Previously…
"They took enough for her heart to stop," he grimly whispered. "First, her happiness, her joy left her, then it stopped her heart altogether."
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"I'm so sorry, Edward," my voice cracked, and I wiped more tears away. Edward merely shook his head, consumed in his grief. He clenched his jaw and kept his head down. "What happened to your parents? Did you see them afterwards?"
"No, I heard they died after I left." He sat up, pain and sorrow around his tired eyes. "I'd met Carlisle when I was very sick and homeless. I had nowhere else to go, and when I was close to dying, he changed me. Then we'd met Esme, and they mated. Rosalie changed Emmett, and Alice and Jasper met us 10 years later."
"Wow, big family." I said.
He cracked a smile. "Yeah, and it's about to get even bigger." He gave me this look as he took my hand. Butterflies swarmed in the pit of my stomach.