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Chapter 5 Isle Esme
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"Houston?" I asked, raising my eyebrows1 when we reached the gate in Seattle.
"Just a stop along the way," Edward assured me with a grin.
It felt like I'd barely fallen asleep when he woke me. I was groggy3 as he pulled me through the terminals,struggling to remember how to open my eyes after every blink. It took me a few minutes to catch up withwhat was going on when we stopped at the international counter to check in for our next flight.
"Rio de Janeiro?" I asked with slightly more trepidation4.
"Another stop," he told me.
The flight to South America was long but comfortable in the wide first-class seat, with Edward's armscradled around me. I slept myself out and awoke unusually alert as we circled toward the airport with thelight of the setting sun slanting5 through the plane's windows.
We didn't stay in the airport to connect with another flight as I'd expected. Instead we took a taxithrough the dark, teeming6, living streets of Rio. Unable to understand a word of Edward's Portugueseinstructions to the driver, I guessed that we were off to find a hotel before the next leg of our journey. Asharp twinge of something very close to stage fright twisted in the pit of my stomach as I considered that.
The taxi continued through the swarming7 crowds until they thinned somewhat, and we appeared to benearing the extreme western edge of the city, heading into the ocean.
We stopped at the docks.
Edward led the way down the long line of white yachts moored8 in the night-blackened water. The boathe stopped at was smaller than the others, sleeker9, obviously built for speed instead of space. Stillluxurious, though, and more graceful
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