Designated visiting hours. The expression carried the same institutional quality that words like imprisonment and life sentence had. Charlie hoped, at least, that they did. It also wouldn't hurt if they held connotations that might import a bodily threat to Bella's daily visitor. Something more on the line of death sentence...if you ever hurt her again.
Charlie took satisfaction in believing that placing Bella under house arrest and her insistence that Edward join her almost daily, meant that Charlie was able to punish...
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