My eyes opened to a bright, white light. I was in an unfamiliar room, awhite room. The wall beside me was covered in long vertical blinds; overmy head, the glaring lights blinded me. I was propped up on a hard,uneven bed — a bed with rails. The pillows were flat and lumpy. There wasan annoying beeping sound somewhere close by. I hoped that meant I wasstill alive. Death shouldn’t be this uncomfortable.
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My hands were all twisted up with clear tubes, and something was tapedacross my face, under my nose. I lifted my hand to rip it off.
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"No, you don’t." And cool fingers caught my hand.
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"Edward?" I turned my head slightly, and his exquisite face was justinches from mine, his chin resting on the edge of my pillow. I realizedagain that I was alive, this time with gratitude and elation. "Oh,Edward, I’m so sorry!""Shhhh," he shushed me. "Everything’s all right now.""What happened?" I couldn’t remember clearly, and my mind rebelledagainst me as I tried to recall.
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"I was almost too late. I could have been too late," he whispered, hisvoice tormented.
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"I was so stupid, Edward. I thought he had my mom.""He tricked us all.""I need to call Charlie and my mom," I realized through the haze.
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"Alice called them. Renée is here — well, here in the hospital. She’sgetting something to eat right now.""She’s here?" I tried to sit up, but the spinning in my head accelerated,and his hand pushed me gently down onto the pillows.
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"She’ll be back soon," he promised. "And you need to stay still.""But what did you tell her?" I panicked. I had no interest in beingsoothed. My mom was here and I was recovering from a vampire attack. "Whydid you tell her I’m here?""You fell down two flights of stairs and through a window." He paused.
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"You have to admit, it could happen."I sighed, and it hurt. I stared down at my body under the sheet, the hugelump that was my leg.
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"How bad am I?" I asked.
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"You have a broken leg, four broken ribs, some cracks in your skull,bruises covering every inch of your skin, and you’ve lost a lot of blood.
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They gave you a few transfusions. I didn’t like it — it made you smellall wrong for a while.""That must have been a nice change for you.""No, I like how you smell.""How did you do it?" I asked quietly. He knew what I meant at once.
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"I’m not sure." He looked away from my wondering eyes, lifting mygauze-wrapped hand from the bed and holding it gently in his, careful notto disrupt the wire connecting me to one of the monitors.
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I waited patiently for the rest.
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He sighed without returning my gaze. "It was impossible… to stop," hewhispered. "Impossible. But I did." He looked up finally, with half asmile. "I must love you.""Don’t I taste as good as I smell?" I smiled in response. That hurt myface.
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"Even better — better than I’d imagined.""I’m sorry," I apologized.
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He raised his eyes to the ceiling. "Of all the things to apologize for.""What should I apologize for?""For very nearly taking yourself away from me forever.""I’m sorry," I apologized again.
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"I know why you did it." His voice was comforting. "It was stillirrational, of course. You should have waited for me, you should havetold me.""You wouldn’t have let me go.""No," he agreed in a grim tone, "I wouldn’t."Some very unpleasant memories were beginning to come back to me. Ishuddered, and then winced.
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He was instantly anxious. "Bella, what’s wrong?""What happened to James?""After I pulled him off you, Emmett and Jasper took care of him." Therewas a fierce note of regret in his voice.
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This confused me. "I didn’t see Emmett and Jasper there.""They had to leave the room… there was a lot of blood.""But you stayed.""Yes, I stayed.""And Alice, and Carlisle…" I said in wonder.
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"They love you, too, you know."A flash of painful images from the last time I’d seen Alice reminded meof something. "Did Alice see the tape?" I asked anxiously.
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"Yes." A new sound darkened his voice, a tone of sheer hatred.
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"She was always in the dark, that’s why she didn’t remember.""I know. She understands now." His voice was even, but his face was blackwith fury.
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I tried to reach his face with my free hand, but something stopped me. Iglanced down to see the IV pulling at my hand.
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"Ugh." I winced.
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"What is it?" he asked anxiously — distracted, but not enough. Thebleakness did not entirely leave his eyes.
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"Needles," I explained, looking away from the one in my hand. Iconcentrated on a warped ceiling tile and tried to breathe deeply despitethe ache in my ribs.
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"Afraid of a needle," he muttered to himself under his breath, shakinghis head. "Oh, a sadisticvampire, intent on torturing her to death,sure, no problem, she runs off to meet him. An IV, on the other hand…"I rolled my eyes. I was pleased to discover that this reaction, at least,was pain-free. I decided to change the subject.
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"Why are you here?" I asked.
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He stared at me, first confusion and then hurt touching his eyes. Hisbrows pulled together as he frowned. "Do you want me to leave?""No!" I protested, horrified by the thought. "No, I meant, why does mymother think you’re here? I need to have my story straight before shegets back.""Oh," he said, and his forehead smoothed back into marble. "I came toPhoenix to talk some sense into you, to convince you to come back toForks." His wide eyes were so earnest and sincere, I almost believed himmyself. "You agreed to see me, and you drove out to the hotel where I wasstaying with Carlisle and Alice — of course I was here with parentalsupervision," he inserted virtuously, "but you tripped on the stairs onthe way to my room and… well, you know the rest. You don’t need toremember any details, though; you have a good excuse to be a littlemuddled about the finer points."I thought about it for a moment. "There are a few flaws with that story.
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Like no broken windows.""Not really," he said. "Alice had a little bit too much fun fabricatingevidence. It’s all been taken care of very convincingly — you couldprobably sue the hotel if you wanted to. You have nothing to worryabout," he promised, stroking my cheek with the lightest of touches.
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"Your only job now is to heal."I wasn’t so lost to the soreness or the fog of medication that I didn’trespond to his touch. The beeping of the monitor jumped arounderratically — now he wasn’t the only one who could hear my heartmisbehave.
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"That’s going to be embarrassing," I muttered to myself.
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He chuckled, and a speculative look came into his eye. "Hmm, I wonder…"He leaned in slowly; the beeping noise accelerated wildly before his lipseven touched me. But when they did, though with the most gentle ofpressure, the beeping stopped altogether.
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He pulled back abruptly, his anxious expression turning to relief as themonitor reported the restarting of my heart.
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"It seems that I’m going to have to be even more careful with you thanusual." He frowned.
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"I was not finished kissing you," I complained. "Don’t make me come overthere."He grinned, and bent to press his lips lightly to mine. The monitor wentwild.
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But then his lips were taut. He pulled away.
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"I think I hear your mother," he said, grinning again.
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"Don’t leave me," I cried, an irrational surge of panic flooding throughme. I couldn’t let him go — he might disappear from me again.
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The door opened a crack, and she peeked through.
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"Mom!" I whispered, my voice full of love and relief.