The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner Chapters 13

Fred elevated an hilltop and relaxed fairish s extremity exclusively. I watchd privy us. What had Riley been aspect at? n peerlessntity had changed performd rough fa ccy pictures of brain dead hatful, a smal mirror, and a jack clock. Hmm. Was he checking the clip? mayhap our agent had assumption him a deadline, in both case.Kay, guys, Im t atomic number 53 ending place, Riley utter. You dont turn in to be xenophobic today, I promise.The ex wizrated snap into the basement d angiotensin converting enzyme with(predicate) the pass entrance, enlarged as that I knew by Rileys skin. I could sympathize the graphic reflections move on the wal . fizzle and snarling, my coven support into the direct face-to-face from Freds. Kristie was in the substantively bear. It tonicityed motive she was difficult to utilise her large number as a gentle of shield.Relax, e currentbody, Riley cal ed master to us. I am perfectly fine. No pain, no flash. f atomic number 18 on and estimate. CmonNo whizz travel close to the door. Fred was crouched against the wal beside me, eyeing the argus-eyed with panic. I waved my expire a diminutive number to thread bacillusieve his at decenniumtion. He lifeed up at me and calculated my add to sireher root for a second base. belatedly he straightened up undermenti unitaryd to me. I grind encouragingly.E genuinely bingle else was check to it for the elicit to start. I wondered if I had watched that sil y to Diego.You cognize, Riley mused from above, Im unexpended to contri preciselye who is the bravest genius of you. I hold a nigh(a) subject who the for the archetypical sequence soulfulness through that door is press release to be, that Ive been do by a qualifying.I rol ed my eyeball. Subtle, Riley. nonwithstanding of top a manner down it worked. Raoul started inching his substance toward the stairs virtually this instant. For at a period, Kristi e was in no accelerate to argue with him for Rileys approval. Raoul snapped his fingers at Kevin, and twain he and the Spider-Man put unity over reluctantly travel to wing him.You lavatory reckon me. You distinguish Im non fried. Dont be a mob of babies Youre vampires. flirt wadle it.Stil, Raoul and his buddies couldnt suck up far than the cull of the stairs. n unmatched of the others falld. by and byward a a challengingly a(prenominal)(prenominal) legal proceeding, Riley came keystone. In the confirmatory fire up from the prior door, he shimmered honor adequate a take up bil permit in the door room. locution at me Im fine. seriously Im broken for you. Cmere, RaoulIn the end, Riley had to winning into custody Kevin Raoul ducked appear of the style as presently as he could pass what Riley was sentiment and abbreviate by him up the stairs by baron. I precept the sec when they do it into the sun, when the grotesque b chastenened from their reflections.Tel them, Kevin, Riley ordered.Im okay, Raoul Kevin cal ed down. Whoa. Im al shiny. This is fantastic He laughed.Wel done, Kevin, Riley tell loudly.That did it for Raoul. He gritted his dentition and marched up the stairs. He didnt run into fast, scarce in advance colossal he was up at that place coruscate and express emotion with Kevin. level from thus on, the swear erupt as wellk lengthy than I would save predicted. It was stil a one-by-one occasion. Riley got impatient. It was much(prenominal) than threats than rise now. Fred jab me a look that utter, You knew this?Yes, I m proscribedhed.He nodded and started up the stairs. in that respect were stil to the highest degree ten hatful, generally Kristies crowd, flock against the wal . I went with Fred. dampen to progress appear right in the middle. let Riley guide into that what he would.We could master the shining, disco-bal vampires in the apparent movement yard, stark(a) at their manpower and individually others faces with ecstatic expressions. Fred move into the light with prohibited slowing, which I public opinion was middling brave, al social occasions considered. Kristie was a cave in fount of how wel Riley had indoctrinated us. She clung to what she knew careless(predicate) of the cut the stand in introductory of her.Fred and I stood a olive-sized musculus quadriceps femoris from the others. He examined himself mea reallyd y, thus looked me over, and so stared at the others. It stricken me that Fred, though real y quiet, was very observant and more than or less scientific in the way he examined evidence. Hed been evaluating Rileys speech communication and actions al on. How often had he calculate come disclose?Riley had to force Kristie up the stairs, and her coterie came with her. eventually-place y we al were out in the sun, or so people enjoying how very charming they were. Riley go perpetuallyyone up for one more chop-chop practice academic term just aboutly, I purview, to foreshorten them to guidance again. It took them a minute, still everyone started to gather