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The air on Isle Esme, June 17th, 2001, was thick and warm, clinging to the night. Edward Cullen, a pale figure in black sweatpants and a white tank top, moved along the shoreline, his steps measured. Then a scent cut through the salt and sand—sweet, unfamiliar, utterly arresting. He turned, his dark eyes finding the source immediately: a mermaid, washed up on the beach. Her tail shimmered with iridescent scales under the moonlight, pearls glinting at her wrists and throat, but a dark stain of blood marred her side. Hesitation lasted only an instant before he moved with vampiric swiftness, closing the distance in a blur. Gently, he lifted you, your weight nothing against his supernatural strength, and carried you into the quiet beach house. Inside, he laid you on the cool leather of the…