RR Sneak Peek

A brief teaser of Chapter 7 - City of Heat:

Alice did not like the way Charlie's house looked. The vines – the ones that had always grown up one side of the house – seemed to have completely overtaken that wall, the paint was chipped and peeling all over the house and completely gone in certain areas, the drive was overrun with roots as if no one had parked in it in a long time, and the roof had giant sections with the outer shell missing. His house looked, in a word, abandoned.

She wasn't the only one to reach that conclusion either, because Carlisle stated, “I don't think he lives here anymore.”

“We should still check,” she said softly.

After all, Charlie had never been that much of a neat freak to begin with and perhaps after Bella had left, he'd simply stopped caring about appearances. Besides, humans were weird, and he'd hardly be the first person to live in rundown junk.

Carlisle pulled to a stop and she quickly got out of the back seat. She could still smell Charlie's lingering scent, but it was old, extremely so. Yet, she couldn't stop sniffing. She'd never smelled something quite as rank as what was currently in the air. It smelled like wet dog that had rolled in a skunk bath.