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Edward must have felt the emptiness inside me. He tightened
his hold on me and shielded me from the world with his wings. He had wings. He chuckled. “I have
wings, Bella. I’m shocked that you are so blasé about it.”
“They’re gorgeous, but why are your wings black?” I asked,
tracing one of the feathers. “Is it because of what happened?”
“No. Our wings are as unique as we are. Alice’s are
delicate, shimmery and white. Her mate’s wings are a shade of cream, with black
at the tips of the feathers,” Edward explained. “And they’re not black. They’re
charcoal.”
I giggled. “Minor technicalities.” But, my smile faded. “I could
just show you my past and you’d know everything.”
“Bella, you don’t have to tell me anything,” Edward
whispered, his fingers trailing along my jawline. I remembered when my jaw was
broken from one of my foster fathers when I tried to fight back.
“I want to. You’re the first person who has truly cared for
me, about me in my entire life,” I
whispered. “My mom was a junkie and died from an overdose. I was moved into
group home and then into a slew of foster homes, each one worse than the last.
I was physically abused, beaten within an inch of my life for just breathing. When I got older, my foster
dads and foster brothers saw me as a conquest, not taking no for an answer.”
“No man has that right,” Edward snarled. “You were a child.”
“Once I had tits, I was fair game,” I deadpanned. “The first
time I was raped, I had just turned fourteen. My foster father was drunk and he
mistook me for his wife. I begged him to stop, but he said that it was too late
and that I needed to just deal with it. He was not gentle and I bled for days,
weeks. He liked what he did so much, that he continued to do it, almost
nightly.”
“Did you tell anyone?” Edward asked, his voice pained and
his eyes swirling with emotion.
“I did, but nothing happened. That was until there was a random
home visit. One of their other foster children had missed too many days of
school. Upon further inspection of the home, it was not deemed a suitable place
for any further placements. I showed the social worker my bloodied sheets that
I was forced to sleep on because Rick felt I needed a reminder of my place in the home. I was just his
whore,” I spat. “I spoke with the police, but nothing happened. There was no
physical evidence …”
“The sheets,” Edward breathed.
“The cops gave me some bullshit story saying that since I
didn’t press charges or submit to a rape exam, there was nothing they could
do,” I sneered. “Being a child, I believed them and was shuffled off to my next
foster home where I was beaten by my foster mom.”
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