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Chapter 12 – Bound


TEN YEARS EARLIER:

We stumbled onto Edward's bed. Not for sex, not that night. We spent that night talking about almost everything, while mouth brushed mouth…brushed jaw…brushed cheeks…

In the foreground, it felt…soul-binding.

In the background, those pitfalls circled like vultures, each with a name…Game-Changer, Plan-Breaker…Small-Minded-Delusion…Edward...

But...he was dauntless.

"What does it mean that…we didn't know…" I breathed against his cotton-candy-sweetened lips, "…in Forks…why didn't we know?"

"We know now…" he murmured, hands in my hair.

"But-"

"No buts…"

"-school…distance…I don't know…"

"I do know." He cradled my face…emeralds sparkling…grinning that grin. "I know. No complication is insurmountable."

One of us was wrong.


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