Chapter 60 Pick and choose your battles

Shhhhh…..

Chapter 60

Pick and choose your battles

Edward’s Pov

“How do you do that?”

“Do what?”

I narrow my eyes at her. She has to know what she is doing. Doesn’t she?

“Turn your thoughts on and off to me. Hell anyone that knows of my gift has to practice to master that, but you have been doing it for a few weeks now.”

“I don’t know what you are talking about.” She scowls.

I growl under my breath.

“So Edward, now what? I want to know how long you are going to allow them to keep us here?”

“What would you have me do Rose?”

“I don’t know you are Edward Cullen a Dominant with a holier than though attitude. Don’t tell me that the prince of cockiness has lost his cock!” She grins very satisfied with her little slam on me.

“Fuck off!” I hiss.

“Tell me, what does he do when he takes you away.” She asks.

“Aro?”

“Well duh! Of course Aro! Where do you two go?”

I kick my foot against the floor of the cement chamber digging my shoe into the floor crumbling the material.

“He is training me.” I murmur quietly.

“For what?”

“Something you don’t….” I am interrupted by Vladimir’s thoughts and I hiss.

He steps in front of the bars of the chamber where Rosalie and I have been forced to live in over the last couple of weeks. I am not given any freedom and they use Rosalie’s well being to make sure I return when I have been allowed out with Aro.

“Forget it.” I growl stepping in between them even though there are bars between us.

Shut up! They won’t let me near her otherwise, unless you are here. I just want to talk to her.

“There is no point. Now get the fuck out of here!”

His eyes focus on Rose and she never disappoints me.

She stands then crouches, hisses and spits his direction. “GET AWAY!”

His heart just broke a little and I cannot help but chuckle at the pathetic loser.

“I just want to talk.”

She lunges for the cage pulling the bars apart again as she flies past me. Damn she is fucking fast! I try to pull her back to keep her from getting to him. Guards descend on the chamber as I pull her away from the broken and bent bars.

“Rosalie calm the fuck down!”

 “I want to kill him. Eat him for breakfast, save a little and then eat him for lunch then when dinner rolls around I will puke up both and feed it to him!”

I burst out laughing. “God you can be so evil.” I chuckle but I have to admit she makes a stunning vampire!

She smacks me upside the head. I turn and growl at her. “Stop fucking hitting me!”

She laughs. “Go play with the guards.” She scowls then turns away. Vladimir is escorted out of the chamber and the guards are already replacing the bent and broken bars.

I walk over to the far wall, press my back against it, and slide down.

“Oh brother. Could you be any more hopeless?” Rose taunts me.

“I miss her alright!” I yell getting pissed off.

“I miss Emmett too but sitting there in some sort of altered state isn’t going to make our situation any better, or get me any closer to him!”

“Fuck you bitch!”

“If karma doesn’t hit you. I will!” she glowers at me. “Don’t call me a bitch! This is not helping us either Edward! We have to think!” she moves closer and Rosalie surprises me. She seems to pick vampire traits up quick for a newborn. She can speak so motherfucking fast, I have to sometimes stop and ask her to repeat it. She has taken to being a newborn better than I have ever seen anyone adjust. It is somewhat eerie. Her thoughts though are leaving me confused. Why I can hear her mid thought and then it shuts off for a couple of hours, hell even days and then it just pops back in mid thought is freaking me the fuck out. I am just not used to it.  

She is now close and is about to say something she doesn’t want overheard.

“We need to find our own way out. They probably don’t even know where we are.”

“I am not expecting them to come for me.” I mutter.

“You don’t honestly think that your entire family is going to sit and let you rot here do you?”

“I don’t expect them Rosalie.” I say again with more anger behind my words.

“You are such a selfish bastard. Your family loves you…you fucking idiot. God knows why, hell I sure as hell can’t figure out what there is to love about you and I have spent a solid two weeks in this hell hole with you during the worst time in my life…or death.”

“Rose just shut up already. Trust me it wasn’t just your worst time. I thought I was going to rip my own head off and set myself on fire being around you during your change. I knew I screwed myself with that one.”

“Destiny is no matter of chance Edward! It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved, and my destiny is waiting for me to be with Emmett! I want to get out of here!”

“And you don’t think I don’t? You don’t think that I don’t hate every fucking long drawn out minute that she is away from me? I am dying inside!”

“Well then let’s fight!”

