Creating a Mate: Chapter 5
AN: Steph still cashes the checks….
Edward had first seen Bella Swan over a year ago. She was working at a small sporting goods store in Forks, Washington. He had been passing through on his way down from visiting friends in Denali. He'd stopped for a drink along the way, indulging in a family of camper. He would have to have Rose order some contacts to hide the evidence of his latest meal, but until then, sunglasses would suffice. He noticed a rack of them from a store window and went in. She was opening some boxes with a razor knife when it happened. The knife had slipped and the hot, intoxicating smell of the blood spilling from her vein was almost his undoing. He had forced himself to remain frozen, unwilling to take another breath, lest he drain her and the others as collateral damage. Thankfully, she and the rest of the staff had been too preoccupied with her injury to notice if he had acted strangely. He exited and watched once more from the window as the sweetest blood he'd smelled in a hundred years spilled through her fingers.
He wanted that blood and he vowed to himself to have it. A thousand scenarios had run through his mind while inside the store manager called an ambulance. She would most likely be released from the ER in a few hours…sent home with stitches and some pain killers. It would be no challenge to visit her room later. Hmm…that line of thought aroused another hunger. However, she was still a coltish girl, not yet fully matured. That didn't matter, but having come from sampling the Denali sisters' ample charms, he wasn't so eager for an angular young girl. He was so taken with his musings that a sudden realization hit him with the force of a wrecking ball. He hadn't HEARD her! He turned his awareness back to the inside of the store. He could place the thoughts of all the staff and customers with the exception of hers. Surely, there should've been something, a hint of how badly the cut had to have hurt at the least. He could see her turning four shades of green, but her mind remained silent. He picked up her address from the thoughts of one of her co-workers that was going to send a card tomorrow. He would see what made this so-sweet smelling child able to block him when no one ever had.
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