I screamed, foolishly attempting to run and falling flat on back. A sharp branch sliced my arm, forming a gash to open and blood poured onto Laurent's face.
If I wasn't falling off the narrow cliff of death, I would have laughed at his expression. In fact, I muffled giggle escaped my mouth.
Laurent's eyes practically popped out of their sockets, "You're laughing?! Femme idiote!" he yelled in French, I knew enough to know what he was saying.
Crazy woman.
He leaned in towards me and his eyes glistened with thirst and his teeth pierced my skin easily.
I heard a vicious growl and something pulled Lauren off me, leaving me to writhe in unbearable agony. I felt the venom scorch my system.
"Edward!" I screamed, thrashing, even in my state knowing that Edward would not come. I called out to him again and again anyway.
A soft voice broke through the agony, "Bella! Oh no, no, no, isn't there anything we can do?"
I startled and found my voice, "Jacob?" I croaked.
"I'm here Bella, it's gonna be okay," he reassured at the same time as a voice that I recognised as his "friend" Sam's spoke.
"We can't do anything," he murmured, somewhat coldly. "Maybe a bloodsucker could, but she's our enemy now. We can't help her."
I heard a sob, "No! We have to!"
The fire raged on, but Sam's voice turned icy, even more than before, "Jacob, we've got to leave. We're on Cullen land, think about it, she used to associated with them," he ordered, making no sense at all to me. "They might return, and they'd have an excuse to destroy us! Jacob, think about your brothers!"
There was a rip, and something- I had a funny feeling that it was Jake- whined, anguished.
Then, I was alone.
Jacob left me to face the fire alone and it almost hurt as much as the idea of eternity without Edward …or Jacob.