I sigh. “Rose you don’t understand. We are no match for them. There are too many! Then there are the ones that are gifted, and trust me you don’t want to challenge some of them. I have seen what they can do. Aro has made it very clear that I know what I am up against. That blonde little Jane bitch is so fucking evil; I don’t even want to feel what the hell she has done to other vampires! Not to mention the fact that they will go after Isabella! I cannot just run away.”

She backs off for now, but I know she will be at me again the first chance she gets. We have been over this and over this. I have considered every option. I have run out.

I hate the thought of feeling defeated but right now, that is exactly where I am and I am the one to blame.

I do what I have done everyday since I have been here. Pull my legs up to my chest, wrap my arms around them, lay my head down, and remember things about her.

It is as if I am dreaming while wide-awake.

She sits there in the window reading a book and I watch her from afar. I notice she is still human and I think it is because I have more memories of her human than as a vampire.

She sighs and her leg is curled up under her ass. She lifts her head up and I have been caught, but that’s okay because I wanted to be.

“Ogling?” she smiles and her lips catch my eye.

“Always.”

“You make my heart swoon when you say things like that!” She bats her lashes as she teases me. She is so fucking sassy.

“Oh, why don’t you let me lure you upstairs and I will make you swoon alright.”

She feigns horror.

“Oh no….I am afraid of the big scary vampire. Who knows what he will do? He could like…” she looks around and lowers her voice so no one else hears even though we are alone, “….like…suck my blood or something.”

I grin at her. “Or something.” I smirk.

Her cheeks flood with color.

My heart aches.

S*h*h*h*h*h……

Bella’s Pov

“I’m the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.” Emmett snarled and charges for me.

“Bring it on monkey boy!” I stood my ground and concentrated. He was running right for me and then veered off. I smirked. It was working! He looks confused. Out of sorts and lost!

“Unbelievable.” Jasper mutters as Peter stands there with a huge grin on his face.

“She deflects him, confuses him and the most important part, he can’t touch her.”

“Amazing.”

“She has to be able to do it with Edward. I know it.” Peter sounds so certain.

I walk over to Peter and stand right in his face. “I am ready let’s go get my Master.”

“Oh no you don’t princess, not yet. We don’t go until you can do that for a few of us near you.”

My face fell. “I don’t know if I can do that.” I mumble.

“Sure she can.” Zafrina walks up and smiles at me.

“Hello Isabella, you make a stunning vampire. I see Edward did a perfect job, but then again everything about Edward is perfect. It is sickening.” She laughs. Throws her head back and laughs.

I narrow my eyes at her.

“Sorry.” She snickers. “He knows I envy him. The handsome devil.” She smiles.

“Isabella, Zafrina is here to help you master that little deflection thing you just did to Emmett.” Peter states.

“How? I didn’t know Zafrina was even gifted.”

“I certainly am.” She cocks her head to the side and asks, “Let your shield down and I will show you.”

I look over at Peter and he nods his approval. I concentrate really hard to drop it. Sometimes I have trouble with this, but the more I practice it seems the better I am getting.

Everything around me disappears and I am alone on the beach.

“What do you see?” I hear Alice ask as if she is standing right there next to me, but she isn’t.

“Where did everyone go?”

Then I see a movement out of the corner of my eye and turn towards it.

It’s Edward.

“Oh my God!” I start to move but I can’t. It feels like my limbs are frozen.

“Edward!” I yell.

“What the fuck Zafrina!” Peter yells.

Suddenly I am right where I was a moment ago and everyone is standing around me.

“Sorry.” Zafrina looks remorseful. “I didn’t think that through thoroughly.” She looks chagrined.

“What the hell just happened?” I ask.

“Zafrina can project a scene and although it was supposed to involve just you she put Edward there with you. She wasn’t thinking.” Peter glares at Zafrina.

“I didn’t think. I am sorry.”

“Yeah well it looks like we are done for now.” Peter can tell that my heart is hurting.

I am looking down at my feet in the sand and I can feel the crack in my heart grow deeper.

“I miss him.” I mumble to no one in particular.

“We know honey.” Alice wraps her arm around me and pulls me away from the group I have been training with all morning. I walk past Embry who gives me a sad smile.

