I don’t speak Car and Driver.

He paused to catch a stray lock of hair that was escaping the twist on my neck and wound it back into place. My heart spluttered hyperactively.

And I couldn’t stop the gloom that engulfed me as I realized I didn’t know how long I would have to wait before I saw him again.

You’re always crabbier when your eyes are black — I expect it then.

I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. - Bella Swan

A low oath made me aware that someone was with me, and the voice was impossible not to recognize. Two long, white hands shot out protectively in front of me, and the van shuddered to a stop a foot from my face, the large hands fitting providentially into a deep dent in the side of the van’s body.

My palms tingled — I wanted so badly to hit something. I was surprised at myself. I was usually a nonviolent person.

Are you trying to be funny?

It was difficult to believe that I hadn’t just imagined what Edward had said, and the way his eyes had looked. Maybe it was just a very convincing dream that I’d confused with reality. That seemed more probable than that I really appealed to him on any level.

This decision was ridiculously easy to live with. Dangerously easy.