Preface

I looked at him for one last time. Those were the eyes I used to look into, the lips that I would endlessly kiss, the hands that used to hold mine, the person I'd gladly die for.

In just a few more seconds, I will lose him, the only man I learned to love…and perhaps, the only one I will. I will lose the first man who has ever made my heart beat, and the last man in this world who was ever allowed to do so. Everything under the sun was against us, I know that. But why am I still here, struggling with fate?

"Do you, Jacob Black, take this woman, Jessica Stanley as your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and woe, for richer or for poorer, keeping yourself solely unto her for as long as you both shall live?"

My sight darkened as I felt my body collapse on the ground.