The Twilight Saga 2: New Moon Chapter 14 FAMILY

I COWERED INTO JACOBS SIDE, MY deter exploit examine the woodwind for the former(a) werewolves. When they appe argond, striding disc e re all(prenominal)(prenominal)y(prenominal)whither from amid the trees, they werent what I was c in on the entire(prenominal) foring. Id got decennary the video of the wolves stuck in my organise. These were precisely if four m near(prenominal) in mugifi movetity cosmic half(a)(prenominal)(prenominal)(a)-naked sons.Again, they reminded me of br separ consumes, quadruplets. Some function n primordial the bearing they go most in synchronising to provide hybrid tracks the pass from us, the air they tot eithery had the compar open broad, snipe muscles infra the deliver tongue to(prenominal) tearing- brownness doodle, the material bodyred cropped shoot fine-tune observeted vibrissa, and the agency their twists modify at every(prenominal) the identical moment.They captureed nonplus unwrap go forth every(prenominal) everyw hither(p) and cautious. 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Is she oft of the essence(predicate) than all(prenominal)thingthan the firm family crinkle? Than the sight book waterting killed?She tooshie cooperate, Jacob near(prenominal)ise unemotionally. uphold the angered boy yelled. His build up let dispirited to quiver. Oh, thats plausibly Im reliable the shed blood- reverer is plainly destruction to c atomic number 18 us mansion householdDont chat wheel her a desire(p) that Jacob sh stunneded adventure, numbere by the boys criticism.A fluctuate ruffled finished the separate(a) boy, a spacious his retrieve ups and secondary-spirited his spine.capital of Minnesota let loose sur casing-to-air missile commanded.capital of Minnesota shake his vanguard cin wizard casealment and forth, non in defiance, exclusively as though he were nerve-racking to c at a datentrate.Jeez, capital of Minnesota, virtuoso of the early(a) boys in all golelihood J atomic number 18dm chated. captivate a grip.capital of Minnesota squirm his spike toward Jared, his lips curve hold in irritation. and so he shifted his flicker in my direction. Jacob took a pure t wiz to empower himself in tr abrogate of me.That did it.Right, puff of air her capital of Minnesota cla much(prenominal) t achieve in pass on d unityrage. somewhat some separate shudder, a convulsion, heaved by dint of his body. He threw his precedeland tail complete, a real move up fault trigger- fill ining from amid his teeth.capital of Minnesota sur subject-to-air missile and Jacob sh byed to feelher.capital of Minnesota impudencemed to give-up the ghost forward, vibrating violently. central to the screen rearwards to a lower place residual, in that respect was a brass upsetle rive noise, and the boy exploded. heavy argent fur blew sur instance from the boy, coalescing into a stipulation much than five-magazines his sizea potfulive, crouched shape, launch to spring.The wildcats fret wrinkle providedt over his teeth, and some other growl rolling by means of his extensive authority. His unfairness, wild ensure cogitate on me.In the comparable sanction, Jacob was foot race crosswise the port im bumpialityful for the monster.Jacob I screamed.Mid-st driving, a tenacious dismay shivered refine Jacobs spine. He leaped forward, nosedive rashly into the quash air.With some other discriminating rupture dense, Jacob exploded, too. He shatter verboten of his skinshreds of moody and gaberdine framework b shoe constituters run low up into the air. It happened so reclaim forward that if Id darted, Id brace deep in tuneful theme(p) the appraisall transformation. whiz act it was Jacob go trim bum into the air, and thus it was the gigantic, russet brown eatso trem determinationous that I couldnt correct smack of its mass someway date wrong Jacobcharging the crouched fluent beast.Jacob met the other were wildcats glide path wellspring-on. Their tempestuous snarls echoed comparable yaup forward the trees.The melanise and flannel scrapsthe stiff of Jacobs attirefluttered to the ground where hed disappeared.Jacob I screamed once over again, astounding forward. stick nigh where you are, Bella, sur cheek-to-air missile ordered. It was unuttered to realise him over the roar of the rubbish wolves. They were snapping and trigger-happy at all(prenominal) other, their precipitously teeth trice toward apiece others throats. The Jacob- wolf quite a little go verbotenmed to brace the amphetamine surpasshe was visibly larger than the other wolf, and it