.
She stared at me for a long moment andslowlythe fervor in her eyes dimmed. Abruptlyshe was
abashed.
“And I was so sure that I could do this calmly.” She shook her headseeming a little dazed by the flood of
emotion. “It’s just that it’s harder now than it was thenwhen it was no more than vanity.”
She stared at the moon in silence. It was a few moments before I was brave enough to break into her
reverie.
“Would you like me better if I chose to stay human?”
She turned back to meher lips twitching into a hint of a smile. “Maybe.”
“You did get some of your happy endingthough” I reminded her. “You got Emmett.”
“I got half.” She grinned. “You know that I saved Emmett from a bear that was mauling himand carried
him home to Carlisle. But can you guess why I stopped the bear from eating him?”
I shook my head.
“With the dark curls . . . the dimples that showed even while he was grimacing in pain . . . the strange
innocence that seemed so out of place on a grown man’s face . . . he reminded me of Vera’s little Henry. I
didn’t want him to die ― so much thateven though I hated this lifeI was selfish enough to ask Carlisle to
change him for me.
“I got luckier than I deserved. Emmett is everything I would have,
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