Chapter 28

Why does he want her?

(No one's POV)

Jake sat on a decaying log that had been knocked over a few years back due to a huge storm. He felt so stupid and confused at the same time. He hurt Amber, the girl that he loved more than anything in this world. The girl that opened his eyes to the world around him. Like a blind man seeing the sun for the first time. He hurt her.

But what she's been through? And for him to learn the way he did? Through a voice recording? Along with everyone else? Ugh! He thought angrily. She had said that she didn't want him to learn the way he did. But he was still going to learn the awful things that someone else had done to her. Took her soul. Her own body for their own use. Beat her. Starved her. Raped her. They were killing her slowly and now he was helping them.

"Damn it!" he exclaimed. His cell started ringing. "Amber...I am so-"

"I don't care what you have to say!" She interrupted me, "but I need you at my house. ASAP!" then she hung up. He sat there for a moment thinking what she said through. She wants me at her place! Immediately! This could be my chance to renew our relationship!


"What the hell is wrong with you?" Alice screeched beating a still shocked Edward

upside the head.

"She loves me?" he whispered disbelieving. How could anyone so gorgeous, so sweet, so...innocent, love someone as average as me? How could she? He thought taking Alice's little fists. "Alice stop! I'm sorry! Alright? I'm sorry! I was just shocked...she loves me?"

Alice nodded. "Yes dipstick! Anyone could see that!" Rose replied in sarcasm.

Edward's cell phone rang. "Hold on," he said sliding it open. "Hello?"

"Look, I could care less how you feel about my sister, but she loves you and I sorta need you, Alice, Rose, Emmett, and Jasper to come to our place. ASAP!" Amber hung up immediately after she finished.

He looked up at Alice and Rose. "Get the guys. Go to Bella's!" This could be his one and only chance.


(Amber's POV)

I just hung up with Edward. I sighed reading the text message on my phone from Bella:

911! SAR! 911! KD!

I went through all the possibilities of what SAR meant and what KD meant. Jacob walked though the door first. "Who else is here?" He asked.

My throat burned with my love for him. Even if he did tear my heart into a million itty-bitty pieces, I still loved him. "No one," my voice cracked when he looked deeply into my eyes. I adverted mine from his. "Edward and everyone else is one the way." I turned my back to him.

I felt him behind me. His warm hands wrapped around my waist and brought me back out of the shadows, and into his world. "I love you, Amber. I'm sorry."

Tears formed in my eyes. I turned to him. "What about earlier?"

"i was scared. Confused. Overwhelmed. Sorta mad. Defiantly pissed that everyone else found out the same time I did." He said looking guilty and miserable. "I love you, Amber, and I'm willing to do anything to prove it."

Slowly I wound my arms around his neck. "I thought I had lost you. I love you, Jake. I never want to lose. Ever!" I pressed my lips to his. "I love you." I sniffled kissing him again and again.

The door opened. "Glad to know one couple got back together." Alice said perching on the arm of the couch.

"What's so important?" Emmett asked curiosity getting the best of him.

I opened my phone to that message, passing it to Jake. "About fifteen minutes ago, I got this text from Bella. I have no idea what it means. All I know is that she ain't answering her phone!"

"What do you think it means?" Edward asked looking at the phone.

"Well, obviously the 911 means emergency. But the SAR and KD sign, I have no clue."

he stared at the text a bit longer. "Has Bella been talking about being watched lately?" I nodded cautious. "KD=Kidnapped."

"WHAT?!" the entire room erupted at once. "How did you know that?" I asked once I had caught my gasp.

He never answered. "Ok so...maybe the SAR stands for the kidnappers name, right?"

"Like what?" I asked leaning against the door frame. "The only person I would think of 'S' for a first name would be-" I stopped choking my words. "S-st-step-"

"Stephen?" Alice asked. "Why would he take Bella? You're his kid."

"No I am not!" I gritted. "Hold on, before we get to conclusions. Stephen. Anthony. Ray!" I covered my mouth. "Oh my god!"


