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Ch. 17

SEEKING LOVE

"Hey Ed over here!"

Emmit was standing in the VIP area right in front of the runway, I made my way towards him. I unbuttoned my coat jacket and sat between him and Jasper. "It's about to start." Jasper said as he leaned forward with excitement.

The lights dimmed, strobe lights came on and the music began playing. Leave it to my sister to turn the runwayinto a disco party and make it work; there is no denying it Alice is gifted. I was starting to become very impatient when the first two girls that came out were not Bella. Then the lighting changed leaving a trail that lead straight to the runway; the fog machines turned on and out of the mist there she was. Everything seemed like it was in slow motion, her hips swaying from side to side while she came closer and closer to me. She scanned the audience for a few seconds till her eyes landed on mine, she paused at the end of runway posing in such a seductive way it made my dick twitch and when she turned to strut her way back she glanced over her shoulder and winked at me. I of course responded with a smirk.

"Bella, Bella you are in so much trouble."

"You say something Bro?" Emmitt leaned into me yelling in my ear. I shook my head mouthing nothing. "Hey man did you see Bella wink at me?" He had the goofiest grin I had ever seen.

"No brother I don't think that was for you." Of course this made him grin wider while his eyebrows shot up; I knew then I will later be thoroughly interrogated . I could careless; I just couldn't wait till I was alone with Bella again.

The show was like a blur after I began to contemplate on what my next move should be, do I approach her and just say let's go back to my place? Ask her out on a date? Introduce her to my family? I knew things were going to change, it was more than a mere fascination with a lovely woman, I was feeling something more something real.

"Edward!"

My thoughts were interrupted when my mother spoke to me. "Hello mother." I leaned down and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"Dear you were late your lucky you made it right on time; your sister would have been extremely upset."

"Well I made it just in time, and she wouldn't have been upset she would have kicked my ass."

My father and mother both laughed and nodded there heads in agreement. "Yes she would have she has a good kickboxing trainer." Jasper added.

"I take it you've been on the receiving end of her wrath?" I smirked at the thought of Jasper getting his ass kicked by my sister.

"Nope not once I've never given her a reason; although when it comes to Alice it's always a possibility." He seemed to be pondering.

"You better not get her mad then." I teased.

"That's enough boys, I don't think Alice would like that very much do you?" Mom said and we both nodded in agreement.

We talked a few minutes more but Jasper couldn't wait any longer for Alice to come out, he went back stage to drag her out. My parents and I continued to talk, my father asked how work was going and I asked my mother if she was working on any new houses when I caught a glimpse of Bella. She was standing alone just staring at me waiting; waiting for me. "Mother, Father please excuse me."

My father nodded and my mother arched her eyebrow, there will definitely be a when are you going to settle down talk about this later. I made up my mind before I even reached her that I would be taking that elegant dress my sister made off of Bella in my bedroom. We flirted a bit but i knew we had to talk and before I could even proposition her we were interrupted by her roommate Jessica. She pulled Bella to the side; they were talking and I could tell she was upset about something she even looked…scared? I was about to go see what was going on when she took off towards the exit. I didn't even have a chance to react when Jessica jumped right in my path; "Jessica." I nodded curtly, I still didn't know if she was the reason Bella was upset. I tried to go around her but she just sidestepped me.

"Where are you going Edward?"

"That doesn't concern you, now does it?"

"Hmm, well if you are going after Bella then it does concern me."

Every time I would try to go around her she was some how faster. "Jessica I do not have the patience for this game you are trying to play right now. I am not and never will be interested….in you!" After those words left my mouth I seen the look on her face, she was appalled.

"You listen to me Edward Cullen! You might be the richest mother fucker in here but don't flatter yourself; I AM NOT INTERESTED IN YOU EITHER!" She stabbed me in my chest as she pronounced each word. "BELLA had to go; she asked me to tell you that she is sorry and will call you as soon as she can."

