“No.” Jacob shook his head. “I’m exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us—comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken.…” He stared into space for a moment, and I waited. “If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic…” I could see what he saw, and I knew that he was right. If the world was the sane place it was supposed to be, Jacob and I would have been together. And we would have been happy. He was my soul mate in that world—would have been my soul mate still if his claim had not been
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