Earn Me.
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Chapter One
She could feel his anger from the moment he brought his car to a screeching stop in her driveway. Mentally, she had prepared herself for the confrontation that she knew was coming, but, physically, she was helpless to stop the reactions her body she had towards the man she called her husband for seven years.
Taking a deep breath, she sat up in her chair, straightening her back as best she could, and drawing as much strength as she could before he came at her. He had never laid his hands on her in anger, but, knowing how much he had wanted this, she was not sure what his reaction would be.
"Tell me it's a lie, Isabella," he spat, his jade eyes darkening in the anger that coursed through him.
"Tell you what is a lie?" she said softly, her voice tinged with an indifference that he was not accustomed to…at least not when it came to his Isabella.
"Do not play these games with me, Isabella. Tell me that you are not pregnant!" he growled, taking a step up the stairs towards her.
"How is that any of your business if I am pregnant or not, Edward?" Bella questioned.
"You are my wife!" Edward roared.
A year ago, hearing and seeing how angry Edward was at her, would have had her falling to her knees to fix whatever had him so upset but, today, after all he had put her through, it had a very different effect.
"I was your wife!" Bella spat back, slowly standing up; an action that brought into focus her barely there baby bump. "It is none of your business if I am or am not pregnant."
Staggering back, his eyes fixated on her baby bump, his words laced with the venom only anger could give. "So they were telling me the truth. I didn't want to believe that you were pregnant, but you are, and you weren't going to tell me."
"Why should I tell you anything that is going on with me?" Bella spat back heatedly, her hands coming to rest on her baby bump.
"Because I have a right to know that you are pregnant with my child!" Edward shouted, his fists clinched. "How the hell are you going to raise a child on your own? My child!"
"For the love of all that is holy!" Bella grounded out before she let him have the tongue lashing she had wanted to give him for a while. "I was established as a chef well before I met you, Edward. I had a career already. I have a business. I was not the one who needed someone to pick them up or do their laundry or cook their food. I was not the one who needed someone to help them pay for school or needed someone to kick my ass ten ways to Sunday because I was so busy partying with my frat brothers that I almost flunked out of school. You drive a Benz now. Congratulations. You bought the house you wanted. What was the price tag again? Five point six million? You have the beautiful bombshell girlfriend. You know which one I am taking about? The one your mother told you that should have because you are the prestigious attending neurosurgeon at Seattle Grace. These were all the things you were entitled to because you make the big bucks now.
"When I divorced you, Edward, I didn't take a single cent from you because I didn't want it. We both know I could have walked away with half, but from that first day when I saw you with your arms wrapped around that bitch and your mother standing next to you smiling, I was done with you….with all of you.
"I was doing fine on my own before you. I had my pastry business, and I was making good money. I'm still making good money, so I don't need you. I never needed you. I may have wanted you, but I sure as hell didn't need you."
Silence fell between the two of them; both of them breathing heavily, but neither was willing to back down.
How did their relationship come to this? How did they become such bitter people? Where did their love go?
"You have been with Tanya for almost two years now. You were with her while we were still married. After I found out about your affair, and learned that you did not want to part with her, we separated, and I moved out. We have been divorced for five months now. I am only just at the end of my first trimester. My question to you, Dr. Edward Anthony Masen, is who ever gave you the idea that my baby was yours?"
Don't you ever say, I just walked away. I will always want you.
Miley Cyrus.
"Wrecking Ball"
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