AN:/ Thanks to all of you who reviewed on my last chapter :) I took the advise and I hope this chapter is a bit more easy to read... anyway I hope you guys enjoy this chapter but WARNING!: There is going to be some violence but minimal swearing in this chapter... I am a 1,000,000% Team Edward gurl! I love everything about him so it was kind of difficult to write this chapter... actually it's hard to write this story... I have my reasons about why all this is happening and you'll find more about Bella's past and how the Cullen's are involved later on in this story... PLEASE DON'T HATE ME!

Love ya,
MrsMichaela Cullen xoxo

Chapter 8- Punishment

I felt the burn in my chest and throat and I stirred on the surface that I was on and I tried to open my eyes and after about 5 minutes my eyes fluttered open and then snapped shut at how bright the place I was in was

"Get up!" a stern voice said but I just opened my eyes very slowly and blinked a couple of times before slowly propping myself up onto my elbows and then flopped back down when I saw none other than Edward in front of me

"Wha..." I tried to speak but my throat hurt unbearably and my voice was nothing more than a hoarse whisper so I looked around and only to find out that I was in the same room I was in before I was rescued by Jacob and that made tears gather in my eyes I slowly got up and walked over to the tiny studying desk and got out a note pad and pen and wrote on the pad 'What am I doing here? Why do you want me so bad?' before showing it to Edward

"Good question but I won't answer…" he trailed off with a smirk "Why run off?" he asked and I just let out a breath and just sat down in the chair and put my head on my arms

"Here… drink this" Edward said and I looked up slowly and I eyed the drink in his hand "It's just water" Edward said shoving it into my hands and I just looked at it suspiciously not trusting anyone under this roof so I just put it onto the desk and grabbed the pad and wrote:

'I don't and I won't trust you or anyone else that comes through that door… I also hate your guts so I am NOT going take anything you offer to me! And lastly, what the hell do you want with me!?'

I shoved the pad into his hands and turned around in the chair and looked down to my lap and swallowed but even that sent pain through my body so I just grabbed some of my hair and pulled it into my eyesight and started to plait it and unplait it until Edward slammed the notepad onto the desk, making me jump in shock, and swung my chair around to face him and I immediately dropped my hair at the look on his face, he was glaring hard at me and his eyes were full of anger and hate and his mouth was drawn down into a deep frown and his eyebrows almost touching at how pulled together they were because of his glare "You may not trust me now but you will, you may not like me much at the moment but that most certainly will change-" I cut him off

"What I'll hate you even more?" I whispered to myself under my breath as much as it hurt my throat and then I felt a sharp stinging against my cheek. He slapped me! He fucking slapped me!

"You will not interrupt me! Ever!" Edward yelled and I felt my eyes water a bit so I instinctively looked down and rubbed my cheek lightly as it hurt too much "Now as I was saying… If you don't take what I give you then, well that's your problem not mine, I'll feed and water you but if you take what I offer you is your choice because you'll end up taking it anyway, by force or not… as for what I want with you… well I'm sure you'll figure that out sooner or later" Edward smirked darkly and I just looked to the side and suddenly the floor looked extremely interesting "Look at me" Edward commanded but I don't listen to commands or anyone who randomly takes me away from my life and expects me to be happy about it oh hell no!

I felt his finger and thumb grab my chin and roughly pull my head towards his and I slapped his hand away from me then I quickly grabbed the notepad and pen and wrote:

'Piss off you monster!'

