Charlie pov

Coming inside I shake my head while avoiding looking at the two boxes on the shelf, a few days after I got the girls out of town the Cullen's disappeared and managed to slip the feds watching them.

A week and a half later I get a call from Italy saying my daughters died, I could afford to pay the cost of having them sent back for a funeral I was directed to a woman that helped me figure out what to do.

I've made sure Leah's ashes made it to her parents, Rose and her sisters I've been trying to track down any family members of, I know I wasn't supposed to end up with them or Victoria and friends, I've yet to find anyone but I've left them beside my girls.

I'll keep them together if I can't find anyone, I can't even find Heidi but there was nothing of her found there so she could still be alive somewhere I just hope she's safe, I only met her a few times same as the others that helped my girls, Leah and Rose but she helped the girls and protected them when here.

If she's somewhere being held by the Cullens I have to find a way to help her, I'll take her in if needed after so she can recover.

Last I spoke to Sue and Harry they were quite and hardly spoke I can't shake the feeling this is wrong, my girls couldn't have been killed by that family they were strong and clever.

Frowning I sit with a beer looking at the wall, I can't shake the feeling of missing something that's right in front of me, I know my girls were dangerous I have no clue how they managed to outsmart cops on evidence from the attacks in Phoenix but they did.

I was sure one day I'd hear they were caught and it would come out they killed someone or was caught in the act, I've found more than enough evidence they had to lock them up myself, I broke the law removing the evidence I found after they left.

I just need to find something to point me in the right direction, if I could just figure out what I'm missing I could start my search I need to think like them I taught them about the law with my stories but nothing like this, someone else had to have taught them this part.

Frowning more I tap my finger on the half empty can trying to figure out who could have taught them more, glancing at the boxes I look at the one engraved with Victoria before my eyes move to James.

When placing the girls I felt like they should be surrounded by the ones they clearly trusted, they may claimed Victoria was a friend and like a big sister but I could see the way she looked at them, she viewed them as her children, even James the first time I met him he acted like a father who didn't like another man stepping on his role.

I should have fought Renee for them but I thought she would still be a good mother, I wasn't exactly someone who could teach girls female things, I'm to closed off to have been what they needed and now my girls are gone.

I can't shake the feeling I should have recognized something about their friends, I keep thinking I'm missing something about Leah and the others on the Rez as well.

Sighing I sit my empty can down and walk to the girls room, standing in the door I tap my finger on my crossed arms, I need to think like them.

Walking further in I pull a chair from one of the desks sitting down "where would I had something if I was them" I mutter.

Getting up I move to the beds pulling them apart and checking the seams, finding it fine I look at the frame before stepping over it to get to the next bed.

Feeling the floor shift I move back slightly without lifting my foot and look down seeing a board lifted slightly.

Kneeling down I press it with my hand to lift it again pulling it out, seeing a metal box I checked the other boards finding another loose and get it out.

It's similar to the one I found the first time I looked and found two knives with blood on them, I may not have been a huge part of their lives but I know my daughters enough to not delude myself into believing it was their own blood or animal blood.

Getting to the lock I frown but get up heading to the garage to find something to open this.

A while later

Bringing it inside I sit on the couch looking at the pages from a book, picking it up I frown more reading them.

Finding it's the old stories Billy use to tell me about the Cold ones and the spirit warriors I raise my brows thinking about the girls friends, they were cold to the touch, avoid sunlight, and never ate while Leah's always seemed like she was running a high fever.

This can't be, frowning more I look at the ashes on my shelf before looking at the papers again, clenching my fist I grab my keys heading to my car, Harry and Sue have said they needed to tell me something multiple times only for Billy to forbid it as Tribe secrets.

If this is the big secret, if my girls are possibly alive even as these Cold ones I had a right to know, but he forced them to stay quiet leaving me to believe they died and forced Harry and Sue to pretend they're daughter died.