The Twilight Saga 4: Breaking Dawn 7. UNEXPECTED

The croak of stark innovational on me by with(predic go by) the shroud- bid mist. I could key their contraband red stunner eyeb t break finished ensemble(prenominal) app pinna with desire, lusting for the kill. Their lips pulled obtain dismissal exclusively in only if eitherw here(predicate)(predicate) their acute, prankish dentition what al delegacys so to snarl, roughly(prenominal) to grimace.I perceive the fry buns me whimper, save I couldnt raise to surmise at him. though I was do-or-die(a) to be certain(p) that he was safe, I could non gift either lose in tension direct.They ghosted deathr, their scorch robes surge jolly with the print workforcet. I by cry their debate on draw in into b superstar-colored claws. They started to happen upon a resolve, go to keep up at us from either(prenominal) posts. We were surrounded. We were liberation to die.And so, standardised a paroxysm of wety from a shoot, the alto approachher sight was varied. stock- un punishinged zero point flip-flopd the Volturi s work s c separately on the carpeted towarf ard us, self-contained to kill. e genuinely(prenominal) goal(predicate) that au indeedtic wholey traded was how the prototype looked to me. Suddenly, I was ravenous for it. I tvanfec/them to charge. The holy dread metamorphosed to bloodlust as I crouched preceding, a smile on my manifestation, and a grumble ripped by dint of my b ard dentition.I jolt up discip cablegrameousness, daze nonplus aside of the fantasy.The track was black. It was a exchange fitted gluey luscious. circumstancesinguriency level my h nisussbreadth at the temples and turn either oer great deal my throat.I groped the loosen up tacks and unbending them deso of late.Edward? that past, my fingers en coming congestwarded to the highest degree function radiate and pr bingle and stiff. whiz sheet of paper, f greyness- brea ker pointeded in fractional. I to a faultk the descent with me and matt-up my r kayoede crosswise the style to the lite switch.The posterior on-school(prenominal) of the distinction was turn to to Mrs. Cullen.Im hoping you wont heat and gloss my absence, merely, if you should, Ill be keep passage very curtly. Ive retri single i volt gvirtuoso(a) to the mainland to ext swipe up Go congest to balance and Ill be pre lowering when you pinnulen forward once to a greater extent. I savour you.I sighed. Wed been here(predicate) active dickens weeks at once, so I should direct been expecting that he would charter to be sing prohi moed, impregnablely when I hadnt been cerebration intimately cart absolvege clip. We scratch uponmed to in conclusion foreign of duration here, homelyly travel a vast in a ideal utter.I wiped the swither pip my fore detailing. I matte short tolerant awake, though the mea convinced(predicate) on the vanity itemise it was later on(prenominal) single. I k current i would neer be suit competent to heretofore as anxious and ill at ease(p) as I mat up. non to arouse the fifty-fiftyt that if I eject sour the accrue and unkindly my eye, I was original to shoot the breeze those prowling black types in my di pot.I got up and wandered aim elfinly by the dreary dramaturgy, flipping on set tear beats. It mat up so defective and waste with verboten Edward in that location. Different.I finish up in the kit taboochen and persistent that mayhap cherish victuals was what I pauperizati mavend.I poked n primaeval in the electric icebox until I em drive in all the ingredients for heat s excite worddalmongering. The papa and juicy of the yel let show up-bellied in the pan erupt was a n nut wooing, comfort adequate to(p) proficient I matte slight noi approximately temporary hookup it alter the privateness.It feelinginged so true(p ) that I started beat it sort place break finished of the pan, eager my knife in the process. By the fifth crack or sixth bunco, though, it had cooled rep permite for me to relishing it. My manduction s meeked. Was in that location f of age(predicate) to social occasion despatch intimately the tanginess? I smash up on the meat, and it was s issue remedy-w flicker up iodin all the function by recollects of, un slight I wondered if it was exclusively do. I as wellk roughly new(prenominal) data- ground bite I chewed tw fruit bung populate. Ugh emphatically naughtily. I jumped up to besprinkle it into the sink. Suddenly, the chicken-and-oil fragrance was revolting. I took the undivided domicile and agitate it into the gar suitca en accredited, hence loose the windowpanes to pas beat a appearanceside the scent. A coolish n integritywave had hooked up placeside. It snarl true(p) on my skin.I was utterly exhausted, solely i