Disclaimer: All rights and characters belong to Stephanie Meyer; I'm just borrowing them for a bit.
Chapter 20
Edward - My Angel
Aurelia was gone just like that; here on second and gone the next, leaving some questions answered, but even more in their place Which should be against the law when a person drops a bombshell like that and then goes all cryptic. Still, she was gone; just another scent on the light breeze.
After everything she said to us and especially to me; after all the hope she had given us; Aurelia just left. Just like that, without an apology or even an explanation; anything… at all; Gone, just gone.
Still in her wake, she had left me one gift, a resolve; steely with determination and completely unwavering on one thing. No matter how hard it was; no matter who said no; no matter if the whole world was against me, I knew one thing. I would see my Bella.
Nothing else mattered now; nothing at all but the fact that she was mine because I loved her like no one else ever could and she was alive. Sure she wasn't human anymore; but she was alive. Walking, talking, being… alive… my beautiful, amazing Bella was alive.
And I was going to see her; and when I did I was never going to leave her side ever again. Not for anything else in this world; I would never, ever leave her again; ever. Inexplicable desire seared though my body as my thoughts dwelt on my beautiful, flawless angel; and soon the need scorched like fire in my body until my entire being yearned to see her; lived to see her. She was the air I breathed; all I ever wanted and forever needed.
Without a second thought to my family, I got up and bolted out the front door, following the strong scent that my daughter had left behind her as she had fled our house with sadness etched on her face; despair in her gorgeous brown eyes.
Suddenly, my thoughts caught and the reality came crashing down as everything finally sank in. Aurelia wasn't just some faceless human in the crowd anymore; annoying the hell out of me and my family. She was family; doing, though I thought it was completely unnecessary, everything to keep her mother safe. And she was my daughter.
Everything finally hit me, and one thought jumped at me; screaming for attention; Bella had given me a child. My amazing, beautiful, gorgeous angel had given me, a complete and utter monster, a child; a fiery teenager with a heart for her mother, just like my own. And she was mine; my child.
And her mother was still alive; still walking the same earth as I was; still breathing the same air as I did; alive. I would not abandon her again. Never, I would kill myself a hundred times over before I did that to her again. She was mine and I would never leave her; I loved her too much. Always, I would always love her.
A sudden smile sprung to my lips; the first smile that had touched my lips in over eighty years. And I just kept running, following the trail that would lead me back to my love, the wind whistling around me; calling my back to my future and the joy it would bring; my sun, my love, my hope, my Bella. The beautiful, amazing angel called Bella; who was alive, and who could spend the rest of eternity with me; my angel.