“Carlisle and Jasper are in the hallway ready to stop me if something goes wrong.” Edward sounded more like he was convincing himself than me.

“Jasper?” I was surprise. Out of all of the family, Jasper was the least resistant to blood.

“He’s not coming in.” Edward explained. “He is just there to monitor my emotions in case I get carried away.”

That made sense.

I was sitting in the middle of his bed with my arms wrapped securely around my knees. He was still standing, staring at me incredulously.

“Bella, you’re scared.” He interpreted my body language.

“Shutup.”

He slid onto the bed with me and wrapped me in his arms. “I don’t want you to be scared, Bella.”

I turned in his lap so that I was facing him. I wrapped my legs around his torso, and my arms around his neck.

“The only thing I have left to be afraid of is losing you.”

“You don’t have to go to these extremes to assure that you keep me. I am your husband, I will never leave you, isn’t that enou-”

“Edward, look at me!” I insisted. “ I’m already unworthy of you as it is. Why on earth would I want to get old and die when-”

He pressed his fingers to my lips to silence me. “Shhhh, Bella, Bella….” He cooed. “You will always be beautiful.”

“I want this, Edward. Why aren’t you okay with that? Is eternity too long for you to have to deal with me?”

“Bella! Of course I want this! I want this more than anything, but my reasoning is purely selfish. I want to change you so that I never have to live a day without you, not that I intended to anyways, but I want nothing more than to be able to spend eternity with you. But, the small portion of me that is human is concerned about what is best for you.”

“You are what’s best for me.”

He shook his head. “You can’t know that if you have never given anything else a chance.”

“Yes I can.” I argued.

He stared at me for a minute.

“Is this what you want?”

“Yes, Edward. More than anything.”

“Okay then, I just wanted to make sure that you wouldn’t have any regrets.”