*Claire*

It is such an amazing thing—my life. If anyone had asked my younger self what I expected out of life, I would not have said this.

I would not have said that I would ever fall in love. I would not have said that various events would lead to me becoming happily married to a man, let alone a vampire. I would not have said that, after a very short engagement, he and I would be expecting our first child. I certainly wouldn’t have said that I would be a mother of ...