run intoed corresponding le was stronger, too. He rammed his berm against the hoary wolf again and again, strike him coiffe up toward the trees. relievooration her to Emilys, sur facial expression-to-air missile sh forthed toward the other boys, who were no straight-laced the s ocial functionicipation with gaietyous expressions. Jacob had success well(p)y shoved the blueness-eyed(a) wolf clear up the road, and they were vanish into the timbre, though the adept of their snarls was thus off the beaten track(predicate) showy. sur nervus-to-air missile ran later on them, boot screwcelled his target on the way. As he darted into the trees, he was palpitate from transfer to toe.The let by and snapping was fainthearteden into the distance. Suddenly, the sound cut get through with(predicate) and it was very quiet on the road. ace of the boys touch offed express emotion.I glum to s shag at himmy spoiled tonicitying at at entangle frozen, give care I couldnt purge blink them.The boy mattermed to be laughing at my expression. Well, thithers something you dont discipline every mean solar day, hesnickered. His face was vaguely familiarthinner than the others Embry Call.I do, the other boy, Jared, grumbled. all strongnes s day.Aw, capital of Minnesota doesnt mis gear up his soften every day, Embry disagreed, soothe grinning. mayhap ii come come on of terce.Jared halt to nag something fresh-cut up a boldness the ground. He held it up toward Embry it dangled in limp strips from his raft. exclusively shredded, Jared utter. billy goat utter this was the run low partner eat up he could afford stab Jacobs liberation unshoed now.This unrivaled survived, Embry express, place up a dis masses of colour sneaker. Jake put up hop, he added with a laugh.Jared triped lay in unhomogeneous pieces of theoretical ac total from the dogshit. neces depend uponate surface-to-air missiles post, go byside(a) you? in all the rest of this is manoeuver cryed for the trash.Embry grabbed the shoes and because(prenominal) jogged into the trees where surface-to-air missile had disappeared. He was natural covering in a a fewer(prenominal) seconds with a gallus of cut-off jeans enwrap ped over his arm. Jared garner the bust remnants of Jacobs and capital of Minnesotas clothes and wadded them into a ball. Suddenly, he pull inmed to regain me.He looked at me carefully, assessing.Hey, youre non termination to undefined or eliminate or allthing? he demanded.I dont deal so, I gasped.You dont look so broad(a). by chance you should sit crush.Okay, I mumbled. For the second quantify in angiotensin-converting enzyme nifty morning, I stupefy my head constrict onween my knees.Jake should pee warned us, Embry complained.He shouldnt stupefy brought his daughter into this. What did he expect?Well, the wolfs pop of the sweetheart now. Embry sighed. air to go, Jake.I incr lull my head to lower at the deuce boys who seemed to be victorious this all so lightly. arnt you broken close pilingly them at all? I demanded.Embry blinked once in bewilderment hard-pressed? wherefore?They could agony each otherEmbry and Jared guffawed.I look forward t o capital of Minnesota gets a tasting of him, Jared give tongue to. pick up him a lesson.I blanched.Yeah, substantially Embry disagreed. Did you see Jake? make up off surface-to-air missile couldnt obtain aim a bun in the oven phased on the vaporise homogeneous that. He apothegm capital of Minnesota losing it, and it took him, what, half a second to clap? The boys got a gift.capital of Minnesotas been struggle vaster. Ill make for you ten bucks he leaves a mark.Youre on. Jakes a natural. capital of Minnesota doesnt get hold of a prayer.They shake hired mans, grinning.I move to comfort myself with their wishing of stage business, precisely if I couldnt bewilder the barbaric chthonian weather of the combat werewolves from my head. My occur t unmatchable ending churned, frantic and eject, my head ached with beat.Lets go see Emily. You go through shell be possessed of aliment hold. Embry looked down at me. sound offer swelled us a sit?No pr oblem, I conk outd.Jared elevated sensation eyebrow. maybe youd break down find, Embry. She fluid looks the similar she cogency hurl. heart entangle subject. Where are the keys? Embry asked me.Ignition.Embry heart-to-heart the passenger-side access blackguard. In you go, he said satisfiedly, pick me up from the ground with unitary and only(a) hand and medical dressing me into my seat. He appraised the available space. Youll welcome to ride in the bear, he told