I turned it to him so he could read it and he looked even angrier than before as he put the notepad back onto the desk and yanked me out of the chair and threw me onto the bed. I cowered away from him as he walked deep into the wardrobe and I watched the wardrobe and watched as he emerged with something brown in his hands and he looked evil as he stalked towards me, smirking evilly and I moved as far back as I could which was when I fell of the bed with a 'thud' but I just kept scrambling back until I was pressed against the wall so I tucked myself as far inward as I could and watched with wide eyes as he walked around the bed and then was suddenly standing in front of me and I was looking at his knees so I ever so slowly looked up his body and soon found his face beaming evilly down at me

"Stand up" Edward said calmly which I'm going to take as he is beyond angry and I just shook my head slowly and he rolled his eyes while sighing before pulling me up. Once I was standing firmly on my feet he ripped my shirt straight off my body and his eyes looked over my body before they found refuge on my chest and openly stared but I quickly covered my breasts with my arms and I tried to get away but it didn't go unnoticed as he pulled me back to where I was and then turned me around so he was looking at my back and my front was pressed up against the wall. He then unhooked my bra and I struggled to keep my bra covering my breasts and I looked over my shoulder and finally got to see what was in his hands and my eyes were suddenly as wide as saucers. In his hands was a whip about 2 foot long, it was made from a fine brown leather but it looked more like a flimsy horse whip with a big tip.

"Now you're getting punished for a couple of reasons, first is running away… twice which earned you 14 strikes, second is for breaking some of the rules I gave you which has earned you 10 strikes" Edward said hitting the whip against his hand before rubbing it as if he were warming it up with his hands.

I started shaking my head furiously and I turned around to face him with wide, teary eyes

"No... no..." I whispered hoarsely to myself more than him and I looked him dead in the eye before opening my mouth "Why? What is with you and taking me away from my family... my friends... my life...? I'm not some sort of toy because if so then you have taken an already broken toy... one broken beyond repair and can never be used" I said as low as I could to unsuccessfully avoid increasing the pain in my throat while trying to clip my bra back up without him noticing and with shaky hands but against my wish he noticed me trying to do my bra back up and pulled my hands down in front of me and he held my wrists in one of his hands

"You are not a toy as such... and as far as I'm aware you have no family anymore! Or a life so you should be thanking me for giving you a life and for giving you love" Edward growled out low and venomously

"So you're saying..." I broke off in coughs and I ran into the bathroom and straight to the sink as I coughed my guts up, so to speak, for a couple of minutes before turning the tap on and splashing my face completely forgetting about Edward standing right outside the door but I filled up my hands with some water and drank it and hissed in pain as it burned my throat but I kept drinking and it died down a bit. After I dried my hands and mouth I started walking back into the when out of no-where I was pinned against the wall right beside the doorway to the bathroom with my arms above my head and I just cleared my throat before speaking

"As I was saying... you expect me to thank-you after you take me away from my family, which are still alive just so you know, I also had a life and I admit, it wasn't easy, in fact it was confusing and complicated but it was still a life, my life no matter how twisted it was... this isn't a life here, this is... this is just human slavery! Kidnap... I don't want to be here and I don't want any of you leeches in my life! If I knew that this was going to happen in my life then I wouldn't have run from them I would've joined them! And love? Really? That's what you call all of this? You call this love...? I'd hate to see what your hate for someone looks like!" I yelled in Edward's face as I rolled my eyes despite my throats protests suddenly I was turned around so the front of my body was pressed firmly against the wall

"You are mine Isabella... I will get that through to your human brain one way or another and you will respect me! You are mine and no-one else's I'm going to mark you so that you and everyone else knows who you belong to!" Edward hissed at me and I shivered as I felt his breath on my neck then it was gone and I was about to try turn around when...

WHACK!

I screamed out in pain as I felt the leather from the whip whack against my back with so much force it nearly tore through my skin and I heard Edward chuckle darkly then

WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!

I screamed out as loud as I could and I felt the tears fall out of my eyes like a waterfall. The whip cracked painfully on my back in four places only and repeatedly and on the 24th whack against my back I could feel and smell the blood running down my back and I looked behind me at Edward who was smirking evilly at my back. I collapsed to the ground as soon as he let go of my wrists and as I tried to get back up the smell of the blood got too overwhelming and I rolled over as I tried to get up but my eyes rolled into the back of my head and I fell back down but unfortunately landed on my back which was still bleeding but the blood flow was slowing down and I felt my body shake as all I saw was black as my eyes were still rolled into the back of my head and I fell into the darkness again.