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Chapter-21: Shattered
The Twilight Twenty-Five
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Prompt: #21, Shattered
Main Character: Edward Cullen
Rating: M
Word Count: 499
The sound of shattering glass wakes me up. Rushing toward the living room, I feel my heart stop for a moment.
There—on the floor—sits my girl, sobbing inconsolably.
Cautiously, I walk and kneel before her. I reach out and move her hair from her face, trying to look into her eyes. "Bella? Baby, what is it?"
The moment she feels my presence, she throws herself in my arms. She tucks her face in the crook of my neck and sobs.
Silently, I keep running my hand up and down her back, hoping to calm her down. After a few minutes, she finally stops crying and says in a hoarse voice, "They broke up, Edward. My parents … they … they got divorced …"
Her words don't make sense to me. How can Charlie and Reneé, who looked like a happily married couple last thanksgiving, get divorced?
Feeling confused, I ask, "What do you mean, love?"
"My mom. She …" she stops to take a breath before continuing. "She had an affair, Edward. And when he caught her, she said she didn't love him anymore."
I internally curse that woman for making my girl cry, and then say soothingly, "Baby, these stuffs happen sometimes. That doesn't mean they don't love you."
She starts to shake her head. "I don't fucking care if they love me or not!" Her sudden anger startles me.
"Then why …?"
She finally meets my bewildered eyes with her troubled brown ones. "All my life I've been told how much I am like Reneé. What if I do the same? What if I end up hurting you?"
I almost laugh out loud when she says that. "Honestly, Bella? You think you will hurt me?"
"I meant emotionally," she mutters petulantly.
I hold her chin between my thumb and forefinger and then make her meet my eyes. "I know what you meant, baby, but I also know that you love me … as much as I love you. So the idea of you cheating on me is something I never want to think of. Call me a caveman, but I know that you're mine."
She wraps her arms around my neck and presses her lips to mine, kissing me with a desperation I have never felt in my girl before. "I'll always be yours, Edward … only yours," she says as she kisses me again and again.
When she breaks our kiss, she says in a pleading voice, "Make love to me, baby. I need to feel you … everywhere."
The heartbroken look on her face makes my control snap and pulling her in my arms, I stand up to carry her to our bed. And there, I love her, telling her how much she meant to me and how much I'll always love her.
When we lie in each others' arms, I kiss her forehead softly. "I love you forever."
"Ditto." Her answering smile tells me that she's good … just like we're good.
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