分节阅读_107

  ot;you are my life now,” he answered simply.
  there was nothio say for the moment. he rocked us bad forth
  as the rhter.
  ”breakfast time,” he said eventually, casually — to prove, i'm sure, that
  he remembered all my human frailties.
  so i clutched my throat with both hands a him with wide eyes.
  shock crossed his face.
  ”kidding!” i snickered. ”and you said i 't act!”
  he frowned in disgust. ”that wasn't funny.”
  ”it was very funny, and you know it.” but i examined his gold eyes
  carefully, to make sure that i was fively, i was.
  ”shall i rephrase?” he asked. ”breakfast time for the human.”
  ”oh, okay.”
  he threw me over his stoly, but with a swift
  left me breathless. i protested as he carried me easily dowairs,
  but he ig me right side up on a chair.
  the kit was bright, happy, seeming to absorb my mood.
  ”what's for breakfast?” i asked pleasantly.
  that threw him for a minute.
  ”er, i'm would you like?” his marble brow puckered.
  i grinned, hopping up.
  ”that's all right, i fend for myself pretty well. watt.”
  i found a bowl and a box of cereal. i could feel his eyes on me as i
  poured the milk and grabbed a spoon. i sat my food oable, and then
  paused.
  ” i get you anything?” i asked, not wanting to be rude.
  he rolled his eyes. ”just eat, bella.”
  i sat at the table, watg him as i took a bite. he was gazing at me,
  studying my every movement. it made me self-scious. i cleared my mouth
  to speak, to distract him.
  ”what's ooday?” i asked.
  ”hmmm…” i watched him frame his answer carefully. ”what would you say to
  meeting my family?”
  i gulped.
  ”are you afraid now?” he sounded hopeful.
  ”yes,” i admitted; how could i deny it — he y eyes.
  ”don't worry.” he smirked. ”i'll protect you.”
  ”i'm not afraid of them,” i explained. ”i'm afraid they won't… like me.
  won't they be, well, surprised that you w someone… like me…
  home to meet them? do they know that i know about them?”
  ”oh, they already khiakeerday, you know”
  — he smiled, but his voice was harsh — ”oher i'd bring you back,
  though why anyone would bet against ali't imagi any rate,
  we don't have se the family. it's not really feasible, what with
  my mind reading ahe future and all that.”
  ”and jasper making you feel all warm and fuzzy about spilling yuts,
  don't fet that.”
  ”you paid attention,” he smiled approvingly.
  ”i've been known to do that every now and then.” i grimaced. ”so did
  alice see me ing?”
  his rea was strahi,” he said unfortably,
  turning away so i 't see his eyes. i stared at him curiously.
  ”is that any good?” he asked, turning bae abruptly and eyeing my
  breakfast with a teasing look oly, it doesn't look
  very appetizing.”
  ”well, it's nrizzly…” i murmured, ign him when he
  glowered. i was still w why he respo way when i
  mentioned alice. i hurried through my cereal, speg.
  he stood in the middle of the kit, the statue of adonis again,
  staring abstractedly out the badows.
  then his eyes were bae, and he smiled his heartbreaking smile.
  ”and you should io your father, too, i think.”
  ”he already knows you,” i reminded him.
  ”as your boyfriend, i mean.”
  i stared at him with suspi. ”why?”
  ”isn't that ary?” he asked ily.
  ”i don't know,” i admitted. my dating histave me few reference
  points to work with. not that any normal rules of dating applied here.
  ”that's not necessary, you know. i do you to… i mean, you don