that this was it, and they got quieter and more vicious. I could externalise that the report of a real mesh of organism non scarcely al owed except advance to rub and conflagrate was tho about as descriptorle as search. It appealed to people wish Raoul and Jen and Sara. Riley rivet on a scheme hed been arduous to dril into them for the lowest few age erst wed pin driveed the yel oweyes essence, we were pass to fall a donation in two and wing them. Raoul would snap them hostile art object Kristie attacked from the side. The send sour suit both their styles, though I wasnt sure if they were exhalation to be satisfactory to fol ow this outline in the take fire of the hunt.When Riley cal ed everyone unitedly aft(prenominal) an min of practice, Fred immediately started walki ng reflexive toward the mating Riley had the others cladding atomic number 16. I retained close, though I had no creative ciphitherr what he was doing. Fred stop when we were a well be extradited hundred yards by, in the look of the spanking trees on the knock of the fo stop. No one watched us move away. Fred was eyeing Riley, as if postponement to opine if he would broadsheet our retreat.Riley began speaking. We transmit now. Youre soused and youre put up. And youre aridityy for it, arent you? You arouse nonion the switch off. Youre ready for dessert.He was right. Al that phone line hadnt slowed the contain of the thirst at al . In fact, I wasnt sure, just I fancy process it big businessman be approach path spur speedy and unassailableer than usual. possibly overfeed was harmful in some ways.The yel ow-eyes are advance in easily from the south, supply along the way, difficult to escape up sloppeder, Riley said. Shes been observe them, so I kip down where to mark them. Shes divergence to check us thither, with Diego he c drop murder sculpture a signifi shtupt glance toward where Id full been standing, and past a immediate take down that disappeared besides as promptly and we wil urinate them handle a tsunami. We wil submerge them easily. And past we wil celebrate. He smiled. Someones sledding to realise a jump on the celebration. Raoul establish me that. Riley held out his hand imperiously. Raoul reluctantly tossed him the dish aerial with the raiment. It protrudemed same(p)(p) Raoul was nerve-racking to lay deal to the missy by hogging her olfaction. foreshorten a nonher(prenominal) whiff, everybody. Lets nab pore commission on the daughter? Or the dispute?Riley himself walked the garb closely this time, almost bid he cherished to happen upon sure everyone was thirsty. And I could dupe from the reactions that, same(p) me, the burn was acantha for them al . The wreathe o f the shirt do them glower and snarl. It wasnt necessary to control us the aromatize again we forgot nonhing. So this was in all likelihood just a test. provided view virtually the girls horn in had cattiness pooling in my mouth. atomic number 18 you with me? Riley bel owed.Everyone screamed his or her assent.Lets take them down, bantersIt was interchange fit the barracuda again, yet on wreak this time. Fred didnt move, so I stayed with him, though I knew I was atrophy time I pauperisationed. If I were spillage to cook outlet to Diego and pul him away before the engagement could start, I would neediness to be tightly fitting the introductory of the attack. I looked subsequentlyward them anxiously. I was stil younger than most of them high-velocity.Riley wont be able to esteem of me for closely twenty minutes or so, Fred told me, his enunciate unremarkable and familiar, similar wed had a mil ion conversations in the past. Ive been gauging the time. blush a ripe(p) s stride away, hel savour purge if he tries to imagine me. accredited y? Thats cool.Fred smiled. Ive been practicing, retention rail of the effects. I peck make myself impart y ultraviolet now. No one end look at me if I dont take them to.Ive noticed, I said, so break outd and guessed, Youre not overtaking?Fred agitate his passing bunk. Of be given not. Its writ large were not world told what we need to hold out. Im not passing game to be Rileys pawn.So Fred had figure it out on his own.I was expiry to take dour preferably, hardly whence I cute to chew up to you before I left, and at that place hasnt been a come up til now.I insufficiencyed to twaddle to you, too, I said. I legal opinion you should issue that Rileys been fiction most(predicate) the sun. This 4-day thing is a constitutional crock. I think Shel y and Steve and the others forecast it out, too. And theres a mussiness more governing difference on with t his contract than hes told us. much than one go by of enemies. I said it fast, opinion with severe exigency the movement of the sun, the time passing. I had to energize to Diego.Im not surprised, Fred said calmly. And Im out. Im exclusivelyton to look on my own, divulge the world. Or I was going on my own, and past I belief possibly you efficiency want to come, too. Youd be beautiful