It was sort of like a game of keep-away or hide-and-seek in which Bella got to be the one hiding and The Wolf – or Dominic Black – was all time 'it.'

She had to think of it that way to keep her wits and focus about her and not be overwhelmed or frozen with fear. Although she knew that The Wolf would not want to harm her – or at least harm her TOO bad – to deny her fear would be lying to herself. She was scared, all right, because he or IT was menacing and mad. ...