Four Years Later
"Anna!" I urged my daughter to pick her doll up off the floor of the office building's hallway. "Hurry up, baby. Momma needs to get into the doctor's office." She had grown into a beautiful four-year-old little lady.
Apparently, she wasn't very interested in listening at that moment though. I maneuvered my extremely rounded baby-belly so I could squat to pick up her dolly. Before I could reach it though, a large hand lifted it up in front of my face. I looked up into a pair of very familiar mossy green eyes.
"Hello, Isabella," Edward told me softly. He was just as beautiful as I remembered, though he had aged and gray hair dusted his temples. The desire for him, which had long been only a smoldering ember, burst into flame.
"Edwar—" I began, but a sharp little tug on my hand suddenly pulled me back to reality.
"Come on, Momma," Annabelle told me and took the doll from Edward's hand. "Come on, I have Maggy now." She kept tugging on my hand, suddenly very concerned that I make it to my appointment.
"You wouldn't happen to have an hour to spare for coffee, would you, Bella?" Edward asked, seemingly oblivious to the demanding child tugging on me until that moment. Suddenly he glanced down at her, a sad smile tugging at his beautiful lips. "I see it was Jacob's."
I swallowed thickly, looking from Edward to my daughter and back. People say that your life can flash before your eyes and, in that moment, I understood what they meant. The last five years rolled as movie credits through my mind. There were beautiful moments of love and ecstasy with Edward, moments I never wanted to forget for the remainder of my life. But more notably, there was a man who uprooted his life for me, and a little girl who called me "Momma."
For them, I turned around and never looked back.
A/N:
Definitely *not* typical HEA, but it was right for the contest and for the characters.