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.
"You!" Edward exclaims the moment he spots her back. His knuckles crack as he fists his hand.
Bella spins around to face him and for a moment he is stunned by her. Watching her from afar didn't do her justice. The strapless cream colored dress cascades down her body. She looks heavenly with her hair twisted in a simple bun. The slit up her thigh makes his mouth dry and for a second he forgets why he chased after her and stares at her in wonder and owe as his hand slacks beside him.
Then she opens her mouth and spoils it, "You didn't see it coming did you? Admit it. It was an awesome move. Admit it I am a genius"
All of his anger bubbles to the surface and he is reminded of why he chased after her. She doesn't even have the decency to be apologetic. After everything that happened, she is bragging instead of having any remorse.
"How dare you?" he states his voice hardly concealing the rage in him.
She smiles with faux sympathy as she tells him, "Darling don't take it personal and calm down. Don't pretend to be that hurt. It's not that deep. I have to operate within my best interest."
He takes a step forward but then stops not trusting himself to get close to her and questions her in a demanding tone, "You had to take this from me too didn't you? You couldn't let me be and mind your business?"
Bella rolls her eyes at him and examines her nails as she replies in a bored tone, "I will mind my business when you don't make me your business, or did you think that I will love the public humiliation." She ends her reply with a raised eyebrow.
Edward looks her in the eye and answers, "Maybe you should ask yourself why you were part of it."
Edward's reply seems to hit a nerve with her as she huffs in frustration and replies, "Ohh fuck off. Get off your high horse and drop this holier than thou bullshit. I never claimed to be a saint. I have owned up to the choices I made. You, on the other hand, refuse to acknowledge any part you had in your life now."
He steps toward her and with every step he takes his voices rises as he tells her, "What did I do to deserve this huh? What choices did I make to lead me here today? I have been receiving nothing but slaps. You on the other hand," but he never gets to continue as Bella deems that he has gotten too close to her and before he can even blink, a gun appears in her hands and she cuts him off by saying, "Don't. Do not take another step unless you want me to empty this gun up your ass."
Edward freezes momentary stunned by this turn of event as he has never seen Bella with a gun before and he never imagined that she would point it at him one day or threaten to shot him, but then he remembers that this is the same Bella that left him while pregnant with his child and he tells her, "Brought a gun with you? What did you think you were entering? A war zone?"
Bella doesn't drop her hand, even more the look on her face hardens as she tells him, "I knew this confrontation would happen and I don't trust you to not attack me."
He physically recoils back as if he was punched in the gut. Could he truly have harmed her? Have Seth and her been honest all of this time? It's a gun, she couldn't have gone through the process of licensing it for shits and giggles.
Now you are doubting your own mind? What will you do next? Let someone else do the thinking for you?
With renewed faith in himself, he raises his eyes to meet her eyes and asks her, "Why? What have I ever done to you to make you think that I will harm you?"
Bella is taken back by his statement and makes it known, "You are asking this? Really? After everything you have done you still don't know?"
"Yes," Edward replies as he takes a defensive stance.
Bella nods her head in anger and states, "Okay, I will tell you."
Edward does wait for her to continue, he yells out, "Please do enlighten me," emphasizing the first word.
"I don't trust you because when you found out about Cece you shoved me against a wall and wouldn't let go until Marco got involved. Maybe you don't remember, but I remember the terror I felt every time you dragged me from a party while yelling profanities, drunk and drove home that way. I remember every time you did that. Do you?" She demands at the end.
He ignores the last thing she said and goes into defense mood by saying, "The time in the hospital I was angry and in shock. You can't hold it against me."
She rolls her eyes at him because of course he will address the one thing that he can defend himself over and didn't pay any thought to what else she said. She isn't letting him get away with this. She will be pressing it further.
"And the rest? Is everything else not bad?"
It's terrible and atrocious but he isn't about to back down, so he answers her with a straight face, "No it's not."
Bella stares silently at him for a moment trying to make sense of what she just heard. She always thought that the only reason he acted that way in parties was because he was drunk. His sober self would never do that. It seems that she is wrong because sober Edward didn't even blink at what she said or blink as he said what he said.
She takes a deep breath and tells him, "I am not doing this with you. Every time I explain things to you and it's like I am talking to a wall. I am done," and starts walking away but he stand in her way and blocks the exit of the room and says, "You don't have that option. You just destroyed my perfect plan. You owe me."
Bella laughs at his assumption that his plan is perfect but finally controls herself enough to tell him in a challenging tone, "What if I showed you something better than your plan?"
"Like you could ever orchestrate something better than me," he tells her because he knows that she can't possibly do something better than him. Here finding out about his plan is a fluke, a struck of luck. She can't possibly do anything similar to what he did, let alone better.
Her laugh is humorless as she shakes her head from side to side and tells him, "You love to undermine me, don't you?"
"More like I don't trust your judgment," he says throwing at her words similar to what she said earlier.
This time she doesn't bother to laugh and appear light and relaxed and tells him, "I am not going to get offended cause at this point I have seem too much from you to be bother anymore."
"Well, what are you going to show me?" he demands.
"Let go back to the ballroom before people start to notice. You will see it there," she tells him and shoves him out of the way.
He trails behind her not sure what he is supposed to see and she whispers right before they enter the door, "Stand beside Tanya if you want a front row seat."
He walks to Tanya and wraps his arm around her and a couple of minutes later he joins her in the middle of the room for their couple's dance. Once the first song is over more people move into the dance floor and he and Tanya dance to another song. As the third song starts, Eleazar cuts in and Edward finds himself partner less. He spots Bella and Marco in the crowd and makes a beeline toward them.
"You and I need to talk," he states as he takes Bella's hand and whisks her away from Marco.
Before he can say anything Bella tells him, "Have some patience my dear and wait."
They sway to the music with each one of them trying to put as much physical distance between themselves and the other as possible. He is starting to hate her, but for all of the wrong reasons. She is at the edge, waiting for the moment she can bolt away. This place is not for her. She doesn't belong, not beside Edward, and not between the hypocrites of the upper class. Truth is, She doesn't know where she belongs. She knows that her place is where Cece is, but that's about it.
Edward's hurt and hate are strong, but not strong enough to over power his love, and his mind knows that he should be keeping his distance but his heart is terrible at measuring distance and doesn't know how long it can last, but before his heart wins over he hears a bang coming from the doorway.
Like everyone he looks to door that was just broken down and finds FBI agents striding into the building being lead by Bella's father who walks straight to Eleazar and states, "Eleazar Denali you are under arrest for sex trafficking and tax evasion."
Hello lovely People,
Happy new year. I hope you had a fun over new year's eve. I spent mine editing the latest chapter of my other story. The next couple of chapters will be quite eventful. I can't wait for me to write them and you guys to read them.
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