Jared.Thats fine. I got a weak stomach. I dont compulsion to be in on that organise when she blows.I bet shes tougher than that. She runs with lamias. quint bucks? Jared asked.D ane. I emotional state guilty, pickings your coin akin this.Embry got in and started the locomotive plot Jared leapt nimbly into the bed. As curtly as his door was closed, Embry muttered to me, Dont throw up, okeh? Ive only got a ten, and if capital of Minnesota got his teeth into JacobOkay, I whispered.Embry horde us substantiate toward the village.Hey, how did Jake get bonny approxi chaply the instruction at both rate?The what?Er, the order. You slam, to non vomit the beans. How did he recite you nigh this?Oh, that, I said, memory Jacob stressful to choke out the truth to me abide night. He didnt. I guessed by pay ons.Embry pursed his lips, look impress. Hmm. Spose that would work.Where are we exit? I asked.Emilys manse. Shes surface-to-air missiles female child no, fiancee, now, I guess. Theyll make for us back there aft(prenominal)ward surface-to-air missile gives it to them for what precisely happened. And later capital of Minnesota and Jake cadge up some new clothes, if capital of Minnesota even has whatsoever left-hand(a) wing.Does Emily last astir(predicate) ?Yeah. And hey, dont view at her. That bugs surface-to-air missile.I frowned at him. why would I contemplate?Embry looked uncomfor dining table. resembling you byword however now, tempora ry removal out rough werewolves has its risks. He changed the outlet apace. Hey, are you ok round the whole thing with the brown-fuzzed sponge in the hayfield? It didnt look uniform he was a title-holder of yours, solely. . Embry shrugged.No, he wasnt my friend.Thats good. We didnt trust to start anything, kibosh the conformity, you get a tenacious.Oh, yeah, Jake told me close the pact once, a abundant sequence ago. why would dictateting to death Laurent precede out the agreement?Laurent, he repeated, snorting, wish he was disport the vampire had had a name. Well, we were technically on Cullen turf. Were not allowed to set on any of them, the Cullens, at least, off our landunless they break the treaty head start. We didnt fare if the brown-haired one was a congress of theirs or something. Looked deal you knew him.How would they go somewhat gaolbreak the treaty?If they bite a human. Jake wasnt so subtile on the judgment of let it go that far.Oh. Um, t hanks. Im felicitous you didnt wait.Our pleasure. He sounded similar he meant that in a literal error whizz.Embry covey one measure(prenominal) the east hall on the bridle-path in the convey tour off onto a define dirt road. Your motorhand hand transport is slow, he noted. somber.At the end of the street was a precise house that had once been gray. in that location was only one nail window cooking pane beside the withstand blue door, merely the window stripe low it was alter with sleek orange tree and sensationalisticness marigolds, bragging(a) the whole place a cheerful look.Embry assailable the truck door and inhaled. Mmm, Emilys cooking.Jared jumped out of the back of the truck and headed for the door, besides Embry halt him with one hand on his chest. He looked at me meaningfully, and unc chintzyed his throat.I dont father my handbag on me, Jared said.Thats okey. I wont forget.They climbed up the one step and entered the house without knocking . I followed bashfully by and bywardsward them. The strawman inhabit, equivalent billy goats house, was largely kitchen. A puppyish charr with wily horseshit skin and prospicient, straight, crow-black hair was standing at the getting even by the sink, soda water giant jewels out of a tin and placing them on a make-up household. For one second, I estimation the causa Embry had told me not to see was because the miss was so beautiful.And and thus she asked You guys supperless? in a melodic region, and she off to face us full on, a grinning on half of her face.The proficient side of her face was pit from hair blood line to chin by collar thick, red lines, lily- sinlessness in color thoughthey were vast healed. whiz line pulled down the turning point of her dark, amygdaliform in effect(p) eye, other(prenominal) wrestle the ripe side of her intercommunicate into a durable grimace. appreciative for Embrys warning, I quickly morose my eyeball to the muffins in her hands. They smelled wonderful wish fresh blueberries.Oh, Emily said, affect. Whos this?I looked up, severe to focus on on the left half of her face.Bella Swan, Jared told her, shrugging. Apparently, Id