Chapter 29:
This can't be happening.
It wasn't true.
There's no way that he'd do that….
But I saw the mark myself! Bella stared at the similar mark on her inner wrist, given by the very same vampire, fingering its edges absent-mindedly, the condensation from the glass she was holding in her other hand falling like beads over the mark Edward had left on her.
How could he have already moved on? And.. and gone ahead and done that…. With… with her! It took him months to simply kiss me… Yet… Yet, he's already intimate with her? The glass of orange juice she was nursing shattered in her hand, its contents flowing everywhere and the glass, encircled with her blood smashed to the floor in pieces.
But it was meant to be ME!
May be what I saw was all wrong…
May be I misunderstood…
He loves me… Edward loves me!
It's me he wants… It's me he promised to turn and stay beside for all of eternity… after everyone I loved had parted, he'll still be with me… he said so himself…
He can't take that back…. No… No, he can't… His words mean a lot to him… He won't go back on his promises…..
May be it's a spell…
Yes! Yes, that's it… May be he's under some sort of a magical spell and he needs to break it to understand what's really happening…
Then he'll come to me…
There's no way he'd leave me alone like this…
He's always come through for me… Even when he'd left, I'd see him whenever my life was at risk…
Oh my goodness! Bella's hand flew to her mouth. That's it! It's all so obvious now! How could I have not seen it before?!
Love is the strongest power there is… Even that witch and her friends said so, didn't they?
And I love Edward and Edward loves me…
Bella looked down at the fallen shards of glass, her eyes gleaming with a maniacal streak.
If this is what I have to do to get Edward back, then so be it…
"Edward… I still love you…" she whispered softly, and cut through the veins popping on her wrist, letting her life force drain out of her… Drop by single drop…. Oh, how much my blood used to sing to him, she smiled to herself, even as she fell off the ledge of the window onto the floor, landing on more glass, pooling the drab brown carpet of her room and bathing it red with her blood.
Alice will either see this and send Edward to save me…. Or my father will get here and take me to the hospital begging Carlisle to help me any way he can. And by God's grace, if I get there late, that can only go one way then….
"Let's see who wins this? The wicked witch or the mere mortal…." with that last thought, Bella's world turned black….