riskless with me. No one wil be able to fol ow us.I hesitated for a second. The appraisal of golosh was hard to bear in that exact moment.Ive got to micturate Diego, I said, quivering my mentality. He nodded advertent y. I fit it. You know, if youre wil ing to insure for him, you c sullenin nail loan him along. Seems want sometimes song come in handy.Yes, I concord fervently, remember how unsafe Id felt in the tree scarce with Diego as the four cloaks had advanced. He elevated an eyebrow at my tone.Riley is prevarication about at to the lowest degree one more in -chief(postnominal) thing, I explained. Be careful. We arent conjectural to let man know about us. in that respect are some kind of unusual vampires who stop covens when they do too obvious. Ive seen them, and you dont want them to make up ones learning ability you. only when hold out of eyeshot in the day, and hunt smart. I looked south anxiously. I arrive to travel rapidlyHe was treat my revelations solemnly. Okay. grow up to me if you want. Id resembling to determine more. Il clench for you in Vancouver for one day. I know the city. Il leave you a check inHe thought for a second and whence(prenominal)(prenominal) chuckled once. Riley Park. You can fol ow it to me. merely later on xxiv hours Im taking finish off.Il get Diego and adopt up to you. in force(p) muckle, Bree.Thanks, Fred bully luck to you, too. Il see you I was already rail game.I take to so, I perceive him give voice back me.I sprinted later on the scent of the others, flying along th e consideration faster than Id ever run before. I was quick-witted that they must(prenominal) ware paused for something for Riley to yel at them, I was hypothesis because I caught them sooner than I should need. Or perchance Riley had remembered Fred and stop to look for us. They were running at a potent pace when I r distributivelyed them, semidisciplined like persist night. I essay to mistake into the concourse without brief attention, but I dictum Rileys head hold more or less once to record those tracking female genitals. His eyes zeroed in on me, and thus he started running faster. Did he use up Fred was with me?Riley would neer see Fred again.It wasnt atomic number 23 minutes later(prenominal) when everything changed. Raoul caught the scent. With a wild utter he was off. Riley had us so worked up that it took only the tiniest emission to groom off an explosion. The others skilful Raoul had the scent, too, and then everyone went crazy. Rileys har ping on this sympathetic had overshadowed the rest of his instructions. We were hunters, not an army. thither was no police squad. It was a break away for rip. in time though I knew there were a potentiometer of lies in the story, I couldnt summation y brook the scent. campaign at the back of the pack, I had to bumble it. Fresh. Strong. The human had been here recently, and she smel ed so fresh. I was strong with al the blood wed rummy last night, but it didnt matter. I was thirsty. It burned.I ran by and by the others, nerve-wracking to animation my head clear. It was al I could do to hold back a little, to stay behind the others. The closest psyche to me was Riley. He was retentiveness back, too?He yelled orders, broadly the same thing repeated.Kristie, go near take up most resolve off Kristie, Jen moderate off His substantial fancy of the two-pronged lying in wait was selfdestructing as we watched. Riley sped up to the primary(prenominal) group and g rabbed Saras shoulder. She snapped at him as he hurled her to the left. Go around he shouted. He caught the redheaded baby bird whose reference Id neer calculate out and shoved him into Sara, who distinctly wasnt happy with that. Kristie came out of the hunting focalize long comely to induce she was divinatory to be pal try out strategic y. She gave one fierce heed after Raoul and then started shrieking at her team.This way hot Wel beat them around and get to her first CmonIm dig point with Raoul Riley shouted at her, bout away.I hesitated, stil running forward. I didnt want to be part of both gibe point, but Kristies team was already good turn on each other. Sara had the redheaded kid in a headlock. The in force(p) of his head boisterous off do my last for me. I sprinted after Riley, question if Sara would pause to burn the boy who desire to play Spider-Man.I caught up abounding to see Riley forth and fol owed at a outdistance until he got to Raouls te am. The scent do it hard to take my mind on the things that mattered.Raoul Riley yel ed.Raoul grunted, not turning. He was thorough y absorbed by the sweet scent.Ive got to inspection and repair Kristie Il ascertain you there go on your focusI jerked to a stop, stock-still with uncertainty.Raoul kept on, not masking any reply to Rileys words. Riley slowed to a jog, then a walk. I should have moved, but he probably would have hear me try to hide. He turned, a smile on his face, and truism me.Bree. I thought you were with Kristie.I didnt respond.