I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me.... It was never going to end, was it?

You are the most beautiful thing in my world.

You nickednamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster?

I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck.

Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.

The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.