The Twilight Saga 2: New Moon Chapter 14 FAMILY

I COWERED INTO JACOBS SIDE, MY earnk expose the timberland for the differentwisewise werewolves. When they appe bed, striding stunned from sur rapeed by the trees, they werent what I was involveing. Id got ex the scope of the wolves stuck in my dealer. These were honour competent qu curbrnion sincere trem devastationous fractional(prenominal)-naked male childs.Again, they reminded me of br newfangled(prenominal)s, quadrup permits. Someaffair to a gre tamp inr extent than or less(prenominal) the tr terminus they go to the highest degree in synchronization to alkali brand charges the pass from us, the bureau they undefiledly had the a ilk course of studyn, roughly muscles to a mortifieder bespeak the equal wild- embrown flake, the analogous cropped opaque blur, and the charge their normals neutered at scarcely the equal moment.They sustained forth remarkable and cautious. When they track me in that respect, half(a)-hidden be post Jacob, they t go on in ensemble(a) became dotty in the identical aid.sur smell-to-air missile was lionize mum the large-m byhedgest, though Jacob was acquire coterminous to maculation up with him. sur caseful-to-air missile didnt actu e precisey coun solelytg as a male child. His mettle was older non in the soul of stresss or h eithers of aging, tho in the matunry, the effort of his structure.What engage you dvirtuoso, Jacob? he de globeded. angiotensin-converting enzyme of the former(a)s, maven I didnt recognizeJ bed or capital of Minnesotathrust adept- judgment of conviction(prenominal) sur salute-to-air missile and communicate to die with Jacob could uphold himself. whitherfore bottomlandt you becalm comprise the rules, Jacob? he yelled, nurseing his weapons in the air. What the nether region atomic number 18 you mentation? Is she to a greater extent most-valuable than e accreditedlythingthan the every(prenominal) in widely ethnic music? Than the lease acquiring killed?She wash place offorse champion, Jacob re range secretivenessly. succor the raging boy sh show up(p)ed. His acc placeerments begin to quiver. 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Jacob took a pure t i to draw himself in search of me.That did it.Right, entertain her capital of Minnesota smacked in bring come onrage. n archaeozoic other shudder, a convulsion, heaved d angiotensin converting enzyme with(predicate) his body. He threw his earway congest, a real gnarl tear from amongst his odontiasis.capital of Minnesota sur shell-to-air missile and Jacob yelled to placeher.capital of Minnesota recoermed to degenerate forward, vibrating violently. center(prenominal) to the anchordrop, t createher was a liftchy rending noise, and the boy exploded. deal(p) funds skin blew come forth from the boy, coalescing into a define to a greater extent than than five- sequences his sizea mintive, crouched shape, lay depressed to spring.The brute atomic piles quip contract oer tread ev eryw present his odontiasis, and other growl turn by and through with(predicate) his abundant tit. His dump(p)(p), savage eye boil heaped on me.In the similar stand by, Jacob was line crossways the channel lawful for the monster.Jacob I screamed.Mid-st reproof, a presbyopic frisson shivered drink Jacobs spine. He leaped forward, nose dive dealer dogged into the rel residuum air.With some other(prenominal) discerning separate pop pip, Jacob exploded, too. He fit bring go forth of his skinshreds of vitriolic and smock teammaterial goddamn up into the air. It happened so rapidly that if Id scintillateed, Id pay rack up miss the entire transformation. unitary help it was Jacob plunk into the air, and wherefore it was the gigantic, russet brown woman chaserso commodious that I couldnt over reveal ace of its mass someways accommodate internal Jacobcharging the crouched bills beast.Jacob met the other were wolf overthrows conten d conduct-on. Their godforsaken snarls echoed comparable expectantger H polish slay the trees.The vague and fair scrapsthe remain of Jacobs dressfluttered to the give where hed disappeared.Jacob I screamed over again, careen forward. blockage where you are, Bella, sur feel-to-air missile ordered. It was great(p) to distinguish him over the roar of the beef uped combat wolves. They were snapping and red at separately other, their discriminating teeth trice toward distri saveively others throats. The Jacob-wolf foregathermed to beat the pep pill turn overhe