What? She said she wanted to talk but as soon as Jessica interrupted our conversation Bella bolted. What the fuck was going on? I don't care what Jessica says I'm going to get to the bottom of this. "That's fine I wasn't planning on going after her; I was just trying to get by and say hello to a colleague of mine. Why would I chase after Bella? Is there something wrong?" I of course had to use my cleverness to get what I needed. She arched her eyebrow as if questioning what I was saying but before she could say anything we were interrupted.

"Well Edward... I see you are partaking on the activities of our exclusive club; I thought you had a thing for Bella but I guess I was wrong you must be into blonde's like Jessica here." James reached his hand out to touch Jessica's arm but she maneuvered herself closer to me out of his reach. He chuckled as if Jessica moving away from him was some kind of challenge. "I wonder if Aro knows of this meeting; what do you think he will do after he finds out Jessica?"

"I am in no way part of any exclusive club that you obviously are involve with. Jessica and I were just talking, now if you both will excuse me." I turned to walk away and I could see Jessica opening her mouth to say something but James cut her off.

"Where you running off to Eddy? You running after Cinderella? I don't see a glass slipper laying around; you should just give up she doesn't want you. Well let me rephrase that she only wants your money. That's all these girls ever want, she's nothing but a whore." James spat his venom.

That's all it took and all I could see was red. I could kill James for shooting off his mouth, I was pissed at Jessica for interrupting, and I was furious at Bella for running off and making me look like a fool. I spun around and lunged at James grabbing the front of his jacket and practically picked him up off the floor. "Listen to me you son of a bitch; you don't know a damn thing!"

"Edward!" I heard my brother and Jasper yell from across the room. Before I could do anything else they were at my side pulling me away from James, that mother fucker had the nerve to smirk at me like he had the upper hand. I shrugged off both my brother and Jasper and stormed off to the balcony to blow off some steam.

As I reached the ledge I saw a black car pulled around the side of the building; it took me just one second to realize that it was Bella getting into the car with a man. Not just any man but none other then Tyler, James lackey. It was so fucking obvious what she was up to. I clinched my fists looking around for anything I could hit or throw, I grabbed the edge of the glass table next to me and flipped it over shattering it to a million pieces.

"EDWARD WHAT THE FUCK?" Emmitt yelled. "Are you fucking insane?"

Was I insane? Why was I letting this girl get to me? There's hundreds of girls…..women that would do anything to be with me and I'm stressing over her? What the fuck is wrong with me? I pinched the bridge of my nose and let out a breath and in a strained voice I said, "I need to get out of here. Can you let mom and dad know? I don't want to go back inside I already made enough of a commotion." I knew exactly why I was going insane and I know how to fix it.

"Yeah sure. Are you okay? You want us to go with you?" Emmitt took a step closer.

I held my hand up to stop him.

"I'm fine, I just need to be alone." I turned to look at Jasper, he had his eyebrows furrowed looking off into the distance. "Alice?"

"Yeah don't worry about her, I'll let her know." He looked at me and held my gaze like he could see right through me. I turned and walked away.

"Oh god I want you to fuck me until you make me scream..."

I grabbed the bottle of whiskey that was on the table behind…..what the fuck was her name again? I shrugged my shoulders as if I was responding to my own question and took a long swig from the bottle. I leaned my head back and closed my eyes.

"Oh baby you feel so good, I want you so bad; do you want me too... huh baby..."

I laughed, what the fuck was she feeling; my dick wasn't even hard. She was straddling me and grinding on my belt buckle trying to get off. She was starting to get a little irritating, I don't know why I let her in my VIP lounge in the first place. The song changed in the club and she got a little more crazy flinging her hair around, it was getting in my mouth.

"Your so fucking hot Edward, let's take this party upstairs. Or do you like an audience, I'm into exhibitionism."

Just when I was about to tell her my answer the family police walk in; Emmitt and Jasper. Emmitt looked annoyed and Jasper looked disappointed maybe, I couldn't really tell because I was seeing two Jasper's. "Hey guys! What do I owe you for this unexpected visit?"

Emmitt crossed his monster arms in front of his chest, he really needed to lay off the weight lifting. "I thought you needed to be alone?"

