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Even if the love I felt for him was no more than a weak echo of what I was capable of,
He wouldn’t begrudge me this: giving just a small bit of the love he didn’t want to my friend Jacob.
“I don’t think he ever planned to outlive you by long,”
“Oh, get out of the way, Jacob!” I elbowed my way around his trembling body with desperate impatience.
And the last seven months meant nothing. And his words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.
Now and then, as he talked with Alice, he would lean down suddenly and kiss me—his glass-smooth lips brushing against my hair, my forehead, the tip of my nose.
He knew my low tolerance for caffeine.
If I hadn’t thought you would be better off, I could have never made myself leave. I’m much too selfish.
I have too many excuses to stay—thank heaven for that!
“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason.… And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.”
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“You… were… risking your life… to hear—”
“I would want… Carlisle not to have to do it. I would want you to change me.”
“Marry me first.”
“Please, Bella?”
Jacob raised one black brow. Edward shook his head. “That’s not in my power.” “Whose, then?” Jacob growled. Edward looked down at me. “Hers. I’m a quick learner, Jacob Black, and I don’t make the same mistake twice. I’m here until she orders me away.”
