Broken

Chapter 20

JamesPOV

We had some of our men stage a break-in to lead Charlie on a chase and get him alone, for me to take care of personally.

"I can't wait to put a bullet through Charlie's eyes! He's been a pain in my ass since Bella and I were dating. 'Daddy this and daddy that…' UGH! She drove me nuts. And I know he didn't completely trust or like me, but damn, he was always rude when her back was turned." I went off on my dad.

"Son, you were just as rude to him. If he hadn't seen how in love Bella was with you, he would've ended things. You know this!" My dad snapped.

"I know. He still asks all holier than thou. Drives me nuts!" I shook my head.

We drove in silence the rest of the way to the spot we were to take Charlie down in.

After several minutes of nothing we see our people speed by and stop.

Charlie's car pulls up and he's in the car, he's on the radio and looking around, obviously looking for something.

My men got out of the car and ran. Charlie and his partner give chase. We followed close behind, so not expecting what we found at the end of the road.

CPOV

We had men set up at two of the places we thought they'd lead us to. Both were dead end roads.

One was cliffs and the other forest.

They chose the cliffs, thankfully. I hated running through the damn forest, especially at night.

I heard people behind us and figured it was James or more of his minions. We were prepared though.

I had every person on the force on call until James was caught. I'd also enlisted the help of the Quileute tribe, that's who was waiting by the cliffs. Ten huge, intimidating men, all with various types of guns, bows and various other weapons.

They halted in their tracks when the huge spot lights were turned on.

I also heard laughing and a gun clicking behind me.

"James, don't be stupid enough to try it. They outnumber you and you'll be dead. Bella has already been found and is on her way to the hospital right now." I turned to look into his stone cold eyes.

"You lie! No one knows how to get to where she is." I growled.

"If I were you, I'd learn how to check for tales. That's how we found you." I shrugged.

"Fuck you Charlie! You have always tried to come between Bella and I. But you know what? She kept coming back because she loves me!" he shouted.

"No James, she USE to love you, she no longer does. How could she when all you did was degrade her and beat her? You will pay for this, mark my words!" I sneered.

James' dad stood there quietly, trying to be invisible I assume.

"James, I advise you to put the gun down now. You won't be walking away from this. I promise you." I glared at him.

"Charlie, you're not winning this one." He held his gun and aimed for me.

The next minute there's a searing pain in my arm and I see James and his dad drop like flies.

The other men had gotten smart and dropped their weapons long ago.

My deputy Steve helped me to the car and barked out orders for the others to handcuff the other two and there would be an ambulance and squad car coming along shortly.

My friend harry from the tribe hopped in the car with us to help with my arm on the way to the ER.

EPOV

It was a slow night in the ER.

I was about to pick up the phone when there was a call coming through the radio.

We have a female, in her 20's. She's been badly beaten and possibly raped.

Vitals are weak, appears to have been given some type of drug.

She's unconscious and unresponsive.

My heart jumped in my throat and I felt sick.

I called my mom to check on Bella.

"Mom hey, how's Bella?" I asked as calmly as possible.

"Oh honey, I'm not sure. She was sleeping when I left. I'm almost home, I had to run out to the store." She sounded worried.

"OK, got to go. Love you." I hung up and tried Charlie's number, voicemail.

Growling I tried Bella's and Jake answered.

"Oh thank God! She's with you!" I breathed a sigh of relief.

"No Edward, it's not good. Be ready once we arrive. I hope your dad is there too. He needs to deal with her, NOT you!" Jake snapped.

"What do you men not good?" I whispered-yelled.

"Just be ready. We're five minutes out." He disconnected the call.

I was getting ready to call back when my dad called for me.

"Yeah dad?" I sighed and ran my hands through my hair.

"We've got two call coming in." he patted my shoulder.

"Two?" I questioned.

"Yes, one is a young girl and the other is Charlie." He sighed.

"Dad, the young girl is Bella." I took a deep breath.

"OK. I guess we'll find out the rest later. For now, you scrub up for Charlie, it's just a gunshot to the arm, and I'll take care of Bella." He instructed in his 'doctor' voice.

Twenty minutes later I was done with Charlie, bullet out, stitches and in a sling.

We took the elevator to surgery and watched as my dad diligently worked on Bella.

Charlie excused himself to go get the entire story from Jake about hat went down.

He came back an hour later to find me sitting with Bella in the recovery room.

"I got it all from Jake and apparently she wanted to help take James down. I'm just grateful there's no serious injuries. Thanks for the patch up job." He patted me on the back and we sat there with Bella until she was moved to a private room. Charlie excused himself after a few hours, saying there was paperwork that needed to be done. He'd filled me in on everything that happened and wasn't exactly sure of James and his dads demise, but he'd fill me in as soon as possible.

I sat there holding Bella's hand as she slept, praying that she came out of this OK and we could finally get our lives started.

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