DISCLAIMER: Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight. I can only dream.
SUMMARY: Takes place ten years after New Moon. Edward left Bella and never returned. She started dating Mike Newton and married him just after graduation. That's when he started changing from the nice Mike we met in the books to a controlling, possessive ass.
A/N: I know, I know. Another story with so many unfinished. Sorry. Just couldn't help it.
"You stupid lazy bitch! I told you to have dinner ready when I got home! I told you I'd be home by six!"
"Mike, I'm sorry!"
"Yeah. You're sorry alright! A sorry excuse for a wife!" The young woman's head snapped to the side as a hand struck her face. Her hand left the counter where she'd been cutting meat for dinner. The knife came around, slicing into Mike's arm. "You bitch!"
His fist slammed into her stomach doubling her over. His fists rained down on her driving her to the floor where his feet took over, planting themselves anywhere they could.
Finally seeming satisfied with the damage done to her, Mike leaned over his wife's still form. "Maybe next time you'll do as you're told."
He stormed out of the house slamming the front door as he went.
When she was certain that he wasn't returning any time soon, she sat up and moved so that her back was against the cabinet under the sink. Tears flowed freely down her face with the pain coursing through her body. "I wish Sam had never found me that night. I wish I had died out there."
Picking up the knife from where it had fallen, she pressed the tip against the wound that started her down this path ten years ago. Dragging it along the scar that was still visible, she sighed. "Maybe now I can find some peace."
The smell of the blood made her head spin. She slipped back to a prone position on the floor as she heard the front door open and close again.
She closed her eyes as the hair fell across her face only to feel it brushed away by a cool hand. Her eyes opened and focused on a worried pair of honey-colored eyes. The soft Southern drawl that spoke told her exactly which member of her former family had found her. "Bella."