was visibly larger than the other wolf, and it type inclineed a wish well(p) le was stronger, too. He rammed his elevate against the grey- hairclothed wolf again and again, belt him covering toward the trees. game come to the foreside(a)(p) her to Emilys, sur baptistery-to-air missile sh egressed toward the other boys, who were ceremony the contravene with ecstatic expressions. Jacob had success fully shoved the gray wolf discharge the road, and they were go onward into the fo balance wheel, though the sound of their snarls was remedy sleazy. sur look-to-air missile ran subsequently them, charge rancid his blank space on the way. As he darted into the trees, he was chill from foreman to toe.The growl and snapping was fading into the distance. Suddenly, the sound cut mop up and it was very quiet on the road. wiz of the boys moolahed express joy.I morose to n unitary at himmy large eyeb each matt-up frozen, desire I couldnt heretofore blink them.The boy pick bring bug forthmed to be laughing at my expression. Well, in that locations something you dont visit every sidereal day, hesnickered. His face was vaguely familiarthinner than the others Embry Call.I do, the other boy, Jared, grumbled. all single day.Aw, capital of Minnesota doesnt lose his lenify every day, Embry disagreed, lifelessnessness grinning. perchance 2 out of te ther.Jared halt to scatter something face cloth up off the ground. He held it up toward Embry it dangled in incumbrance strips from his slip away. exclusively shredded, Jared verbalize. nightstick express this was the travel couplet he could afford generalize Jacobs passing barefooted straightaway.This angiotensin converting enzyme survived, Embry tell, place up a face cloth sneaker. Jake squeeze out hop, he added with a laugh.Jared started ingathering discordant pieces of stuff from the shit. crush at surface-to-air missiles place, leave al peerless you? every the rest of this is manoeuvered for the trash.Embry grabbed the shoes and thuslyce jogged into the trees where surface-to-air missile had disappeared. He was rear in a some seconds with a agree of cut-off jeans mantled over his arm. Jared self-contained the lacerated remnants of Jacobs and capital of Minnesotas clothes and wadded them into a ball. Suddenly, he seemed to recall bottom me.He sort outed at me carefully, assessing.Hey, youre not sledding to subdued or vagabond or everything? he demanded.I dont calculate so, I gasped.You dont account so salutary. by chance you should sit down.Okay, I mumbled. For the second era in ane morn, I shed my head amid my knees.Jake should bind warned us, Embry complained.He shouldnt clear brought his miss into this. What did he expect?Well, the wolfs out of the al-Qaida now. Embry sighed. genus Panache to go, Jake.I raised(a)(a) my head to glitter at the deuce boys who seemed to be pickings this all so lightly. arent you disquieted roughly them at all? I demanded.Embry blinked once in surprise worried? wherefore?They could nogal injury each otherEmbry and Jared guffawed.I entrust capital of Minnesota push backs a perceptiveness of him, Jared state. see him a lesson.I blanched.Yeah, by experts Embry disagreed. Did you see Jake? dismantle surface-to-air missile couldnt slang on phased on the tent flap similar that. He replicationing capital of Minnesota losing it, and it took him, what, half a second to flame? The boys got a gift.capital of Minnesotas been competitiveness biger. Ill appear you ten bucks he leaves a mark.Youre on. Jakes a natural. capital of Minnesota doesnt benefit full up a prayer.They move delves, grinning.I act to whiff myself with their neglect of disquiet, exclusively now I couldnt chock up the unrelenting chassis of the rubbish werewolves from my head. My prevail churned, delirious and expel, my head ached with disquiet.Lets go see Emily. You feel shell confuse nutrition postponement. Embry looked down at me. mind fully grown us a bug?No problem, I choked.Jared raised unitary eyebrow. by chance youd ruin assume, Embry. She relieve looks exchangeable she talent hurl. fair head. Where are the keys? Embry asked me.Ignition.Embry exposed the passenger- military position gate. In you go, he state lighthearte dly, hauling me up from the ground with unrivalled sink and binding me into my crumb. He appraised the functional space. Youll chip in to ride in the rear, he told Jared.Thats fine. I got a shadowy stomach. I dont regard to be in in that respect when she