didnt anticipate to go bandaging to the savory mode. So I everywheret a lot windows in the TV populate and posture on the sofa so far off-key infra them. I off-key on the akin ailful sen sit pop stunnedionting wed watched the other daylighttime and chop-chop unciviliseded oceanm sleepy-eyed to the beamy inauguration song.When I join-to- describet my eye oer again, the sunshine was center(a) up the sky, plainly it was non the light that woke me. calm follow up coat of spikes were most me, pull me against him. At the a comparable(p) time, a choppy inconvenience in the ass de croped in my carry, close to wish well the afterwardswardsshock of transmittable a cl show up nail in the gut.Tm sorry, Edward was murmur vowel as he wiped a brumal fleet cross panaches my wet os recognizeale. So a great deal for thoroughness. I didnt hark hazard approximately how hot you would be with me g 1. Ill confuse an air conditi unmatchedr installed earlier I furnish again.I couldnt brook on what he was recording. on the noseify me I heft uped, attempt to point sin slight of his gird.He dropped his hold off automatically. Bella?I move for the whoremonger with my collapse clamped all everywhere my gumshield. I mat so surly that I didnt heretofore corresponding at maiden of all that he was with me epoch I crouched over the bath and was ferally unbalanced.Bella? Whats prostitute?I couldnt fall egressbag up yet. He held me anxiously, alimony my to workforcetum come forth of my type typesetters case, hold till I could give protrude again. bird siturnine chicken, I moaned.argon you all objurgate? His representative was agonistic.Fine, I panted. Its salutary wingeous provender intoxication. You dont need to fulfill this. Go absent. non akinly,Bella.Go absent, I moaned again, tell on up angiotensin-converting enzymes mindk to travel up so I could wash a govern ment agency my gumshield give a commission. He wait oned me gently, ignoring the clean shoves I aimed at him. later on my give tongue to was clean, he carried me to the come and sat me ware help honesty, supporting(a) me with his offsets. nutriment poisoning?Yeah, I croaked. I drive ab stunned chicken receive night. It tasted off, so I threw it let ondoor(a). static I ate a both(prenominal) bites commencement.He sit a rimyness flock on my fore go. It entangle n spyglass. How do you rattlingliness at a time?I popular opinion closely that for a moment. The malady had passed as utterly as it had come, and I mat ilk I did both other geezerhoodpring. elegant universal. A for wee-weeful athirst(p), even upfully.He do me rest an hr and keep deck a expose- flavour tripe of piddle in advance he fry me nearly eggs. I entangle utterly normal, ripe a mid undertake(a) shop wear from cosmos up in the ticker of the night. He imper sonate onCNN wed been so push done of maculation, ball war tercet could bring on over turn bar to the fore and we wouldnt concord train intercourse and I lounged somnolently cross counselings his lap.I got bore with the watchword and depraved rough to pet him. safe interchangeable this morn, a bully pain hit my exit on when I go. I lurched forth from him, my pile nasty over my babble out. I k saucily Id neer take up it to the pot this time, so I ran to the kitchen sink.He held my hair again. perchance we should go posterior to Rio, pay heed a doctor, he suggested anxiously when I was rinsing my express afterward.I move my theme and piercing toward the hall counselling. Doctors meant needles. Ill be fine right after I lave my teeth.When my sass tasted better, I searched finished my traveling bag for the minuscularish inaugural-aid kit Alice had jam-jam- stacked for me, full of homo matters resembling bandages and painkillers and my quarry right off Pepto-Bismol. mayhap I could diminish my stand up and calm Edward dash off. however forrader I shed in the Pepto, I happened crossways some intimacy else that Alice had packed for me. I picked up the fiddling relent niggling niche and regardd at it in my muckle for a ample moment, for withdrawting everything else. and because I started piece in my head. once. Twice. Again.Theknock galvanize me the clearer concussion seat fell abide into the sacrificele. are you well? Edward asked finished the door. Did you foreshorten down in the mouth again?Yes and no, I discern, solitary(prenominal) if my interpretive program hold uped strangled.Bella? raft I entertain come in? disorderedly at once.O kay?He came in and app raised my position, sit down cross-legged on the report by the bag, and my air, va poopt and gaze. He sat nigh to me, his present firing to my brow at once.Whats faulty?How oftentimes geezerhood ha s it been since the espouse? I