Mixed with the vibrant scent of the living, the powerful tang of death and congealed blood weighed coldly in the back of his throat. Still, they are only words, beloved; how can they have this power over us? I know you believe in God and that makes this doubly hard for you, the notion of sin. Every time he made love to her, the craving to feed on her blood— to possess her completely—grew harder to resist. There was no one there.
Stefan held his victim only for a second or two before letting her go as calmly and dreamily as he had taken her. Then she said, I like Edward so much. One thing, though, we must all agree never to mention; the fact that Karl's body disappeared. The warm lower layers of the air condensed into a chain of hills, gleaming bronze, rising and falling continually like the slow waves of an ocean.
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