Chapter 10

A/N: I don't own twilight Stephanie Meyer does.

JPOV:

I can feel Rose slip out of bed and head to the bathroom but I'm too tired to move. I try to stay awake and wait for her but I drift off before I know it. When I do wake up she's nowhere to be found. Hmm….that's strange she always kisses me bye before she takes off for work. I walk towards the kitchen and see the note she left me. As I'm reading it I hear a loud knock on the door. I rush to answer it and an angry Bells is standing on my porch.

"Come in Bells. What's got you so pissed this morning?"I ask trying to make my friend smile. All she does is flops on my couch and tosses me this morning's paper. "Read it." Is all she can say. I flip open the paper and see my face staring back at me. I guess this is the article Rose was working on. Maybe that's why she had to rush out this earlier. I start to read the article and so far it's not so bad. "Bells this is pretty ok. What's got you so worked up?" I say. "Keep reading and you'll see why." She says angrily. I continue on and it hits me like a ton of bricks. I read it over a few times just to make sure.

"Even though he is amazingly talented in the kitchen his personal life is a sham. He's good at creating illusions in the kitchen with his sugar art as well in his relationships. Making something seem so real he deceives you with a sincere smile and sweet demeanor all the while he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Preying on innocent women all the while married with a child."

I'm far to pissed to read the rest. How could she think that about me? I thought she believed me when I explained about bells and me. I have to go and straighten things out and get to the bottom of this. "Bells can you stay with Nessa? I need to talk to Rose now." I say. "Sure Jake I'll take her to work with me." She says and goes to get Nessa ready. I get ready faster than I ever had in my life and take off towards to The Buffalo News. I'm fuming the whole way there. I don't want to believe that the woman I held in my arms last night could possibly think of me like that.

I march my way to her office. I remember where it is from the time I brought her lunch. I hurry out of the elevator and Angela stares at me wide eyed. "Jake." Is all she says. I brush past her and head to Rose's office. "Does a husband really need a reason to see his beautiful wife?" A smug sounding voice says. I stop in my tracks and see Rose talking to some smug bastard. He's tall about 6'1 but not nearly as tall as I am. He has olive toned skin and dark black hair. He's the perfect definition of tall dark and handsome. He has the face of a male model. Is this what she really likes in a man some pretty boy. Then I focus on his words. Did he just say wife?? "I'm not your wife so just leave." My Rose says her words laced with venom. She hasn't noticed me yet and I'm too transfixed by what is going on to move.

"Oh but that's not what this paper says." He says and waves something in her face. She angrily snatches it from him and tears it to shreds. How can she be married to this prick? My heart just aches at the thought of this loser anywhere near her. "Once the annulment goes through it will be like it never happened." She seethes obviously hating this man in front of her. "We'll see. As long as the check your daddy cut me doesn't bounce then I'll be more than happy to sign the papers. Just make sure the money is there. C'ya later babe." He says in his smug way and has the nerve to kiss my Rose. I clench my fist almost tearing the paper in my hand to shreds. I take a little satisfaction when she slaps him hard across his idiot face. He gives her a dirty look and walks out the door past me. He looks at me and says "Good luck, she's not really worth the trouble." It takes all my self control not to follow the dick and bash his pretty boy head in.

I turn to see Rose looking at me and I remember exactly why I'm here in the first place. She looks at me with fear and sadness in her eyes. My heart clenches at the sight of her like this but I can't help but be pissed with all of her lies. I toss the paper on her desk. "Is this all I am to you. Some tabloid trashy article that isn't even true. Is that why you slept with me to get your scoop? Do you care about me at all? Well do you?" I yell so loudly everyone on the floor turns to look at us. She doesn't say anything at first she just walks by me and closes her office door.

"It's not what you think. Please let me explain." She asks pleadingly. "You've got five minutes to tell me what the fuck this is all about including that asshole that just left." I say angrily with my arms crossed. She looks at me and I can already see the tears starting to form in her beautiful blue eyes. "Esme published the wrong article. I wrote that while I was still pissed at you and thought you were married to Bella. It was never meant to go to press. I just needed to vent a little so I wrote the dam thing. Then you sent me the rose and Bella explained everything and then we made up. I should have deleted the stupid thing but I forgot about it and wrote a new one. It's was really good Jake. I know you would have really liked it. I'm so sorry please you have to forgive me." She says the tears streaming down her face. All I wanna do is take her in my arms and hold her till she stops crying but I can't

"Ok. That explains the article, but what about this husband of yours? I can understand the article mistake even though I'm still pissed about that. How am I supposed to understand the fact that you've been married this whole time and had the nerve to be angry with me when you thought I was married?" I say getting angry again. "It's not a real marriage. What I mean is yes we got married but it didn't last long. I thought I was in love with him but I was such a fool. Two weeks after we got married I caught him sleeping with his secretary. He only married me for my father's money. It's what he does. He marries a rich girl then shows his true colors and has her family pay him off for a quickie annulment to avoid any type of scandal. But I refused to let him do that to my family so now he won't sign the papers unless I pay him. I'm stuck with him until I pay the bastard off." She says getting angry at the thought of the ass.

"Fine I get it but I don't know where to go from here. How am I supposed to trust that you aren't keeping anything else from me?" I say still hurting. "I can say the same for you Jake. You still won't let me all the way in. You won't tell me about what happened in New York or Nessa's mother." She says turning her anger towards me. "That is something completely different. I told you I would tell you when I was ready. I wasn't keeping it a secret. I just needed to find the right way and time to tell you." I say getting even more pissed. How can she possibly compare her situation to mine? "So where does this leave us?" She asks wearily.

"Maybe everything just happened too fast. Neither one of us can trust each other. I guess it's better to end this now before anyone else gets hurt. Before Nessa gets too attached to you."I say the pain in my chest increasing with each word. I have to be a father first and I don't want to drag this out for it to end badly and have Nessa be too attached to Rose. It's for the best. "You're breaking my heart." She says the tears escaping her sad eyes. I walk up to her and trace her plump lips with my finger and place a soft kiss on them. "I'm sorry. There's just too much baggage for the both of us to deal with. Maybe things could be different but I have another person to think about. She needs me to make the right decisions for her. I thought I was ready to get out there again but I know now that I'm not." I say and leave before I lose the nerve.

I can't let her in right now. I thought I could but it's just too much for me. Nessie and I were so simple. We always knew we loved each other. Rose is completely different. I don't know how to be with her. She's a force to be reckoned with but I don't think I'm a strong enough man for her. I guess I'm just too broken. She deserves someone that can give her all of themselves without hesitation. When Nessie died she took a big part of me with her. It was like my soul was torn in two and she took half with her. I really hoped Rose could fill that emptiness but maybe it will never be filled.

I head over to Swan's to start my shift and pick up Nessa. Bella wanted to talk but I just couldn't bring myself to tell her anything. After work I take my little girl home and we have a quite dinner before I put her down for the night. She hasn't called and I don't expect her too. I took the coward's way out by using my daughter for an excuse. I'm just too scared of getting hurt again. I lay in my bed and I can still smell her on my pillows. I fall asleep to a new face to haunt me. My Rosalie.

A/N: Please Review. Next up Rose's POV.