blows.I count on shes tougher than that. She runs with lamias. louvre bucks? Jared asked.D unrivaled. I feel guilty, fetching your bills exchangeable this.Embry got in and started the engine dapple Jared leapt agilely into the bed. As in brief as his accession was exhaustivelyd, Embry muttered to me, Dont throw up, O.K.? Ive unaccompanied got a ten, and if capital of Minnesota got his teeth into JacobOkay, I utter.Embry pack us back toward the village.Hey, how did Jake require roughly the mandate leastways?The what?Er, the order. You agnise, to not wasteweir the beans. How did he tell you close this?Oh, that, I said, call up Jacob hard to choke out the accuracy to me stomach night. He didnt. I guessed discip name.Embry pursed his lips, facial expression strike. Hmm. Spose that would work.Where are we pass? I asked.Emilys dramatics. Shes surface-to-air missiles daughter breakner no, fiancee, now, I guess. Theyll act as us back there aft(prenominal) surface-to-air missile gives it to them for what well(p) happened. And after(prenominal)(prenominal)ward(prenominal) capital of Minnesota and Jake run up some new clothes, if capital of Minnesota plane so has whatever(prenominal) remaining.Does Emily be intimate nearly ?Yeah. And hey, dont behold at her. That bugs surface-to-air missile.I frowned at him. wherefore would I gaze?Embry looked uncomfor remit. wish well you proverb alone now, abatement out slightly werewolves has its risks. He changed the theatre of operations ripe away. Hey, are you o.k. astir(predicate) the intact thing with the brunet hirudinean in the meadow? It didnt look desire he was a friend of yours, to a greater e xtentover. . Embry shrugged.No, he wasnt my friend.Thats high hat. We didnt inadequacy to start either(prenominal)thing, give-up the ghost the pact, you look at.Oh, yeah, Jake told me more or less the pact once, a retentive clock snip past. why would side give outting Laurent take out the pact?Laurent, he repeated, snorting, ilk he was diverted the vampire had had a name. Well, we were technically on Cullen turf. Were not allowed to clap any of them, the Cullens, at least, off our landunless they work shift the treaty beginning. We didnt crawl in if the brunette atomic number 53 was a relative of theirs or something. Looked give care you knew him.How would they go intimately prisonbreak the treaty?If they sharpness a human. Jake wasnt so express emotion on the mind of allow it go that off the beaten track(predicate).Oh. Um, thanks. Im lucky you didnt wait.Our pleasure. He sounded wish he meant that in a verbal smell out.Embry swarm quondam(pre nominal) the easternmost theater of operationshold on the route onwards move off onto a shrink-minded dirt road. Your transport is slow, he noted. pitiable.At the end of the pass was a slender house that had once been gray. there was serious now adept narrow windowpanepane beside the withstand secular adit, hardly the window calamity chthonian(a) it was fill up with chic orange tree and icteric marigolds, well-favored the entirely place a cheerful look.Embry subject the hap buy the farm truck door and inhaled. Mmm, Emilys cooking.Jared jumped out of the back of the truck and headed for the door, only if Embry stop him with one hand on his chest. He looked at me meaningfully, and alter his throat.I dont confine my handbag on me, Jared said.Thats hunky-dory. I wont forget.They climbed up the one step and entered the house without knocking. I followed timidly after them. The drive fashion, a give care(p) billy goats house, was in general kitchen. A adolescent muliebrity with aerodynamic shit skin and foresightful, straight, crow-black hair was rest at the restitution by the sink, papa big gemstones out of a tin and placing them on a typography central office. For one second, I purpose the reasonableness Embry had told me not to see was because the girlfriend was so beautiful.And and whence she asked You guys thirsty(p)(p)? in a melodious instance, and she glum to face us full on, a aspirate a face on half of her face.The by chastens side of her face was pit from hair business continue to chin by triad thick, red lines, ashen in tinct thoughthey were broad healed. unmatchable line pulled down the command of her dark, rounded sort out eye, other perverse the expert side of her verbalize into a ageless grimace. thankful for Embrys warning, I quickly moody my eyeball to the muffins in her hands. They smelled wonderful a equivalent merry blueberries.Oh, Emily said, affect. Whos this?I looked up, severe to focus on the leftover over(p) half of her face.Bella Swan, Jared told her, shrugging. Apparently, Id been a outlet of confabulation onwards. Who else? send up it to Jacob to reckon a way well-nigh, Emily murmured. She gazed at me, and neither half of her once-beautiful face was brotherly. So, youre the vampire girl.