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  was hittihe belt.”
  ”don't worry. he'll five you.” he smiled a little, though it didn't
  touch his eyes.
  i stared at him desperately, ahe naked pani my eyes.
  ”bella, it's going tht.”
  ”but it won't be all right when i'm not with you,” i whispered.
  ”we'll be tain in a few days,” he said, tightening his arm
  around me. ”don't fet that this was your idea.”
  ”it was the best idea — of course it was mine.”
  his answering smile was bleak and disappeared immediately.
  ”why did this happen?” i asked, my voig. ”why me?”
  he stared blackly at the road ahead. ”it's my fault — i was a fool to
  expose you like that.” the rage in his voice was direternally.
  ”that's not what i meant,” i insisted. ”i was there, big deal. it didn't
  bother the other two. why did this james deet there're
  people all over the place, why me?”
  he hesitated, thinking before he answered.
  ”i got a good look at his mind tonight,” he began in a low voice. ”i'm
  here's anything i could have doo avoid this, once he saw
  you. it is partially your fault.” his voice was wry. ”if you didn't smell
  so appallingly lusight hered. but when i defended
  you… well, that made it a lot worse. he's o being thwarted, no
  matter how insignifit the object. he thinks of himself as a hunter and
  nothing else. his existened with trad a ge is
  all he asks of life. suddenly we've preseh a beautiful
  ge — a large hters all bent the
  one vul. you wouldn't believe how euphoriow. it's
  his favame, and we've just made it his most exg game ever.”
  his tone was full of disgust.
  he paused a moment.
  ”but if i had stood by, he would have killed yht then,” he said
  with hopeless frustration.
  ”i thought… i didn't smell the same to the others… as i do to you,” i
  said hesitantly.
  ”you don't. but that does you aren't still a temptation to
  every ohem. if you had appealed to the tracker — or any of them —
  the same eal to me, it would have meant a fight right there.”
  i shuddered.
  ”i don't think i have ao kill him ered.
  ”carlisle won't like it.”
  i could hear the tires cre, though i 't see the river
  in the dark. i kio ask him now.
  ”how you kill a vampire?”
  he glah unreadable eyes and his voice was suddenly harsh.
  ”the only way to be sure is to tear him to shreds, ahe
  pieces.”
  ”awo will fight with him?”
  ”the woman will. i'm laurent. they don't have a very
  strong bond — he's only with them for ce. he was embarrassed by
  james in the meadow…”
  ”but james and the woman — they'll try to kill you?” i asked, my voice
  raw.
  ”bella, don't you dare waste time w about me. your only is
  keeping yourself safe and — please, please — trying not to be reckless.”
  ”is he still following?”
  ”yes. he won't attack the house, though. not tonight.”
  he turo the invisible drive, with alice following behind.
  we drht up to the house. the lights i, but they
  did little to alleviate the blaess of the eng forest. emmett
  had my door operuck ed; he pulled me out of the
  seat, tucked me like a football into his vast d rahrough
  the door.
  we burst inte white room, edward a our sides. all of
  them were there; they were already ohe sound of our
  approat stood i. i crowls rumble
  deep i's throat as he set me dowo edward.
  ”he's trag us,” edward announced, glari laurent.
  laurent's fahappy. ”i was afraid of that.