Truth
The rain would wash away our scents. Leaving the air fresh and clean. Just as it would erase any trail, he left behind him.
Her truck outside, as some kind of prop to aid in this performance. Every step closer that he got, the more I could assure that this all went how I intended.
He didn't know it was a trap until he was three steps away from the front door, of the abandoned house. By then it was too late.
He knew he'd messed up.
I sat at an old table in the dining room. The smell of rotting wood thick in the air, wondering how this house hadn't crumbled to the ground. Listening as Rosalie approached him, offering him only two simple words.
"In. Now."
What else could he do? He was outnumbered. For all he knew, there were more of us hidden in the woods.
We were too far away for anyone to save him. If he ran, we'd chase him down. He wouldn't even make it halfway back to Forks.
He walked into the house and locked his eyes on me as Rosalie pulled the door shut behind him. She would continue on with the task of surveillance. Clearing tracks and removing anything that could lead them here. Should they even get this far.
"Sit." I snapped; my teeth clenched.
"She knows you've done this?" He questioned, looking around the room.
I didn't answer.
My eyes cold and hard on him, as he reluctantly sat down across from me.
I couldn't help but laugh at his thoughts. Wondering when I'd hijacked his conversation with Bella. His mind tracing through the shared words, attempting to figure out where the shift happened.
"You really think she ever wanted to speak to you again?" I questioned in disbelief.
"She knows I didn't mean to-."
The growl that could be heard vibrating in my chest, stopped him before he could finish.
He looked around anxiously.
"You gonna kill me? Is that it. You tell her that?" He rambled, his nerves on full display.
I leaned back in my seat with a sneering smile. "You don't get it. Anything you had with her is gone. You cut into it. You bled it out."
He folded him arms tightly over his chest. Defensively guarding himself from my words. From the truth.
"She wouldn't just stand by and let you kill me." He said feigning confidence. His bravado slipping more and more with each passing second.
"You're wrong." I assured him coldly.
"I know her." He protested loudly. Trying to convince himself.
I shook my head. That much I knew wasn't true. "You don't know her. You're to clouded with childish fantasies to truly see her."
He scowled and his eyes hardened, but he didn't argue.
"You're a killer. You-"
I nodded as he spoke, cutting him off.
"Bella knows exactly what I am." I said bluntly. "I never claimed that my kind was put here to protect humans. You did."
His jaw flexed as he averted his eyes.
"What do you want?" He questioned in frustration.
"I want to know what happened" I told him. Placing the engagement ring on the dusty worn-down table. "I want to know exactly what you did to my fiancé."
His eyes fell on it and just as expected, a memory surfaced in his mind.
The rage that had ignited in him, at the sight of the ring. Grabbing her hand to hold it between them. Tightening his grip when she tried to snatch it back.
The way her eyes widened and her skin paled. She must have known then in that moment, that everything was about to fall apart.
He pushed the thoughts away. Hiding them. Not because he didn't want me to see them. Because he couldn't face them himself.
It took everything not to attack him right then. But I needed answers. I couldn't help her until I knew what had happened to her.
I leaned forward onto the table. "She said it felt like it you cut her in half" I told him, flinching at the memory.
He dropped his eyes to the ring. Glaring at it.
"It took over eighty stitches to close her up. Two blood transfusions. She can't even feel her cheek anymore, the nerves were severed. But it still hurts her. She still has to take pain killers, just to get through the day."
The muscles in his body tightened. The guilt rose up, thickening in his throat.
I continued. Pushing and pushing. Breaking down that wall he was hiding everything behind.
"She quit school. She doesn't leave the house. She can't even look at herself in the mirror."
My hand raised slightly from the table to point at him. "You did that. All of it. Now I wanna know why." I finished. Each word breaking through my teeth.
I saw it then. Played out in his mind.
What he'd said to her.
What he'd done to her.
I was blinded by it.
In that moment there was nothing but the urge to kill him. Not a single thing more.
The animalistic sound that broke free from me was like nothing I'd ever made before, and I knew with certainty that I'd never be able to it summon again.
I leapt across the table at him, tackling him to the ground. I began to crush his bones in my hands and under my fists. Breaking his nose and jaw.
Intoxicated by the yelping and screaming that I was awarded with each time I snapped something else in him.
Even when he phased the fight didn't stop. Not for a single second. I continued on with the same urgency. Desperately wanting to remove him from this earth, assuring he never again shared space with her.
His fight for survival was nothing in comparison to the blood thirsty fury that was pumping through me.
The few of my kind he had killed, he hadn't done alone. He knew now that without his pack alongside him, he was defenceless. Nothing.
In my entire life I had never felt like this. So entirely out of control. My fists landing on him over and over again, so caught up in it that I couldn't pay attention to anything else.
I didn't even hear her come in.
"He's dead Edward." She told me, making no move to stop me as I hit him one last time.
I stopped. Standing up, stepping back.
Looking at his blood on my hands. Wanting to remember the sight.
"We need to clean this up" she said without pause, looking around surveying the area. Ready to move onto the next stage.
She didn't feel a shred of remorse.
And neither did I.
A/N: The next chapter with be a flashback to what happened when Jacob attacked Bella. It will be told from Bella's POV and so will the rest of the story.