Her Final Days

Chapter 3

Rosalie frowned as she watched her baby great-grandson attack a huge teddy bear that sat in the corner of her room and his mother trying to stop him. "Emmett, don't beat up Grandma's bear," Jill Durham cried out as she tried to separate the baby from the bear.

"Bad bear!" cried baby Emmett as he continued to hit the stuffed bear. "Bear go away!"

Bear?

Rosalie recalled the day she had found and rescued a young man named Emmett McCarty after he had been mauled by a bear while the Cullens had lived in Tennessee. Emmett had fallen in love with her almost immediately, but Rosalie wasn't sure that she had even loved him, and it led to her leaving the Cullen family (and Emmett) behind.

But how and why her 17-year-old granddaughter named her son after the man Rosalie had once loved was beyond her.

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Emmett settled himself in his old room back in the old house where the Cullens had once lived. He and Hilsa had spent a good part of the day cleaning up the room and getting rid of stuff that had accumulated over the years. Like all of Emmett's Playboy magazines had to go; when he had first met Hilsa, he saw no need to read adult magazines at all, which brought relief to Jacquelyn and Esme. He also had changed his entire outlook on life after meeting Hilsa.

But there was one person who he couldn't forget, no matter how hard he tried. The one person who saved him from certain death and brought him into another life; but had left him after so many years of being together...

"Rosalie."