When I opened my eyes I found myself staring into Edward’s eyes. He was lying on his side, watching me worriedly. He reached out with one pale hand and touched my cheek lightly.
“Are आप okay?” he asked me.
“I’m great.” I grinned at him. He seemed to relax so I shuffled closer to him.
“I didn’t hurt you?”
I thought for a moment. I couldn’t remember a moment when he’d held me too tightly या his touch too strong but there wasn’t a time when I didn’t want him close to me. I didn’t want him to let me go last night. I made a quick assessment of my body but I couldn’t feel any pain anywhere.
“Even if आप did, I would have healed before I noticed,” I said. He turned onto his back and I rested my head on his bare chest. He rested his chin on the चोटी, शीर्ष of my head. “Are आप okay?”
“Rosalie called,” he said, casually stroking my hair. “She wanted to know if आप had survived.”
“Rosalie?” I कहा in disbelief.
“She कहा she was calling for Esme, but I think she likes you.”
“That’s a scary thought,” I laughed.
He chuckled and continued to stroke my hair. I was content, lying here in his arms. I hadn’t died last night as so many people thought. I wasn’t even hurt. We’d fit together so perfectly it was like we were made for each other. Only और proof we belonged together.
“You enjoyed last night?” he asked, a smile in his voice.
“Words could not describe it, Edward,” I said, sighing happily. “Did you?”
He didn’t answer straight away and I began to worry I was truly bad in bed. And my husband couldn’t even tell me. Then he chuckled.
“You are right,” he कहा and he kissed the चोटी, शीर्ष of my head. “Words cannot describe last night.”
Panic over. I wasn’t bad in bed. Just so amazing he can’t find words for it. Well, there was no doubt about it, I am just truly amazing.
“And I get no credit at all in our enjoyment of last night?”
“You’ll have to jog my memory,” I replied.
“How?”
“By a repeat of last night’s events,” I giggled. I traced my fingers across his chest and turned my head to face him. He look incredulous.
“Kayla, do आप realise what आप are covered in?”
“Oh my God,” I कहा and sat up straight. “Did आप hurt me last night? Am I covered in bruises? Oh, that won’t look good when I go see Charlie.”
I looked down and saw nothing but my own pale naked body. And white feathers.
“Feathers?” I said, picking one up. “Why am I covered in feathers?”
“You कहा I didn’t hurt you,” Edward sat up and watched me, hurt on his face. “Why would आप think that I had?”
“It was the way आप spoke I thought that maybe…” I shook my head, realising I’d screwed up and और feathers drifted down like white snow. “Not that I would have thought you’d hurt me because I knew आप wouldn’t...I trust you…and…and…you can read my mind, figure out what I’m trying to say!”
Edward sat quiet for a moment and then he laughed as he tried to decipher my thoughts.
“Look, I’m sorry,” I said, brushing feathers off my body. “I didn’t mean it like that.”
“I know,” he said, चुंबन my lips lightly.
“Why am I covered in feathers?”
“I bit a तकिया या two,” he said, smiling.
“Why?”
“It was either them या you.” He looked away, obviously feeling ashamed of his primal nature. It wasn’t his fault. He couldn’t help it.
“You always try to erase my guilt,” he कहा and he stroked my cheek. “You are too understanding.”
My skin tingled under his touch and I grabbed his hand.
“How many pillows are left?” I asked him.
“Four and we had six to begin with.”
I leaned towards him, चुंबन his slowly.
“Is that enough to satisfy you?”
“Oh no,” he said, trying to push me away but his hands pulled me closer. “We can’t.”
“You know what to expect,” I कहा against his lips. “You’ll know how to channel that.”
Before he could say anything I pulled him under the blankets. Practice makes perfect.




Giggling, I threw another handful of feathers at Edward. He narrowed his eyes and sent nearly a pillow’s worth at me.
“We’re supposed to be cleaning up,” he said, while throwing even और at me. “Now get to work.”
I laughed.
“Aren’t आप going to threaten me with the whip?” I asked him. I picked up और feathers.
“Would आप like me to?” I watched as his lips took on a wicked smile and I squealed as he picked me and threw me gently onto the bed. He was on चोटी, शीर्ष of my, his chest inches from mine.