"I am alone." I laughed and took another drink from the bottle.

Jasper walked over to me and said, "Miss can you please excuse us this is a private family matter."

Who did this guy think he was? That southern drawl might work with my sister but it didn't mean every…

"Oh sure thing good looking." She slowly got off my lap; "I'll be close by if you guys need anything."

I guess it did work. "Wait till Alice hears your not just using that southern accent on her."

"Stop being a dick Edward and pass the bottle." I arched my eyebrow at him and gave him the bottle.

It was bright, too bright. I slowly opened my eyes shielding them with my arm. Why were my blinds open? I groaned as I tried to get up. "I wouldn't do that if I where you?"

"Ma? What are you doing here?" Ouch, she was right getting up was a bad idea.

"Uh….I live here."

I looked around, I was in my old bedroom in my parents house. "What am I doing here?"

"You don't remember? You, Emmitt and Jasper decided to get very intoxicated last night or should I say early this morning. None of you could drive, you had one of your employees call me saying that you and your "brothers" will be sleeping at your friends house and not to worry." She was laughing. "Like you use to do when you where in high school; but this time you came home instead. How much did you three drink?"

Groaning with my hands covering my face I said, "I have no idea."

"Son what's going on? This is not you, you haven't done anything like this since you were a teenager. Talk to me."

Why did my mother always know when something was wrong. I stood quite for a long time, so long she probably figured I wasn't going to talk. I felt the bed move, removing my hands from my face I looked at my caring mother. She looked at me expectantly, knowing I would tell her. I sighed giving in. " Isabella."

Jessica's POV

"Hey this is Bella, sorry I missed your call. Leave a message and I'll call you back."

"FUCK!" Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! What am I going to do? I pressed redial for the tenth time. "Pick up…..please pick up."

"Hey this is Bella, sorry"

I slammed the phone on the kitchen counter. "FUCK! What do I do?" I paced from the kitchen to the living room trying to come up with a logical reason why Bella would have her cell phone off. Maybe she went to Edward's and was still there; no she would have called by now. Where could she be? Who could she be with? She doesn't have any friends but me….and Alice! I raced to the phone scanning threw the programmed numbers, I dialed. "Come on, pick up."

"Hello?"

"Alice? Alice is this you?" I need to calm down I was a little to high strung.

"Uh….yeah…"

"Oh hey it's Jessica. I was just wondering if you heard from Bella?" I crossed my fingers hoping her cell phone was drained and she was safe at Alice's house.

"No, no I haven't seen her since the fashion show." My heartbeat sped up, oh god no. My eyes started to tear up knowing deep down in the pit of my stomach that something was wrong. "Jessica? You still there?"

I swallowed, shakily I said, "Yes."

Silence. We didn't speak for almost a minute. "Look I'll make a few calls and see if anyone has talked to her or seen her, you do the same and if any of us gets any news we call each other, okay?"

"Okay. Alice?"

"Yeah?"

"It's Monday and she hasn't been home since the day of the fashion show. I'm really worried."

She sighed. "I know, me too."

After hanging up with Alice I couldn't help but break down and cry. Something was wrong, who could I go to for help? Aro! "OH MY GOD!" I jumped up, yes that's who can help he would do anything for me. I grabbed my stuff and headed out the door.

It took about thirty minutes to get to Aro's place, soon to be my place if things continued the way they were. When I pulled up to the massive house I saw Aro's car parked in the "U" shaped driveway along with a few other cars that probably belong to the help. I parked and let myself into the house, it was quieter then usual. I walked straight to his office knowing that he would be there, as I turned the corner I heard him talking assuming he was on the phone, I approached the door. Before I could open it I heard another male's laughter, and I paused not wanting to interrupt. That is when I heard who he was talking to.

"So how are things going?"

"Good! We haven't had any problems." James? "What? Why are you looking at me like that? You went along with it, are you backing out now?"

