![]() ![]() “You’re lucky Edward has his brothers for all the hiking and camping. My pen dug into the envelope I was working on. “What’s Edward doing tonight?” she asked after a few minutes. For a while weĬoncentrated, and there was just the sound of our pens scratching quietly across the paper. Are you sure you want to do this?”Īngela divided a pile in half and put her mother’s address book between us on her desk. “I thought you were exaggerating,” I admitted. Angela turned to look at me, apologies in her eyes. “I don’t mind at all,” I said, and then I walked into Angela’s room and saw the stacks of waiting Ben’s pretending he has tendonitis.” She made a face. “My parents took the twins to a birthday party in Port Angeles. She kicked toys out of the way as she went. I followed Angela up the stairs to her room. Angela’s easy human dramas were oddly reassuring. “Happy to be of service.” I was feeling a bit less panicked, able to breathe a little more evenly. Hands from permanent injury, you also just spared me two long hours of a plot-less, badly dubbed martial “Thank you for doing this, Bella,” she said. Then she turned to me and grinned ruefully. “’Bye, Ang! Love you!” Ben shouted as he dashed past me.Īngela swayed, her face slightly pink, then recovered herself and waved until Ben and Austin were out After a second of this, Austin honked again. He threw his arm around Angela’s neck and pulled her face down to his height so that he could kiss herĮnthusiastically. “Austin’s here,” Ben said as Angela reached his side. This must be the visitor Ben had been waiting for. This engine stuttered to a stop, followed by the loud pop of a backfire. “Sure,” Ben said just as Angela called, “Bella!” and appeared at the top of the stairs.īen peered around me as we both heard the sound of a car on the road the sound didn’t scare me. Er, is Angela here?” I wondered if Angela had forgotten our plans, and cringed at the thought I ran up the short concrete walk toĪngela’s door as soon as he was out of sight.īen answered the door before I could finish knocking, like he’d been standing right behind it. I didn’t want to see the expression on his face. He followed me until I pulled to the curb in front of the Webers’ house. I kept my eyes on the road ahead.Ĭhicken through and through, I drove straight to Angela’s without once meeting the gaze I could feel At least that would force him to keep his voice down. But I was too much of a coward to face him right away. Next minute, the sun was glinting off a silver Volvo right on my tail. ![]() One minute there was nothing but bright highway in my rearview mirror. And obviously, I thought as I squinted into the glare, there was no danger. it didn’t make things perfect, but it made them better. Seeing Jacob smile, having all the secrets thrashed out. I was thinking about the flood of information Jacob had shared with me, trying to sort it out, to force it all to make sense. ASIDROVE HOME, IWASN’T PAYING MUCH ATTENTION TO the road that shimmered wetly in the sun. ![]()
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