While You Were Gone Ch 5 Teaser

So here's this week's teaser... and now I will go back to writing the rest of the chapter.

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“Oh, God. I’m so sorry, Dad,” I breathed, even though I knew those words meant nothing right now. But I had to say something, anything, to make try to make it better, which was the dumbest thing I could have ever considered. Nothing I did or said would help.

“That son of a bitch!” he boomed, surprising us all.

He abruptly snatched the gun from Sue’s hands and stood up. He stomped toward the front door with a murderous expression on his face.

Edward gasped as he read Charlie’s mind, immediately racing across the room at vampire speed and disarming the gun before we mere humans could realize what he was doing.

The bullets fell to the ground; the plinking sound as they bounced across the room pulled my father out of his angered haze.

“It’s not worth it, Chief Swan,” Edward said calmly. “My family just established peace with them. The situation’s tense, at best. Anything could cause them to change their mind, which in turn, will affect Bella.”

Charlie gaped down at the gun, now in pieces in Edward’s hands, and stumbled back to the recliner. He fell back and put his head in his hands.

“You weren’t lying. You’re a… a…” he choked on the word “vampire”.

“Vampire, yes,” Edward said smoothly. “I was born in Chicago, 1901.”

“I think I’m going to be sick.”

Edward’s lips twitched. “It’s understandable.”

“That means she’s…” Charlie’s air came out in a rush. “My daughter shifts into a wolf.”