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Jacob’s pain cut me deeper than my own.
It was because his pain hurt me, too. Jacob had become a part of me, and there was no changing that now.
“At least he can be a grown-up about this. He knows that hurting you would hurt me—and so he never would. You don’t seem to care about that at all!”
“It’s one of those bizarre things we have to deal with. It doesn’t happen to everyone. In fact, it’s the rare exception, not the rule. Sam had heard all the stories by then, the stories we all used to think were legends. He’d heard of imprinting, but he never dreamed…” “What is it?” I prodded. Jacob’s eyes strayed to the ocean. “Sam did love Leah. But when he saw Emily, that didn’t matter anymore. Sometimes… we don’t exactly know why… we find our mates that way.” His eyes flashed back to me, his face reddening. “I mean… our soul mates.” “What
“I don’t care who’s a vampire and who’s a werewolf. That’s irrelevant. You are Jacob, and he is Edward, and I am Bella. And nothing else matters.”
“But I am a werewolf,” he said unwillingly. “And he is a vampire,” he added with obvious revulsion. “And I’m a Virgo!” I shouted, exasperated.
“It’s embarrassing. You see, at first, I was mostly jealous because he wanted you and not me.”
“I’m going to spontaneously combust one of these days—and you’ll have no one but yourself to blame.”
“I figured if I played nice, I’d get more time with you.”
And I realized that I’d been wrong all along about the magnets. It had not been Edward and Jacob that I’d been trying to force together, it was the two parts of myself, Edward’s Bella and Jacob’s Bella. But they could not exist together, and I never should have tried.
