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Chapter 29

Maybe this had been a bad idea. For one, my plan didn't make me feel any better. Every piece of news that John brought me about Edward and Tanya just made me feel worse.

"…been neglecting his studies lately," John was saying. "He spends so much time with Miss Denali that he has even missed classes. And, I'm sorry to say, that once he goes inside her dormitory, he doesn't come out until the next morning.

"Also, it looks like a group of students have leaked the information to the press. So this scandal will be on the front page on tomorrow's morning paper."

Emmett, Alice, and Jasper were listening to his latest report with me. They were home for the three-day weekend.

Jasper's fist clenched so tightly that his knuckles were turning white. Alice merely sighed as she closed her eyes in despair. Emmett remained motionless.

John passed me several photographs he had taken the last few weeks. I took them and glanced through them briefly.

There were pictures of them at the university's library, and even around campus. They didn't really seem to care if they caught cheating.

The last picture showed them in a café. They seemed really cozy as they held hands and laughed.

But what really made my face harden, was the fact that Edward was no longer wearing his wedding ring on his left hand. His hands were bare.

My hand that held the photograph started shaking. I clenched the photograph and it wrinkled as it became crushed in my hand.

I closed my eyes briefly, then reopened them. The others were watching me, wondering what had made me so angry.

Jasper, stone-faced, reached over and plucked the little ball from my hand. He unwrapped it and stared at the picture. He seemed to understand what had made me so angry after a while, and finally, he crumpled it back up into a little ball.

"Anything else?" I asked calmly. Somehow, my voice sounded dangerous. Maybe it was the hormones.

"I think that's all, ma'am," John answered. "I'll continue to watch them. Are there any more specific requests you'd like me to-"

"No," I said. "I'll call you if I do. You may leave, John. Thank you."

He bowed respectfully before disappearing.

Alice and Emmett had been looking through the photographs in disbelief.

"How can he do this to you?" Alice burst out. "This is getting ridiculous. I'm going over to Harvard to give him a piece of my mind!" She literally started to get up, only to be stopped by Jasper.

"No, Alice," Jasper said. "We promised that we'd let Bella handle all of this. I trust her, and so should you."

Alice hesitated, then sank back down in her seat. Jasper turned to me. "Are you going to keep staying home like this? You've been at this for months now. Are you planning to confront him at all?"

I leaned over to yank the photographs out of Emmett's hand with difficulty. My bump was really showing, and it was getting hard to move around or breathe. At six months, my baby girl was growing healthy and strong inside of me.

"Soon, Jazz," I promised. I grabbed the lighter on the coffee table in front of us. I looked through the photographs, selecting only the ones that would prove that he was having an affair. I held the abandoned photographs over the fire, burning them with a casual expression on my face.

"You don't seem upset at all," Jasper said incredulously. "Or are you just pretending?"

I cocked my head as I stared at the burning pictures in my hand. "I'm getting used to all this, in fact. It's easier to pretend, for Carlisle and Esme's sake." I tossed the burning photographs inside an ashtray.

"You've been gathering a lot of information the last four months," Emmett said. "What do you know so far?"

I shrugged. "Well, I know that Tanya hasn't gotten pregnant so far. That's something." I laughed bitterly.

"Has he called at all?" Alice asked, a little desperate.

"No."

"You're driving me crazy, Bella," Jasper growled. "Why can't you just go confront him right now?"

"Because there's no real catalyst," I replied calmly. "I promise if there's something that makes me really angry, I'll go over to kick his ass."

"Do you want me to show you something really sickening?" Emmett asked in a low voice.

I looked at him.

He sighed as he dug into his pocket for something. Whatever it was, it was small.

"I saw Edward a couple days ago," he said. "I noticed that he wasn't wearing his wedding ring anymore, so I asked him why. He told me that he'd lost the ring."

I gritted my teeth. So he was getting careless now, was he?

"So I went over to his dorm to find it for him. He seemed pretty certain that he'd lost it somewhere there. And I found it in his chest of drawers."

"Give it to me," I said dangerously. I held out my hand.

