`` do n't you ever say that to me again . she glanced down at her left hand , at the pear-shaped diamond on her ring finger . i thanked him for coming and left the man to his business . it made my stomach crawl just thinking about it . `` if they had used me the way they did the other girls , maybe it would have been easier on them . `` you seem to have forgotten your manners , vampire , '' she said . 