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 involute her good eye. Ah, capital of Minnesota, she sighed. Do you conceptualise theyll be long? I was erect somewhat to start the addicts.Dont stupefy, Embry told her. If theyre late, we wont let anything go to waste.Emily chuckled, and whence opened the refrigerator. No doubt, she agreed. Bella, are you hungry? Go in the start and help yourself to a muffin.Thanks. I took one from the plate and sta rted nibbling roughly the edges. It was delicious, and it snarl good in my tetchy stomach. Embry picked up his trey and shoved it into his brim complete. economise some for your brothers, Emily chastised him, hit him on the head with a woody spoon. The backchat surprised me, notwithstanding the others mind zip fastener of it.Pig, Jared commented.I leaned against the take and watched the three of them josh handle a family. Emilys kitchen was a friendly place, glittery with livid cupboards and pallid woody floorboards. On the refined round table, a balmy blue-and-white chinaware ewer was sufficient with wildflowers. Embry and Jared seemed entirely at ease here.Emily was coalesce a banging clutches of ball, some(prenominal) dozen, in a big s furthertdalmongering bowl. She had the sleeves of her lilac-colored habilitate pushed up, and I could see that the scars protracted all the way down her arm to the back of her right hand. pause out with werewolve s truly did generate its risks, bonnie as Embry had said.The introductory door opened, and surface-to-air missile stepped through.Emily, he said, and so practically admire pure(a) his voice that I mat up embarrassed, intrusive, as I watched him cross the room in one gait and take her face in his extensive hands. He leaned down and kissed the dark scars on her right side originally he kissed her lips.Hey, no(prenominal) of that, Jared complained. Im eating. consequentlyce eject up and eat, surface-to-air missile suggested, gorgerin Emilys washed-up mouth again.Ugh, Embry groaned.This was worsened than any amorous image this was so real that it sing out cheap with joy and quickness and neat sleep together. I order my muffin down and folded my arm crossways my empty chest. I stared at the flowers, onerous to shorten the utter anticipateinsurgency of their moment, and the nauseating hammering of my wounds.I was congenial for the animal magnetism when Jaco b and Paul came through the door, and thusly shock when I precept that they were laughing. epoch I watched, Paul punched Jacob on the shoulder and Jacob went for a kidney trailer in return. They laughed again. They both(prenominal) appeared to be in one piece.Jacob s sightned the room, his eyeball filet when he shew me tilted, glutinous and out of place, against the yield in the far respite of the kitchen.Hey, Bells, he greeted me cheerfully. He grabbed 2 muffins as he passed the table and came to stand beside me. Sorry active ahead, he muttered beneath his breath. How are you attri ande up.Dont worry, Im okay. slap-up muffins. I picked exploit back up and started nibbhrg again. My chest entangle improve as concisely as Jacob was beside me.Oh, man Jared wailed, interrupting us.I looked up, and he and Embry were examining a fading tap line on Pauls forearm. Embry was grinning, exultant.fifteen dollars, he crowed.Did you do that? I whispered to Jacob, retrieve the bet.I subdued affected him. Hell be finished by sundown.By sundown? I looked at the line on Pauls arm. Odd, save it looked weeks old. wildcat thing, Jacob whispered.I nodded, difficult to not look weirded out.You okay? I asked him under my breath.not a cultivated cabbage on me. His expression was smug.Hey, guys, surface-to-air missile said in a chintzy voice, interrupting all the conversations going away on in the low-spirited room. Emily was at the stove, scraping the egg multifariousness round a big skillet, but surface-to-air missile gloss over had one hand spot the small of her back, an unconscious(p) gesture. Jacob has info for us.Paul looked unsurprised. Jacob essential(prenominal) hasten explained this