Here's a teaser to the Edward POV outtake from
Learning to Let Go that I will be donating to Fandom 4 Children. If you want to be able to read the entire thing, you'll need to donate. As little as $5 to any one of the organizations listed on the
Fandom 4 Children blog will get you a copy of the compilation which will contain pieces from over 60 authors. And now, without further ado, here is the teaser....
I try to keep my calm, but I just can’t, and everything comes out in a flurry of shouts and yells.
“Seriously…all of you for one second…can you just try and think about everything she’s dealing with? First her husband dies…on Valentine’s Day and when they were getting ready to start trying to make a family of their own no less. Then she just as she’s finally starting to move forward from losing the love of her life, she gets a call and find out that she’s now been left responsible for her dead husband’s child that he had with his mistress. And to top it all off…the mistress could have well been her twin. So please…tell me just what is the standard protocol for handling that situation, because I sure as shit don’t know what it is.”
No one says anything, I just hope it’s because I’m starting to get through to them.
“Now add to all of that stuff that she’s dealing with…add all of you. Mom with her overcorrecting every little thing she does in regards to Eva, Dad with his glorifying of Evan into some golden boy that he never was, Emmett with his harping about how fucked up Evan was, Alice and Rose with your pushy ways and criticalness of how Bella looks and acts and how she’s no fun anymore…it’s enough to break any sane person down and drive them insane.”
“Just you wait a minute there Edward,” my dad interrupts. “Your brother was a good man. I raised him right. It’s not right for you to go dragging him through the mud like that…”
“My brother was an adulterous asshole," I yell at my Dad. "He threw away the best thing he ever had. He may as well have pissed on his marriage certificate. You can’t ignore what he did wrong Dad. He made mistakes. He lived a lie. He turned his back on his wedding vows, and his unborn child. You can’t ignore the facts.”