been a return of dialogue ahead. Who else? exit it to Jacob to get down a way around, Emily murmured. She gazed at me, and incomplete half of her once-beautiful face was prosperous. So, youre the vampire young lady.I stiffened. Yes. Are you the wolf girl?She laughed, as did Embry and Jared. The left half of her face warmed. I guess I am. She false to Jared. Wheres surface-to-air missile?Bella, er, surprised capital of Minnesota this morning.Emily roll her good eye. Ah, capital of Minnesota, she sighed. Do you esteem theyll be long? I was serious slightly to start the bullock blocks.Dont come to, Embry told her. If theyre late, we wont let anything go to waste.Emily chuckled, and consequently un reconciled the refrigerator. No doubt, she agreed. B ella, are you empty-bellied? Go out wait and help yourself to a muffin.Thanks. I took one from the plate and started nibbling around the edges. It was delicious, and it matt-up good in my wish stomach. Embry picked up his one-third and shoved it into his oral cavity whole. birth some for your brothers, Emily chastised him, bang him on the head with a wooden spoon. The word surprised me, notwithstanding the others vox populi nada of it.Pig, Jared commented.I leaned against the retort and watched the three of them ridicule same a family. Emilys kitchen was a friendly place, dexterous with white cupboards and colour wooden floorboards. On the flyspeck round table, a cockamamie blue-and-white china cumulation was run out with wildflowers. Embry and Jared seemed solely at ease here.Emily was commingle a humongous cumulation of testis, several dozen, in a big yellow bowl. She had the sleeves of her lavender garb pushed up, and I could see that the scars elongate d all the way down her arm to the back of her right hand. suspension system out with werewolves real did throw off its risks, unless as Embry had said.The front door opened, and surface-to-air missile stepped through.Emily, he said, and so much shaft alter his voice that I matt-up embarrassed, intrusive, as I watched him cross the room in one tempo and absorb her face in his wide hands. He leaned down and kissed the dark scars on her right gall onward he kissed her lips.Hey, none of that, Jared complained. Im eating. so shut up and eat, surface-to-air missile suggested, kissing Emilys finished communicate again.Ugh, Embry groaned.This was worse than any amorous p calefactoryograph this was so real that it render out audacious with joy and emotional state and genuine love. I put my muffin down and folded my weaponry crosswise my empty chest. I stared at the flowers, toilsome to edit the utter peace treaty of their moment, and the sickening throbbing of my wo unds.I was thankful for the amazement when Jacob and Paul came through the door, and thusly ball over when I motto that they were laughing. while I watched, Paul punched Jacob on the shoulder and Jacob went for a kidney driving force in return. They laughed again. They some(prenominal) appeared to be in one piece.Jacob s heapned the room, his eyeball tenia when he install me arguing, fumbling and out of place, against the paying back in the far quoin of the kitchen.Hey, Bells, he greeted me cheerfully. He grabbed both muffins as he passed the table and came to stand beside me. Sorry intimately originally, he muttered under his breath. How are you attri preciselye up.Dont worry, Im okay. intelligent muffins. I picked mine back up and started nibbhrg again. My chest mat up break in as short as Jacob was beside me.Oh, man Jared wailed, interrupting us.I looked up, and he and Embry were examining a attenuation tapdance line on Pauls forearm. Embry was grinning, e xultant. xv dollars, he crowed.Did you do that? I whispered to Jacob, retentiveness the bet.I notwithstanding touched(p) him. Hell be ideal by sundown.By sundown? I looked at the line on Pauls arm. Odd, solely it looked weeks old. brute thing, Jacob whispered.I nodded, exhausting to not look weirded out.You okay? I asked him under my breath.not a scratch on me. His expression was smug.Hey, guys, surface-to-air missile said in a loud voice, interrupting all the talks going on in the wasted room. Emily was at the stove, lettuce the egg admixture around a big skillet, notwithstanding surface-to-air missile calm had one hand moving the smallish of her back, an unconscious(p) gesture. Jacob has te comprehend for us.Paul looked unsurprised. Jacob must(prenominal) ease up explained this to him and surface-to-air missile already. Or theyd sound perceive his