I don't own twilight. What I own is my character's behavior, personality, background, and plot of my story.

Author's Note at the end.

Edward blinked one. Twice. He stares at her not sure what to say. He can't lose her now. The Denalis don't get to get away with everything to him. he needs to keep her around for now.

"Darling, what are you talking about? Of course not," he tells her with an offended voice and a sympathetic face as he gets off where he is sitting and sits on the couch beside her, and gently places his hand on her thigh.

"Thank god," Tanya exclaims throwing her arms around him and hugging him tightly. He pats her back but doesn't hug her. Now is when he draws the line and pulls back.

Tanya pulls away slowly from him and frowns once she sees his face and asks, "What's wrong?"

He grimaces instead of smiling and tells her, "Nothing." Then he gets off the couch and goes to the kitchen and opens the fridge.

Tanya trails behind him and asks, "Baby what's wrong?" looking worried.

"It's nothing to worry your pretty little mind," he tells her dismissively as he refuses to meet her eyes and turns to the freezer that he rummages through.

Tanya frowns even more and pulls at his arm, so that he would look her in the eye and then asks him, "Baby please let me what's wrong. I can't fix it if I don't know what happened." She pleads with him with her eyes to tell her what is going on.

He drops her arm and purposefully two steps away from her then says with his arms crossed across his chest, "You really wanna know what is wrong?"

"Yes!" she exclaims throwing her hands in the air and taking a step towards him.

He raises his arm in a gesture to not take another step toward him which causes her to look hurt, but it doesn't get to him as he stares at her coldly and states, "We have been in a committed relationship for years. I proposed to you. We are ten days away from our engagement party, and now you are starting to question our relationship, huh? And I am supposed to feel good and dandy over that?"

"But. I, I didn't mean that. I thought I saw something,", "You saw nothing. You always do that when you get drunk. You start imagining shit and I deal with it every time. I told them that you were drinking too much and you wouldn't listen," he cuts her off angrily.

For a second he thinks to himself that he went too far as this is the first time he has seen her this hurt but when the hurt expression turns into an apologetic one his shoulders drop and he raises his arms and states, "Don't I need space. I am angry and I don't want to hurt you. I am going to my bedroom. you can use the guest room if you want."

he storms out of the common area and goes to his bedroom and shuts the door behind him.

"Okay Seth thanks for letting me know. I appreciate that. See you soon. Goodbye," she says into the phone then hangs up and drops her phone on the table. The expression on her face looks indecipherable. She knew it. She knew that Edwards's sweet words and sweeter promises were hollow. No one goes from shoving her against the wall to graveling at her feet when in their head she is in the wrong. Unless they are up to something.

Edward is up to something.

Not for the first time since she returned to Chicago, she curses her stupid heart that is fleeting between feeling betrayed, trying to find excuses, and explaining his behavior as momentary madness. Her therapist told her that she isn't in love with Edward. She is seeking a dynamic and situation she knows well and is used to.

In other words, she doesn't love Edward. She wants to be with him because her heart doesn't recognize that being with Marco makes her feel out of her element. After all, her normal is unhealthy and not because Edward is right for her. In theory she believes that wholeheartedly. She was happy back in Italy with Marco when Edward wasn't in the picture. She is in love with Marco. When he was out of sight, he was out of her mind.

She finished the session with her therapist concluding that she doesn't love Edward, she is obsessed with him.

"What was that about?" Marco asks turning to her to ask with his glasses perched on his nose, then he turns back to his computer screen.

"Seth was telling me about Edward's latest stunt," she tells him keeping it short.

"What was it this time?" Marco asks as he continues typing on his laptop.

"He didn't tell me what it was. He just told me to be careful. Hear this, apparently, Seth got so pissed off at him that he screamed at him and kicked him out," she tells him giggling at the end her voice going lower as if she is telling him a secret.

His eyebrows meet his hairline as he asks, "Chill, hippie smoking weed Seth?"

She nods her head and then leans forward hugs him from behind while standing and tells him, "That's not important. What is important is did you find anything?"

He moves his head to the side and kisses her neck then says, "I think I did. I found a voice record of him arguing with Eleazar. If you hear the voice record you will know that Eleazar threatened Edward and that is stopping him from suing you for custody. It goes without saying that he will probably play it in the Gala for everyone,", "And it will become a scandal,"she finishes.

"Exactly."

Bella is silent for a moment letting it all sink in and then she states, "He will get two birds with one stone Me and Eleazar. I have to say, I am quite impressed."

"Sure," he says pausing for a second to think, "But is it? I mean we saw it a mile away and will stop it, so its not really that impressive. I think what is really impressive is that since we came here you have been ten steps in front of him."

She hums in approval and kisses the back of his head then says, "What else is impressive?"

"I will tell you all you want to know, but first come here," he tells her as he pulls her around and into his arms.

"I think you eyes are impressive," he tells her then pauses at her left eye.

"Your smile is impressive," he states his lips inching their way to her left cheek.

"Your mind is impressive," he continues his lips skimming over hers and going to her right cheek.

"Your body in my T-shirt is impressive," he says right before he kisses her.

She makes a sound she doesn't recognize as she deepens their kiss and licked his lower lip, but he pulls back before she can put her all into the kiss which makes her huff in irritation.

He looks at her as if he just spotted her in a room full of people and is trying to read her soul and then raises his hands to push her hair away from her face and says, "I could spend the rest of my life listing everything impressive about you and I would die regretting the things I never got to tell you about because nothing makes me lose my track of thoughts the way you do, every day, every hour, every minute, and every second my love."

Hello lovely people,

I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter. I just finished this entire chapter in one go, which is impressive if I say so myself. Not because the number of words is that big, but because I could spend the whole time sitting without needing breaks in between to stretch my legs. Someone who can spend a long time sitting down, I am not.

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