A/N: This is it, guys! The end of the road for this one. So … enjoy!

Chapter-11: Epilogue

Late Autumn, San Diego, California, Two Years Later (Same time as the Prologue)

"Do I get a kiss too?" a soft voice called from the nursery door.

Looking up from where my baby girl slept peacefully, I saw my beautiful wife standing there, a smile gracing her full lips.

I leaned down to place one more kiss to my little girl's temple, inhaling her purely innocent baby smell that kept my nightmares at bay one more time before walking up to Bella. "Do you want a kiss, Mrs. Cullen?" I whispered in her ear as I pulled her to my chest.

She nodded slowly. "For a start."

I couldn't help but grin. I liked the idea of starting with a kiss. Closing the nursery door behind me, I picked her up bridal style in my arms, making her giggle softly. I couldn't help but steal a few kisses in the short walk from the nursery to our bedroom.

When I reached the bed, I laid her down carefully in the middle. For a moment, I simply stare at her, taking in the way the my shirt from the night before accentuated her body, making her the most delectable creature in my world.

She held a hand out to me in a silent request for me to join her and asked, "What are you doing over there?"

"Wondering," I replied, climbing onto the bed then.

"About what?"

I stopped to place a kiss right between her collarbones and then said, "About how I got so lucky."

"Oh you're about to get luckier, baby," she responded with a wink.

The sound of our laughter was muted only by the pressing of our mouths together. For one long moment, we kissed, breathing each other in and then, she tackled me, flipping me over so she was on top of me.

The suddenness of the movement stunned me for a few seconds and that was enough for her to discard my pants and the shirt she was wearing. And then, she was kissing me everywhere she could reach, as if erasing every battlescar I had gotten during my seven years of service with her lips like she had done countless times before. It wasn't until she bit down a little on my shoulder that I knew what she was doing. My minxy wife was marking me!

"Are you trying to give me a hickey, Mrs. Cullen?" I asked, suppressing a groan of pleasure as I felt our middles touch.

"Maybe," she said with a sly smile.

It was the sight of my dog tag resting in between her full and perfect breasts that made me lose control. Sitting up so that our faces were impossibly closer, I kissed her lips, her throat, down to her breasts and right over her heart. "You like to mark me as yours, don't you?" I asked, my lips brushing her nipples, making it pebble with my breath.

She moaned, her fingers tangling with the hair at the back of my head. "I want you to see that mark and remember who you belong to," she panted. "You're mine."

"As you are mine," I murmured before taking a nipple in between my lips and sucking on it.

"Shit!" she cried out. "Edward!"

I felt myself harden at the sound of her voice calling my name and it was only a few moments later that I found my heaven inside my lovely bride's body. As she moved with me, we kissed again and again, our tongues danced to a tune as old as time just like our bodies until we both reached the edge and took the leap together.

As we laid in each other's arms, she leaned in to kiss my lips. "I love you, First Sergeant Cullen."

"As I love you, my Bella," I replied as I stood up, getting ready to go to the academy. In my Bella, I had found my life, my wife and my true calling as an Marine Instructor. Most importantly, in the way she loved me … tagged me as hers, I had found my home.

A/N: For the last time on this little journey, share your thoughts with me and leave a review?

As always, I have a few note of thanks to address. First, to Shae Maen, my twify. I hope you like your birthday pressie, babes. I know it took too long to finish, but I do hope it was worth it.

Second, to all the soldiers all over the world who risk their lives to make sure that we, the civilians, sleep safely tucked in our beds every night.

And finally, to you, my lovely readers. Thank you for being patient with my erratic posting schedule. Thank you for taking the time to read this little story of mine.

To my readers from Revised Curriculum, the next update will be posted this Friday. So stay tuned. ;)

Until next time.

Thank you.

Love you all.

Ann