Chapter 4

Bella's POV

I looked behind me as I heard a truck pull up the driveway. Jackson stopped beside my car and got out. He sighed and walked over.

"Everything okay?" I asked as he stood between my legs. He looked out at the house.

"She wants us to attend couples therapy to work on our marriage. She doesn't want to go through with the divorce." He said.

"And what do you have to say about that?" I asked. He turned around and put his hands on my thighs.

"I told her no. I don't want the therapy, I don't want to talk anymore about it. I want to be happy, I want to be with the girl who knows her limits with the Mikaelsons. I want this house, I want the family, the familly dinners, the holidays, the whole nine yards. She can't give it to me because she's to worried about them." He said. I bit my lip and looked down at his hands.

"You want all that with me, huh?" I asked.

"Yeah I do." He said nodding.

"Then you do what you need to, to get her to sign, Jackson. All this will be here when everything is over with and done. I'll be here as well." I said.

"I hope so. Because all that I just said, I want with you." He said touching my cheek. I leaned into his touch and closed my eyes.

"I want the whole nine with you too." I told him. I opened them back up and he smiled.

"Good. Now I want to do a project for our bedroom. I want it to be a surprise so no peaking around inside my head." He said smirking.

"Then how can I steal your ideas for the house?" I teased him. He laughed an grabbed my head and kissed me.

"I'll voice them or write them down for you baby." He said pulling back. I laughed and he turned around to the house. I put my chin on his shoulder and watched the workers on the house. Days passed after that. Hayley continued to try to get Jackson to change his mind. I was walking around town headed to the paint store when Hayley stepped in my way.

"What?" I asked her.

"Get Jackson to change his mind." She said crossing her arms.

"No." I told her. I walked around her and she followed.

"He's my husband, Bella! I want to work things out with him!" She snapped at me. I turned to her.

"Elijah was my boyfriend, but you still went after him. He chose you and you chose him. You married Jackson, still in love with Elijah might I add, and still screwed him! Now you want Jackson for what? So when Elijah decides he wants to move on to someone else you have him to fall back on! No! You don't get to ruin two relationships and then decide which guy you want to cuddle up too! Good day, Hayley." I snapped at her. I turned to walk away but she grabbed my arm. I growled and pinned her to the wall in the nearest alley.

"You really want to piss me off more? Because I don't think your precious Elijah would want you to die." I growled at her. She gasped and struggled. I tossed her down and walked away for good. I decided to go to Camille's bar instead. Jackson and I could come into town later and pick paint together. I sat down at the bar and put my head on the bar.

"Rough day?" Camille asked.

"Rough year. Why on Earth did we ever get involved with vampires and wolves?" I said looking up at her.

"Because we're danger magnets. And we're attractive so the hot vampires and wolves fall for us, ask us out, and their enemies decide to use us as bait when they know that they get attached." She said laughing.

"Ugh." I grunted. She poured me a glass of bourbon.

"On the house." She told me. I thanked her and she walked off. I got a tingling up my back. That only happened when Elijah was around.

"What can I do for you Elijah?" I asked him.

"Hayley said you attacked her." He said sitting beside me.

"She grabbed my arm, I pinned her against the wall, told her you wouldn't want her to die. Then I threw her down. No attacking." I said.

"She said attacked." He said.

"Well like always you side with her. What makes this any different." I scoffed. I finished my drink and stood up.

"Why can't you let her be happy?" He asked.

"Excuse me? She got you the first time we broke up, after she lied to all of us might I add, then she gets you again while we were together and still she gets to Jackson afterwards! Now she wants you and Jackson both. NO! Jackson and I are happy! We're rebuilding a home together! He wants to be happy! But whats happening between them is their business, not ours! She wants you, Elijah but she also wants him. He's tired of being second and I don't blame him." I said grabbing my purse. I walked out with him behind me.

"You never fought." He said as we walked. I whirled around to face him.

"I never fought! Bull, Elijah! I fought! I argued with you day and night about her and all you said she needs us, I gave her my word! I argued with your brother about it! I'm tired of the arguing, the lying. I want to be happy! I want to be loved and chosen! Now that I have it you and your girlfriend want to rip that away! Go to Hell, the both of you!" I snapped. I stalked off to my car. I got in and drove to the house. Thankfully, the workers weren't working today. I walked inside and tried to think of bright and open colors. But I couldn't. I was angry. I screamed and flung both my hands out. Glass shattered out both the windows and the backdoors. I fell to my knees as a sob left my body.