Repercussions

I didn't expect that confessing my sins would affect anyone but me. I thought my daughter would hate me, but I had single handedly taken her best friend away. It was the first time I'd stepped foot back into my home with Bella and the first thing I heard was my daughter harsh words as she spoke on the phone. I listened as Renesmee blasted Leah on the phone. I was surprised that my daughter had such a profound grasp on profanity. I came into the house and I saw my wife sitting contently beside my daughter stroking her hair as she spewed this venom in Leah's direction. I quickly jerked the phone away from my daughter and the look I gave was full of shock and horror.

"And you're so much worse daddy! How could you do that to mom?" She cried and covered her face.

"You're right Ness, what I did was wrong. I wish I could give you both a logical explanation that would make you not hate me," I confessed and my daughter's frown grew deeper. "You're right to be mad at me but don't blame Leah." I muttered and I heard my wife's jaw clench and her teeth grind together. "Leah's a good person and I know she cares about you very much. Don't blame her for my mistake. I made her do it."

"Yeah right! I never want to see her again and I don't believe anything you say anymore!" Ness ran out of the room full of tears slamming the door to her room expressing her upset.

"What are you doing here Edward? I told you I didn't want you in my house or around our daughter," Bella said dryly. I placed the divorce papers on the coffee table.

"I signed them," I muttered. I was hoping that coming here and looking in my wife's face would make me feel remorseful and hurt by this change in my life. I did feel horrible about my daughter's upset but I wanted to be free. I didn't want to feel like a monster and be unfaithful to my wife. The only way not to suffer those feeling is to not be married.

"You're not even going to fight for me?" Bella asked and the heart break in her eyes made it hard to look at her. "Was she that much better than me?"

"Leah doesn't have anything to do with the reason I signed the papers. I want to do what's best for you. I know that you hate me now but hopefully as time goes by you and everyone else will stop hating me and we can be social again. Bella scoffed and rolled her eyes. "I said with time," I muttered and huffed.

"Tell Ness I said goodbye and I love her. I know she won't care but …" I pulled myself from the couch and went to exit what used to my home. I knew it no longer belonged to me. I'd never been in a building and felt so cold and unwanted.

My family wanted nothing to do with me. Only a few were willing to help me try to pick up the pieces of the mess I was now in. Rose, Esme, and Carlisle stood by my side and helped me find a place to stay. Carlisle felt I needed some time so sort out my thoughts. Esme thought I was mentally ill. Rose didn't believe I belonged with Bella in the first place. At Esme's urging Carlisle acted as my therapist and I was brutally honest with him about my obsession with Leah. Through working with him and talking things out that's how I knew it was best to end my relationship with Bella. I needed to start over or come as to it as my life would allow.

I was allotted enough money to move out into a small house of my own. I really liked the space and just like our main house it was set back away from town. I liked the fact that I was starting to feel like my old self again. It seemed the monster had died just as all the drama in my life began.

I sat in my window seat with a couple of my favorite books. I enjoyed listening to the sound of the rain as I read. It was a soothing sound that I loved being close to. However something in the far distance caught my eye as went to turn the page. I saw Leah in wolf from sitting outside. She was probably a couple of miles away. She was sitting with her back away from my home and her grey fur was drenched from the rain. To my knowledge she was unaware of my new residence. I watched her as she seemed frozen by the sight of something. It took me a moment to focus in on her thoughts.

I have nothing. My family has disowned me. The kid hates me. I've brought dishonor to my people all because I laid with him. I want to leave but something … God knows what is keeping me here.

I watched as her last conversation with her mother went through her head. Sue had kicked her out of her house. She didn't want to but she thought it best if Leah disappear. Sam's pack had started to pick fights with her and they had begun to inflict some serious injuries. They wanted it to be known by all that she was defiled, deformed, and not welcome on the reservation anymore.

I have nothing. I am nothing. What do I have to live for?

Leah was so deep in her own thoughts that she didn't focus on two of the smaller wolves approaching her with malicious intent. Then I listened again to her thoughts she knew they were coming. She laid down and tucked her head and her tail. She was committing suicide she saw it as a means to an end to all of her pain and suffering. She wanted to die but didn't want the dishonor of killing herself. I couldn't just sit and watch this. Leah was mine whether I liked it or not and it would pain me to see any harm to come to her. I quickly abandoned my home and raced into the forest and approached the scene just as the two wolves were ready to attach. The one jumped Leah and easily sunk his teeth into the flesh of her shoulder. I quickly the vile beast that harmed my temptress and dislocated both his hind legs.

"Send this message to the rest of your pack. The next one of you that try to harm her will end up dead!" I declared. I turned to the other and he cowardly moved back yet had the audacity to snarl at me. He ran back to wherever he came from. After he ran off Leah phased back not because she wanted to, but she had so much blood that she'd lost consciousness. I took my shirt off and covered her before lifting her in my arms. I'd never felt so much guilt in my life. I was determined to right all the wrongs I'd created for my temptress. She would have her life back even if I lost mine in the process.

Author's Note: This is a sad little chapter. I hope you liked it just the same. Do you think Edward is a changed man or with the monster reemerge?