He barely listened as it was decided that they would send a group consisting of guard members headed by Jane to take care of the problem, but they would wait and just let the group take care of what the Cullens left behind. If some of the Cullens were lost, so be it.

Marcus left soon after this was decided, though when they did ask his opinion he said that the newborns were their responsibility, not the Cullens, and they should take care of the problem. In addition to it being the honest truth, in the back of his mind he did think of Edward and his Bella and he was still torn. On the one hand, the selfish part of him wanted someone to experience the same amount of anguish that he had. Why should he be the only one to suffer in a hell worse than any that had ever been imagined? 

Then again, why shouldn’t someone somewhere experience the happiness that had gotten away from him? He and Didyme had had their chance, however short it seemed to him. The time that this mortal and vampire had been together was even shorter than the time he had had his wife.

Didyme.

Leaving Aro and Caius to iron out the details he made his way to his chambers and despite himself, he let his mind wander, thinking more on Edward and Bella. He wondered if the boy had gone through with his promise to change the girl. Were they now happy together in immortality?

Of course if he had the beginning of her immortal life had probably been anything but happy for either of them.

The most painful incident of his life had been losing his wife, but the second most painful had been watching how she suffered during her transformation. The pain he felt as she writhed and screamed in his arms for three days were worse than when he had felt the fires of immortality burning away at his own humanity. He had hated himself for putting her through that.

Aro had urged him to change the girl long before his hand had been forced by her inadvertent fall into the world of assassinations and politics. Caius had been blunter and told him to change her or kill her.