分节阅读_65

  road, his words flowing almost too fast for me to
  uand. ”i don't wa you feel that way.” his voice was
  lent. his words cut me. ”it's wrong. it's not safe. i'm
  dangerous, bella — please, grasp that.”
  ”no.” i tried very hard not to look like a sulky child.
  ”i'm serious,” he growled.
  ”so am i. i told you, it doesn't matter what you are. it's too late.”
  his voice whipped out, low and harsh. ”hat.”
  i bit my lip and was glad he 't know how much that hurt. i stared
  out at the road. we must be ow. he was driving much too fast.
  ”what are you thinking?” he asked, his voice still raw. i just shook my
  head, not sure if i could speak. i could feel his gaze o i
  kept my eyes forward.
  ”are y?” he sounded appalled. i hadhe moisture in
  my eyes had brimmed over. i quickly rubbed my hand ay d
  sure enough, traitor tears were there, betraying me.
  ”no,” i said, but my voice cracked.
  i saw him reae hesitantly with his right hand, but then he
  stopped a slowly ba the steering wheel.
  ”i'm sorry.” his voied with regret. i knew he wasn't just
  apologizihat had upset me.
  the darkness slipped by us in silence.
  ”tell me something,” he asked after ae, and i could hear him
  struggle to use a lighter tone.
  ”yes?”
  ”what were you thinking tonight, just before i d the er? i
  't uand your expression — you didn't look that scared, you
  looked like you were trating very hard ohing.”
  ”i was trying to remember hoa attacker — you know,
  self-defense. i was going to smash his o his brain.” i thought of
  the dark-haired man with a surge of hate.
  ”y to fight them?” this upset him. ”didn't you think about
  running?”
  ”i fall down a lot when i run,” i admitted.
  ”what ab for help?”
  ”i was getting to that part.”
  he shook his head. ”yht — i'm defiirying
  to keep you alive.”
  i sighed. ing, passing into the boundaries of forks. it had
  takewenty minutes.
  ”will i see you tomorrow?” i demanded.
  ”yes — i have a paper due, too.” he smiled. ”i'll save you a seat at
  lunch.”
  it was silly, after everything we'd been through tonight, how that little
  promise sehrough my stomad made me uo speak.
  we were in front of charlie's house. the lights were on, my tru its
  place, everything utterly normal. it was like waking from a dream. he
  stopped the car, but i didn't move.
  ”do you promise to be there tomorrow?”
  ”i promise.”
  i sidered that for a moment, then nodded. i pulled his jacket off,
  taki whiff.
  ”you keep it — you don't have a jaorrow,” he reminded me.
  i ha ba. ”i don't lain to charlie.”
  ”ht.” he grinned.
  i hesitated, my hand on the door harying t the moment.
  ”bella?” he asked ione — serious, but hesitant.
  ”yes?” i turo him too eagerly.
  ”will you promise me something?”
  ”yes,” i said, and instaed my unal agreement. what
  if he asked me to stay away from him? i 't keep that promise.
  ”don't go into the woods alone.”
  i stared at him in blank . ”why?”
  he frowned, aight as he stared past me out the window.
  ”i'm not always the m out there. let's leave it at
  that.”
  i shuddered slightly at the sudden bleakness in his voice, but i was
  relieved. this, at least, romise to honor. ”whatever you
  say.”
  ”i'll see you tomorrow,” he sighed, aed me to leave now.
  ”tomorrow, thehe d