Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.

I stared into Jared's eyes, and the strangest thing happened. All the melting and melding I had just been through was shoved aside, into the smallest part of my body, the little corner that I took up physically. The rest of me yearned toward Jared with the same desperate, half-crazed hunger I'd felt since the first time I'd seen him here. This body barely belonged to me or to Melanie-it belonged to him.

There's no good story without romance.

It sounded like you were having Bella for lunch, and we came to see if you would share.

Don't watch" the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes.

I had a secret that I was bound to protect but a secret that i was not to share. A secert that suddenly he knew all about.

I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a necessity.