It has been three weeks since I saw him last. The only intelligence we have gained from Peter is that Rosalie is in Volturra only no one knows why. He has humans that are roaming the streets like tourists and they know what the Vampires in that town wear to disguise themselves. It has been overheard by some, that there is a blonde human female that was brought in. Peter is certain it has to be Rosalie. He laughed as he assured me that yes even Vampires tend to gossip. They don’t lose the one trait from their human side.

Vampires are fast, so fast humans don’t even see them if they choose not to be seen. They are fast at everything. As for me, I must be some sort of anomaly. I am the slowest damn vampire around because the training and all the stuff that I have endured still doesn’t have me mastering this stupid gift of mine. I really even wonder if it is a gift. I can run fast, but to pick up other skills, is taking me forever!

Sometimes anyway, then there was today, and that was pretty cool though. Emmett was going to attack and I managed to deflect him.

Now could I do it again?

As history is showing, probably not. I seem to have switches that turn it on and off. I can’t seem to control it when I need to.  

I want Edward back. I feel like half of me is dead, and although Emmett constantly tries to boost my spirit, I wonder if it that is just broken. Without him, I am lost.

S*h*h*h*h*h……

“You know, if I know Edward at all, I know that he is just as lost as you seem to be.”

Peter walks into the room with his hands in his pocket as I just sit in the window seat and stare out at the surf.

“Then how could he leave me behind.”

“Please Bella. He did what he did to protect you. It wasn’t because he suddenly had some sort of epiphany and thought he doesn’t love you and being Aro’s minion sounds so much more appealing.”

I glare at him. “Sarcastic son of a bitch aren’t you?”

He laughs. “Edward says that to me all the time.” He grins.

“He loves you Isabella. More than his own life.”

The words stung.

“It was one of the things he said to me before he left with them.” I felt my eyes fill with venom.

“See, so now what you do is, you get up, you go out there and you train your ass off, and you learn how to shield me with you just as if I were Edward and if you do that for me Isabella, that is all I will ask of you. Then I will say, let’s go and get your Master.”

Therefore, we trained. And trained. And trained.

S*h*h*h*h*h….

Peter’s POV

Isabella looks as nervous as a cat, but I know she is determined. She wants him back and she is as determined to get him back as I am to save him from the stupid choice he made without consulting with anyone else. I know I don't know what happened on that ranch when Bella wasn't in the room but according to her, Edward seemed oddly calm. 

Edward should have known better. He should have trusted me enough to know that I would never put her in harms way.

Granted they were approached at the ranch, but that was a slip on my part. I should have insisted especially knowing who they are and how dangerous it would be for them. There are times when Edward demands something of me and I allow him too much credit.

He is my maker after all and I am used to being told what to do by him. I should have known. In all my military training, you never leave your King and Queen unguarded. I fucked up. So sue me. Now I had to make it right again.

She is clawing at her seat the closer we get to Italy. I keep looking back at them and I can see a perfect view of her. She is chomping at the bit to do what it is that is in her destiny to do. She is feral and I might add really somewhat cute for how tiny she is when she gets like this. I chuckle to myself.

“We almost there?” Seth looks over at me and cocks his brow up in question.

“That we are…are you ready to rock?”

He grins. “I almost feel bad for saying it, because you are one and all, but yeah I wanna torch some bad evil vamps.” He grins this huge cheesy grin.

I laugh.

“It’s okay. No blood. No foul Seth. You are more than welcome to burn the bad guys. Just keep that motherfucker pointed away from me and anyone else on our team and whatever you do…don’t panic and shoot that off under her shield!”

He nods. “Do you think he knows?”

“Aro?”

“Yeah that we are coming for them.”

“No. It will be a total surprise. My only concern is that little girl back there and Edward. If I have to die to make sure they are safe then so be it.”

“You are loyal Peter.”

“I am indebted Seth. There is a difference.”

“Either way…you’re a good guy.”

“Yes well let’s hope Edward still thinks so once this is all said and done shall we?”

“Okay, but if he thinks you aren’t loyal, then I will tell him so, and if he don’t believe me, well then I may just make him dance a little when I aim the flame at his feet and demand it.” He grins.

I laughed even harder. “Now that would be something, although I don’t recommend it.”

He grins wider.

The weeks we had spent training Isabella were intense. I have to admit the girl has some sort of quirk that makes her sort of clumsy little she-vamp. It is endearing but when she needs to be on her game it is debilitating. I knew the being a newborn would be an issue and trust me it was. She has many issues we had to overcome. Her control over her gift being one of them.

