I continued to lie there silently, not moving or breathing, simply listening to the beings surrounding me. I’d heard three voices so far and I was terrified. One or two I could probably handle, but three? Somehow I doubted it.

I fought my body as it tried to crawl away from the lips on my face. The thoughts fluttering through my mind did not feel like mine. Mustn’t let them know I’m aware of them. I felt the emptiness in me, the fire that raged inside for the sweet taste of blood.

“Bella?”

His words reached through the haze. I knew that voice. The breath rushed out of me as I opened my eyes to his perfect profile as he looked questioningly at Carlisle. I inhaled deeply. His scent was the same as it had been, just intensified by a hundred.

Edward’s head whipped around at the sound of my first breath, his gaze slamming into mine. My new vampire eyes saw the details of his face so clearly. Like he wasn’t beautiful enough before, now he was heartrendingly so.

The crease of worry marring his forehead smoothed out and was replaced with his crooked grin. “She wakes.”

Those words jarred my memory. I closed my eyes and watched in minute detail our time spent on the yacht play out before me like a movie on the big screen.

He laughed and poked me in the arm. “Vampires don’t sleep, Bella, so quit pretending.”

A smile blossomed on my lips, but my eyes remained closed. “I’m not sleeping silly, I’m remembering”

“What are you remembering?” He leaned forward inches from my face. I simply thought see what I see and my vision was suddenly his.

He gasped and moved away from me. “What did you do?”

I sat up slowly taking in the vampire family looking on uncertainly. Except Emmett. He seemed as jovial as ever, grinning widely and winking as he checked out my new form. He better hope Rosalie didn’t catch him eyeing me like that, or she’d emasculate him.

Edward’s hands reached for me quickly and some other instinct over took me. I was across the room and I instinctively flung my hand up in defense. Blood-like venom splashed across his chest. The surprised gasp from him brought me back to myself.