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CHAPTER 36
•~Bella Swan~•
Circled by a thick red mark, the date on the calendar was practically screaming at me, reminding me of the upcoming stepfather/stepdaughter trip to Chicago in just three more days.
A part of me wanted to use the alone time as an opportunity to spill my guts and tell Edward that I wanted him, but another part – the small guilty part that still cared for my mother – told me that what I was planning was wrong.
I knew how devastated Renee was in the years that followed her divorce from Charlie.
She'd been depressed and withdrawn, and had even spent time with a few therapists and divorce counselors. It didn't matter how much of a bitch Renee had been the last few years – she didn't deserve that kind of betrayal, not from the man she had once claimed to be "the one," and especially not from her own daughter – her flesh and blood.
I just couldn't do it.
Though, I had a feeling if Edward approached me, wanting something more, I would have been helpless to his advances, but I couldn't be the one to initiate that kind of contact between us. The guilt would eat me alive.
I just had to hope that whatever strength Edward had managed to conjure up to stay away from me continued to hold true, because if it didn't... if he couldn't resist... then God help us both.
A/N
Sounds like Bella was able to muster up some courage after all... Thoughts?
Until tonight...