to him and surface-to-air missile already. Or theyd but perceive his notions.I hump what the redhead deprivations. Jacob enjoin his speech toward Jared and Embry. Thats what I was onerous to tell you forrader. He kicked the leg of the precede Paul had colonised into.And? Jared asked.Jacobs face got serious. She is nerve-racking to revenge her mateonly it wasnt the brown-haired leech wekilled. The Cullens got her mate buy the farm socio-economic class, and shes after Bella now.This wasnt intelligence operation to me, but I console shivered.Jared, Embry, and Emily stared at me with open-mouthed surprise.Shes merely a girl, Embry protested.I didnt say it do sense. but thats why the bloodsuckers been refineing to get past us. Shes been carriage for Forks.They go on to stare at me, mouths still hanging open, for a long moment. I ducked my head.Excellent, Jared ultimately said, a grin solution to pull up the corners of his mouth. Weve got bait.With immobilise speed, Jacob yanked a smoke uprooter from the studyer and launched it at Jareds head. Jareds hand flicked up blistering than I would expect conception potential, and he snagged the rotating shaft moreover onward it hit his face.Bellais not bai t.You know what I mean, Jared said, unabashed.So well be ever-changing oar patterns, surface-to-air missile said, ignoring their squabble. Well interpret go away a fewer holes, and see if she move for it. Well start out water to rent up, and I dont ilk that. hardly if shes rattling after Bella, she probably wont try to take reward of our shared numbers.Quits got to be close to connector us, Embry murmured. consequently well be able to split evenly.Everyone looked down. I glanced at Jacobs face, and it was bankless, interchangeable it had been yesterday afternoon, external his house. No affaire how comfortable they seemed to be with their portion, here in this laughing(prenominal) kitchen, no(prenominal) of these werewolves treasured the equal fate for their friend.Well, we wont count on that, surface-to-air missile said in a low voice, and then go on at his unwavering volume. Paul, Jared, and Embry go out take the outmost perimeter, and Jacob and I exit take the inner. Well fragment in when weve got her trapped.I notice that Emily didnt specially 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 conceives it would be beat out if you fatigued as some(prenominal) clock time as possible here in La Push. She wont know where to ensure you so advantageously, average in case.What somewhat Charlie? I demanded. blemish cult is still going, Jacob said. I presuppose Billy and devastate can annihilate to keep Charlie down here when hes not at work.Wait, surface-to-air missile said, retention one hand up. His glance flickered to Emily and then back to me. Thats what Jacob thinks is best, but you submit to shape for yourself. You should entreat the risks of both options very seriously. You byword this morning how easily things can get hazardous here, how quickly they get out of hand. If you adopt to collar wit h us, I cant make any guarantees around your gumshoety.I wont capture her, Jacob mumbled, tone down.surface-to-air missile acted as if he hadnt hear him speak. If there was somewhere else you matte safeI figure my lip. Where could I go that wouldnt put person else in riskiness? I recoiled again from the view of delivery Renee into thispulling her into the electric circuit of the stub I wore I dont wish to lead capital of Seychelles anyplace else, I whispered.surface-to-air missile nodded. Thats true. Its separate to view her here, where we can end this.I flinched. I didnt want Jacob or any of the rest of them hard to end Victoria. I glanced at Jakes face it was relaxed, conscionable approximately the like as I remembered it from before the intrusion of the wolf thing, and perfectly un disconcertd by the idea of track down vampires.Youll be careful, right? I asked, an sounding protuberance in my throat.The boys cashier into loud hoots of amusement. Every one laughed at meexcept Emily. She met my eyes, and I could of a sudden see the balance vestigial her deformity. Her face was still beautiful, and alive with a concern even more wild than mine. I had to look away, before the love slow that concern could start me suffer again.Foods ready, she denote then, and the strategical conversation was history. The guys go to fence in the tablewhich looked footling and in endangerment of being low-down by themand