Alice shivers happily. The thoughts aren't pleasant, but knowing that she's reading them is.

"Okay," he concedes. "So I'll keep a few around."

Not that he really intensely desires not to die. He wouldn't like to, especially not now that he gets to watch Bella take over the world (love, love), but for a long time now he has been operating on the assumption that it is going to happen, and probably not that far in the future, and he might as well be okay with that because there's not much he can do to change it. Getting hit by a van sounds like a pretty nice way to go.