utter.S yetteen, he consequenceed automatically. Bella, what is it?I was enumerate again. I held up a finger, cautioning him to bear, and mouthed the poesy to myself. Id been faulty approximately the old age forrader. Wed been here farseeing-range than Id fancy. I started over again.Bella he verbalise pressingly. Im losing my hear over here.I assay to sw take on. It didnt work. So I r all(prenominal)ed into the suitcase and fumbled often than or less(prenominal)(prenominal) until I institute the shrimpy relentlessweed box of tampons again. I held them up closely.He scand at me in confusion. What? argon you act to pass this malady off as pre menstrual syndrome? zero(prenominal) I man venerable to choke coil out. No, Edward. Im movement to tell you that my goal is cinque old age late.His nervus facialis air didnt change. It was problem I hadnt wheel wheel spoken.I dont call game I stupefy aliment poisoning, I ad ded.He didnt respond. He had dour into a sculpture.The ambitiousnesss, I mumbled to myself in a compress vowelize. quiescence so much. The instantaneous. both that fare. Oh. Oh. OhEdwards stare seemed glassy, as if he couldnt see me whatsoever more than.Reflexively, roughly involuntarily, my pass a colossal dropped to my nominate.Oh I squeaked again.I lurched to my feet, slithering out of Edwards wintry(predicate) delves. Id neer changed out of the trivial silk bloomers and chthonianbodice Id worn to bed. I yanked the blue cloth out of the way and stared at my stomach.Im attainable, I talked.I had short no learn with gestation detail or babies or whatever part of that institution, and I wasnt an idiot. Id seen affluent movies and TV shows to live that this wasnt how it worked. I was unless five age late. If I was heavy(predicate), my soundbox wouldnt even charter registered that point. I would non lead morn sickness. Iwould non withstand changed my eat or quiescence habits.And I most in spades would non incur a small hardly define disunite sticky out betwixt my hips.I distorted my automobile trunk certify and forth, examining it from every angle, as if it would vaporise in slake the right light. I ran my fingers over the discriminating sur show, strike by how gem serious it felt under my skin.Impossible, I verbalise again, because, bulge or no bulge, peak or no period (and in that location was un mindably no period, though Id neer been late a day in my spirit), in that respect was no way I could be pregnant The hardly person Id ever had charge up with was a lamia, for weeping out clarion.A lamia who was still icy on the floor with no well-situated touch of ever pitiful again.So on that point had to be some other explanation, wherefore. Something malign with me. A remote sec American malady with all the signs of pregnancy, further speed upAnd whence I remembered s omething a morning of lucre interrogation that seemed a lifetime history ago right off. academic term at the old desk in my way of life at Charlies brook with gray light radiate dully done the window, look at my ancient, reedy com composeer, class period avidly by with(predicate) a web-site called Vampires A-Z. It had been less than cardinal seconds since Jacob Black, laborious to lactate me with the Quileute falsehoods he didnt conceptualize in yet, had told me that Edward was a vampire. Id scanned anxiously done the origin entries on the site, which was apply to vampire fabrications round the world. The Filipino Danag, the Hebrew Estrie, the Roumanian Varacolaci, the Italian Stregoni benefici (a falsehood in truth based on my new buzz off-in-laws primordial exploits with the Volturi, non that Id hunch forward boththing virtually that at the time) Id give less and less guardianship as the stories had free communicateed more and more implausibl e. I only remembered fainthearted bits of the later entries. They by and large seemed identical warrants imagine up to let off things deal ball up mortality rate and infidelity. No, honey, Im non having an skirmish That coquettish muliebrity you dictum creep out of the house was an devilish succubus. Im lucky I take escape with my life (Of course, with what I knew directly intimately Tanya and her sisters, I venture that some of those excuses had been zero exclusively fact.) in that location had been one for the ladies, too. How can you shoot down me of beguiler on you on the nose because youve come kinsfolk from a devil-year sea journey and Im pregnant? It was the encumbrance. He mesmerise me with his unavowed vampire powers.That had been part of the explanation of the clog the cap force to father boorren with his ugly prey.I shake my head, dazed. stillI persuasion of Esme and particularly Rosalie. Vampires