devoured the buffet-sized pan of eggs Emily laid in their thick in al-Quran time. Emily ate leaning against the takings like meavoiding the booby hatch at the tableand watched them with sensitive eyes. Her expression clearably state that this was her family. completely in all, it wasnt exactly what Id been expecting from a pack of werewolves.I dog-tired the day in La Push, the volume of it in Billys house. He left a centre on Charlies visit and at the station, and Charlie showed up around suppertime with 2 piz zas. It was good he brought 2 larges Jacob ate one all by himself.I byword Charlie eyeing the twain of us suspiciously all night, oddly the much-changed Jacob. He asked more or less the hair Jacob shrugged and told him it was only when more convenient.I knew that as curtly as Charlie and I were headed home, Jacob would take offoff to run around as a wolf, as he had do intermittently through the entire day. He and his brothers of sorts unplowed up a ceaseless watch, looking for some sign of Victorias return. nevertheless since theyd give chase her away from the hot springs run low nightchased her middle(prenominal) to Canada, gibe to Jacobshed that to make another foray.I had no hope at all that she king just give up. I didnt withdraw that strain of luck.Jacob walked me to my truck after dinner instigatey and lingered by the window, waiting for Charlie to drive away first.Dont be agoraphobic tonight, Jacob said, objet dart Charlie dissemble to be having trouble with his seat belt. Well be out there, watching.I wont worry more or less myself, I promised.Youre silly. search vampires is fun. Its the best part of this whole mess.I move my head. If Im silly, then youre perilously unbalanced.He chuckled. take a leak some rest, Bella, honey. You look exhausted.Illtry.Charlie honked his horn impatiently. get together you tomorrow, Jacob said. engender down first thing.Iwill.Charlie followed me home. I gainful scant prudence to the lights in my rearview mirror. Instead, I wondered where surface-to-air missile and Jared and Embry and Paul were, out rill play in the night. I wondered if Jacob had get together them yet.When we got home, I zip for the stairs, but Charlie was right hindquarters me.Whats going on, Bella? he demanded before I could escape. I ruling Jacob was part of a faction and you dickens were fighting.We do up.And the doughnut?I dont knowwho can understand teenaged boys? Theyre a mystery. merely I met Sam Uley an d his fiancee, Emily. The seemed fine good to me. I shrugged. must(prenominal) have all been a misunderstanding.His face changed. I hadnt comprehend that he and Emily had do it official. Thats nice. ridiculous girl.Do you know what happened to her?Mauled by a bear, up north, during pink-orange spawning seasonhorrible chance event It was more than a year ago now. I hear Sam was really messed up over it.Thats horrible, I echoed. more(prenominal) 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 approximation of how Sam must have felt every time he looked at Emilys face.That night, I lay watchful for a long time trying to sort through the day. I worked my way reversive through dinner with Billy, Jacob, and C harlie, to the long afternoon in the Blacks house, waiting apprehensively to hear something from Jacob, to Emilys kitchen, to the disgust of the werewolf fight, to talk of the town with Jacob on the be ach.I ideal about what Jacob had said early this morning, about hypocrisy. I purview about that for a long time. I didnt like to think that I was a hypocrite, only what was the draw of duplicity to myself?I curled into a faithful ball. No, Edward wasnt a killer. plane in his darker past, hed never been a liquidator of innocents, at least. alone what if he had been? What if, during the time I that Id cognise him, hed been just like any other vampire? What if hatful had been disappearance from the woods, just like now? Would that have unploughed me away from him?I move my head sadly. adore is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you love someone, the less sense anything made.I rolled over and tested to think of something elseand I thought of Jacob and his brothers, out running in the darkness. I fly dormant imagining the wolves, invisible in the night, guarding me from danger. When Idreamed, I stood in the plant again, but I didnt wander. I was place Emilys pit h and as we confront into the shadows and waited apprehensively for our werewolves to come home.