Previously…

She looked down again, and I smelled the salt of tears pooling in her eyes. When she looked up at me I could clearly see the tears threatening to leak out. “Aurora, has leukemia, she’s dying and radiation isn’t working anymore.”

Edward POV:

                       I was frozen in shock. I replayed the words in my head over and over again trying to make sense of what she was telling me. Aurora has leukemia. It didn’t make sense to me. How could an angel be dying? How? Why? Why, why would Bella be given this gift only to have it taken away so quickly? It didn’t seem fair, it didn’t seem right. It couldn’t be true. Why would someone so sweet, so innocent, be so sick? I stayed frozen, waiting for the woman in front of me to say April Fools. She didn’t. The tears she had tried so desperately to keep at bay, rolled down her pale cheeks. If there was anything worse than knowing the little girl upstairs was dying, it was seeing Bella have to deal with the fact that her angel was going to be taken away from her. And, though I barely knew them, it hurt me, too. That this sweet, innocent, adorable girl was going to be taken away, from Bella, from me. She was Bella’s baby girl, and she was going to be taken away. It didn’t seem rational, but, then again, nothing today had made any sort of sense. But, I cared about that little girl, cared if she got better, I had this insatiable urge to protect her, keep her safe. And Bella, I wanted to keep her safe, too. To see her happy, to see her with her little girl in her arms, never leaving her, leaving us. And I knew I promised not to get involved, not to hurt this family, hurt Bella, the way knew I would if I went any deeper with these irrational feelings for a woman I barely knew.. Let them go any deeper than they already were in this ridiculously short time. But, I couldn’t just walk away. Not now, not ever. And it didn’t matter if she didn’t feel the same way, now or ever; I was wanted to make sure they were OK. Always.