The first thing Bella did after she left the pawn shop was find a gas station. She put fifteen dollars worth in the tank, hoping that it would get her through the week at least. Once she was back on the road, she thought over the strange proposition and the even stranger man it had come from. Emmett was still a question mark. Bella didn’t think he was a ‘good guy’ or a ‘bad guy;’ he seemed to walk the line in between. However, even though she had been prepared to alter her morals slightly, she found it difficult once she was actually faced with it.

Alice. I’m doing this for Alice, she kept repeating.

She could do anything if it meant keeping what was left of their family together. Besides, she couldn’t really see anything illegal in what Emmett was proposing, but she was a cop’s daughter so she knew that when something seemed to be too good to be true, it usually was. There was no sense worrying about it now; she’d already agreed to meet Emmett’s “associate.” Imagine her shock when she learned it was Carlisle Cullen. She had never actually met the man, but everyone in Forks knew who he was.