Twilight Saga: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella by Stephenie Meyer

Author:Stephenie Meyer [Stephenie Meyer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, General, Horror, United States, Juvenile Fiction, Love & Romance, Washington (State), Vampires, Fantasy & Magic, Werewolves, Horror & Ghost Stories, People & Places, Teenage romance, Paranormal romances, Cullen; Edward (Fictitious character), Swan; Bella (Fictitious character), Paranormal phenomena, girl relations, Teenage boy, Teenage vampires, First person narratives, High school students, Horror stories
ISBN: 9780316125581
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Published: 2010-06-05T07:00:00+00:00

Maybe that’s what Riley had meant by lost to the sun.

Runaways. In which case, he’d be happy that Diego hadn’t bailed, right?

If only Diego and I had taken off! We could be free, too, like Shel y and Steve. No rules, no fear of the sunrise.

Again, I imagined the whole horde of us on the loose without a curfew. I could see Diego and me moving like ninjas through the shade. But I could also see Raoul, Kevin, and the rest, sparkling disco-bal monsters in the center of a busy downtown street, the bodies piling up, the screaming, the helicopters whirring, the soft, helpless cops with their dinky little bul ets that wouldn’t make a dent, the cameras, the panic that would spread so fast as the pictures bounced swiftly around the globe.

Vampires wouldn’t be a secret for very long. Even Raoul couldn’t kil people fast enough to keep the story from spreading.

There was a chain of logic here, and I tried to grasp it before I could be distracted again.

One, humans didn’t know about vampires. Two, Riley encouraged us to be inconspicuous, not to attract the notice of humans and educate them otherwise. Three, Diego and I had decided that al vampires must be fol owing that guideline, or else the world would know about us. Four, they must have a reason for doing so, and it wasn’t the little popguns of the human police that motivated them. Yeah, the reason must be pretty important to make al vampires hide al day long in stuffy basements. Maybe reason enough to make Riley and our creator lie to us, terrify us about the burning sun. Maybe it was a reason Riley would explain to Diego, and since it was so important and he was so responsible, Diego would promise to keep the secret and they would be cool with that. Sure they would. But what if what actual y happened to Shel y and Steve was that they’d discovered the shiny skin thing and not run?

What if they’d gone to Riley?

And, crap, there went the next step in my logical path. The chain dissolved and I started panicking about Diego again.

As I stressed, I realized that I’d been thinking things through for a while. I could feel dawn coming on. No more than an hour away. So where was Diego? Where was Riley?

As I thought this, the door opened and Raoul leaped down the stairs, laughing with his buddies. I hunched down, leaning closer to Fred. Raoul didn’t notice us. He looked at the crispy-fried vampire in the center of the floor and laughed harder. His eyes were bril iant red.

On the nights Raoul went hunting, he never came home til he had to. He would keep feeding as long as he could. So dawn must have been even closer than I’d thought.

Riley must have demanded that Diego prove his words.

That was the only explanation. And they were waiting for the dawn. Only… that would mean that Riley didn’t know the truth, that our creator was lying to him, too.

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