Chapter Thirteen: Fire

The smooth voiced man removed the empty magazine from his gun and turned to leave. He saw me standing at the door and froze.

"Bella? What are you doing here?"

Edward looked back at me with unbelieving eyes. Shock was evident on his face.

"Looking for you." I replied simply.

"No! Bella, you are not supposed to be here." I could see the shock turning to anger.

"I couldn't let you do this. It's not worth it."

"Of course it's worth it, it's you!" he yelled back.

"Um, guys. Hate to break up the love fest but I think we should continue this conversation elsewhere." Jake cut in. I heard the building frame begin to crackle at the heat of the fire.

We ran to the back entrance and made it out just before the place exploded and the whole thing came crashing down. I looked back to see the flames licking up the remains of the building as it reach up towards the night sky. I saw the firefighters spraying the whole thing down, trying to keep it from reaching the tree line. Jake pulled me away and towards the car, knowing that I would be too enthralled in the flames to think clearly. We all got in my car and started to head back to the hotel. Nobody talked for a while.

"What the hell are you doing here. I thought I told you not to come looking for me." Edward demanded harshly, finally breaking the silence.

"Yeah, you also said you couldn't be found but here you are." I shot back. He growled. "Besides, I won't let you do this for me. Especially out of pity." He went to cut me off but one glare from me and he was silent. Good boy. I thought wryly. "Anyways, if anyone is going to kill that bastard it's going to be me."

"No." he growled.

"Excuse me." I demanded in a deadly voice.

"I said no you will not kill him." Edward replied smoothly.

I jerked the car to the left onto a road I would have missed had I decided to change my route a second later.

"What the fuck Bells!" Jake yelled from the passenger seat.

"Where are you going?" Edward demanded.

I didn't answer him, instead I flipped out my phone and punched in some numbers.

"Yes, this is Bella Swan. I would like to book a flight for three to Chicago... One hour would be perfect.... Thank you so much."

"What are you doing." Edward demanded, obviously questioning my sanity at this point.

"He's not just going to get away with it Edward."

There was a long silence.

"So I guess we're going to Chicago."

Sorry this chapter was so short but you just got a double update so you can't complain. I'm still not sure if I really want them to kill James but I'm leaning more and more that direction every day. Maybe they'll kill Caius too! ... I just really don't like Caius. He wanted to kill Bella. Anyways, I'm going to try to post as much as I possibly can over my break beacuse when I go back to school things are bound to get hectic again.

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Love,

Jenny C.