AN: thanks for your patience, here's the final chapter. I would like to thank all of you for all the nice reviews you've given me. I'm not planning to write anymore long fictions but I'll be around with one-shots. I hope you'll like this ending, though I might consider an epilogue.

Hugs and love to all of you that like me enjoy writing, reading and dreaming with these amazing characters.

Chapter 20

Bella walked with Sam until the edge of the forest, then he took her in his arms and he ran until he got into a clearing. He placed her down, and positioned his body so that she was half-hidden behind him.

"I would never hurt Bella." Edward said.

Sam shrugged his shoulders. "Better safe than sorry, besides I believe you've already hurt her more than enough."

Bella noticed Edward winching and she knew that Sam was showing him how he had found her in the woods. She placed a hand on his arm. "Please Sam, it doesn't matter anymore."

"It matters to me Bella." Sam growled. "He left you broken and hurt in the woods, with a human-drinking vampire on the loose. And now he comes back and wants that things go back to how they were before he left. He's delusional and he needed to see for himself what his selfishness has caused."

"It wasn't selfishness." Edward. "I thought that I was giving her the chance to have a human life. However, even after a minute away I missed her too much and I knew that eventually I would come back to her. I thought that if she hadn't moved on I would try everything to have her taking me back. Then I heard about her being too close with werewolves and I arrived here knowing that I needed to protect her."

She was sorry for him, if she hadn't met and fallen in love with Sam she might even have considered about taking him back, but it was too late. "Edward, I know you left me because you wanted to give me a chance to be happy with a normal life... and now I'm happy. I've never been this happy, not even with you. Sam is my choice and I beg you to listen to me, I don't want either of you to get hut so please just walk away from me. I'm asking you to."

Edward was fixing his eyes on hers. "Bella, love. I know that right now you're hurt and angry with me. But I love you, I never stopped loving you."

"I know that when you left me you did it out of love for me. You wanted me to have a normal life, it took me a long time to understand it but when I did I moved on. Please Edward don't fight with him, it would hurt me more to see one or both of you injured or killed." She whispered.

He looked crushed. "Can't you reconsider love? I know you tried to move on, but what we had was important and it meant everything to me. We can move past this."

Sam growled. "No, you can't. She had made her choice Cullen, let her go or face the consequences."

Bella took a deep breath. "Please Edward, if you love me then let me go. This is what I want, he is what I want. I see my future with him, marriage and eventually a few kids. When I was with you nothing mattered but you and it was wrong. My life, my family, my friends are important to me, and they should have meant something even when I was with you. Our love was more an obsession, you were like a drug to me and I'm your singer, I know which effect I have on you."

Edward sighed and turned his head away from her; she turned her head to see where he was looking and after a moment Jasper and Emmett arrived next to him.

Bella felt her heart fluttering in her chest; she had loved Emmett and Jasper like they were her own brothers. She looked at Jasper and her eyes met his, knowing of his ability to feel her emotions she thought about forgiveness and love.

Jasper smiled at her, he moved his eyes towards Sam and nodded his head as a sign of respect.

Sam nodded back. "Are you going to leave?" He asked.

"Yes, we , our leader apologises for the misunderstanding. We'll be gone before twilight." Jasper replied and then his eyes met Bella's again.

She felt him asking silently a question, he was asking her what she wanted to do. Bella bit her lip, feeling tears starting to fall down her eyes. These vampires than once had been her family, now were just strangers, she placed her hand in Sam's one.

Jasper saw the little gesture and understood. He placed a hand on Edward's shoulder. "Let's go Edward; she really wants to stay with him. Let her be happy."

Edward turned his sad eyes on hers once more; he shrugged Jasper's hand from his shoulder and then turned and left.

Emmett smiled at Bella. "Baby Bells, never forget that we love you. I wish you all the happiness that you deserve goodbye."

"Goodbye." She whispered, then she blinked to take away her tears and when she opened her eyes again they were gone.

"Bella." Sam said carefully.

She looked up into his dark eyes, did he look unsure? "Sam?" She whispered puzzled by his unreadable expression.

"Are you sure that you want to be with me? Are you sure that you don't want him anymore?" He asked.

Bella smiled at him and nodded. "Yes, Sam I'm sure. I choose you and the wolf; I don't want to be anywhere but in your arms. Now and forever."

He pulled her closer and his mouth hovered over hers. "What about kids and marriage?"

She laughed. "In due time Mr Uley, in due time." Then before he could reply, she placed her lips on his and kissed him with all the passion and love she felt for him.

The road to be there holding her Sam had been long and difficult, but she didn't regret a single thing. Even if she had the chance to go back and change anything she wouldn't. Loving Edward had led her to realize how much more satisfying was to love Sam. All the problems that they had faced and solved gave her the certainty that she had made the right choice in giving her heart to Sam.

"Let's go home future Mrs Uley." He growled.

Bella laughed again and walked with him towards the future she had never dreamed she could have but that right now was the only one she wanted.