Then there were the times that Emmett had to tackle her before she nearly took Seth, Embry, and a few other humans out for a meal when the thirst was getting to her.

Poor Embry was skittish for a few days around any of us but he bounced back after his encounter with her. I have never seen a Native American go paleface before. It was rather funny and I knew he could run and he barely got away from her before Emmett tackled her and kept apologizing for letting his guard down.

I thought his color would never come back. I worried more about his trust in her, but when she finally gained her senses hunted and fed she came back to find him. She begged him to forgive her. He knew it was the thirst and that it happens to all newborns. He just didn’t expect to be one of that days blue-plate specials.

Finally, the last three days she had finally got it. Mastered that gift as well as she could. She could shield every damn one of us in it. We are untouchable with her in our presence. There is only one problem. She has to use the gifts of those around them to render them useless since she can bounce any gift off her shield and send it back with ten times the power they had used on her. The bad part is…our human flame throwing team cannot use that flamethrower under her shield. If they did, it would be the death of all of us. My other concern, what if one of them got a little sketchy when the time came and they lost faith in her, or they accidentally shot that thing off with us locked in with him.

We were as good as toast. I drilled it into each one of them that they had to trust us. We would not let one of them perish. Our devotion to them was just as strong as their devotion to this cause.

I landed the plane pulling up to our hanger, and then the unexpected happened. But then again…I should have known the way she was clawing at her own skin.

“Isabella!” The sound of metal tearing and the yelling and screaming was frantic. I wrestled to get out of my seat and out of the cockpit.

The door to the plane had been ripped off the damn side of the plane. Embry, Seth, and Tyler stood there with mouths hanging open. I looked out and could see her flying across the field.

She was out of control and on her own mission apparently. I took off after the line of vampires that had trailed behind her yelling for her to stop. I yelled back to Tyler that the cars are parked inside of the hanger. He had the keys already and since I had pulled the jet up next to the hanger, it was right outside of it. 

Isabella was fast and had gained quite a bit of distance between us. I was getting worried she wouldn’t stop before we got to the walls. If she made a move without us then God knows how this would end, but I cannot say that I wouldn’t be in the same frame of mind she was in. If it were Charlotte in there, I wouldn’t be thinking clearly either, so I cannot blame her for going after what is hers.

Now we just had to stop her.

S*h*h*h*h*h…..

“By the way…I want my fucking phone!” Rosalie hisses.

Edward looks up at her. “Excuse me?”

“My diamond phone. You know! I want one just like Bella’s!” Rosalie demands.

“Where did that come from?” Edward looks at her surprised.

“Well I do believe that you gave her one after you knocked her out cold, sort of like what happened to me! So I want a phone too!” She crosses her arms over her chest.

Edward snorts out a laugh. Rosalie quirks her eyebrow up at him and glares.

“Something amusing?” she asks.

“It wasn’t some sort of parting gift Rosalie! I gave it to her because hers got destroyed in the fire at the club!”

“Oh…well….so I still want one! You can call it a parting gift.”

Edward quirks his brow up at her. “Are you planning on going somewhere?”

“I don’t plan on staying here forever. The next time Aro comes for you I am going to ask to be let go.”

“Rose he has no use for you besides me! He will not let you go. Sorry, but you are just collateral damage.”

“How do you know he doesn’t keep me for other reasons?”

“What skill do you have Rosalie Hale, besides super stupidity?”

“You take that back!”

“I will not!”

“I hate you.”

“Well that makes me feel better about hating you too bitch.”

“Stop calling me a bitch!” Rosalie lunges for Edward. He steps aside and watches amused as her body crashes into the wall.

“Yes…as I was saying super stupidity!” Edward throws his head back laughing and then there is a commotion and vampires scramble out of the chamber.

Edward turns towards the only entrance and exit out of this dungeon. The thoughts of every vampire are on alert. There is a lot of confusion and jumbled thoughts. It is hard to decipher at first what is going on.

We are under attack!

Hurry! Protect the King…the Prince! Aro! Marcus!

“Edward what is going on?” Rosalie looks over his shoulder cautiously.

“Someone is attacking.”

Rosalie gasps. “We have to get out of here before they come for us too.”

Then he hears a familiar voice.

“I do believe that you have a few things that belong to us.” Emmett’s voice bellows out from above.

