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  atiehought.
  ”so where did it all start? i mean, carlisle ged you, and then
  someo have ged him, and so on…”
  ”well, where did you ? evolutioion? 't we have
  evolved in the same way as other species, predator and prey? or, if you
  dohat all this world could have just happes own,
  which is hard for me to accept myself, is it so hard to believe that the
  same force that created the deligelfish with the shark, the baby
  seal and the killer whale, could create both our kiher?”
  ”let me get this straight — i'm the baby seal, right?”
  ”right.” he laughed, aouched my hair — his lips?
  i waurn toward him, to see if it was really his lips against my
  hair. but i had to be good; i didn't wahis any harder for him
  than it already was.
  ”are you ready to sleep?” he asked, ii silence. ”or
  do you have aions?”
  ”only a million or two.”
  ”we have tomorrow, a day, a…” he reminded me. i
  smiled, euphoric at the thought.
  ”are you sure you won't vanish in the m?” i wao be
  . ”you are mythical, after all.”
  ”i won't leave you.” his voice had the seal of a promise in it.
  ”oonight…” and i blushed. the darkness — i'm
  sure he could feel the sudden warmth under my skin.
  ”what is it?”
  ”. i ged my mind.”
  ”bella, you ask me anything.”
  i didn't answer, and he groaned.
  ”i keep thinking it will get less frustrating, n yhts.
  but it just gets worse and worse.”
  ”i'm glad you 't read my thoughts. it's bad enough that you eavesdrop
  oalking.”
  ”please?” his voice ersuasive, so impossible to resist.
  i shook my head.
  ”if you don't tell me, i'll just assume it's something much worse than it
  is,” he threatened darkly. ”please?” again, that pleading voice.
  ”well,” i began, glad that he 't see my face.
  ”yes?”
  ”you said that rosalie a will get married soon… is that…
  marriage… the same as it is for humans?”
  he laughed i anding. ”is that what y
  at?”
  i fidgeted, uo answer.
  ”yes, i suppose it is much the same,” he said. ”i told you, most of those
  humahere, just hidden behind more powerful desires.”
  ”oh,” was all i could say.
  ”was there a purpose behind your curiosity?”
  ”well, i did wo you and me… someday…”
  he was instantly serious, i could tell by the sudden stillness of his
  body. i froze, t automatically.
  ”i don't think that… that… would be possible for us.”
  ”because it would be too hard for you, if i were that… close?”
  ”that's ly a problem. but that's not what i was thinking of. it's
  just that you are so sile. i have to mind my as every
  momeogether so that i don't hurt you. i could kill you
  quite easily, bella, simply by at.” his voice had bee just a
  soft murmur. he moved his icy palm tainst my cheek. ”if i was
  too hasty… if for one sed i wasn't payiention, i could
  reaeaning to touch your fad crush your skull by mistake.
  you don't realize how incredibly breakable you are. i ever, never
  afford to lose any kind of trol when i'm with you.”
  he waited frowing anxious when i didn't. ”are you
  scared?” he asked.
  i waited for a mio ahe words would be true. ”no. i'm
  fine.”
  he seemed to deliberate for a moment. ”i'm ow, though,” he said,
  his voice light again. ”have you ever… ?” he trailed off suggestively.
  ”of ot.” i flushed. ”i told you i've his about
  a even close.&quo