Chapter 1

BPOV

I was on my way to my parent's house in Forks, Washington, to have our weekly Saturday visit and dinner. I live in Seattle, but every Saturday, I drive to Forks to visit with my 17, almost 18 year old brother Seth and my parents Charlie and Renee for dinner. Tonight is different however, because tonight my brother Seth wants me to meet his friend Jacob. Jacob apparently is 21, a year younger than me, but apparently very handsome, and wants to meet me. Seth started hanging out with him last year, and quickly became friends. I at first was concerned that my brother was hanging out with a 21 year old, but he liked Jacob, and was happy to have another friend, so I let it go.

I pulled into the driveway of my childhood home, and saw the police cruiser, Toyota, and my old Chevy truck in the driveway. Seth drives my truck now, and it amazes me that it still runs. However I started getting an odd feeling when I wasn't greeted by the enthusiastic Seth. Every time I come to visit, he greets me by running out to meet me, before I can even park. I brushed the feeling off however, and brought in my guacamole I made to go with the fajitas my mom was going to attempt to make. You never know if my mom's attempts at cooking will be edible or not. I walked up the driveway to the front door, and knocked. However the person who answered the door was not who I expected; it was a tall built man with blonde hair and a slightly pained expression. Then I realized it was Demetri, my childhood best friend. Last year his wife Felicity had disappeared, and he left to go search for her. I hadn't talked to him in over eight months because a few weeks after he left, he seemed to fall off the side of the planet, so when he opened the door, to say I was shocked was an understatement.

"Demetri? What-"

"Bella, come in and sit down." Are you serious? I thought he died, and that is how he greets me after eight months? However apparently he was in a hurry because he grabbed my arm, and dragged me to the family room to sit down.

"Demetri where is everyone, where were you and WHAT is going on?" He just stood there for a few moments with a look that told me he did not want to tell me what he was about to.

"Bella, I don't have much time before he gets here, but here is what is going on, your parents and brother have been kidnapped and will not be released anytime soon."

They were kidnapped? Why? They were not wealthy, by any stretch of the imagination, neither was I, and how did he know about this? And who was the 'he' he mentioned? Before I even had the ability to voice a question, he continued.

"It is the same thing that happened to Felicity." I was flabbergasted, he had found Felicity, was she dead or alive? "Has Seth ever mentioned someone named Jacob?" I merely nodded my head. "Well Jacob is the person responsible. He was also the one who took Felicity, and I don't know if she will ever be released, but I get to see her once every four months." I had never seen Demetri show so much pain before. "He got close to Seth so he could plan their kidnapping, and he has them. Bella, I don't know exactly what he is going to have you do, but I overheard some of his conversations and I know that all of this is so he can get control of a company called Masen Inc. I don't know what the company does, but I know there is a major con in the making." So this Jacob used Seth, kidnapped them, is going to use my family as blackmail against me, but why did he take Felicity? What does he want from Demetri? So far this was a very confusing monologue, on Demetri's part.

"Demetri, what is he making you do?" Demetri looked down in shame, "he uses me to… tie up loose ends, and as a bodyguard," he said with eyes that begged me not to hate him and understand that he did this for Felicity.

I could never hate Demetri; he was my second brother, and best friend. I knew he looked scary and mean, but I knew he was not a killer on the inside, but I hoped that the fact that he had now killed people and God knows what else for this despicable Jacob, that he was not changed on the inside. There was one way I would know if he had been truly corrupted, and that was his hugs. I ran towards him and wrapped my arms around him, as he immediately hugged me back and slightly lifted me off the ground. "I missed you. And I'm so sorry Little B. I don't know what to do anymore… for you or for me."

"I missed you too Big D." Demetri might be a criminal now, but he was still the loving teddy bear I knew. "What time is Jacob coming?" I spit the name out with venom. I have never felt as much hate as I do now, and it is for a person who has not only flipped my life, Demetri's life and other's lives upside-down, but I have not even met the man yet. "Any minute now," he said with a sigh.

I did not know what was going to happen now, but I knew that I would do what Jacob wanted to save my family, and maybe if I was the key to the con, after I was done, he would let Felicity go too.

At that moment there was a loud banging on the door, and Demetri went to answer it with an emotionless mask, and a tall, black haired man, walked in straight to me, "hello Bella, I'm Jacob Black. Here's the deal," man he gets straight to business doesn't he, "I have your parents and brother, and you will get to visit Seth once every month, and your parents every four months. In order to keep seeing them, and for them to stay alive, you must do what I say, understand?" I merely nodded my head while slightly glaring at him. I didn't want to make him mad and hurt my family, but I wasn't about to be nice to him either. "Good, so here is the deal, tonight you are going to marry me, and tomorrow you are going back to Seattle to find a man named Edward Cullen, and get him to knock you up. You are going to 'have a relationship' with him until the baby is born, and then I will explain from there, got it?"

I could not respond; all I could do was sit there. He was going to force me to marry him, and then I have to get pregnant by another man? What? And, what was going to happen to the baby, or me, and how would doing this get him control of the company? Who the hell even thinks up something like this?

"Understand Bella?" Jacob repeated, daring me not to follow his instructions.

"Why? And what is going to happen to the baby if I do get pregnant?" I asked in a small voice, as I didn't want to antagonize him, but I had to know.

"It doesn't matter why, the only thing that is important is that you get pregnant before any of his siblings have a child, not them just getting pregnant, but before they birth a child." I still couldn't fully grasp that this wasn't a nightmare; this was really happening.

"Now we have to go. I have all the stuff ready for us to get married, you just need to say I do and sign your name. Let's go." With that, he walked out the door into the black Sudan that was out front. I just froze.

"Little B, he will kill them if you don't do what he says, but if you want to run, wait until you get back to Seattle. You will probably be followed at times, so just be careful, and you never know who else is involved, alright?" I finally snapped out of my shock, and ran over to Demetri and started to sob, "I can't just let him kill them." I sighed, "I have to do what he says, don't I Big D?" "I don't know what else to do to keep them alive Little B. You should probably go now, he won't wait much longer. Oh, and B?"

"Yes?"

"We probably shouldn't flaunt that we are so close."

I wiped my tears, nodded, and walked to my cursed future.