“We still have two pillows left,” he said, his eyes smouldering. His lips touched mine and my arms wound around his neck pulling him closer. His hands found the buttons on the thin cotton कमीज, शर्ट I wore and he began to undo them quickly. I just felt the coldness of his chest when someone let out a high pitched giggle.
“No wonder Jasper left in a hurry.”
Edward and I both turned around to see my new sister in law watching us a wide smile on her face.
“Hi,” she waved before running away.
Passion gone, I lay back on the bed.
“Some psychic she is,” I said, while he tried not to laugh. He rolled over onto his side while I buttoned up my shirt.
“Let’s see the damage,” Emmett called out loudly. He walked straight into Edward’s bedroom without knocking. I stared at him shocked, my चोटी, शीर्ष still half open. Emmett winked at me and I thought I heard a low snarl come from Edward. I didn’t want to know what Emmett was thinking. Edward sat up and pulled me onto his lap before I could हटाइए onto the अगला button.
“Don’t worry,” Emmett sighed. “I’m not going to touch her.”
“You better not,” Rosalie snarled walking in. She clasped onto Emmett’s hand possessively. “The pillows are ruined.”
“Yeah, lucky they didn’t have a headboard या they would need a new bed,” Emmett laughed. He bent down and kissed Rosalie very noisily while Edward buttoned the rest of my कमीज, शर्ट up very quickly.
“Do आप mind?” Edward almost shouted when Emmett’s hand grabbed Rosalie’s butt.
They backed out of the room, still kissing, leaving Edward and I alone. Not that we were in the mood for anything now.
“Do आप want to go see Charlie today?” Edward asked. “Prove to him you’re still alive.”
I laughed half heartedly.
“I’ll do anything if it means I won’t hear Rosalie and Emmett at it,” I said, sliding off his lap. I was halfway to the door when I realised he wasn’t अगला to me.
I looked back to see him still sitting on the bed, amongst the many feathers.
“Are आप not coming with me?” I asked him.
“I’ll leave आप and Charlie alone,” he said, gathering up feathers in his hands. “And George hasn’t been out in a while.”
He blew the feathers in my direction and a few landed in my hair.
“Okay,” I said, picking them out. “I’ll call you?”
“Yeah,” he replied.
Down in the गेराज I found my black बी एम डब्ल्यू and stroked the cold metal gently.
“Hello George,” I cooed like he was my newborn baby. I looked in the window and saw the keys already sitting in the ignition. Something told me Edward had planned ahead.
I opened the door and slid into the seat. I turned the key and George sprang to life, humming quietly. I knew what Edward was doing. He would have heard my silent conversation with Charlie and knew that Charlie would be missing me. We both knew Charlie thought that as soon as I was married he’d never see me again. And with the impending threat of my early death it made it seem even worse because there was no chance to say ‘oh, I’ll see आप tomorrow’ because what if I didn’t survive to the अगला day?
I left George in the driveway while I went inside.
“Hello?” I called out. “Is anyone here?”
It was mid afternoon. Sarah and Darren would be on a plane so there was no chance of blowing my cover. Charlie should be here as I didn’t think he would be at work.
“Hello?”
I walked through to the kitchen, annoyed that no one was here. या they could just be ignoring me. Ignorant persons. I dropped my keys on the रसोई, रसोईघर तालिका, टेबल and switched the kettle on. This was still my घर so I could make myself a cup of चाय if I wanted to. I opened the cupboard door and picked up a cup when I suddenly everything changed. My रसोई, रसोईघर was no longer my surroundings. It was the Cullens’ house. The front room to be exact. Only it was a little bit और messy. Almost everything was destroyed. Mitchell was there. He stood facing me with stupid evil, sadistic smile on his face.
“Two for the price of one,” he कहा and laughed horribly.
Then a dagger rose up, thin with a ragged edge and pretty blue gems encrusted on the handle. It floated there and I knew someone must be holding it there with an ability.
“Do आप think that will kill me?” Mitchell snorted. “I can heal.”
I didn’t hear a reply. I saw the dagger fly आगे and pierce Mitchell’s chest. Right where his दिल was. He looked down and blood began to seep from the wound.
“I’ll heal,” he said, though sounding weak. “Just आप see.”
But he continued to bleed and when he tried to remove the dagger it seemed he had no strength because it stayed there. He fell to the ground, still trying to get the dagger out. Then so suddenly, his hand went limp and his eyes closed. The dagger shot up into the air and a hand stretched out to catch it, a familiar crescent shaped scar on their wrist.
