Looking forward to a new chapter and hoping you haven't given up on this story.

Bella should have kicked him in the balls when she left!!

Love this story and I originally found it on the Fictionators website on their teaser day. I just want to smack Edward and then shake him and then smack him again. He is old enough to know that words have a profound impact on the people that care about you and he should choose his more carefully. I know that Bella frustrates him greatly and he is fighting with his own feelings of lust (and something he isn't quite sure of) but his whole conversation was crap. How hard is it to have a conversation and tell her his feelings without making her feel like a burden he has inherited? Bella is another matter all together but I think her whole problem is that Edward left her in that school after her parents death without any counseling and just never bothered to check on her. He simply chose to ignore her and never even see if she was alright or to let her know that he cared for her. Any school will give them an education but it is not their responsibility to give them the stability and caring that a family would and he is for all intents and purposes her family now. He obviously never wanted to be her guardian in case of her parents deaths and he should have told them so and not taken the request so lightly. Now he has basically destroyed a young woman with such potential. Hopefully Bella will somehow get the counseling she needs and can gain some semblance of a normal teenage life. I only hope that when Bella gains the rights and knowledge to run the company that she throws him out on his ass and never looks back but we all know that won't happen. I think that a person can only take so much before they are done and I can only hope that Edward doesn't give her any more reason to hate him than he already has.

Good grief!! Edward is a bigger idiot that I thought originally. At the rate he is going he will run the company in the ground before Bella has a chance to make a decision. Someone (preferably Rose and her stiletto's) needs to put a foot up Edwards ass and pull his head out. Poor Bella--at least she got her point across in her last email and I'm so glad she is exerting some of her own decisions in her future. I really hope that it won't take long for Edward to get it together (this is after all his idea) and crush Jane before she has a chance to go after Bella and her shares. Jane might just have met her match with a stubborn and very intuitive Bella. Looking forward to the next chapter.

Finally!! His cheating, conniving, and scheming has been found out. I wonder how long it will take him to realize Bella read the texts and has put 2 and 2 together. Lets just hope that Bella is smarter than Edward and will see through Jane's bullshit and not buy into her load of crap because when Edward fails to deliver she will just shift to Plan B and will try to put a wedge between Bella and Edward. What she fails to understand is that Edward himself has already driven that wedge between himself and Bella. I don't think Bella will want to part with her family's legacy and won't want to sell it but she might try to oust Edward which would serve him right. I think them working together to get back at Jane will inevitably make Edward see his true feelings for Bella but since Bella has these side trips planned without Edward's knowledge, she might be harder for him to locate that he realizes now. Which also means that hopefully she will be harder for Jane to find also. I want to see Bella show Edward the damage that he has done to her (knowingly and willingly I might add) and make him see what he is missing. I only hope that she makes him work hard to get back into her good graces as he has been a total douchebag and asshole to her since her parent's deaths.