CHAPTER 54-CARLISLE

Esme's so damned excited because Bella lives about six blocks from our house. Great...now we'll never get rid of Edward. It's all just too close of quarters as it is. I can't worry about them, though. Tonight we have the house all to ourselves for the first time in years. It seems like ever since the boys came home from college, despite having their own space with private entries, we see them all the damn time.

I suppose I should be thankful that they want to be around us, but I've been waiting more than twenty-five years to have my wife all to myself.

"What are you thinking about?" Esme asks as she saunters through the kitchen. Her hips sway like a pendulum—I'm hypnotized. "Carlisle?" She turns to face me and I watch attentively as she pulls the zipper down the side of her dress. The emerald green satin ripples down her supple flesh and lands in a pool at her feet.

Venus De Milo is homely compared to the vision before me.

Twenty-five years, twenty-four hours, it is all the same when I'm with my love. I feel like that nineteen-year-old kid who stumbled upon the girl of his dreams because he got lost on the way to the pharmacy.

Fate, she's a clever one.


Love, love, love Carlisle.

Thanks for your support and well wishes as our first born received her high school diploma. It was a wonderful day, and remarkably drama-free. Biggest shocker of all-I didn't cry.

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