"Jacob also asked me if I thought of him as a boyfriend." I felt Bella's muscles tense but continued, "I told him yes after thoroughly explaining my relationship with him previously." Bella closed her eyes and nodded again.

"I see."

"It's bad isn't it?" I groaned.

"Truthfully?" Bella opened one eye. "Yes, it is bad."

"I'm so lost," I moaned at her, "does it mean because of my half-human side, I can be with a werewolf?" I frowned at my odd question.

"Uh," Bella thought for a couple of seconds, "that's a tough call."

"Tell me about it."

The unlikely relationship concerning a Cullen and a werewolf starts all over again. But for Renesmee, it's even harder. As well as living as the first half-human half-vampire in the Cullen household, Renesmee is told that she has no choice; she and Jacob Black, a werewolf, are compelled to be together. But does her half-human side allow this dubious relationship to be ok?

And when Renesmee is endangered, the Cullens and Jacob are forced into action. However, this predator might be all too familiar for Jacob...

Book I

Renesmee

"My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy."

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet,

Preface

I watched him prepare to die for me. He wouldn't fight for his own protection, we both knew that. His back curved athletically and he let out a growl so fearsome there was no trace of a doubt that he was ready for this fight. His dark, soulful eyes searched for his opponent. I knew he was willing them out. He was a sucker for fighting, he loved it. It brought on a whole new side of him – I wasn't sure if I was entirely happy with that part of him but there was no cutting it out. It was a given, a part I'd never ever get rid of. And at this moment, he was ready, ready to unleash that part of him with wild excitement.

What would happen if that part did fail? What would become of me if he were defeated? Lifeless and cold, like the rest of us, finally? Ice froze my heart, closing it up so I could barely breathe. If I was left without him, would I be able to survive? Alone.

That would be a part of me I wasn't ready to give up.

And so I stepped forward to unite with him, side by side.