Don't be afraid," i murmured. "We belong together.

Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

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

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

So it’s still standing?” he managed to get out between his snickers. “I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?” Emmett howled with laughter.

And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask for a friend?