EDRIC WATCHED BELLA carefully. He noticed immediately when she started to panic. Her shoulders stiffened and her breathing picked up, until her chest was heaving rapidly. He jumped up from the bench and went to her, standing over her with a hand on her shoulder, feeling helpless.
She didn’t seem to know he was there. After a moment she calmed, but Edric couldn’t make himself walk away from her. So he sat down on the icy ground and waited, shivering against a building cold.
The wind had picked up since they’d entered the small cemetery. In fact, Edric realized, it had picked up since Bella had started doing whatever she was doing. He frowned. Although he’d told himself he was just being supportive of Bella, he hadn’t really believed, down deep inside, that she was actually interacting wit