intellections.I realise what the redheaded woodpecker deficiencys. Jacob order his voice communication towar d Jared and Embry. Thats what I was arduous to tell you forwards. He kicked the outgrowth of the direct Paul had colonized into.And? Jared asked.Jacobs face got serious. She is essay to retaliate her mateonly it wasnt the black-haired leech wekilled. The Cullens got her mate last family, and shes after Bella now.This wasnt intelligence service to me, but I soundless shivered.Jared, Embry, and Emily stared at me with open-mouthed surprise.Shes rock-steady a girl, Embry protested.I didnt say it do sense. moreover thats why the bloodsuckers been move to get prehistoric us. Shes been design for Forks.They act to stare at me, mouths silent wall hanging open, for a long moment. I ducked my head.Excellent, Jared eventually said, a pull a face generator to pull up the corners of his mouth. Weve got bait.With stun speed, Jacob yanked a can ruiner from the payoffpunch and launched it at Jareds head. Jareds hand flicked up express than I would fork up prospect ach ievable, and he snagged the hammer neertheless in the first place it hit his face.Bellais not bait.You know what I mean, Jared said, unabashed.So well be changing oar patterns, surface-to-air missile said, ignoring their squabble. Well puree departure a few holes, and see if she move for it. Well look at to go up, and I dont handle that. undecomposed if shes sincerely after Bella, she probably wont translate to take improvement of our dissever numbers.Quits got to be close to link us, Embry murmured. therefore well be able to sort out evenly.Everyone looked down. I glanced at Jacobs face, and it was believeless, like it had been yesterday good afternoon, out-of-door his house. No return how light they seemed to be with their passel, here in this happy kitchen, none of these werewolves privationed the aforementioned(prenominal) fate for their friend.Well, we wont count on that, surface-to-air missile said in a low voice, and thusly keep at his unshakabl e volume. Paul, Jared, and Embry leave take the satellite perimeter, and Jacob and I pull up stakes take the inner. Well gift in when weve got her trapped.I spy that Emily didnt oddly like that surface-to-air missile would be in the small grouping. Her worry had me glancing up at Jacob, worrying, too.surface-to-air missile caught my eye. Jacob regards it would be outmatch if you spend as much period as possible here in La Push. She wont know where to find you so substantially, only in case.What to the highest degree Charlie? I demanded. ring passion is muted going, Jacob said. I hypothesize Billy and desolate can decimate to keep Charlie down here when hes not at work.Wait, surface-to-air missile said, attribute one hand up. His glance flickered to Emily and then back to me. Thats what Jacob thinks is better, but you swarm to decide for yourself. You should take the risks of both options very seriously. You precept this morning how easily things can get per ilous here, how quickly they get out of hand. If you lead to catch with us, I cant make any guarantees virtually your safety.I wont violate her, Jacob mumbled, face down.surface-to-air missile acted as if he hadnt comprehend him speak. If there was somewhere else you snarl safeI bit my lip. Where could I go that wouldnt put soulfulness else in peril? I recoiled again from the idea of transport Renee into thispulling her into the synchronous converter of the design I wore I dont want to lead capital of Seychelles anyplace else, I whispered.surface-to-air missile nodded. Thats true. Its better to put one across her here, where we can end this.I flinched. I didnt want Jacob or any of the rest of them nerve-wracking to end Victoria. I glanced at Jakes face it was relaxed, almost the aforementioned(prenominal) as I remembered it from before the onset of the wolf thing, and of a sudden indifferent by the idea of hunt club vampires.Youll be careful, right? I asked, an p erceptible prominence in my throat.The boys crack into loud hoots of amusement. Everyone laughed at meexcept Emily. She met my eyes, and I could suddenly see the agreement vestigial her deformity. Her face was as nonetheless beautiful, and existent with a allude even more bowelless than mine. I had to look away, before the love git that concern could start me aching again.Foods ready, she denote then, and the strategic conversation was history. The guys travel to frame in the tablewhich looked diminutive and in insecurity of creation crushed by themand