Chapter 18
I was aware of people around me, especially Edward once more pressed close to my side as we crowded together in the front seat. I heard murmurs of voices: Sophie's voice crackling with angry energy, Brianna sounding more dejected, the faintest of German accent in Otto's words. Sometimes the murmur was my own voice answering some inquiry my brain didn't really bother processing.
I smelled the leaves on the air and the exhaust from the cars around us. The leathery new car smell.
Eventually, we stopped somewhere, another lurch as the boy pulled the parking brake before the car had quite stopped rolling. I walked up the front path mostly under my own power, Edward's arm more just to guide me as I paid no attention at all to where I was going. I just kept putting one foot in front
