Ch. 14 Amends

Several hours had passed and Bella still remained at her spot in the woods.

"Bella," Edward said hesitantly.

Bella looked up to see Edward standing at a distance. She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. Bella wanted to be mad at Edward, mad at her whole family but seeing him, a glint of sunlight shinning through the trees, his face glistening, and it was hard not stay mad at him forever.

She stood up and began walking toward him. Her foot snagged on a few twigs and she stumbled forward. Edward caught her before she fell.

"Thanks," she said.

Edward nodded, still holding her in his arms. Edward could not meet her gaze. "Bella you have no idea how sorry I am for keeping this from you."

Bella looked at him. "Why did you?"

"It's silly."

"Not to me, I want to know."

Edward looked up at her. "Truthfully, I was afraid you would leave. That if you met your real father that you wouldn't need Carlisle or Esme or me."

Bella shook her head. "Edward I would never."

"I still can't read your mind. Can you blame me for thinking the worst?"

Bella took hold of his shirt forcing him to look at her. "Listen to me Edward. Nothing could ever take me away from you. Nothing. You're the only life I've ever known, you and the rest of your family. You took me in when no one else wanted me. I may only be human but you still want me. Do you know how lucky that makes me? I could never leave you." She looked down. "But if you don't want me in your life anymore you're going to have to do something a lot different to get rid of me."

"I won't. Just the thought of losing you is too much." He took her chin in his hands. "You'll always be my Bella, always."

Bella smiled. "That's all that I want."

Edward leaned in and kissed Bella tenderly. She on the other hand was more forceful, needing him now more than ever. Edward was the first to pull away.

"I'm not going to break you Bella."

She sighed. "Then can you do something for me?"

"Anything."

"Can you tell me about him, Charlie I mean? And what he has to do with that vampire/werwolf we met."

Edward complied with Bella's request. He told her all about him. How Charlie had actually been born a twin but their parents had assumed he was dead when the umbilical cord was wrapped around his tiny body. A vampire by the name of Trent Thomas had been working in the morgue that day and realized Spenser, whom Spence was named after, had still been breathing.

The Cullen's had come across Trent a while back and he was actually the one who had inspired Esme to adopt a human child since Trent had raised Spenser as his own until he was of age to be turned. If a vampire who did rely on human blood could stand to raise a human then surely it would be possible for vampires who had a vegetarian diet to do so.

To them Trent had been just a passing vampire, not one they kept in touch with. Edward hadn't known that Trent's vampire son had mated and had a human child of his own until Alice had foreseen the new person arriving to Forks.

As they made it back to the house Bella apologized for her behavior even though she didn't have to. She and then Edward took the Volvo and drove into town.