(Edward's POV)

My blood boiled. I clenched my fists holding in my out burst. "Stephen? Who the fuck Stephen?" I asked through gritted teeth.

Amber visibly gulped. "He's...he's the guy that traumatized me. He's the one that abused me." Jake grasped her hand.

"OK...so why does he want Bella?" Alice asked noticing that if I asked, I'd be screaming.

Amber shrugged. "I have no idea. Probably to hurt me so much that I went after her myself." She started crying. Jacob held her close. "I'm so sorry, Edward. She really does love you. She never wanted you to learn this way. Neither of us did. She was waiting till she knew that you'd never leave her after she told you."

I nodded. "Think of where he'd take her. I need to go think." I left after she nodded. I drove to my...our meadow and sat down at the edge. Without Bella, it felt wrong to go in. "Bella, I wish I could tell you how I feel about you. You're beautiful, caring, selfless, brave...you're everything I've wanted." I sighed. Great! On top of everything else, I'm talking to the air. "I'm different than them. I care about you. I care about your well being, you happiness, you past, your future. I-I want to be apart of your future." After my mini-speech, everything was silent. Just the birds, the occasional squirrel and my breathing. "Where did you go?" I asked quietly, almost a whisper.

...you left a whole

where my heart should be

you gotta fight

just to make it through.

Cause I will be the death of you-

(Breath by Breaking Benjamin)

"Amber?" I flipped open the bloody phone.

"Edward? Why do you have Bella's cell phone?"

"I don't know. I went our place and you called. Its...its covered in blood." I wheezed out wiping blood off my fingers. The line went dead, she must have been pissed. I decided to go back to Bella's and think along with the others. Just as I was about to jump the fence again, I noticed some dried blood on the ledge where Bella would usually put her hand, so she wouldn't get splinters. So, she left her phone and this so someone would know she was here. I nearly smiled. "Smart Bella."


That Night

"He would want to take her somewhere secluded." Amber said as we all piled into the living room. "Like a hidden shed or basement in an inconspicuous household."

Jake looked like he was concentrating really hard on the woods. "Like, a hidden house. Miles and miles of forest covering it?" Everyone looked at him. Amber nodded. "I need to make a phone call," he announced moving out the front door. We all stared him, confused.


(Jake's POV)

"Sam, hey man its Jake." I said in a fake cheerily.

"What's going on, Jake?" He asked immediately seeing through my act. His voice in a hard tone.

I sighed. "I need your help or at least some info on something."

"What is it?" I head paper moving around and the click of a pen.

"Bella was kidnapped."

Sam was silent awhile. "Like...Nessie?" he asked, his voice breaking at her name. "Just...just out of no where?"

I nodded. "Yeah. Out of nowhere! Amber said that the guy that took her would-"

"Wait! She knows the guy that took her sister?"

"Yes! His name is Stephen Anthony Ray. He's Amber's Bio-father."

"What does he want with Bella then?"

I shrugged. "We don't know. But she said that he would more than likely take her to a secluded house or shed in the woods. Somewhere that no one can easily find. Like...like the Griffin's old place; miles and miles between forest."

"So why do you need me?" he asked confused.

"Sam, you and your group know these woods more than anyone I know. It runs your blood."

"You know, it runs in yours too."

"I know. I need your help. Help me find her. You never know, this could lead to Reneesme."

He grunted. "I'll talk to the others."

"Thanks Sam. Call me when you guys decide, please."

"Sure thing." He then hung up.

"Thanks Jake," Edward said from behind me. "Sorry I eavesdropped, but I had to know what you were doing."

I nodded understanding. "Hey Edward?" I called after him when he started to go back inside the house. "You do love Bella, don't you?"

he didn't answer immediately, I didn't expect him to. "I...yeah. I do. I love her more than anything. Now, cause of how fucking stupid I am, i'll never be able to tell her just how much." He gritted angrily.

"It is not your fault," I said earnestly. He didn't answer, but went inside. "Its not your fault."

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