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Chapter 4

EPOV

I took a moment to gather my surroundings before I addressed the voice of the person who yelled. The room was dark and filled with smoke. Two unidentifiable bodies were slumped over each other on the couch closest to the door. I started to make my way across the room toward where I knew the voice originated from. Through the haze I spotted the table where the meeting was being held.

Emmett was sitting at the head of the table, with five other chairs seated around it. On his left side was Rosalie Fitzgerald, the girl who had finally captured Emmett's attention for more than 20 minutes. On the right side was an empty seat, waiting to be filled, by me. I slid into my chair between Emmett and Jasper. I glanced around the table and nodded at the familiar faces. The other two chairs were filled by Emmett's lackeys, Felix andDemetri.

"So are you going to answer my question or just smirk like the arrogant asshole that you are?"

"I was at my apartment, clam the fuck down."

"Fuck you Cullen, I'm not going to put up with your shit anymore, if you don't…" I had cut him off before he could continue with his speech about being the 'boss'.

"I fucking get it; you're the one who can get the drugs. Now can we move on to why you called me out here?" He looked at me for a moment with an expression resembling anger but I knew it was for show.

"Edward can you try, for once, to not ruin his reputation here?" Jasper whispered in my ear as he leaned toward me. As he leaned away, I saw his smirk fading away. It was sort of hard to continue with this facade that Emmett was all powerful or some shit. I'd known him, and Jasper, since the beginning of our freshman year of high school. Back then Emmett was the biggest softy I'd ever known. That was until the pressures of school, soccer, and work got to him. That's when he met Marcus, the guy that got Emmett high for the first time. Being the best friends that we were, Emmett told us about Marcus, and we all started to get high with him. Somehow we all managed to graduate high school, and that's when Emmett became a full time drug dealer. Marcus had in all honesty taken Emmett under his wing, and showed him all the drugs you could get high off of. But one day Marcus was shot by a rival drug dealer in Port Angeles. Emmett then began to run the business Marcus left behind. He asked for mine and Jasper's help. We couldn't turn him down. Although Emmett, Jasper, and I don't use anymore, a lot of the people that worked for him still did. We each had our own little job to do to keep the operation running smoothly. Emmett got the drugs while Jasper supplied the clientele. I was the muscle, if someone didn't pay, I'd oversee the consequences. That must be the reason I was called here tonight.

"So all powerful Emmett," he threw a light punch at my arm, "how come I'm here?"

"Former Chief Swan hasn't kept up his end of the bargain, and I feel he needs a little persuasion in order to get me my money." All around the table there were murmurs about disrespect, and payback. I ignored them all and spoke to Emmett directly.

"So what needs to be done?"

"Swan has a daughter he told me about, I think we need to pay her a visit. Edward, I want you to keep her at the cabin you have near Lake Aldwell."

"How long?"

"I'm only giving Swan a week to come up with my money."

"What do you want me to do at the end of the week?"

"Kill her."

I simply stared at him. This wasn't the Emmett I grew up with. This wasn't the Emmett I'd know for so long. There was no remorse, no guilt, no emotion in his eyes. I thought I was the only one who was affected by this change in him until I felt Jasper shift uncomfortably in his seat next to me. Everyone else at that table went about their business as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Not even Rosalie batted an eye. She acted as if this was normal behavior for the guy she fell in love with. Emmett never ordered anyone to be seriously injured, just roughed up so the person was scared into paying. I wasn't even the one who normally beat up the non-paying customers, that job was left to Felix and Demetri. I was there to make sure they didn't get out of hand, and now Emmett was ordering me to kill an innocent girl. I wasn't sure what to say, let alone do in this situation.

So I put on my own facade and said words I never thought I'd say.

"Kill her? You got it." I faced away from Emmett, staring at a point on the wall opposite me, tuning out what Emmett said next. In the time it took me before I could answer him I decided that I should play along for now, perhaps Charlie Swan would get the money before the deadline was up and I wouldn't have to deal with Emmett's order. I knew as soon as I said it that it was too good to be true. While I was reveling in how to get out of this situation, I heard Emmett's voice pulling me from my trance.

"Edward? Are you listening?" I turned to face him.

"What? Sorry I tuned out for a second. What were you saying?"

"God pay fucking attention. I was saying that I wanted to give our two new recruits a job in all this." He glanced over at the couch near the door as he spoke. I followed his gaze. The two lumps on the couch, I now recognized as Mike and Tyler, two new junkies Emmett had rounded up to work for him. They didn't contribute much to the group, but for some reason Emmett kept them around. "I think I'll have them get Isabella."

"Isabella?"

"Yes, Swan's daughter. Sometime you are so fucking stupid." Knowing her name made it much more difficult to even contemplate killing her. I didn't even want to think about what would happen when I met her. "Mike and Tyler will get her from her house, and meet you at Elwha Dam, where you will pick her up and take her to the cabin for the week."

"Uh…yea ok." I stared at Emmett trying to see the person he used to be, the one who wouldn't hurt a fly.

"Well that's it. You pretty much know all the shit you have to do. The only thing left is to make sure that Tyler and Mike don't fuck anything up."

"So I can go now?"

"Yea I'll text you if I need anything." I got up from my chair and listened vaguely to the sounds of goodbye coming from around the table. I stumbled out of the bar, unaware that someone was behind me.

"Hey." I spun around almost losing my balance, just to see Jasper leaving the bar right behind me. "You ok?"

"Yea I'm fine" the cool night air was clearing my mind. I was thinking straight again.

"I know how your feeling. That wasn't the Emmett we knew in there."

"Yea but what the fuck are we going to do about it?" He chuckled humorously at this.

"Absolutely nothing. Just follow orders like we always do." All signs of mocking were gone, he looked like a defeated man.

"Like always." I said as I spun on my heel, away from Jasper. As I walked to my car, I tried to convince myself that what just happened wasn't real. I tried and I failed.

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