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“I’ll never forgive myself for leaving you,” he whispered. “Not if I live a hundred thousand years.”
“If I’d never left, you wouldn’t feel the need to go risk your life to comfort a dog.”
“Do you really have any idea how important you are to me? Any concept at all of how much I love you?”
“You compare one small tree to the entire forest.”
“The outside world holds no interest for me without you.”
The love of my existence.
“But I’ll never see anyone else, Bella. I only see you. Even when I close my eyes and try to see something else. Ask Quil or Embry. It drives them all crazy.”
“Sleep, my Bella. Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep, my only love.”
“And the sound of your heart,” he continued, more serious but still smiling a little. “It’s the most significant sound in my world. I’m so attuned to it now, I swear I could pick it out from miles away.
I wanted his venom to poison my system. It would make me belong to him in a tangible, quantifiable way.
A simpler place, where love was defined in simpler ways. One plus one equals two . . .
“I’m in love with you, Bella,” Jacob said in a strong, sure voice. “Bella, I love you. And I want you to pick me instead of him. I know you don’t feel that way, but I need the truth out there so that you know your options. I wouldn’t want a miscommunication to stand in our way.”
I love you, but I’m not in love with you.”
“You’re in every thought I have. I don’t need reminders.”
I just want it to be official—that you belong to me and no one else.”
you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence,
Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.”
“You know how much I wish it was enough.”

