AN: Happy New Year!


Stay With Me

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Yes

Edward's POV

"Give – it – back." I demanded as I stood across the clearing from him; clenching my arm at the shattered elbow as I watched him chewing along the arm he had ripped from me. "Now, Jacob. Give – it – back - !"

"Not so tough now, are you, with an arm missing?" He asked mentally as his big grotesque wolf lips curved into a smile. "You really want it back?"

"Now, Jacob!" I demanded again as I stepped forward. "Right now!"

"No."

"Fine," I told him as I reluctantly pulled my whole-arm back down to my side and hollered out in both pain and annoyance. "You know, I was only trying to make it easier for you. But now I see you are not going to just hand it over to me, so I guess I'm just going to have to take it by force. As it is, I will get it back one way or another."

"Well then, come and get it pretty boy."

I lurched forward.


Sam's POV

"Bella?" I asked as I ran my fingers over her hair. "Sweetheart… I'd really like you to say something."

"Didn't I?" She asked me softly as she placed her hand over mine and wrapped it up against her chest.

"No, Sweetie, you haven't said a thing." I told her as she took her free hand and looped it around my neck.

Staying silent, I looked deep into her eyes and told her softly. "I know you're only eighteen –almost nineteen, but I don't care, Bella. I don't care how young you are, or I am. I want to spend the rest of my life with you, and I know that we've only been together a short time, but I know I will never leave you, I know my feelings will never, never change for you. I'll love you forever, and I just want to know that you want the same thing… though I know I know it… I want you with me always. I want to have a family with you, and I want you to have my last name.

"I understand if you're not ready yet, but I just can't keep it inside of me any long-"

"Yes." She cut me off breathlessly. "Yes, Sam, yes." She breathed as she pulled me into her and kissed me deeply over and over again. "Yes, Sam," She said again as she wrapped her arms around me and hugged me tightly. "I'll marry you."

"I love you so much, Bella." I whispered through her hair, "I love you, I love you, I love you."

"I love you."

TBC