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  in an unbreakable hold.
  ”what —” i started to ask, when his body became alert. i froze, but he
  suddenly released my hands, and disappeared. i narrowly avoided falling
  on my face.
  ”lie down!” he hissed. i 't tell where he spoke from in the
  darkness.
  i rolled under my quilt, balling up ohe t.
  i heard the door , as charlie peeked in to make sure i was
  osed to be. i breathed evei.
  a long mie sure if i'd heard the door close.
  then edward's was arouhe covers, his lips at my
  ear.
  ”you are a terrible actress — i'd say that career path is out for you.”
  ”darn it,” i muttered. my heart was g i.
  he hummed a melody i didn't reize; it sounded like a lullaby.
  he paused. ”should i sing you to sleep?”
  ”right,” i laughed. ”like i could sleep with you here!”
  ”you do it all the time,” he reminded me.
  ”but i didn't know you were here,” i replied icily.
  ”so if you don't want to sleep…” he suggested, ign my tone. my
  breath caught.
  ”if i don't want to sleep… ?”
  he chuckled. ”what do you want to do then?”
  i 't a first.
  ”i'm not sure,” i finally said.
  ”tell me when you decide.”
  i could feel his cool breath on my neck, feel his nose sliding along my
  jaw, inhaling.
  ”i thought you were desensitized.”
  ”just because i'm resisting the wi mean i 't appreciate the
  bouquet,” he whispered. ”you have a very floral smell, like lavender… or
  freesia,” he 's m.”
  ”yeah, it's an off day when i do somebody telling me how edible i
  smell.”
  he chud then sighed.
  ”i've decided what i want to do,” i told him. ”i want to hear more about
  you.”
  ”ask me anything.”
  i sifted through my questioal. ”why do you do it?” i
  said. ”i still don't uand how you work so hard to resist what
  you… are. please don't misuand, of course i'm glad that you do. i
  just don't see why you would bother i place.”
  he hesitated bef. ”that's a good question, a
  the first oo ask it. the others — the majority of our kind who are
  quite t with our lot — they, too, wo how we live. but you
  see, just because we've bee a ha mean that
  we 't choose to rise above — to quer the boundaries of a destiny
  that none of us wary to retaiial humanity we
  .”
  i lay unmoving, lo awed silence.
  ”did you fall asleep?” he whispered after a few minutes.
  ”no.”
  ”is that all you were curious about?”
  i rolled my eyes. ”not quite.”
  ”what else do you want to know?”
  ”why inds — why only you? and alig the future… why
  does that happen?”
  i felt him shrug in the darkness. ”we don't really know. carlisle has a
  theory… he believes that we all brihing est human
  traits with us i life, where they are intensified — like our
  minds, and our sehat i must have already been very
  sehoughts of those arouhat alie
  pre, wherever she was.”
  ”what did he bring i life, ahers?”
  ”carlisle brought his e brought her ability to love
  passio brought his strength, rosalie her… tenacity. or you
  could call it pigheadedness.” he chuckled. ”jasper is very iing.
  he was quite charismati his first life, able to ihose
  around him to see things his way. now he is able to mahe
  emotions of those around him — of angry people, for
  example, or excite a lethargic versely. it's a very subtle
  gift.”
  i sidered the impossibilities he described, try