I know you can hear me little brother…don’t you think you are a little old to be playing kidnapping games with the neighborhood kids? Do I have to protect you for the rest of eternity really? I thought you would have grown up. Hell, you should be able to defend yourself you wuss!

Edward laughs aloud. Only Emmett!

“Trust me Rose, if you leave now, you are seriously going to regret it!” He turns and smiles at her.

“What? Why?”

“My brother has come for his mate, he would be pretty pissed off to find out she escapes before he is able to save her like the big dopey hero he wants to be. Don’t hurt his ego. Let him come for you. He needs the ego boost, especially when he sees what I have done to you. Just remember, you said you wanted this life!”

Rosalie’s eyes lit up. “Really? He came for me?”

“Yes you little wench, all though I don’t know what he sees in you.”

“Oh shut up.” She slaps him upside the head.

“For the love of God would you stop hitting me!” Edward scowls.

“Shut up or I will tell him you attacked me out of thirst!”

“You bitch!”

“Yeah, now that you mention it. I sort of am.” Rosalie smiles cheekily. Edward watches her red eyes swirl with a tiny hint of blue.

Edward shakes his head and focus’s on the confrontation upstairs and then he catches the faint hint of her scent. His smile falls and he realizes that his Bella is up there among the chaos.

“OH FUCK! NO! NO! NO!!”

Edward grips the bars and pulls them apart pulling his body through and he makes his way up the stairs. Rosalie is hot on his tail.

“What the fuck Edward what’s wrong?” she yells.

“I can smell Isabella!!!”

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Chapter 59 Choose your weapon

Shhhhh…..

Chapter 59

Choose your weapon

“You are a fascinating creature dearest Edward.”

“Am I?”

Aro gently grins as he nods. “You remind me a lot of myself when I was a few thousand years younger.”

“I am nothing like you Aro.” Edward protested.

“Oh but you are.”

“No Aro…I am not. I do not deny that I live the life of a Dominant, but that and a desire to rule the world are not even in the same league. It isn’t on my list of things to accomplish.”

“Oh really?”

“Really!”

“You don’t think being called Master has a certain air about it? Especially when it’s a Master of all things?” Aro waves his hand around dramatically.

“That has nothing to do with playing the role of a Dominant in ones sex life!”

“But you like being on top.”

“I am not a monster that wants to rule the world.”

“No…but you still have something that makes you superior among everyone else in the world, and you like that feeling.”

“What are you getting at?” Edward looks at him skeptically trying to really focus on Aro’s thoughts.

Come on child don’t you think we know?

“Know what…you aren’t giving anything away.”

Stephan and Vladimir enter the room and Edward turns to face them.

“We thought that we would make a deal with you Edward.”

Edward stood there in front of the three vampires and waited to see what they were about to offer him.

“Alec, bring her in.” Aro calls out.

Edward stands there when the scent of a human hits his senses. He flares his nostrils and knows that scent. It is familiar, but he hasn’t placed it yet. He searches for a mind.

His gift is rendered useless when those around him know of it and can master the ability to hide shit from him and he wasn’t hearing anything at first, until the doors flew open.

“Let go of me motherfucker!” Edward stiffens when he hears her voice.

Aro eyes light up with a sick satisfaction that he got at least an infinite amount of a reaction to his surprise. He smiles like the devil now watching the expression on Edward’s face when Rosalie Hale is now being pulled into the rotunda by Alec with force  shoving her.

Edward’s instincts kick in and he hisses and crouches. Her blood smells good and he cannot stop his predatory instincts from kicking in, however they are at war with the fact that Rosalie is his beloved brother’s mate and she should not be here.  

His eyes meet with hers, the rage coursing up through his core as he clenches his fists. He has to think and do it quickly!

“What the fuck is the meaning of this Aro? What is the point of her being here?” He yells.

“Oh Edward, you really are out of sorts since you met her haven’t you?” Aro mused.

“You son of a bitch!” Rosalie lunges for Edward and Alec lets her go as she descends on him yelling and screaming at the top of her lungs.

“You killed my best friend!”

Edward defends himself the only way he can holding his hands up to grip her wrists before she lays a hand on him. He tries to be gentle hoping he can fight her off without injury.

Laughter rings out behind him as he holds her at bay. The anger is astounding.

“Rose please!” he yells.