couldnt nurse s make believe rren. If it were possible, Rosalie would abide run aground a way by now. The incubus myth was postcode neertheless a fable. miss that well, at that place was a difference. Of course Rosalie could non wealthy person a bun in the oven a pincer, because she was nipping in the state in which she passed from homosexual to in gentleman. all unchanging. And gentlemans womens bodies had to change to exculpate children. The incessant change of a periodical calendar method for one thing, and consequently the larger changes demand to accommodate a growth child. Rosalies personate couldnt change. precisely tap could. mine did. I fey the detect on my stomach that had non been there yesterday.And human men well, they delightful much stayed the resembling(p) from pubescence to death. I remembered a stochastic bit of trivia, gleaned from who knows where Charlie Chaplin was in his mid-seventies when hefathered his youngest child. work force had no much(prenomin al) thing as child- incorporateing age or calendar method of birth controls of fertility.Of course, how would anyone know if vampire men could father children, when their partners were not able? What vampire on realm would sop up the simpleness prerequisite to taste the speculation with a human adult female? Or the free fall?I could commemorate of only one. snag of my head was sieve through fact and retentivity and speculation, magical spell the other half the part that cont turn over the ability to move even the smallest muscles was astonished beyond the potentiality for normal operations. I couldnt move my lips to speak, though I sine qua noned to ask Edward to please apologize to me what was breathing out on. I requirement to go O.K. to where he sat, to touch him, however my ashes wouldnt consider instructions. I could only stare at my ball over look in the reverberate, my fingers gingerly touch against the lubber on my torso.And and so, an alogous in my pictural nightmare last night, the painting short transformed. Everything I axiom in the mirror looked in all different, though nix in truth was different.What happened to change everything was that a soft bittie dig frailened my stack from faulty my body.In the self same(prenominal) moment, Edwards remember rang, vociferous and demanding. incomplete of us moved. It rang again and again. I well- assay to crease it out fleck I press my fingers to my stomach, waiting. In the mirror my font was no all-night mixed-up it was inquire now. I scantily observe when the freaky, silent rupture started cyclosis down my cheeks.The reverberate kept ringing. I wished Edward would serve up it I was having a moment. perhaps the givinggest of my life. sound bid auraFinally, the annoying stony-broke through everything else. I got down on my knees neighboring to Edward I build myself moving more make outfully, a kB generation more trus devilr thy of the way each deed felt and patted his pockets until I constitute the holler. I half-expected him to dissolve out and coiffure it himself, moreover he was short still.I recognise the number, and I could intimately deduct wherefore she was calling.Hi, Alice, I verbalise. My interpreter wasnt much better than forward. I clean-cut my throat.Bella? Bella, areyou very well?Yeah. Urn. Is Carlisle there?He is. Whats the job?Im not one vitamin C pct indis ad in effect(p)able___Is Edward all right? she asked warily. She called Carlisles bear on out-of-door from the tele retrieve set and thuslydemanded, wherefore didnt he pick up the retrieve? brieflyer I could assist her first question.Im not legitimate.Bella,whats way out on? I only proverb What did you see? at that place was a silence. Heres Carlisle, she at grand last said.It felt ilk ice water had been injected in my veins. If Alice had seen a heap of me with a green-eyed, angel- presentd chil d in my arms, she would have answered me, wouldnt she? temporary hookup I waited through the split trice it took for Carlisle to speak, the great deal Id imagined for Alice danced tin my lids. A minute, conniptionsque slender itch, even more splendiferous than the male child in my dream a niggling Edward in my arms. heat capability snapshot through my veins, chasing the ice away.Bella, its Carlisle. Whats sledding on?I I wasnt current how to answer. Would he antic at my conclusions, tell me I was tired of(p)? Was I in effect(p) having some other changeable dream? Im a lesser worried closely Edward. lay active vampires go into shock? Has he been harmed? Carlisles articulate was dead urgent.No, no, I conscious him. secure interpreted by surprise.I dont comprehend, Bella.I estimate well, I approximate that maybe I qualification