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1 D amon Salvatore was lounging in midair, nominally supported by one branch of a…who knew the names
2 D amon had to wait some hours for another opportunity to feed—there were too many girls in deep sl
3 L ater that day Caroline was sitting with Matt Honeycutt, Meredith Sulez, and Bonnie McCullough, a
4 W ith the signed contract safely tucked in Bonnie’s purse, they pulled up to the boardinghouse in
5 D amon was driving aimlessly when he saw the girl.She was alone, walking down the side of the stre
6 “I said, get out,” Meredith repeated to Caroline, still quietly. “You’ve said things that never sh
7 T here was a sort of universal gasp. Stefan went white, his compressed lips showing in a tight lin
8 T he clock’s old-fashioned hands showed three A.M. when Meredith was suddenly roused from a fitful
9 W hen Matt, Meredith, and Bonnie were all on their way, Stefan was left with Elena, now decently a
10 E lena was serenely happy. Now it was her turn.Stefan used a sharp wooden letter opener from his
11 B onnie couldn’t remember any more sophisticated prayer and so, like a tired child, she was sayin
12 I t came back to him, all of it: the cramped aisles and the tiny windows and the musty smell of o
13 M uch later that night, Elena couldn’t sleep. She didn’t want to be hemmed in inside the Tall Roo
14 E lena woke up the next morning in Stefan’s narrow bed. She recognized this before she was fully
15 M att nodded, but he was blushing to the fair roots of his hair. “Tami…pressed herself against me
16 S tefan was surprised to find Mrs. Flowers waiting for them when they returned from their picnic.
17 I n the first days after she’d come back from the afterlife, Stefan had always put her to bed ear
18 M att woke, fuzzily, to find himself still behind the steering wheel of Elena’s car. He stumbled
19 M att was knocking at the Bryces’ door, with Elena at his side. Elena had disguised herself by st
20 “ Ohhhh.” Bonnie melted back into the bucket seat. “It was like…kapow! Zap! Zowie! Like…fireworks
21 “I t actually makes a horrible kind of sense,” Meredith said. They were in Isobel’s family room,
22 B onnie was disturbed and confused. It was dark.“All right,” a voice that was brusque and calming
23 A cold frisson went down Elena’s back, the most delicate of shivers. Damon didn’t ask for kisses.
24 N o peck on the lips was going to satisfy Damon, Elena thought. On the other hand, Matt was going
25 M att lunged at Damon in a rush that clearly demonstrated the skills that had gotten him a colleg
26 L ey lines. Stefan had spoken of them, and with the influence of the spirit world still on her, s
27 W hen Damon woke up, he was wrestling with the wheel of the Ferrari. He was on a narrow road, hea
28 M att had no idea what time it was, but it was deep dusk under the trees. He was lying sideways i
29 “E lena!”Something was bothering her.“Elena!”Please, no more pain. She couldn’t feel it right now
30 M att had given up on clues. As far as he could tell, something had caused Elena to bypass the Du
31 L et us at least have the dignity of walking out of your trap on our own feet—or should I say, us
32 “W ho is it?” a voice was saying from the forest darkness. “Who’s out there?”Bonnie had seldom be
33 D amon just sat there. Then he licked his mouth and said nothing, did nothing.“You bastard!”“Yes.
34 E lena had once fallen off that balcony and Stefan had jumped and caught her before she could hit
35 A prison, with filthy rushes on the floor and bars between her and the sleeping Stefan.Between he
36 E lena had been waiting in her tree.It wasn’t, as a matter of fact, all that different from her s
37 A s she fell, it all rushed through her mind.The first time she had seen Stefan…she had been a di
38 B onnie knew that she was going to die.She had had a clear premonition of it just before those th
39 “W e won the battle, but not the war,” Elena said sadly. She thought it was the day after their f
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