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about me, before we even met& "
"What do you mean?"
"You saw me become one of you." I barely mouthed the words.
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She sighed. "It was a possibility at the time."
"At the time," I repeated.
"Actually, Bella& " She hesitated, and then seemed to make a choice. "Honestly, I think it's all gotten
beyond ridiculous. I'm debating whether to just change you myself."
I stared at her, frozen with shock. Instantly, my mind resisted her words. I couldn't afford that kind of
hope if she changed her mind.
"Did I scare you?" she wondered. "I thought that's what you wanted."
"I do!" I gasped. "Oh,Alice , do it now! I could help you so much and I wouldn't slow you down. Bite
me!"
"Shh," she cautioned. The attendant was looking in our direction again. "Try to be reasonable," she
whispered. "We don't have enough time. We have to get into Volterra tomorrow. You'd be writhing in
pain for days." She made a face. "And I don't think the other passengers would react well."
I bit my lip. "If you don't do it now, you'll change your mind."
"No." She frowned, her expression unhappy. "I don't think I will. He'll be furious, but what will he be
able to do about it?"
My heart beat faster. "Nothing at all."
She laughed quietly, and then sighed. "You have too much faith in me, Bella. I'm not sure that Ican . I'll
probably just end up killing you."
"I'll take my chances."
"You are so bizarre, even for a human."
"Thanks."
"Oh well, this is purely hypothetical at this point, anyway. First we have to live through tomorrow."
"Good point." But at least I had something to hope for if we did. IfAlice made good on her
promise and if she didn't kill me then Edward could run after his distractions all he wanted, and I
could follow. I wouldn't let him be distracted. Maybe, when I was beautiful and strong, he wouldn't want
distractions.
"Go back to sleep," she encouraged me. "I'll wake you up when there's something new."
"Right," I grumbled, certain that sleep was a lost cause now.Alice pulled her legs up on the seat,
wrapping her arms around them and leaning her forehead against her knees. She rocked back and forth
as she concentrated.
I rested my head against the seat, watching her, and the next thing I knew, she was snapping the shade
closed against the faint brightening in the eastern sky.
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"What's happening?" I mumbled.
"They've told him no," she said quietly. I noticed at once that her enthusiasm was gone.
My voice choked in my throat with panic. "What's he going to do?"
"It was chaotic at first. I was only getting flickers, he was changing plans so quickly."
"What kinds of plans?" I pressed.
"There was a bad hour," she whispered. "He'd decided to go hunting."
She looked at me, seeing the comprehension in my face.
"In the city," she explained. "It got very close. He changed his mind at the last minute."
"He wouldn't want to disappointCarlisle ," I mumbled. Not at the end.
"Probably," she agreed.
"Will there be enough time?" As I spoke, there was a shift in the cabin pressure. I could feel the plane
angling downward.
"I'm hoping so if he sticks to his latest decision, maybe."
"What is that?"
"He's going to keep it simple. He's just going to walk out into the sun."
Just walk out into the sun. That was all.
It would be enough. The image of Edward in the meadow glowing, shimmering like his skin was made
of a million diamond facets was burned into my memory. No human who saw that would ever forget.
The Volturi couldn't possibly allow it. Not if they wanted to keep their city inconspicuous.
I looked at the slight gray glow that shone through the opened windows. "We'll be too late," I
whispered, my throat closing in panic.
She shook her head. "Right now, he's leaning toward the melodramatic. He wants the biggest audience
possible, so he'll choose the main plaza, under the clock tower. The walls are high there. He'll wait till the
sun is exactly overhead."
"So we have till noon?"
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