“Please what? Why Edward!! Damn it! If you would have just clued me in!! Why the fuck couldn’t you let me say goodbye to her?!”

“Rosalie she isn’t dead.” His tone lowers and softens.

“The hell she isn’t!” A sob escapes her and she collapses on the floor on her knees in front of him. She is exhausted from the toll traveling, not eating and her body is making her aware of the aches from the crash. Her heart broke for the love she had with her best friend. However, more than anything Rosalie is discovering that being this far away from Emmett is wearing her down too. She misses her own vampire.

Edward stands there with Rosalie sobbing at his feet, not knowing how to deal with this. When Isabella cried all he could do was hold her. Is this what she needed? Could he do this? He doesn’t think twice as he kneels down to console her and strangely enough, she allows him to do so.

His eyes look over her shoulder, her body shakes as she releases so much more than Edward expected. Then out of nowhere, Vladimir’s thoughts have captured his attention.

Let go of her!

Edward cocks his head as he listens paying better attention to the Prince’s thoughts.

His eyes narrow and a small lift of his lip curves up. He almost forget that he has Rosalie  still clinging to him while her sobs die down.

His eyes dart back to Aro who looks on with an amused expression of his own.

“Why is she here?” Edward mutters the question…not wanting to really hear the answer.

“You certainly have faltered Edward. Who knew a Queen could render a King so useless.” Stephan said as he moved to sit in the large wooden throne that sat perched over the room.

“What the fuck is that supposed to mean?” He growls.

“It means my dear boy that your about to learn a valuable lesson in strategy.”

Edward narrows his eyes at Stephan focusing in on him. We want to make you an offer you can’t refuse.

“Cut the shit and just tell me what the fuck you want from me!”

Stephan smiles and looks over at Vladimir who cannot take his eyes off the distraught blonde on the floor in Edward’s arms.

“Unhand her.” Vladimir’s voice commands him. He has had enough of this display.  

“Excuse me?” Edward turns to face him

“You heard me. Get your motherfucking hands off her!” he growls, crouches and stalks around the two, circling them like a hyena ready to take down a wounded animal.

Edward’s devotion to his brother chips away at his resolve. There is only one way this will end. He hisses still crouched and puts himself between the vampire prince and Rosalie.

Stephan glares at his son for his choice of foul language, worried now that Rosalie is rubbing off on him already.

“No!” Edward refuses with a stern warning.

“She will be mine.” He scowls.

Edward stands at full height now, brining up Rosalie to stand with him in an attempt to protect her.

“There is no way in fuck that I will let you have her! I cannot allow you to do this! She belongs to my brother!”

Rosalie eyes widen as she realizes what is transpiring between the two vampires. Her adrenalin floods her bloodstream and fear courses through her. Edward can feel the warmth of her body pressed against his back. Her fist clenches onto the back of his jacket. He shifts his position so that she is half behind and half beside him. Her face is so close to his, her hot breath blowing over his face. Her eyes dart from Edward to the Prince and then back to Edward. His jaw drops slightly parting his lips and she watches in fascination as his teeth shift like magic one set disappears under his lip while two other sets of fangs make their appearance in their place. There is a collective gasp in the room from several different vampires.

Aro and Stephan share a glance at one another but they are hiding something from Edward blocking their thoughts. Stephan almost looks nervous while Aro smiles wickedly and Vladimir is preparing to make a claim and is ready to fight.

“Edward what’s going to happen? What does he want?” Rosalie whispers but her words are normal to the others occupying the room.

“His intention is to claim you as his mate.” He says, the words coming out through his tightly clenched teeth.

“So that means that he wants to bite me?” Her fear raises a notch higher, testing Edward’s self control. He curses for being thirsty.   

“Yes among other things.” He murmurs not wanting to upset her any more.

Rosalie’s eyes widen and the scent of fear now floods his nostrils, venom pools in his mouth and he swallows it back trying to douse the fire in his throat.

“Edward…” her voice is now almost childlike and she is now shaking. “I wanted it to be Emmett…I don’t want anyone else.” The scent of salt is now added to the mix as his nostrils now flare wider.

Edward narrows his eyes listening to Vladimirs thoughts or his plan for his next move, but once Vladimir makes the decision, he has to let her know.

“I am sorry Rosalie, I wished it could be , but It can’t be Em.”

“What? No! Why?”

