Jacob~
I'd been dying to kiss her again. I swear on my immortality, every time she looked at me with those big emerald eyes, my chest ached with the force of it. Easter… my little spring blossom. The woman I swore to protect with every breath in my lungs – the same woman I'd been forced to erase from my world for her own safety.
It was fine that she didn't remember. Not the nights she curled up in my arms, trembling from nightmares even I couldn't chase away. Not the mornings she nearly burned the kitchen down making pancakes, her laughter ringing out as the smoke alarm screamed. Not even the promises I breathed against her lips between hungry, stolen kisses under the blanket after our first night tangled together.
I had taken all those memories from her. Torn them from her mind with my own hands, ripped my presence from her life so thoroughly she wouldn't even ache for what she'd lost. I did it to keep her and her children alive. I did it because I loved her.
