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A/N: Sorry for the wait. My kids have been sick and I have been back and forth to the doctors office and the ER. So without further wait, Chapter 25.

BPOV

I was really looking forward to going back to work this morning. I really hated just sitting around and not doing anything, but I understood the doctors recommendation and Edward's request. They just wanted me to rest up and take it easy.

I woke up before Edward this morning and decided to let him sleep in. He had been taking care of me all weekend and he deserved to sleep in for a while. I took my shower and got dressed and he was still sleeping. I looked at the sleeping man on my bed and smiled. His copper colored hair was even more disarrayed than usual. There was even a small smile on his face and I wondered to myself if he was dreaming of me. After last night's breakdown, I wasn't sure if he would even want to be with me. I promised him to tell him exactly what happened to me but I just couldn't do it last night. When I pulled that box down from the shelf in my closet, all those fears just came rushing back to me at full force. But he just held me all night and promised he would be there for me when I was ready. I did not deserve this man. But I vow that I will do my best to become someone he does deserve, for as long as he will have me.

I gently kiss him no the forehead and he still doesn't stir. I smile to myself and decide to leave him a note. I place the note on the pillow next to him and pick up my things to head to the office.

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Walking into the office, I smile at Angela and tell her that I will be in my office. She mentions that Emmett wanted me to approve some more plans for the shelter and I told her to send him up when he arrived.

I placed my coffee and briefcase on the desk and sat down in the chair. I had come so far in a year and I was truly proud of myself. When this shelter opened up I would be able to help so many women and children. I would make sure that the same thing that happened to Tanya and almost happened to me, never happened to another woman in this city. I stood up and walked to the window. I peered out at the beautiful skyline and heard my door open. It must have been Emmett coming in to get those designs approved.

I turn around to face the door, smiling. My smile was immediately wiped from my face when I saw who was standing in my office. I thought that this was someone I would never have to see again. I couldn't fathom how on Earth he had found me again.

"Mike, what are you doing here?" I asked him, my voice shaking with fear.

"Bella, Bella, Bella," he said, shutting the door and clicking it locked, "Did you think I wouldn't find you? Did you think that you could hide from me?" He was stalking towards me with an angry look in his eyes. I slowly back up until I was up against the window. He was standing right in front of me now.

"How did you find me Mike," I asked him. I had to keep him talking until someone could figure out what was going on. I needed him to keep talking.

"It was really too easy Bella. I mean, for God's sake, you didn't even bother changing your name. I have been working under your nose the entire time. I am a construction worker on the shelter site next door. I have seen you every day for the past few months and you didn't even know it." He began to laugh as he thought about his situation.

I discreetly picked up a vase that was sitting on the window pane and prepared myself to hit Mike over the head with it. I raised it up and prepared to swing with all my might when I was suddenly hit across the face with brute force. I stumbled and fell to the floor.

"I don't think so Bitch!" Mike yelled at me," we are going to finish what you denied me back in Forks. You will not get out of it this time." He got down and straddled me on the floor and ripped my blouse open. He held my arms above my head as I screamed and thrashed about on the floor. I couldn't stop this. I am too weak. I let myself go into the dark corner of my mind to protect my sanity. I closed my eyes and listened what sounded like the beating of drums in the distance.

EPOV

I took off towards the office building next door with Emmett screaming behind me wondering what was going on. I didn't have time to explain it to him now but knew I would need to later. I slammed through the buildings front door and ran past Angela. She yelled to me that Bella was in a meeting with someone in her office and I stopped. I ran over to Angela's desk and immediately asked her "Who is she meeting with."

"It is someone Emmett sent over with some plans for the shelter," she said. I threw out a string of profanities again and took off up the steps heading toward Bella's office. I didn't have time to wait for the elevators.

When I walked onto her floor I was immediately hit with a sound that nearly broke my heart into a million pieces. It was Bella screaming and crying for someone to help. I ran down the hall to her office prepared to rip open the door, but the son-of-a-bitch had locked it. I rammed the door over and over with my shoulder but it failed to open. I screamed at the bastard through the door telling him everything I would do to him when I finally got inside that room. I continued to ram the door over and over but failing miserably to budge it. I have never in my life regretted spending my days practicing piano rather than spending time with Emmett working out than I do right now.

"Move aside Edward," someone told me while placing their hand on my shoulder. I looked up and could have cried at the site I saw. It was Emmett. I could have hugged my big brother right then but knew we didn't have time.

"Emmett we have got to get in there. He's got her trapped. She was screaming earlier but now she is quiet. I don't know what he has done to her," I practically screamed at him. He pushed me aside and prepared himself to ram against the door as I had done earlier. I silently prayed that the days of working out had been successful. He rammed it once and then twice and the door didn't budge. He stepped back and prepared to ram it again. Emmett let out what could only be described as a growled and rammed the door again with all his might. The door swung open with the force my brother had put into it and we both ran in. We spotted them immediately and stepped towards them. I was prepared to handle Mike but Emmett beat me to him. He drug him off Bella and threw him to the ground. I turned toward them and pushed my sleeves up prepared to do all the things I had told him I would do when I got inside this room. But I was stopped.

"Edward, I have got this mother fucker. You just help Bella. Look at her Edward. Look at her. She needs your help," Emmett said while holding Mike down on the floor. I looked over at my Angel and saw just how much she needed me. She was sitting up now, against the wall with her blouse wide open where Mike had obviously ripped it open. She was holding her knees to her chest and rocking back and forth. I knelt down in front of her and she looked at me. But she wasn't really looking at me. It looked as if she were looking through me.

"Oh Baby. I am so sorry I didn't get here sooner. I am so sorry he got to you first," I told her while pulling her into my arms. I help my beautiful Bella and prayed that she would get through this. That we would get through this.