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Chapter 9

The words tumbled from my lips. Freshly plucked from my pounding heart. I was shocked at how easy they had came out.

Jasper's eyes focused on mine intensely. They had darkened some but didn't hold the look of thirst. His chest rising and falling at a speed to match mine.

"I love you too."

He loved me. Jasper loved me. How had this happened? I was just a normal girl.

Forget about that Bella. I mentally told myself. I was done with insecurity. Besides Jasper was not one to lie. He had always been honest with me.

My attention was still focused on Jasper. My right hand was cupping the back of his neck and the other rested on his shoulder. His own hands however were holding my hips.

Butterflies fluttered wildly inside my stomach. He pulled me back to him, I went willingly. Jasper was kissing me again. He tasted better than he smelled. It had to be a sin for him to be able to kiss like this.

I was lightheaded. In fact I felt like I had floated up into heaven from my place on his lap.

Jasper's lips were smiling into mine. His smile infected me causing me to return it. The smiling turned into soft laughter which separated our connecting lips.

I was looking down at his face slightly. My seated place on his lap made me an inch taller than him.

"How do you make me feel like this?" He asked, face full of wonder.

"Like what?"

"Like I'm worthy of you." Pause. "Like this."

Waves of incredible emotion came into me. I gasped out at them. Love was the most powerful of them all. He felt trusted and peaceful. Desire was also thrown in there too. All others were too much to identify.

My own emotions reacted instantly to the onslaught. Rushing throughout my whole being. Jasper's body shuddered. His breath hitching and eyes closing, His face was fixed in a state euphoria.

"I've never felt so complete and happy in my whole existence." He said while drawing his emotions back to him. "This is what you make me feel. The greatest gift I have ever gotten."

He knocked the breath out of my body. I don't know how I was not passing out. He was saying what every woman in the world wanted to be told to them and he was saying the words to me. He kept on talking.

"You are the most forgiving, selfless, and overall positive person I have ever had the pleasure of knowing."

I inhaled sharply. Getting oxygen back into my body. How the hell had Alice not fallen in love with this charming Texas man. Only best friends that acted like placeholders until they found their real mates.

The whole reason they had divorced was that it was too awkward to share romantic physical contact because they thought of each other as siblings now. They had felt like that for the past 15 years but only just now gotten around to finally ending the marriage officially.

"Jasper, I can't even begin to describe how you make me feel. The closest I can get is I love you." My words while cliché were true.

He held me for a long time but eventually I got hungry. It was past my usual dinnertime.

Jasper made dinner for me. A perfectly cooked lobster and evenly diced fruits were placed on a wooden plate. Every utensil was wooden too. Jasper had carved them for me in a surprise. Those emergency kits from the lifeboat were very much appreciated by us.

We sat in our cabin making use of what was our island version of a dining room table. I was alone in eating but we made small talk. It felt like a date.

Everything was a little backwards. Mutual love confessions, kissing, and then a first date. I wouldn't change a thing.

The night wasn't over. He put away the used dishes for later and he helped me up out of my seat.

At first I was confused but then his intentions became clear to me when he set up the small ipod dock. It had survived being drowned because of a waterproof suitcase.

I was nervous when Jasper pulled me to him after turning the music on. It was a slow song. One of my favorites, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.

We danced around the room. My feet rested on his, he was doing the footwork for me.

If I wasn't already in love with him before I would be now. Emotionally mature men were the best to fall in love with. At least with this one it was. Jasper was probably the best with emotions because of his experience with them.

An hour later I was hugging his body and resting my face against his hard chest. I was so tired. The emotions of everything that had happened today had taken a toll on my body. I yawned.

We stopped moving and Jasper picked me up. He brought me over to the bed and I gripped his shirt in my hands.

"Stay with me, Please." I asked eyes wide open. I directing my best pleading look at him. Which I had learned while studying a puppy an old neighbor had had when I was little.

He crumbled under the pressure of my expression. Hello secret weapon, It's a pleasure to meet you.

This was the first night Jasper held me while I slept. I was determined to make it the first of many. He sung the lyrics to Iris to me in a low voice. I fell asleep towards the end of the song, completely happy with my life here.