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A couple days later, Bella and Edward drove to a French restaurant, Restaurant Orsay, to meet up with Carlisle, Esme and Esme’s sister, Elizabeth. Bella shifted in the passenger seat and tried to cover her legs with her skirt.
“Stop it, beautiful,” Edward said, reaching across to hold her hand. “You look ravishing.”
“My legs look like toothpicks,” she grumbled. “When we get back, we need to work on making my legs look like legs and not like sticks.” She lifted her slender leg and poked at it. “And they’re so white.”
“We had a rainy, nasty winter,” Edward snickered. “I’m just as pasty, love.”
“Well, right now, you’re more red than pasty,” Bella giggled.
“Shut it,” he growled. “The pool and the waves and the weather … it was so relaxing. I didn’t mean to fall asleep.”
“I thought you had enough sunblock. I’m sorry,” Bella said, threading her fingers with Edward’s. “When we get back to the hotel, I’ll put more aloe on your back. I promise.”
“Thank you, Bella,” he said, lifting her hand to his lips and brushing his mouth along her knuckles. “You know, if you feel uncomfortable … with my mother’s actions and her comments … we can leave.”
“I’ll be fine,” she breathed. “I took your mother’s words too seriously. It didn’t help that I was overtired from the long journey. I was far too sensitive, to be honest.”
“She didn’t see you. She saw the chair,” Edward argued, his own temper flaring. “She needed to be educated …”
“Edward, I don’t want to cause a rift between you and your family,” she frowned, rubbing his arm soothingly.
“Dad was on my side,” he snickered, pulling into the restaurant and stopping at the valet station. Edward darted to the passenger side, helping Bella to stand. “Do you want your walker or …”
“I want to try, holding onto you,” Bella said, gripping his arm. Edward smiled, sliding his arm around her waist.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen
Esme Cullen
Elizabeth Masen
Need some clarification about that picture of the restaurant’s guests...right above the French onion [?] soup (such detail🙂)...can’t make it out...must be my “failing senior vision”
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