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Chapter 15
Embry's POV
There is no description of how I feel inside. The words agony or pain can't describe it. Nothing can. I can't move, my strength had vanished. I sit still in a wooden chair by the window watching the rain pour. My body lifeless, soulless. My life ended a few hours ago. Now I'm just a ghost, a mere shadow of what I was.
"Where is he?" someone asks but not sure who.
"In there. He hasn't moved since it happened," I recognize Jake's voice.
The door creek's open and someone steps in. The fruity smell hits my nostrils. Ness. "Embry?" she places her small pale hand over mines. I can barely register the touch. "You need to do something. At least so I know your listening." She pleads. After a few minutes I turn my head slowly towards her as she gasps. I now she sees a dead man before her. It stunned me to see a gash by her hairline. The blood had dried. But it's still a sign she didn't go unharmed either. "Jake is pretty worried, everyone is." she pauses. She sees nothing change in me. There's many emotions passing by her eyes. Stopping at anger. "What are you doing? Rusting in here?"
I sigh. "You don't understand," A whisper of a broken man.
She stands abruptly. The heavy chair squeaking on the wooden floor as it's pushed back. I look at her confused. Then she slaps me. I look back at her shocked. Her eyes burning with anger. "I don't understand? I lost her too! I saw him take her. I saw the scared look in her eyes and you think I DON'T UNDERSTAND?!" she paces the floor in floor in front of me. She stops and points her finger at me accusingly. Tears rolling down her face. "You are a selfish asshole to waste your time here wallowing in your self-pity. Think about her!"
I've had enough and I stand from the chair for the first time since I've been put there. "I do think about her!"
"Keep your distance," Jacob orders in his angry Alpha voice walking next to Ness.
"Bro, chill," Seth says from the frame of the door. He walks slowly next to me.
But my eyes still dead on Nessie. "I do think about her! Thinking of how she is. What does fuckers are doing to her! It's killing me inside. She was right there and I couldn't save her!" I say the words out loud for the first time. Hot tears roll down my face. I move my hands over my face like a desperate man not knowing what to do. The pain in my chest twisting. I look back at her. "It's my fault!" I sob harder. "They took her because I couldn't save her!" I fall back in my chair. My hands yanking at my hair. "Do you understand now?!" Can't this pain end? It hurts so much!
I feel her hand on my mine, gently bringing my hands down. Ungrasping them from my hair. She's gasping for air too as she sobs. "I-It was my f-fault," she stutters. I look at her. What is she talking about? "She went with him to save me. Of course I understand." I wrap my arms around her and we cry together. A few minutes pass and she lets go. "But staying here is not going to bring her back. Annie wouldn't want for you to be like this." Her big watery eyes plead for me to understand her now.
I stand run my fingers over my unruly hair. "You're right," I nod. Wiping my tears a turn around and walk out the door.
"Embry, where are you going?" Jake asks unsure of what I'm doing.
I stop in mid-step and look back at him. "To tell her parents I've failed them." I run out of Sam's house.
As I run through the woods flash backs of her screaming for me tears me apart. I phase. I run and run until I'm standing in front of the Cullen mansion. It seems so surreal to be here without her. My heart twists inside, my bones feel like they're being crushed.
"Embry," I turn to look at Nessie with Jake next to her. "You don't have to this alone,"
Jake walks to a tree and places some sweats and a t-shirt behind it. "We're here for you,"
I look back at the mansion and then at them. I nod and spring towards that tree. Once I'm ready I emerge from behind the tree Jake and Nessie wait for me at the entrance. My feet feel heavy as I walk up the stairs. My muscles ache. Annie…. We walk in, the house sad. Her cheerful voice not echoing through the walls.
"My beautiful granddaughters are here," Esme smiles while standing by the kitchen island. Her face falls when she takes a good look at us. She runs in full vampire speed towards Nessie. She looks at the dried blood on her forehead. "OH dear, what happened? Renesmee, what happened? Where is Annie?"
Nessie can't contain herself and brakes down, sobbing as she hugs Esme. "Grandma," she gasps out. Esme looks like if she could cry she would.
"What's going on here?" Carlisle's worried gaze is glued to his wife and granddaughter.
Nessie brakes apart and runs to Carlisle. "Ness?"
My ears hear laughter in the distance. The door opens and I freeze like a statue. How am I supposed to tell them I failed them? Bella, Edward, Rosalie and Emmett pass the door frame laughing and so care free.
Nessie's sobbing quiets them down and Edward along with Bella run towards her. "What's wrong honey?" Nessie keeps crying in Edwards's arms.
"What happened sweetie?" Bella rubs her back.
He shoots a glare at Jake. "What did you do to my daughter?" Before anything else happens his head snaps towards Ness and then his sad eyes fall on me.
Emmett walks to Ness and looks at the blood. "Who did this to you?"
"It happened so fast," Nessie mumbles.
"Where's Annie?" Rosalie asks looking around the room. When no-one answers I see the worry and fear in her topaz eyes. "Where is she?"
Emmett looks at me. "Where is my daughter?" he's words come out slow and menacing.
"They kidnapped her," Nessie whispers in agony.
"What?" It renders everybody speechless.
Emmett looks back at me. He grasps my shirt in his fist. As I look at him I see the strong man but is slowly crumbling down. "Tell me-" he closes his eyes. "Tell me it's not true," He looks back at me when I don't say anything. All I could do is look down ashamed.
"NO!" Rosalie lets out a heart wrenching screech of pain.
Emmett throws me against the marble floor and begins punching me. I deserve this. My arms, hands remain at my sides. I hear some bones cracking. "Emmett, stop!" Between Carlisle, Edward and Jake they take him away from me.
"No," I gasp as I hold my ribs. They look at me. "Let him hit me. I need to feel a different pain. I need to feel," I whisper.
I see his eye soften as he gets out of their hold and runs his hands over his hair. "WHY?! WHY MY BABY GIRL?!" he slams his fist on the wall making it crack.
Rosalie falls to the floor. "My baby!" She holds herself. In seconds Emmett sits with her holding her. "We promised," she sobs tearlessly. "Promised nothing would happen to her! My baby!" she hits his shoulder in sadness. She then looks at me. "Where were you?!" She stands and walks to me. "I trusted her with you. Where were you?!" she claws at my shirt. "Where?!"
"I tried! I tried getting her but I wasn't fast enough-" I feel desperation of not knowing what to do. I'm lost. Annie, save me! Find me! I scream inside in pure torture knowing she won't hear me. Please!
"You… you" she falls sideways in Emmett's arms not having it in her anymore.
"Hit me," we turn to look at Nessie. "If anything hit me. She got herself kidnapped to protect me. I could've been dead but she saved me." She walks and stands in front of Rosalie and Emmett. "Hit me!" she punches his chest.
Rose wraps her arms her and they continue crying. The house quite. Bella walk's to me and hugs me. I cry in her arms.
"Emmett, my baby," Rosalie's voice hurts me more. "My baby,"
