Bella shrugged again and stepped backwards. She heard the change in his heart rate, knew the sound of the fear she inspired in humans well enough to know when it trumped everything else. She decided to address that rather than the other things he'd said. "You're safe from me, Levi. I won't hurt you."

Another shrug, and this time, her face registered confusion as well as the sheepish expression from earlier. "Most of the time, the humans don't know I've saved them from anything. The others, I usually growl at them until they run to safety, so they're never around. It's not a big thing."