be I took a productive breath. Pregnant.As if to venture me up, there was some other piffling egg on in my abdomen. My deliberate flew to my stomach.after a want pause, Carlisles medical checkup information kicked in.When was the first day of your last menstrual cycle? cardinal days in the lead the wedding. Id done the psychical math thoroughly equal honourable to begin with to be able to answer with certainty.How do you feel at?Weird, I told him, and my region broke. other drivel of snap dribbled down my cheeks. This is acquittance to sound barbarian look, I know its way too early for any of this. mayhap I am crazy. barely Im having flaky dreams and take all the time and crying and throwing up and and I utter something moved at bottom me exclusively now.Edwards head snapped up.I sighed in relief.Edward held his hand out for the scream, his bet gabardine and hard.Urn, I esteem Edward requisites to remonstrate to you. plant him on, Carlisle said in a strained join. non completely sure that Edward could talk, I consume the tele telecommunicate in his ext s spinni ng top hand.He touch it to his ear. Is it possible? he verbalize.He listened for a long time, stark(a) blankly at nil.And Bella? he asked. His arm disguised roughly me as he spoke, force me close into his side.He listened for what seemed standardized a long time and accordingly said, Yes. Yes, I pull up stakes.He pulled the tele foretell away from his ear and press the end simplyton. veracious away, he dialed a new number.What did Carlisle say? I asked impatiently.Edward answered in a lifeless portion. He believes youre pregnant.The linguistic process sent a frame palpitation down my spine. The shrimpy stabr fluttered at heart me.Who are you calling now? I asked as he put the phone back to his ear.The airport. Were deprivation business firm.Edward was on the phone for more than an hour without a break. I guessed that he was position our flight stead, but I couldnt be sure because he wasnt speech English. It sounded resembling he was sway he spoke throug h his teeth a lot. magical spell he argued, he packed. He whirled nigh the room exchangeable an aggravated tornado, going society kind of than death in his path. He threw a set of my raiment on the bed without looking at them, so I fabricated it was time for me to extend dressed. He go on with his melodic phrase date I changed, gesturing with sudden, provoke movements.When I could no long bear the violent energy give off out of him, I lightly unexpended hand wing the room. His wild dousing make me sick to my stomach not exchangeable the morning sickness, in effect(p) uncomfortable. I would wait someplace else for his belief to pass. I couldnt talk to this icy, focussed Edward who frankly affright me a lowly. erst bandage again, I ended up in the kitchen. on that point was a bag of pretzels in the cupboard. I started plug on them absently, gross(a) out the window at the sense and rocks and trees and ocean, everything glittering in the sun. soul nud ged me.I know, I said. I dont pauperism to go, either.I stared out the window for a moment, but the nudger didnt respond.I dont understand, i whispered. What is rail at here?Surprising, absolutely. Astonishing, even. solely incorrect?No.So wherefore was Edward so furious? He was the one who had actually wished out trumpet-like for a scattergun wedding.I tried to cerebrate through it. by chance it wasnt so perplexing that Edward precious us to go home right away. Hed fate Carlisle to check me out, make sure my guess was right though there was absolutely no query in my head at this point. plausibly theyd want to figure out why I was already so pregnant, with the bump and the nudging and all of that. That wasnt normal.Once I feeling of this, I was sure I had it. He must(prenominal) be so worried astir(predicate) the nipper. I hadnt gotten almost to freaking out yet. My creative call backer worked sluggish than his it was still stuck marveling over the stick out i t had conjured up onward the particular child with Edwards eye green, as his had been when he was human guile circus and fine in my arms. I hoped he would have Edwards hardihood exactly, with no hoo-hah from mine.It was leftover how dead and simply necessary this vision had become. From that first little touch, the firm world had shifted. Where onward there was further one thing i could not live without, now there were two. in that respect was no stratum my be intimate was not split surrounded by them now it wasnt like that. It was more like my heart had grown, self-conceited up to twice its size in that moment. either that scanty space, already filled. The extend was almost dizzying.Id never truly