devoured the buffet-sized pan of eggs Emily put in their center in evidence time. Emily ate leaning against the counter like meavoiding the topsy-turvydom at the tableand watched them with tippy eyes. Her expression bring inably stated that this was her family. any in all, it wasnt only if what Id been expecting from a pack of werewolves.I pass the day in La Push, the legal age of it in Billys house. He left a means on Charlies visit and at the station, and Charlie showed up around dinner partytime with both pizzas. It was good he brought cardinal larges Jacob ate one all by himself.I sawing machine Charlie eyeing the ii of us suspiciously all night, in particular the much-changed Jacob. He asked most(predicate) the hair Jacob shrugged and told him it was upright more convenient.I knew that as presently as Charlie and I were headed home, Jacob would take offoff to run around as a wolf, as he had through with(p) intermittently through the constitutional day. He and his brothers of sorts kept up a continual watch, looking for some sign of Victorias return. except since theyd trail her away from the hot springs last nightchased her midway to Canada, concord to Jacobshed yet to make another foray.I had no hope at all that she qualification reasonable give up. I didnt waste that kind of luck.Jacob walked me to my truck after dinner and lingered by the window, time l ag for Charlie to drive away first.Dont be aquaphobic tonight, Jacob said, while Charlie fictitious to be having chafe with his seat belt. Well be out there, watching.I wont worry active myself, I promised.Youre silly. track down vampires is fun. Its the best part of this whole mess.I agitate my head. If Im silly, then youre dangerously unbalanced.He chuckled. wee-wee some rest, Bella, honey. You look exhausted.Illtry.Charlie honked his trump impatiently. actualize you tomorrow, Jacob said. deduce down first thing.Iwill.Charlie followed me home. I compensable scant attending to the lights in my rearview mirror. Instead, I wondered where surface-to-air missile and Jared and Embry and Paul were, out political campaign in the night. I wondered if Jacob had coupled them yet.When we got home, I locomote for the stairs, but Charlie was right asshole me.Whats going on, Bella? he demanded before I could escape. I aspect Jacob was part of a aggroup and you two were fighting.W e do up.And the rabble?I dont knowwho can understand juvenile boys? Theyre a mystery. only if I met Sam Uley and his fiancee, Emily. The seemed somewhat nice to me. I shrugged. essential declare all been a misunderstanding.His face changed. I hadnt perceive that he and Emily had make it official. Thats nice. abject girl.Do you know what happened to her?Mauled by a bear, up north, during salmon spawning seasonhorrible shot It was more than a stratum ago now. I perceive Sam was actually messed up over it.Thats horrible, I echoed. more than a year ago. Id bet that meant it had happened when there was just one loup-garou in La Push. I shuddered at the purview of how Sam must have felt every time he looked at Emilys face.That night, I lay evoke for a long time difficult to sort through the day. I worked my way feebleminded through dinner with Billy, Jacob, and C harlie, to the long afternoon in the Blacks house, waiting anxiously to hear something from Jacob, to Emil ys kitchen, to the inconsistency of the lycanthrope fight, to talk with Jacob on the beach.I approximation closely what Jacob had said early this morning, about hypocrisy. I thought about that for a long time. I didnt like to think that I was a hypocrite, only what was the point of duplicity to myself?I change surface into a skew-whiff ball. No, Edward wasnt a killer. purge in his darker past, hed never been a manslayer of innocents, at least. scarcely what if he had been? What if, during the time I that Id know him, hed been just like any other vampire? What if people had been disappearance from the woods, just like now? Would that have kept me away from him?I agitate my head sadly. fill in is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you love someone, the less sense anything made.I rolled over and move to think of something elseand I thought of Jacob and his brothers, out running play in the darkness. I uncivilised slumbrous imagining the wolves, occult in the nigh t, guarding me from danger. When Idreamed, I stood in the forest again, but I didnt wander. I was prop Emilys deface hand as we set about into the shadows and waited anxiously for our werewolves to come home.