Well this is it folks! The last chapter. My next story will be slightly different, but still an Eclare, so please keep watch for it. Thanks for all the wonderful reviews!

CLARE'S POV:

I stretched my arms above my head and sighed happily, pulling the blankets up over my chest. This was the way to spend a lazy day for sure, in bed, sleepy, but happy.

I watched Eli stir and placed a small kiss on his shoulder. He rolled over fully, smiling at me as his arms came around my waist, pulling my body close to his.

"Morning, beautiful," he said, burying his face in my hair. "Sleep well?"

"Like a baby," I purred.

Eli released my body and hoisted himself up onto his elbow, staring down at my face. "After the way we just spent last night, the word baby shouldn't be uttered, get my drift?"

I giggled and placed my hands on my taut stomach. "Too soon?"

Eli raised a brow. "Not funny, Edwards!"

"You do realize that now you can't call me Edwards anymore, right?"

Eli grinned widely and tickled my side, watching as I squirmed helplessly. When I had calmed down, he rolled on top of me and pinned my body with the weight of his own. "Have I told you how much I absolutely love you?"

"Not today."

"Well then, Blue Eyes, I love you even more than I did yesterday."

My eyes glittered and I leaned up to kiss his waiting mouth. When I pulled away I asked, "Is that because I finally let you have your way with me?"

Eli smiled crookedly. "Really? Me have my way with you? Were you there last night? Because I am pretty sure that if anyone was having their way last night, it was you. I always knew that good little Christian girls are the wildest in bed, but even I was shocked by your behaviour!"

I knew that he was teasing, but I loved every minute of it. Our banter has always made us the couple we are.

"Let's just be honest here. You have been trying to get me in the sack since the moment we met."

Eli sat back on his haunches, his legs still pinning me to the bed. He held his hands up in surrender. "I was simply trying to help you. To teach you the ropes. There was nothing sordid about it."

"And I thought that if I got some practice I'd be a better girlfriend," I reminisced. "How silly I was back then, huh?"

"Hey, I have no complaints!" Eli joked. "If it hadn't been for you wanting to change yourself, we would never have gotten to where we are now."

"And all I really had to realize was that I didn't need to change at all. I just needed to be who I was and remember that."

"Sometimes changing means staying the same. Needless to say, I am happy with how the whole situation turned out," Eli announced.

"Really?" I asked. "You wouldn't have wanted anything to be different?"

Eli glanced around our fancy motel room, taking in the flowers and half-burned candles. His gaze, once again, fell on me. I loved how he could make me feel with just one look, exposed but in the very best of ways.

"Nope. I wouldn't change a thing about us, Clare. Well…"

"What?" I asked, poking him.

"There is one thing I would change, one thing that's already changed."

I eyed him carefully. "What's that?"

"Your name. As much as I have enjoyed calling you Edwards these past few years, I will love every moment of calling you Goldsworthy," he replied.

I pulled him down for a hug, glancing over his back at my beautiful, white gown draped over the sofa. I was so happy at this very moment that it should have been illegal. I was finally married to the man of dreams, waking up after a night of wonderful lovemaking and doing it all without having to change a thing.