“We don’t have time.” Edward moves faster than a bullet and he turns just a fraction of an inch. His head turns slightly as he doesn’t try to tip off Vladimir to his plan. Edward’s eyes bore into hers as he looks at her. Her brow furrows and he tries so hard to apologize without saying the actual words before she knows what he is about to do.

He moves so slowly but his words fill her ear with his heartfelt apologies, “Find it in your heart someday to forgive me.” His hand is already in position. It slides up grips under the back of the nape of her neck, his other arm comes around behind her back and he bends her back so fast she doesn’t even realize it until the room shifts upside down and an ice cold tongue licks her throat before his razor sharp teeth sink into her neck.

She doesn’t even have time to scream or to protest. He decides that he may as well feed first and he draws several long draws before he floods her blood stream with his deadly venom.

“NO!!!!!!” Vladimir yells as he lunges for the pair but it is far too late.

Rosalie is thrown to the ground in the scuffle, her hands holding her throat as she coughs and chokes out not about to brace the fall.

Edward and Vladimir are nothing but a blur in the room as they battle. It only takes a few broken marble pillars and a few benches before two of Edwards large escorts from earlier have him by the arms holding him back.

Edward’s nostrils pick up the even strong scent of blood and his eyes drop down to see that Rosalie has been knocked out cold. She must of hit her head on the marble floor. A familiar pool of blood spills out from under her tousled blond locks reminding him of a time when those locks were brown and he felt that hint of pain grip at his heart for the memory.

“Take them both down to the chambers!!” Stephan yells, his voice laced with anger. Vladimir stands over her but his eyes are boring into Edwards.

“Don’t tell me you can’t smell him on her!” Edward growls. “She is already spoken for!”

“Then why the fuck didn’t he claim her before now?!” Vladimir yells.

Edward relaxes some and he gives a half-smug grin as he says, “We were waiting for her to ask for it, and it wasn’t until now that she did. I just decided to stand in for my brother since none of you, have the balls to abduct the size of a vampire like Emmett!” his voice raises and so does his temper.

He knows that Emmett will be elated the next time he sees Rosalie. That is if he ever sees her because Edward is pretty sure neither of them will be going anywhere anytime soon. Rosalie made the decision on her own and Edward followed through and acted on it and he will have no regrets, because if anyone deserves to be loved, it is his dopey big brother.

S*h*h*h*h*h*…...

Edward paces the front of the caged chamber that they are in. Rosalie is lying on a wooden bench bleeding from the head wound while Edward fights off his beast to not finish her off. There is no airflow in the chamber and her blood permeates everything around him. He hisses and yanks his jacket off tearing the arm of the sleeve off and trying to tie a bandage around her head. He puts pressure on it swallowing back venom as he curses.

Fucking Christ…why the fuck didn’t I think this shit through! Three fucking days of her locked in and forced to listen to her burn.

He lets out a rush of air and tries to hold his breath. He is certain that she is going to wake up with one hell of temper and that is definitely NOT a good thing.

“Fucking  newborns!” He scowls. His thoughts go to her and he amends the thought when he knows that he wouldn’t mind being with a sassy little brunette newborn right now.

Edward is in for a hell of long three days ahead!

S*h*h*h*h*h…..

Emmett watches over Isabella on the flight down South. She paces the aircraft at vampire speed.

“Relax baby girl. It is only human blood.”

She turns to him and looks at him incredulously.

She grits her teeth and whisper in anger. “Yeah human blood that I want to drink!”

The pilot of the plane is human. Emmett didn’t want to waste time having Peter fly all the way up to get her back down South with his family. A human pilot was his only option, but he could protect the guy from her if needed. Besides this would be a great test for her control. He would not leave her alone on the ranch and although she was certain that this had something to do with Aro because Edward said so, her temper flared when Emmett told her he was sure that Rosalie was abducted by vampires. It took everything for Emmett to calm down the sassy little girl.

She was strong, new, and volatile.

“Bella please sit down. You worry me that your strength is going to propel you right out the side of the plane.”

“Fine.” She scowls but, cautiously sits down next to him and feigns a false smile.

“We will find them.” He assures her.

She nods chewing her lip now.  

“He knew and he didn’t say anything. He knew they were dangerous, he let himself be the hero and somehow convinced them to let me stay behind. What is the deal with this Aro?”

Emmett sighs and says, “It was never my story to tell, but since my idiot of a brother is well….an idiot.” He grins. “I will tell you.”

