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ATLANTA I LOVE YOU!
So last week at this time, I was pretty much convinced that I was going to have a pretty boring summer as a reserve teacher in St. Louis ( Read more... ) -
The Guardian, Chapter Nine
Hi everyone! I want to apologize for how long it took me to get this chapter out. For the longest time, I didn't know what to do with it. Then I just stopped thinking about it and figured when the urge to write it hit me, I'd do it. Well, it never came...and I actually came THIS close to deleting the story altogether about a week ago. Quite ( Read more... ) -
The Guardian, Chapter Eight
Bella knew that he would come eventually; it was just a matter of waiting. She knew what he would ask, what he would beg, really, and if she was honest with herself, she wasn’t positive how she would respond.
How could she bear to leave Ellie? She was only twenty four years old, at the very beginning of her life. She ( Read more... ) -
The Guardian, Chapter Seven
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Six months after Ellie’s “incident,” Bella suffered her first miscarriage. Eight months after that, another. And a year after that, yet another.
She and Jacob decided that if they wanted any more children, they would be better off to just adopt; however, the time was never quite right and Ellie only got older and ( Read more... ) -
The Guardian, Chapter Six
“Oh…of course, I mean…I just didn’t think that you’d ever be able to…” Bella shrugged and hugged Alice again, mumbling her thanks over and over. Despite being grateful for Alice’s particular vision concerning her daughter, a strange feeling of unease settled in the pit of her stomach knowing someone could essentially spy on her ( Read more... ) -
The Guardian, Chapter Five
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Fifteen minutes later, Ellie was sleeping peacefully in bed as if nothing ever happened. Bella stood with her arms wrapped around Jacob and her face buried in his chest.
They hadn’t spoken a word, but Bella thought they didn’t need to. She could read Jake like the back of her hand, and she knew he felt the exact same way ( Read more... ) -
The Guardian, Chapter Four
The Guardian
Chapter Four: A Vision
He waited patiently for days to receive a letter and never even really considered the thought that it might not happen. It would be full of stories about Ellie - how she smiled, when she laughed, when she cried, how much she slept - and it would also be full of unspoken affection that Bella somehow ( Read more... ) -
The Guardian, Chapter Three
Bella lay silently in bed watching the clock slowly tick from one minute to the next. The house was silent, Ellie had been asleep for a few hours already, and Jacob was still conspicuously absent from her side.
He was supposed to be home hours earlier, but a phone call around eight o’clock told Bella that Embry’s truck unexpectedly ( Read more... ) -
The Guardian, Chapter Two
Bella didn’t know what to think. She was convinced that Edward had said his final goodbye, that he wasn’t going to try and contact her anymore and that he wouldn’t be a part of her daughter’s life in any way; however, there was tangible evidence, once again, that he had snuck into her house, into her daughter’s room, for the second ( Read more... ) -
The Guardian, Chapter One
Christmas night, the first night her baby was home from the hospital, was the first time Bella had smelled his scent in ten years. It had been the strangest, most surreal moment of her life, mostly because his smell was emanating from her daughter. At first she’d been irrationally scared, though she wasn’t sure why, but that feeling turned ( Read more... )