Bella:

Her words at the funeral came crashing down at once, and it finally made sense. She said it reminded her a lot, and that was it-her parents were killed in the same way.

"How... how come you never said this to me?" I asked, disregarding the hitch in my throat. She threw her head back on the seat, keeping silent for a while, before sitting up and looking me in the eye.

"Because I never wanted to go back to that dark place. I was a kid, and it happened swiftly, and they ...