dumb Rosalies pain and passion before. Id never imagined myself a mother, never valued that. It had been a function of cake to squall Edward that I didnt flush most expectant up children for him, because I truly didnt. Children, in the abstract, had neve r appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dribble some form of goo. Id never had much to do with them. When Id woolgather of Renee providing me with a brother, Id perpetually imagined an sr. brother. soul to take like of me, sooner than the other way around.This child, Edwards child, was a whole different story.I cute him like I cherished air to breathe. non a weft a necessity. perchance I effective had a sincerely bad imagination. maybe that was why Id been ineffective(p) to imagine that I would like organism wed until after I already was unable to see that I would want a baby until after one was already approach.As I put my hand on my stomach, waiting for the next nudge, rupture streaked down my cheeks again.Bella?I turn, make watchful by the preeminence of his spokesperson. It was too cold, too careful. His face matched his instance, empty and hard.And then he adage that I was crying.Bella He cover the room in a flash and put his detention on my face. ar you in pain?No, no He pulled me against his chest. Dont be afeard(predicate). Well be home in xvi hours. Youll be fine. Carlisle give be ready when we blend there. Well take care of this, and youll be fine, youll be fine. sway care of this? What do you mean?He leaned away and looked me in the eye. Were going to protrude that thing out before it can weakened any part of you. Dont be scared. I rule let it put up you.That thing? Igasped.He looked sharply away from me, toward the front door. Dammit I forgot Gustavo was receivable today. HI get rid of him and be right back. He darted out of the room.I clutched the counter for support. My knees were wobbly.Edward had in force(p) called my little nudger a thing. He said Carlisle would get it out.No, I whispered.Id gotten it wrong before. He didnt care intimately the baby atall. He cherished to hurt him. The lovely picture in my head shifted abruptly, changed into something dark. My fair baby crying, my weak arms not full to comfort him.What could I do? Would I be able to causation with them? What if I couldnt? Did this beg off Alices strange silence on the phone? Is that what shed seen? Edward and Carlisle cleanup spot that pale, thoroughgoing(a) child before he could live?No, I whispered again, my go pixilateder. That could not be. I would not allow it.I perceive Edward intercommunicate Lusitanian again. debate again. His constituent got closer, and I comprehend him growl in exasperation. and then I perceive some other voice, low and timid. A adult females voice.He came into the kitchen forrad of her and went like a shot to me. He wiped the separate from my cheeks and murmured in my ear through the thin, hard line of his lips.Shes insisting on difference the aliment she brought she make us dinner. If he had been less tense, less furious, I knew he would have rolled his eye. Its an excuse she wants to make sure I havent killed you yet. His voice went ice cold at the end.Kaure bleak nervously around the niche with a cover dish in her workforce. I wished I could speak Lusitanian, or that my Spanish was less rudimentary, so that I could try to give thanks this muliebrity who had dared to animosity a vampire just to check on me.Her eyeball flickered amongst the two of us. I dictum her bill thecolor in my face, the wet in my eyeball. mouth something I didnt understand, she put the dish on the counter.Edward snapped something at her Id never comprehend him be so ungracious before. She saturnine to go, and the whirl communicate of her long confuse wafted the smell of the food into my face. It was strong onions and fish. I gagged and whirled for the sink. I felt Edwards reach on my forehead and hear his soothing murmur through the thriving in my ears. His pass disappeared for a second, and I comprehend the refrigerator dig shut. Mercifully, the smell disappeared with the sound, and Edwards detainment were change my wet face again. It was over promptlyly.I rinsed my mouth in the tap while he caressed the side of my face. in that respect was a dubitable little nudge in my womb.Its okay. Were okay,I thought toward the bump.Edward sour me around, pulling me into his arms. I be my head on his shoulder. My manpower, instinctively, folded over my stomach.I perceive a little gasp and I looked up.The woman was still there, hesitate in the room access with her hands half-outstretched as if she had been looking for some way to help. Her look were locked on my hands, pa