Chapter One

The brown haired beauty surveyed around the room, making sure no one was there to observe her actions. She smiled to herself before walking to her desk, which was her safe haven from those reporters and paparazzi who would always be at her tail end, each day, every day. She looked at her desk, scattered with paperwork everywhere. She wasn’t known by the other agents in the bureau as a neat freak, and she wasn’t very determined to change that. Ever since she moved to Washington D.C. from Forks, Washington, she had always thought that she was going to change her ways for the better. However, moving to the capital of the United States only made her more miserable.

She had an okay childhood. Her father, Charlie Swan, and mother, Renee, married at a very young age, only to divorce a few months later. Her mother, Renee, had taken her as an infant back to Phoenix because the rainy little town of Forks wasn’t going to work for her. After that, it was only her and her mother before Phil Dwyer came along and captured her mother’s heart. In order to give her newlywed couple privacy, she moved in with Charlie in Forks. She stayed there for her last two years in high school, never taking interest into the guys who wanted her. However, she had a strong friendship with Jacob Black, her father’s friend’s son. They were tight, but Bella had never thought of dating him, until he asked her out and she said yes. Afterwards, they were fine, until Jacob turned into a werewolf, and pushed her away. That was around the time when her father had met a beautiful, wonderful, and kind woman by the name of Alyssa Reed. She knew that her father needed time alone with his new found woman, and she needed to get away from Jacob, even though they were technically still dating. After finishing high school, she went to D.C. to go into college to become a FBI agent, and here she was, three years later, sitting in her very own seat as head deputy of the department.

The people she had met when she came to her new life were the most bizarre people she had met in her entire life. They were all related, well technically not by blood, but by law. They were all adopted children under the famous Dr. Carlisle Cullen and his wife, Esme. There were only two people she really hated out of the bunch: Rosalie Cullen—her best friend, Emmett’s, wife—and Edward Cullen. When she thought of the incompetent fool, she couldn’t believe that she had to work with him. She wanted to gag whenever she was around him. The fact that he was unbelievably beautiful did not help either.