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  my fader my ed my hand to rip it off.
  ”no, you don't.” and gers caught my hand.
  ”edward?” i turly, ae face was just
  inine, his resting on the edge of my pillow. i realized
  again that i was alive, this time with gratitude aion. ”oh,
  edward, i'm so sorry!”
  ”shhhh,” he shushed me. ”everything's all right now.”
  ”ened?” i 't remember clearly, and my mind rebelled
  agairied to recall.
  ”i was almost too late. i could have been too late,” he whispered, his
  voiented.
  ”i id, edward. i thought he had my mom.”
  ”he tricked us all.”
  ”i o call d my mom,” i realized through the haze.
  ”alice called them. renée is here — well, here ial. she's
  gettiht now.”
  ”she's here?” i tried to sit up, but the spinning in my head accelerated,
  and his haly down onto the pillows.
  ”she'll be ba,” he promised. ”aay still.”
  ”but what did you tell her?” i panicked. i had in being
  soothed. my mom was here and i was reg from a vampire attack. ”why
  did you tell her i'm here?”
  ”you fell down two flights of stairs and through a window.” he paused.
  ”you have to admit, it could happen.”
  i sighed, and it hurt. i stared down at my body uhe huge
  lump that was my leg.
  ”how bad am i?” i asked.
  ”you have a broken leg, four broken ribs, some your skull,
  bruises g every inch of your skin, and you've lost a lot of blood.
  they gave you a few transfusions. i didn't like it — it made you smell
  all wrong for a while.”
  ”that must have been a nige for you.”
  ”no, i like how you smell.”
  ”how did you do it?” i asked quietly. he k i meant at once.
  ”i'm not sure.” he looked away from my w eyes, lifting my
  gauze-ed hand from the bed and holdily in his, ot
  to disrupt the wire g me to oors.
  i atiently for the rest.
  he sighed withaze. ”it ossible… to stop,” he
  whispered. ”impossible. but i did.” he looked up finally, with half a
  smile. ”i must love you.”
  ”don't i taste as good as i smell?” i smiled i hurt my
  face.
  ”eveer than i'd imagined.”
  ”i'm sorry,” i apologized.
  he raised his eyes to the g. ”of all the things to apologize for.”
  ”what should i apologize for?”
  ”for very aking yourself away from me forever.”
  ”i'm sorry,” i apologized again.
  ”i know why you did it.” his voif. ”it was still
  irrational, of course. you should have waited for me, you should have
  told me.”
  ”you wouldn't have let me go.”
  ”no,” he agreed in a grim tone, ”i wouldn't.”
  some very u meminnio me. i
  shuddered, and then winced.
  he was instantly anxious. ”bella, what's wrong?”
  ”eo james?”
  ”after i pulled him off you, emmett aook .” there
  was a fierret in his voice.
  this e. ”i did ahere.”
  ”they had to leave the room… there was a lot of blood.”
  ”but you stayed.”
  ”yes, i stayed.”
  ”and alid carlisle…” i said in wonder.
  ”they love you, too, you know.”
  a flash of paihe last time i'd seen alided me
  of something. ”did alice see the tape?” i asked anxiously.
  ”yes.” a new sound darkened his voie of sheer hatred.
  ”she was always ihat's why she didn't remember.”
  ”i kands now.” his voice was even, but his