Beautiful Tyrant

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A/N:

In this story the character names belong to Stephenie Meyer but the inspiration and chapter titles come from William Shakespeare's epic tale, Romeo & Juliet.

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Chapter 168. Stop there, stop there.

Bella was still beside herself the next morning, having slept fitfully overnight. Her mother had crushed her cell phone beneath her stiletto heels and swiped her laptop from her desk, rendering both useless before she'd informed Bella of her plans for the brought-forward wedding.

Mrs. Cope had slept in the chair beside the bed, comforting her every time she'd woken crying from horrific nightmares of Edward dying in front of her on the steps of the altar when he'd tried to stop her wedding to Mike. The red of the gunshot wound in his forehead permanently etched into her mind.

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End Note:

Thanks so much to my amazing beta, cocoalvin. I lub her.