The weeks following the Twilight prom and Alice is helping Bella prepare for a date with Edward--broken leg and all.

“It took me only a few years to return to Carlisle and recommit to his vision. I thought I would be exempt from the…depression…that accompanies a conscience. Because I knew the thoughts of my prey, I could pass over the innocent and pursue only the evil. If I followed a murderer down a dark alley where he stalked a young girl — if I saved her, then surely I wasn’t so terrible.”

I shivered, imaging only too clearly what he described — the alley at night, the frightened girl, the dark man behind her. And Edward, Edward as he hunted, terrible and glorious as a young god, unstoppable. Would she have been grateful, that girl, or more frightened than before?

A look back into a single dark night in New York City. Long ago, when the creature now known as Edward was known only as the angel of death that brought punishment to those found deserving.

Rated for scary themes, extreme violence, gore, death, and coarse language.