Emmett bit his lip. "I really shouldn't. I don't want to stress you out-"

"Give it to me," I repeated. "Now."

He sighed. "Well, I tried." And to my shock, he brought out a pink thong from his pocket.

"Em!" Alice said in a shocked voice. "What are you doing? That's not Edward's wedding ring! What is that, a thong?"

"Like I said, his ring was in his chest of drawers," Emmett said. And then, he lifted the laces up to show us a ring dangling from a thread.

My breath came out in a whoosh. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it.

All of us could guess how the ring must have caught hold on the pink underwear. And it wasn't pretty.

"Wait till I get my hands on him," Jasper muttered darkly. "He's so going to get it."

I took several deep breaths. I couldn't take this anymore. That ring had been the final straw.

I took out my phone and called John Matthews.

"Yes, ma'am," he answered immediately.

"Get me Tanya Denali's background information immediately," I said flatly. "I want to know her past history, her past boyfriends, what her family does; everything you can find out. Have it ready for me by tomorrow afternoon."

"Yes, ma'am," John replied.

I hung up, glaring balefully into nothing.

"Um, did I just cause that catalyst?" Emmett asked nervously.

"You sure did, buster," Alice said, patting his shoulder. "But maybe this is a good thing. We won't have to watch from the sidelines anymore. Let's get this over with."

"Um," Emmett said again. "I kind of told Edward that you knew about everything. He didn't seem to really care, even though he did shout at me for telling you."

"All the more reason to do something," I said swiftly, not at all surprised. I knew that he would find out, sooner or later.

"What are you going to do, Bella?" Jasper asked.

"I'm going to go threaten Tanya Denali," I said darkly. "She's going to stop seeing my man, or risk having everything in her life destroyed."


John came over precisely at two the next day. This time, my siblings were out of the house, off to do some 'New York things', as Alice had called it. Carlisle and Esme were both out, doing some shopping.

I'd been reading the report on Edward's cheating on the morning newspaper. It had, indeed, made the front page of the New York Times.

"Here you are, ma'am," John said when he arrived, handing me a thick file.

I opened the folder and found Tanya's picture smiling up at me. I looked at it coldly for a moment, then flipped it over. I didn't want to see her face.

For about thirty minutes, I read over the details of her life. She was from Alaska, and she had transferred from New York University. She had had her share of boyfriends, dumping them the first chance she got for another guy. Recently, she had dated a guy named Michael Finch. When she saw that she was going to be in the same class as Edward, she'd dumped him harshly, saying that she didn't love him anymore.

Tanya had slept around a lot. She'd even spent some time in a club, working as the waitress there, where she gained a lot of popularity from men. She was constantly after money and fame, and had even auditioned for several Hollywood movies.

She had no parents, which explained her wandering around. They'd passed when she was only in the eighth grade, and since then, she'd lost interest in studying. She was intelligent, though, and had flirted her way into NYU, until she transferred to Harvard. She was smart enough to act to seduce my husband.

The one piece of information that caught my eye, was about her sisters. Both of them were happily married to the owners of growing corporations. Tanya cared immensely about her sisters and brothers-in-law. Bingo.

I closed the file slowly, thinking. "John. Humor me. What is she currently majoring in at Harvard?" Even though I already knew the answer, I felt as though I needed to think out loud.

"Law," John answered promptly. "She's in the same class as Young Master."

My eyes flashed. "And she cares particularly about her sisters…"

"Yes, ma'am," he said. "She helps them out whenever she can. I think you can use that to your advantage."

I glanced at him. "You know, John, you're awfully sharp. How did you know what I was planning?"

He smiled. "I've been doing this for a long time, ma'am. Would you like to leave right away? I'll escort you, if you'd like, of course."

"No, no," I said, gazing into space. "Tomorrow, I think. But I'll need some help getting there. I obviously won't be able to drive there myself."

"Would you like to start early?"

I looked at him, smiling gratefully. "What would I do without you, John? I'll see you tomorrow morning at ten o'clock."

He bowed, then left without another word.

I would finally be able to talk to her myself. I would tell her to stop seeing my husband. I'll tell her who Edward belonged to.

Me.


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