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  're as white as me!”
  ”i think i should have y eyes.”
  ”remember that ime.”
  ”ime!” i groaned.
  he laughed, his mood still radiant.
  ”show-off,” i muttered.
  ”open your eyes, bella,” he said quietly.
  and he was right there, his faiunned my
  mind — it was too mu excess i 't grow aed to.
  ”i was thinking, while i was running…” he paused.
  ”about not hittirees, i hope.”
  ”silly bella,” he chuckled. ”runure to me, it's not
  somethihink about.”
  ”show-off,” i muttered again.
  he smiled.
  ”inued, ”i was thinking there was somethiry.”
  aook my fa his hands again.
  i 't breathe.
  he hesitated — not in the normal way, the human way.
  not the way a mae before he kissed a woman, to gauge her
  rea, to see how he would be received. perhaps he would hesitate to
  prolo, that ideal moment of antietimes better
  thaself.
  edward hesitated to test himself, to see if this was safe, to make sure
  he was still in trol of his need.
  and then his arble lips pressed very softly against mine.
  what her of us ared for onse.
  blood boiled under my skin, burned in my lips. my breath a wild
  gasp. my fied in his hair, g him to me. my lips parted
  as i breathed i.
  immediately i felt him turn to unrespooh my lips. his
  ha with irresistible force, pushed my face baed
  my eyes and saression.
  ”oops,” i breathed.
  ”that's aement.”
  his eyes were wild, his jaw acute restrai he didn't
  lapse from his perfect arti. he held my fa
  his. he dazzled my eyes.
  ”should i… ?” i tried to diseo give him some room.
  his ha me move so mu inch.
  ”no, it's tolerable. wait for a moment, please.” his voice olite,
  trolled.
  i kept my eyes on his, watched as the ext in them faded and
  gentled.
  then he smiled a surprisingly impish grin.
  ”there,” he said, obviously pleased with himself.
  ”tolerable?” i asked.
  he laughed aloud. ”i'm strohan i thought. it's o know.”
  ”i wish i could say the same. i'm sorry.”
  ”you are only human, after all.”
  ”thanks so much,” i said, my voice acerbic.
  he was o in one of his lithe, almost invisibly quients.
  he held out his hand to me, aure. i was so used to our
  standard of on-tact. i took his ieedi
  more than i thought. my bala yet returned.
  ”are you still faint from the run? or was it my kissiise?” how
  lighthearted, how human he seemed as he laughed now, his seraphic face
  untroubled. he was a differehan the one i had known. and i
  felt all the more besotted by him. it hysi to be
  separated from him now.
  ”i 't be sure, i'm still woozy,” i mao respond. ”i think it's
  some of both, though.”
  ”maybe you should let me drive.”
  ”are you iested.
  ”i drive better than you o day,” he teased. ”you have much
  slower reflexes.”
  ”i'm sure that's true, but i don't think my nerves, or my truck, could
  take it.”
  ”some trust, please, bella.”
  my hand htly around the key. i pursed my
  lips, deliberated, then shook my head with a tight grin.
  ” a ce.”
  he raised his eyebrows in disbelief.
  i started to step around him, heading for the driver's side. he might
  have let me pass if i hadn't wobbled slightly. then agai not
  have. his arm inesare around my waist.
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