New story. Sorry for the short chapter but they will get longer. Just needed to get this idea down.
Emmett POV
How could someone hurt and want to extinguish something of beauty and wonder so much? How could anyone be so evil and ugly in the ways of the devil that they become Lucifer.
Woman beaten and left for dead on the eve of her wedding
The words were so harsh an cruel that they were still not registering in my head.
I knew Rosalie Hale my whole life, growing up in a small town seems to do that to you. She always seemed to big for the town though. Her beauty and flare for life out shined all others and I was so in love by 6th grade that every day I prayed she would just say hi to me.
By our senior year in high school we had became friends but Rosie was smitten with Royce.. that greasy slimy bastard who did not care less if Rosalie found out if he was being promiscuous or lost touch after high school but both of us still lived in the small town. I still had to read about the richest family in Jefferson county becoming one with the Hales. Let me tell you though I hated it. I despised the thought of Royce and Rosalie marrying, simply because I knew it was for show.
He had left her though.. Beat her, raped her and left her to die in her own blood. Scarred the beauty who was once dying to explore every bit of life but at least he did not extinguish it. Rosalie survived the attack astonishingly and wasn t speaking. The only details police knew was what Royce had confessed and he was keeping mum in the jail. The best place for him or he would die at my own hands.
The paper was two weeks old but I kept reading it, wishing somehow the headline would change. That the angel would never have had the nightmare cross her.
Rosalie had returned to work at the local coffee shop and I had plans to go there after my own day at work. As the time approached I paced outside in the cool fall night air, not sure what to say when I entered. The worries was unneeded as I stepped in, the familiar soft smile greeting me from behind the counter.
"I be dammed if it isn t Emmett McCarty." I watched as she moved behind the counter, her movements careful and planned, never coming to close. "Only took me two years to finally come in here." My voice was shaky, man I sounded like a pansy. "Well don t let it take you another two to keep coming back."
It was then in the back of my mind that I knew.. I was going to fight for Rosalie Hale. Even if it meant help conquering her demons she would have.