Gone [ Edward x Bella ] - Chapter 3

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As I left her in silence a deep growl emerged from my throat thought as I turned, running deep into the Fork's thick forest foliage.

I tried to still my resolve as best as I could to prepare myself to face my family one last time and before we left forks and my Bella behind.. forever.

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E.P.O.V. - A few months later

It may have been true that I was able to leave her behind. But with her I had left my non existent soul behind in the wake of its aftermath. Soon after our family departed Forks Washington, we traveled many places in search for a new place to belong and blend into without being noticed by any mortals.

Still within such a short time of leaving Bella I had been reduced to a mass of nothingness and self-loathing as comparison to the proud being I had once been. In her presence.

Time seemed to crawl by at a deathly slow pace as I refused to speak to my own family, minus a one worded reply spoken when needed that is.

Their contentious thoughts of concern and grief attacked my mind viciously, though I knew my family tried as much as they could bare to keep their concerns and worries from being voiced to me.

Yet all of their thoughts still echoed within my own as clear as day. My withdrawn sate did nothing to ease the burden of the decision I had made. Upon my family nor me. I didn't deserve these feelings of remorse, not when I had destroyed the heart of an angel.

Even when I ran amongst the forests vast landscapes while hunting, my thoughts always veered from my hunt as I found myself unable to focus my thoughts upon anything but her.

Yet these days I would hunt more than Ten times a week at the very least. I needed to get out of this suffocating house and try to sedate the unquenchable hunger that burned through my cold body's vein's.

My 'family’s' hollowed and sorrowed stares meant nothing to me at this point. I knew they wished more than anything for me to change my mind so as to let us return to Forks but that was not an option.

Bella was safe now without me she had a chance to succeed at life the way I never had.

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10 years... that's how long it's been since I had left my heart, my life and my very existence behind when I left Bella all those years ago.

Yet my being never wavered from its longing for her delicate touch or her tender warmth. I longed to have her by my side again, my arms encircling her small waist... once again.