Bella:
Her words at the funeral came crashing down at once, and it finally made sense. She said it reminded her a lot, and that was it—her parents were killed in the same way.
“How... how come you never said this to me?” I asked, disregarding the hitch in my throat. She threw her head back on the seat, keeping silent for a while, before sitting up and looking me in the eye.
“Because I never wanted to go back to that dark place. I was a kid, and it happened swiftly, and they never returned. No one took it seriously because they didn’t kill them like vampires do. They were staked to death with a silver stake, laced with wolfsbane, but I knew what they were, and I invited them inside.” Her voice became heavy, causing me to take her hand, which I caressed gently. “Can we not do this, please
