The Lies We Live With

by A Deeper Breath of Twilight

When she needs his faith the most, he fails her. Second chances can be beautiful things, but will it all be destroyed by the painful secret she keeps? Drabble.

1. Chapter 1

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Feb 21 2002

Bella bolted to the bathroom, her nerves and guilt so overbearing that she purged them in the only ways she could.

Once she had emptied her stomach, she returned to bed, curled into a ball, and cried late into the night.

Watching her husband lie sleeping soundly beside her, she let the pain that consumed her slowly surface, not completely, never completely, just enough to ease her guilt and relieve her ever aching chest.

She knew she deserved every ounce of the pain that radiated throughout her barren body.

In fact, she deserved so much more.

After what she had done, what she still hid, she deserved so very much more.

And now, with her diagnosis, she knew she had no choice. She had to tell the man she desperately loved that she had literally gave away their only chance to ever have children.

A/N

Hey, I'm here. Trying. FF and life have been rough. I'm going to try the best I can to make this work. I miss you all so effing much and hope some of my lovely readers find me again.

Can't wait to hear from you.