella, I will…. Get Jake to kill you."

Edward snorted. If only he really knew.

"Well, Charlie, I won't stay in this house and insult your intelligence. I am here for Bella, but not in the way that you mean."

"Is this work related, officer?"

"Detective."

"Hmm. What's coming after my baby, Detective Cullen?"

"You remember a case from about eight years ago. You put away two brothers, Laurent and James Boudreaux, for murder. Well, you got the one on conspiracy."

"Yeah, they were doing sacrifices, drinking the blood of virgins. They got the older brother for the actual murder. James, the other one, he had an alibi in his girlfriend. She said he thought that it was the blood of a goat." Charlie shuddered.

"Well, James served his sentence and got out on good behavior."

"Hmm." Charlie tried to keep his voice even, but Edward could see the worry on his face. It pained him to cause this trouble to a man so weakened as it is.

"We got a strong lead pointing his destination here. It apparently didn't take him long to learn of your condition, and he turned his focus on to someone that could hurt you more than your own demise."

"Bella." it was a pained whisper, and his eyes were closed tightly. A tear leaked down his face, and his body shuddered with a silent sob. He composed himself rather quickly. Edward didn't know if it was control or if he was too weak to let more out. "What about right now, Edward? Who's with her now?"

"My partner, Jasper." With this, Edward could see Charlie putting it all together.

"No honeymoon?"

"Oh, he was on a honeymoon, but he got here this past Sunday. I've been here for more than three weeks, mostly by myself. That's why she noticed me, I think."

"You would have to have been very obvious."

"I know. I was so used to being able to hide right in front of her face. She very oblivious. She thought I'd only been doing it for three days." Edward grinned at this. "It had been sixteen days at the time."

"She's in trouble."

"We got her, Charlie, don't worry." He pleaded this because he knew it would take precious time from his life, from Bella.

Charlie saw something in the way Edward said this. He believed that Edward wouldn't let anything happen to her. Not because it was his job, but because, and Charlie was very sure this was the case, Edward was falling in love with Bella. He didn't know whether this made him happy, but he knew someone that wouldn't be happy at all about this. Charlie saw the body language that Bella subconsciously used around this man, she was falling for Edward, too.