The रसोई, रसोईघर came back into focus and I groaned, feeling dizzy. I stumbled back, something breaking under my feet as I reached for the तालिका, टेबल to support myself. I looked down and saw the shattered remains of the cup I’d picked up. I didn’t even hear it break. Damn vision. What the hell did that mean anyway? Mitchell dying? Who killed him? What was with the dagger and the way he’d died? Why didn’t he heal? So many सवालों and I had no way to answer them! Where was Charlie because I was sure I recognised that dagger.
Where though?



I was sat at the table, still mulling over my vision when I heard Charlie’s क्रूजर, लैंड क्रूजर stop outside.
“Who’s car is that?” I heard Tess say.
I didn’t hear a reply but running footsteps instead.
“Kayla?”
“In the kitchen, Dad,” I called back. He walked into the kitchen, a grin on his face. Tess was just behind him and she squealed when she saw me.
“You’re alive!” she screamed and ran to me. She picked me off the chair and spun me around. Jeesh, that girl needed chill pills. She put me down, sensing I wasn’t in the mood. I stood there, Charlie still grinning at me.
“Hi,” I said, smiling. I still had a little headache but it was fading.
“Hey.”
“I think I heard a deer run by,” Tess said, backing out of the room. “I’ll go see if I can catch it.”
Charlie and I stood awkwardly for a moment. We were both silent.
“So, I didn’t die,” I said, trying to break the silence.
“Yeah and I see no bruises,” he replied. “I didn’t think he would hurt you.”
Yeah, I thought. He was one of the first people to say he’d kill me on my wedding night.
“I have something for you,” he कहा and disappeared so fast I thought he was a vampire. I waited, wondering how best to tell him about my vision. He would be overjoyed at the fact Mitchell would die. But would it be before या after he killed me? It must be after because what had changed in the past three weeks that Mitchell would die instead of me? Nothing, other than that I’d gotten married but that could hardly change anything.
Where had I seen that dagger before? In a dream, maybe?
Charlie was back and holding something wrapped up in black silk. He handed it to me and it wasn’t heavy but it felt cold.
“What is it?” I asked him.
“Look.”
I peeled back the black silk and I found my answer. Here was the dagger I’d seen in my vision. Charlie owned it! Then it all came back to me. I’d seen the dagger in one of my fist visions! He’d killed Loren with it!
“It was your great-grandmother’s,” he said, watching my reaction. “It’s very special.”
I picked up the dagger, feeling the weight of it. It was incredibly light. Didn’t look all too powerful.
“It’s enchanted,” Charlie continued. “It was dipped in a potion, decades ago. It kills whoever it’s skin it pierces. Even if they have their only healing ability.”
“And you’re giving it to me?” I looked at him, incredulous. “What if I accidentally cut my finger? I’ll die!”
“It can’t harm us. Alexandra made sure of that.”
That was good या else I’d be sure to prick my finger with it. I stared at the dagger, knowing this would kill Mitchell one day. Should I really be in possession of it? Didn’t whoever was going to kill my murderer need it?
“Oh, that reminds me,” I told Charlie. “I had a vision of Mitchell being killed.”
Charlie went pale. His mouth opened and closed for a few सेकंड्स as his thoughts filled with grief. Despite his want to kill Mitchell, he was still a friend. Unexpected grief. Great, my दिल went out to the poor person that killed Mitchell. Now they’d have Charlie on their back.
“With this dagger.” I held up the dagger, the black silk between the blade and my skin, just to be on the सुरक्षित side.
“Really?” Charlie recovered. “I killed Loren with that.”
“I know,” I said. “I had a vision about it.”
Charlie’s face went suddenly serious. He came closer to me and took the dagger in his hand.
“I want आप to practice with that dagger,” he said, दिखा रहा है it to me. “I want आप to learn how to throw it properly, I want आप to learn how to aim. I also want आप to learn how to use it with your abilities. Do आप understand?”
Wow. He wanted me to learn to assassinate someone. Good parenting.
“I’m serious, Kayla.”
“Right, okay,” I said, looking down. “I’m just not the killing type, Dad. I don’t think I’d be able to use it against someone.”
“You just have to if आप want to live.”
I nodded but I knew that in my vision, it wasn’t me killing Mitchell.