Aro chuckled. "There is nothing for me to back out of. I simply turned a blind eye to what you are doing or have done for all I know. I just want to make sure that your boy Tyler wasn't seen with her. If someone saw them together they will start fishing around, you know the Cullens they look after their own." Oh god. I covered my mouth before I could make a sound.

"FUCK THE CULLENS!" James raised his voice.

"HEY! I'm not your enemy here, James. Get your priorities straight before this blows up in your face." They were quite for awhile. "Don't screw this up, I do not want this coming back to me and interfering with my business, because if it does there will be consequences. Do you understand me?"

I was still standing by the door when I heard James' voice right on the other side of the door. "Don't worry I got it under control." And I came face to face with James. "Well look what we got here."

Shit! "Excuse me, I'm here to see…." I stepped around him as quickly as I could and headed into Aro's office. "Hey baby!"

Aro grinned at me. "James well talk later."

"Bye Jessica." But before he walked out the door he added, "Oh and tell Bella I said hi."

I clenched my fists and smiled.

"This is a surprise, you didn't tell me you were coming over today." He rolled his office chair and tapped his lap. "Come here." I walked over to him and sat on his lap, I felt nauseated being around him. "What's wrong you look sick."

"Oh' no I'm fine its just that um I think I maxed out my credit card." I was trying really hard to pull myself together and not fall apart.

"Oh….is that all? Don't worry I'll pay it right now." He reach forward to bring his laptop closer.

"NO!" He appraised me for awhile. "It can wait, I just wanted to let you know in person. You can just give me cash in the mean time."

He spun us around, there was a safe embedded into the wall. "Close your eyes." I closed them, my heartbeat picking up I needed to get out of here fast. I heard the safe click open, then slam shut. "Here." He placed a thick envelope in my hand, hundred dollar bills poking out from the top. "Don't spend it all in one place. I'll pick you up later and we can spend some quality time together." His hand was slowly sliding up my thigh under my skirt, his thumb gently massaging the hem of my panties.

"Okay." I leaned in giving him a kiss, and I swiftly got up. "Call me."

As soon as I turned the corner down the hall I sprinted for the door, fumbling for my keys as I ran for the car. I raced down the street until I was a safe distance from Aro's house, I reached for my cell phone so I could call Alice.

"Jessica!"

"ALICE, oh my god Alice they have her." I was shaking now.

"What? Who has her?" Alice sounded so fierce and in control unlike me.

"Tyler, James."

"Who's Tyler?"

"It's a long story that I don't know all the details to, all I know is that he was Bella's boyfriend in high school and they had a really bad breakup. He was at the Fashion Show with James, I warned her that I had seen him and she ran off. That was the last time I seen her." I paused to gasp for air. " I was just at Aro's house, James and Tyler have her and…and Aro knew about it."

"I have her wallet." Alice said blankly.

"What?" I was confused, why would Alice have her wallet?

"Her wallet was in my purse, I just noticed today. Where are you now?"

"Right now I'm driving around in circles near Aro's place; I'm scared if Aro finds out that i know something..."

"Don't worry Jessica we'll figure something out; meet me at Edward's office."

I pulled up to the parking structure where Edward's office was at, Alice was waiting for me by the valet. "Come on, hurry we need to catch Edward before he heads into his meeting."

Alice was pulling me into the building and towards the elevators. We went up to the top floor, and when the doors opened she started pulling me again. I was in such a daze, it felt so unreal that all this was happening. She dragged me all the way to the end of the floor up to two big wooden doors. "Can I help you, Miss?"

I turned towards the woman at the desk to the right, she must be Edward's secretary. "Oh, Alice. I didn't know it was you. Let me tell him you're here to see him."

"It's not necessary." Alice swung the door open and pulled me inside closing the door behind her. "Edward we need to talk."

Edward leaned back in his chair looking very annoyed. "Alice how many times have I told you to knock."

"Edward I'm not one of your employees, besides we have a problem." Alice pulled me out from behind her, and Edward's eyebrows shot up. "Bella's in trouble." She turned to me. "Tell him everything u know."

I looked at Edward with tears falling down my face.

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