He hated his original existence and upon meeting Alice joined the Cullen's with her. Bella sees the true bond between a mated vampire pair and begins to understand Jasper better. Despite her reluctance to marry Bella realizes that spending eternity with Edward is more important to her than anything else and agrees to marry him. Edward and Bella camp up in the mountains to hide Bella from the blood thirsty newborns. During the night Bella overhears a conversation between Edward and Jacob in which they temporarily put aside their hatred towards each other. In the morning Jacob overhears the Edward and Bella discussing their engagement and takes off. Bella desperately asks him to kiss her and she realizes that she has fallen in love with him. Edward finds out about the kiss but is not upset as Bella knowing that her love for Jacob is not as strong as her love for Edward tells that she loves him more than Jacob. When Victoria appears Edward kills her while Seth kills Riley. The Cullen's and Quileute wolves meanwhile destroy her army though Jacob is injured saving Leah Clearwater from a newborn army. They also see that the Cullens are guarding the newborn Bree Tanner who had refused to fight and surrendered to Carlisle and Esme.