"Fredward says the woman is on Esme's trail. I'll get the car." She vanished into the shadows the way Fredward had vanished into the shadows, eyes and all.
Jasper and I looked at each other. He stood across the length of the entryway from me... being careful.
"I'm dating Alice," he announced.
"Okay."
"I just didn't want you getting the wrong idea."
I thought about Esme and Fredward; I had all sorts of wrong ideas. "Which one would that be?"
"Nevermind." He paused. "You're wrong, you know."
"Oh yeah?"
"I can feel what you're feeling now—"
—I gasped—
"—and you are worth it."
"I'm not," I sighed. Maybe I was feeling things I didn't know I was feeling. Maybe he was being polite. "If anything happens to them, it will be for nothing."
"You're wrong," he repeated, smiling inscrutably.
I shivered, but then Alice stepped through the front door and came toward me with her arms held out.
"May I?" she asked.
"You're the first one to ask permission," I smiled.
She lifted me in her slender arms as easily as Emmett had, shielding me protectively, and then we flew out the door, leaving the lights on behind us.

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Chapter 19

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