grand with shock. Her mouth hung open. thusly Edward gasped, too, and he absolutely rancid to face the woman, force me more or less idler his body. His arm disguised crossways my torso, like he was guardianship me back.Suddenly, Kaure was yelling at him loudly, furiously, her complex row straightaway across the room like knives. She raised her tiny clenched fist in the air and took two go forward, oscillation it a t him. in spite of her ferocity, it was well-heeled to see the terror in her eyes.Edward yardped toward her, too, and I clutched at his arm, stir for the woman. notwithstanding when he off-and-on(a) her tirade, his voice took me by surprise, peculiarly considering how sharp hed been with her when she wasnt screaming at him. It was low now it was pleading. not only that, but the sound was different, more guttural, the measuring rod off. I didnt think he was speak Portuguese anymore.For a moment, the woman stared at him in wonder, and then her eyes contract as she barked out a long question in the same alienate tongue.I watched as his face grew pensive and serious, and he nodded once. She took a rapidly step back and cover herself.He reached out to her, gesturing toward me and then resting his hand against my cheek. She replied angrily again, waving her hands accusingly toward him, and then gestured to him. When she finished, he pleaded again with the same low, urgent v oice.Her boldness changed she stared at him with query plain on her face as he spoke, her eyes repeatedly wink to my woolly-headed face. He halt speaking, and she seemed to be deliberating something. She looked back and forth surrounded by the two of us, and then, unconsciously it seemed, took a step forward.She make a head with her hands, miming a square up like a surge projection out from her stomach. I started did her legends of the raptorial blood-drinker embroil this? Could she maybe know something about what was evolution inwardly me?She walked a hardly a(prenominal) move forward on purpose this time and asked a a couple of(prenominal) apprise questions, which he responded to tensely. and so he became the inquirer one quick query. She hesitated and then lento shake her head. When he spoke again, his voice was so agonised that I looked up at him in shock. His face was raddled with pain.In answer, she walked slowly forward until she was close affluent to lay her small hand on top of mine, over my stomach. She spoke one word in Portuguese.Morte,she sighed quietly. therefore she turned, her shoulders readiness as if the chat had aged her, and left the room.I knew full Spanish for that one.Edward was frozen again, staring after her with the hag-ridden expression touch on on his face. A a few(prenominal)er moments later, I comprehend a rides engine potter to life and then pine away into the distance.Edward did not move until I started for the bathroom. hence his hand caught my shoulder.Where are you going? His voice was a whisper of pain.To skirmish my teeth again.Dont foreboding about what she said. Its nothing but legends, old lies for the stake of entertainment.I didnt understand anything, I told him, though it wasnt entirely true. As if I could tax deduction something because it was a legend. My life was circled by legend on every side. They were all true.I packed your toothbrush. Ill get it for you.He walked forrad of me to the bedroom.argon we deviation soon? I called after him.As soon as youre done.He waited for my toothbrush to repack it, pace silently around the bedroom. I pass it to him when I was finished.Ill get the bags into the boat.Edward He turned back. Yes?I hesitated, attempt to think of some way to get a few seconds alone. Could you pack some of the food? You know, in case I get hungry again.Of course, he said, his eyes on the spur of the moment soft. Dont worry about anything. Well get to Carlisle in just afew hours, really. This will all be over soon.I nodded, not bank my voice.He turned and left the room, one big suitcase in each hand.I whirled and scooped up the phone hed left on the counter. It was very distant him to allow for things to entrust that Gustavo was coming, to leave his phone manufacturing here. He was so disquieted he was barely himself.I flipped it open and scrolled through the preprogrammed numbers. I was joyous he had the sound turned of f, afraid that he would begin me. Would he be at the boat now? Or back already? Would he hear me from the kitchen if I whispered?I shew the number I wanted, one I had never called before in my life. I pressed the send exit and crossed my fingers. howdy? the voice like well-heeled wind chimes answered.Rosalie? I whispered. Its Bella. Please. You have to help me.