Bella took my hand in hers, an inexplicable look in her eyes, one I just couldn't fathom. Why could I not read her mind?
'Tell him' an angry Renesme looked to her Mother.
I look to Renesme, a distance in her eyes as she looked back at me. The same distance that had struck me since she'd first recognised me as her Father.
'Did you ever notice how I only ever yearned for my Mother and Jacob?'
It was something I'd noticed all too often. Something that I hadn't questioned too much, the bond between me and my daughter had never been as strong as the bond between her and Jacob, but I put that down to their strange relationship. The strange Quilette custom of 'imprinting'. The one that every normal Father would try to protect their daughter from, but the one that I just had to accept.
'No, I hadn't...thought about it too much.' I stifled, looking to Bella suspiciously, with hurt in my eyes now.
She looked away, whilst my daughter, my Renesme looked me straight in the eye with outrage. I wondered what I'd done to her, how I could of hurt her.
'Jacob?' I looked to him now, quiet in the corner, standing up straight, his chest outwards, looking right through me.
'You know how it was Edward, you know that me and Bella...I'm sorry Renesme, I'm so sorry.' she looked to Jacob, a tear rolling down her eye.
His heat radiated from him and the room became almost like a sauna.
'I've imprinted on someone else...I mean...I didn't think it was possible at first. How could this be? But then, there's only one other type of love, so unconditional that it would let me wait so many years for this child to become...a woman. I hadn't been waiting for her to grow up; I'd been protecting her in a Fatherly way. An emotion I couldn't recognise. I'd not known, but my subconscious Edward, my subconscious had known.'
'You and Bella? But you couldn't have, you just couldn't have?'
'When you left me with Bella, that time that...she realised her love for me was as strong as her love for you. When I...forced myself on her...that was when...Renesme was conceived. You see, when Bella's lump appeared from nowhere, it reminded me of...my growth spurt and then Renesme growing up in, what, two years...?'
'Edward, you know this was never intentional, I never realised, never even considered...and she looks so much like...' Bella cried, motioning towards this..young girl who seemed like a stranger to me now.
I stormed out of the house, got into my car and drove until I could drive no more. I'd had my family torn from me and I needed to leave. I needed to go.