Three Months Earlier

After spending the entire night sleeping on the floor beside her bed, Bella awoke early the next morning to the smell of bacon wafting through the air. She got out of bed slowly and padded over to her closet to change into some proper clothes before she headed downstairs to join her family for breakfast.

There wasn't much else that she could say for sure about her life nowadays. She was stuck in a marriage that she was forced into by her father, she barely talked to the man that she had been engaged to for seven years, and there were times when she felt like she'd...