Hey guys, this is my new story. Hope you all enjoy it, it's something I'm writing whilst I get a bit more inspiration for Because of You. Be warned this story will be very dark at times.

I met Edward Cullen during my final year of college; I was attending NYU when we ran into each other at a charity event the school hosted. He was the guest honor that night after donating a generous sum of money. He offered to buy me a drink and I accepted, after that we hit right off, I even accepted his offer to take me out the next evening. Soon we couldn't go a day without seeing each other and when he asked me to be his girlfriend I agreed. My father was not happy with our relationship; he thought he was too domineering. Edward was an older worldlier man and it was no secret that he was a ruthless businessman.

My father had worked his whole life towards his hotels, starting off with a little room in Queens. He managed to build his own empire with The Swan Hotel, which was situated right in NYC it was the hotel that gave my father new found wealth and respect among the people of New York. Growing up I had never really had much money, and so my father taught us to appreciate everything we had. My father was a respectable man, who could so easily read people and know from wrong to right. It was why he was so good at his job he never dabbled with the wrong kind of people. I now wish I had listened to my father's advice when he told me Edward Cullen was not a good man.

It was during the third month we were dating that I noticed Edwards behavior, we were out one for dinner evening to celebrate our three month anniversary. His eyes darkened over my dress and demanded I change it, I was shocked to say to least and even laughed at his behavior, my dress was perfectly fine and I had no idea what had come over him. His arms were tight around my waist and he kissed my neck telling me how he did not want other men ogling at my body like dogs. I was quite flattered that he cared so much and so I changed. Before long after that he would have female waiters serve us whenever we were out, still I did not much attention to it and thought he was being over-protective.

I blew up when I found out that he had men tailing me and demanded a valid explanation. I felt we had no trust in our relationship, but he somehow managed to console me by saying it was for my own safety and that he had many business rivals who had threatened to harm those close to him.

It was a few weeks later that I had begun to finally notice that his feelings for me were not healthy.

Edward was a very busy man and we'd be lucky to scrape a couple of hours during the day together, and soon he got persistent that my schedule should be the same as his.

We had planned to have dinner together one evening in his apartment but my sister-in-law Rose was not feeling well, so naturally I offered to go with her to the hospital. It turned out that what we thought was food poisoning was in-fact something much better, she was pregnant with her first child. To say she was ecstatic would be the least Rose was glowing, she had been trying to have a child for a few years and this was the best news she could hear.

In our sudden moment of happiness I forgot about dinner with Edward and my phone was laying under the debris of my bag. That night after we had broken the news to my family, I found a very angry Edward on my doorstep. I was glad that my roommate had gone to spend the week with her family in Colorado, because I'm sure she would have called the authorities. Edward marched into my house, his eyes were hooded, his breathing ragged his body eerily calm. I was for the first time since meeting Edward frightened of him. His hands gripped my arms, daring me to look him in the eye. My heart was beating violently in my chest. He demanded to know where I was, he kept talking rambling about how he waited and waited for me, and he was sick of waiting. He was screaming at me and started accusing me of things, not allowing me to talk or give him a valid explanation.

That was it for me, I told him it was over and I couldn't be with him anymore. He wasn't good for me, he just laughed and told me to stop being ridiculous. I couldn't take being with someone who treated me like property. When I said it was over, his face changed, he grew silent, walked towards me stealthily and said I wasn't speaking clearly, he told me that it would be over when he said so and to not push him into doing things he wouldn't be proud of. I told him to stop threatening me and to get out before I called the police.

I didn't sleep at all that night, the next morning he rang me constantly, he'd text me, send me flowers, turn up on my doorstep in the middle of the night. He would not leave me alone. I had grown tired of his behavior and warned him one last time to leave me alone before I got a restraining order against him, that day I told him I never wanted to see him again. He said he would forgive me for my rash behavior without consequences if I silently went back to him. I laughed in his face. I still remember the last words he said to me before I had left his office.

"Do not mess with me Isabella, you still have time to come back now. Or I'll destroy everything your family has worked so hard for, and you'll end up having to crawl back to me"

I ignored him, thinking he was just trying to scare me into submitting to him.

I was unaware however that he meant every word he said.

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