Chapter 23

Edward enters the office, a nearby tray fells off. Bella was intrigued in her sleep. He lay on the couch recalling it was night. Edward insisted on Tanya to go out with her for birthday celebration, she wanted to stay back and asked him to do some romance with her. Edward breaks the glass with his hand, hurting it. Bella hears the cracking glass and goes in a torch light to see who there was. Edward finds way to washroom. Bella watches someone going into washroom and decides to go behind the man and see who it is. In the washroom, Edward wash his bleeding hand. She locks the men's washroom from outside. Edward was drunk and wonders why the door won't open, he pushes the door to break it. Bella calls the police but there was no network. Soon the door was opened, Edward fells over Bella on floor. Both shout as "YOU?" and straighten up. Edward walks to the hall while Bella questions if he is crazy to wander around the office at this time. Edward argues with Bella that this is his office as well and makes fun of the knife she held for her protection. He then sits on the chair with his face covered and fell asleep. Bella looks around.
It was past midnight. Rose and Ali ware trying hard to read a magazine in the restaurant table. Emmet and Jasper finally takes the magazine and asks about the truth, they can't even run. He questions why she lied that day? Alice poses not to recall, Jasper says, "You 2 gave us the wrong address." Rosalie says, "We were a tourist too and I gave you the address that was on phone map." Alice asks about Jasper's name, he says if she is Anastasia, then he is Coffee-John, and Rosalie asks Emmet's name: Coffee-Evan. He then straightens the magazine Rose was posing to read.
It was dark, Edward sings 'hum tum aik kamray mein bandd hon' (Song). Bella asks him for a little Aman (peace) for tonight at least. Edward recalls Aman was his second best friend in school, he was furious as Tanya was the first best friend. He begins to drink again. Bella stops him as he is already drunk. Edward forbids her become a wife to him. Bella replies, "I won't marry you even if you are the last man in the world, who would want to be your wife." Edward breaks the glass on floor and comes to clutch Bella. He says his wife betrayed him so it was his mistake, likewise it's her mistake that her husband betrayed her. She must have irritated him; and he decided to live with another woman no matter she was someone else's wife. Bella slaps Edward and walks out of the office. She runs across the road as a group of young men spot and runs towards her. Bella had hidden herself behind a car, but the gang break the glass of the car. They sense someone was there behind the car and moves with bats held in hands. Bella wasn't there when they reached the front. Edward had stuffed her face tightly with his hand and promises not to let her hurt. Bella gets a flashback when Jake held her in his arms when she was about to fell off from shelf. He promised to never let her fall. Edward's grip loses on her mouth. Meanwhile the gang had left.
As they come into the office, Edward asks Bella to relax; they must stay here until the situation is calm. Bella apologizes Edward as she is really afraid of dark, he must not leave her alone in the room. Edward smiles weakly while she goes to look for candles. Edward helps her burn a candle in the room, then notices Bella's stare over him. He asks, "What happened." Bella says, "I never met someone like you." Edward smiles she won't even meet. He suggests her to sleep on the couch, while he would rest on the carpet and lady down. Bella doesn't lay down, and says Edward is beyond her understanding. He does something right to her whenever she expects the worse from him. Edward asks her to let him sleep for a few moments. She also lay down. Both turn their sides but couldn't sleep. Bella asks, "Why are you restless?" Edward tells her to stop moving. She turns her side around saying she has sleepless nights these days. Aditya replies, "Same here."
It was morning, Bella wakes up and finds Edward disturbed by the rays of sun striking his face. She forwards her dupatta to make a shadow over his face then removes it. She then bends to remove a broken piece of glass from under his hand that might hurt him. Edward holds her hand singing 'Abhi na jao chor k'. He held it close to his chest and wakes up as Bella tries to withdraw it.