And here we go with next chapter, right where we left off... uhh oh, hold on tight and bear with me!

Chapter Eleven

"All right… okay," Rose said and then let out a breath. "Bella remember when we were all at Edward's condo that night and I told you I thought I knew him from somewhere?"

"Yeah." I said still not knowing where she was going with this. "What about it?"

"Well I didn't realize where I knew him from until tonight," she said and then took another deep breath. "His name is not Edward Cullen, its Edward Masen, he's the CEO of the company who's hosting this gala tonight."

"What? No he's not. Edward is in Chicago tonight." I spat. "You're wrong. I think I would know where my boyfriend is, Rose."

"Bella, listen to me," she said as he moved closed to me. "My firm has dealings with Masen Global which is how I got the tickets for tonight, we're did the advertising for the event. I just didn't put it together because I've never met Edward Masen in person I only have talked to his assistant Alice over the phone. Not to mention when you introduced us, you introduced him as Edward Cullen."

"Because that's his name," I said with frustration.

"No Bella, its not," Rose said back. She looked over at Angela who nodded to her encouraging her to continue. "The charity for tonight's gala is Edward's charity, E&E, he named it after his parents who died when he was a little boy."

"Edward and Elizabeth," I said softly as I remembered Edward's tattoo. My stomach felt like it was in a million knots. "What's in your hand?" I asked but Rose hesitated. "Show me god damn it!"

She handed me the magazine. It was a recent issue of Forbes Magazine and I flipped to the article inside that was marked. Once I turned the page and saw Edward's face in the magazine with a full-page spread on his charity, I felt sick to my stomach. Everything was a lie. Everything.

"Is he here tonight?" I choked out trying to fight back my tears.

"I think so, from what I'm told this is the only public appearance he makes all year for the firm."

I turned around and swiftly walked back into the ballroom with Rose and Angela on my heels. As I got further up to the podium there was a petite woman with short pixie like hair on the stage with a microphone.

"Thank you all for coming tonight and supporting the Edward and Elizabeth Memorial Foundation. Thanks to your generosity tonight we have already raised $2.4 million dollars and the night is still young so keeping digging deep in your pockets, let make this a record breaking night. Masen Global and this charity would not be what it is today without the man who has made it all possible. The man who has made all the homes and schools we have built over the past five years a reality for so many people in need. Not only is he my boss, but he's also my cousin, please ladies and gentlemen help me welcome the founder and CEO of Masen Global, Edward Masen."

Everyone in the room stood to their feet and started clapping as Edward made his way to the stage stressed in a tuxedo. There he was, the man who I thought I knew, the man who had stolen my heart, the man who at that very moment I had no idea who he was.

I watched as he kissed Alice on the cheek and took the microphone from her. He paused before he began to speak. My face was hot and my heart was pounding in my chest. I moved closer to the podium.

"Thank you all for coming tonight," he started. I watched him as he spoke. "My parents would have been very proud of this evening and all that this charity has been able to do with all if your help. I would just like to say that I…."

And then his eyes caught my own. Tears started to fall from my eyes as I looked back at him. He was frozen in his pace, the look of pure shock on his face as he looked at me. I started to feel like I couldn't breathe; I had to get out of there. I quickly turned and ran though the crowd as my tears fell.

"Excuse me please," Edward said as he placed the microphone down. He jumped off the stage and ran after me. "Bella, please wait!" He shouted behind me. But I kept running. I didn't know where to go because I didn't have a car here. I quickly ran down the stairs to the main lobby of the hotel and out the front doors. "Bella!" He was still behind me.

I kept running until I couldn't run anymore. I was in stilettos and I was completely out of breath I heard his footsteps getting closer, before I knew it he had caught up to me. I kept my back to him, I was shaking, and then I felt him grab my arm and turn my body around to face him.

"Please Bella," he said breathless.

At first I couldn't look at him, when I finally did, tears were running down my face and my hair was falling out of my up-do.

"Who the hell are you?" I spat as I turned to look at him. He didn't answer. "I asked you a question… Who. Are. You?"

"My name is Edward Masen."

"Oh god," I said as more tears fell from my eyes. "Everything was a lie, everything!"

"Please let me explain," he said as he reached for my hand but I jerked it back.

"No, don't touch me, don't you ever touch me!"

"I'm so sorry Bella, please. I wanted to tell you."

"You wanted to tell me? You have been lying to me since day one, all those times you had to go out of town, your name, who you really are, everything!" I shouted at him. "And you wanted to tell me?"

"Please just give me five minutes to explain, please," he begged.

I wiped my face and looked at him. "You have five minutes."

He took a deep breath and ran his hands roughly through his hair. He let out a breath before he spoke.

"When I went on that website I never imagined I would meet someone. I went on there wanting to be a normal person, not someone with money and not the CEO of my company. I just wanted to be me. I wanted to meet someone who would want me for who I am on the inside, not how much money I had."

He tried to take a step closer to me, but I moved back. My head was spinning and I didn't feel like I would be able to continue standing if he were any closer. He stopped and then spoke again.

"When we met, I felt this instant connection with you, something I haven't felt in a very long time if ever. I just needed to be sure that you were falling for me and didn't care about wealth or status. So when you asked me my last name I used my aunt and uncle's last name."

"So you were testing me?" I shouted interrupting him. "This whole time, you were testing me to see if my feelings for you were really real? What the fuck else would they be? I don't know who Edward Masen is… and now I sure as hell don't know who you are!"

"I'm sorry Bella, I never meant for this go on as long as it did. I wanted to tell you the truth. I wanted you to know who I really was."

"When did you want to tell me, before or after you fucked me?"

"Oh god, Bella, it wasn't like that." He said as he voice cracked, "you have to know that my feelings for you were never a lie."

"How do you expect me to believe that? You made me believe that you were a piano teacher and yet come to find out, your some fucking billionaire? I slept with you, I gave you my heart, and you let me believe… oh god!" Tears fell more rapidly now as I remembered everything. "How… can I believe anything you say to me now?""

"Because I love you damn it." He shouted as he yanked on his hair. "Fuck."

I was frozen in my place. I couldn't speak. My heart felt like it was going to rip out of my chest.

"I didn't expect to fall in love with you Bella, but I did. I love you with all my heart and I am so sorry." He said as he once again tried to touch me. "Please Bella."

"I can't," I said as I pulled back. "I have to go."

"Bella wait, please."

"No, I can't look at you right now," at that time Rose and Angela had caught up to me. "Please I need to get of here." I said to them.

"Emmett went to get the car, Rose said.

And then Emmett pulled up in the car; I quickly climbed inside not looking back at Edward. Once inside and we drove off, tears once again ran down my cheeks as Rose took me into her arms. All I could do was sob.

Poor Bella!

Do you think she'll be able to get over this?

And we still don't know what Edward's true motives were.

He still has a lot to explain, will he get the chance?

Will love conquer all?

Next chapter… soon!