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  aliced to jasper's side and whispered in his ear; her lips quivered
  with the speed of her silehey flew up the stairs together.
  rosalie watched them, and then moved quiett's side. her
  beautiful eyes were intense ahey fliwillingly to my
  face — furious.
  ”what will he do?” carlisle asked laurent in g tones.
  ”i'm sorry,” he answered. ”i was afraid, when your boy there defended
  her, that it would set him off.”
  ” you stop him?”
  laurent shook his head. ”nothing stops james wheed.”
  ”we'll stop him,” emmett promised. there was no doubt what he meant.
  ”you 't bring him down. i've hing like him in my three
  hundred years. he's absolutely lethal. that's why i joined his .”
  his , i thought, of course. the sho in the g
  was merely that, a show.
  laurent was shaking his head. he gla me, perplexed, and back to
  carlisle. ”are you sure it's worth it?”
  edward's enraged roar filled the red back.
  carlisle looked gravely at laurent. ”i'm afraid y to have to
  make a choice.”
  laureood. he deliberated for a momeook in every
  fad fihe bright room.
  ”i'm ihe life you've created here. but i wohe
  middle of this. i bear none of you ay, but i won't go up against
  james. i think i will head north — to that deed.
  ”don't ue james. he's got a brilliant mind and unparalleled
  senses. he's every bit as fortable in the human world as you seem to
  be, and he won't e at you head on… i'm sorry for what's been unleashed
  here. truly sorry.” he bowed his head, but i saw him fliother
  puzzled look at me.
  ”go in peace,” was carlisle's formal answer.
  laurent to look arouhen he hurried out
  the door.
  the silehan a sed.
  ”how close?” carlisle looked to edward.
  esme was already moviouspicuous keypad on the
  wall, and with a groaers began sealing up the glass
  ed.
  ”about three miles out past the river; he's g arou up
  with the female.”
  ”what's the plan?”
  ”we'll lead him off, and then jasper and alice will ruh.”
  ”and then?”
  edward's tone was deadly. ”as soon as bella is clear, we hunt him.”
  ”i guess there's no other chreed, his face grim.
  edward turo rosalie.
  ”get her upstairs ahes,” edward aared back
  at him with livid disbelief.
  ”why should i?” she hissed. ”what is she to me? exace — a
  danger you've to infli all of us.”
  i flinched ba the venom in her voice.
  ”rose…” emmett murmured, putting one hand on her shoulder. she shook it
  off.
  but i was watg edward carefully, knowing his temper, worried about
  his rea.
  he surprised me. he looked away from rosalie as if she hadn't spoken, as
  if she did.
  ”esme?” he asked calmly.
  ”of course,” esme murmured.
  esme was at my side in half a heartbeat, swingio her
  arms, and dashiairs before i could gasp in shock.
  ”what are we doing?” i asked breathlessly as she set me down in a dark
  room somewhere off the sed-story hall.
  ”trying to fuse the smell. it won't w, but it might help
  get you out.” i could hear her clothes falling to the floor.
  ”i don't think i'll fit…” i hesitated, but her haly
  pulling my shirt over my head. i quickly stripped my jeans off myself.
  she hahi like a shirt. i struggled to get my arms
  thrht holes. as soon as i was done she handed me her slacks.
  i ya i 't get my feet out; they were too long. she
  deftly rolled the hems a few times