“Aro can read thoughts, but he has to touch the one who he wants to hear. When he does, he hears everything you have ever thought. He doesn’t have Edward’s gift. Aro also collects gifted vampires and to have Edward on his right arm would be of great help to any war he wages with anyone. He has wanted Edward by his side like a son of sorts. Edward would never give him that.”

Isabella sat there wondering why he would now, but Emmett answers the question before she even has to ask.

“I think he knows. I think Aro knows that Edward killed Caius and that he sacrificed his own life to protect you in retaliation. It is the only thing that I can imagine him doing that would fit. The arrogant son of a bitch!” Emmett shakes his head in anger towards his brothers actions, but he can’t help but admire him for his stupid sacrifice.

“It doesn’t matter now because he isn’t staying with that bastard. We are going after him.” Emmett reaches over to hold Bella’s hand. “I will not let Aro win. He cannot take my brother away from our family. From you!”

“So then we are still going to Italy, but to save Edward.” Bella grins up at Emmett. It is the first genuine smile he has seen come out of her since he first arrived at the ranch.

He lifts her hand kissing the back of it and nods. “Yes little sister, that we are.”

S*h*h*h*h*h….

“Again!” Emmett yells after he gets up dusts himself off and lunges for Jasper.

Peter stood there and watched the two teach Isabella how to fight.

“She learns fast.” Carlisle watches fascinated by her as he steps up next to Peter. “But then again she is meant for this life.”

Peter turns to look at Carlisle. “Definitely meant for it.”

Carlisle’s eyes dart to Isabella then back to Peter. “Definitely?” he raises his brow at the young vampire standing before him.

Peter would probably blush if he were human.

Carlisle’s eyes narrow. “Peter is there something you want to tell me? Why do I get the impression you are hiding something.”

Peter realizes he has been caught. He knew he would come out with it anyway eventually, but when he did, he imagined it to be at a time he could reveal it to Edward himself.

Peter sighs.

“We need to talk.” Peter says luring Carlisle away from the training area and down along the water.

“Come on Peter out with it.”

He pulls out his wallet and takes out a small piece of paper. It is written in Italian.

Una volta ogni millennio un principe rinasce a governare come re.
Egli porta il dono della mente.

Egli domina la sua principessa, che è anche quella che lo protegge.

Carlisle translates the quote that is in Peter’s elegant script.

Once every millennium a prince is reborn to rule as king.

He bears the gift of the mind.

He dominates his Princess, who is also the one that protects him.

Carlisle looks back up at Peter with a glint in his eye and verbally speaks a quote of his own.

Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

“It’s not a fairytale.” Peter says defensively. “It is fate!”

“Ah, but Peter, they don’t have to know it.”

“And why not?”

“I never wanted Edward to have anything but happiness. I did not expect that my turning him would place this kind of responsibility on him, and at the time I only thought that very few people knew of  the significance of that extra pair of fangs! However I see that you have been doing a little historical research, or shall we say homework? Tell me, does Aro know?”

“Aro knows everything.”

“Ah. I thought so. I wonder if Edward would find this a betrayal by the one he made.”

“I did not betray him.”

“But you had to of learned of these things from Aro himself. There is no other vampire that knows of this.”

“Guess again.”

“What are you talking about?”

“There is but a King and a Prince that believe they rule over Italy.”

“Excuse me?”

“Aro is trying to out them. They are not the true rulers of our kind. He plans to show Edward everything and in time he also hopes that he will help him rid Volturra of the “Royal” family.”

“Aro has an ulterior motive.” Carlisle states.

“Yes I don’t doubt that.”

“So what is in it for you?” Carlisle asks, looking at him skeptically

“He is a Prince. He should be acknowledged as one. He is my maker and he gave me Charlotte. I owe him everything. I want to show him that my devotion is genuine. True.”

“Peter do you really believe that I don’t know my own son. Edward will not want to be a Prince. I would have thought you would have known that.”

“It isn’t something that should be tossed aside!!”

“It isn’t your choice to make.”

“And it isn’t yours Carlisle. He has to know!”

“How have you kept this from him?”

“He is my maker. How do you think?”

“What?”

“Edward cannot hear the thoughts of those he makes unless we choose to allow him to.”

Carlisle stared at him his eyes widened when he realized.

“Peter! You of all people know that Aro will exploit that! Does Edward know this?”

“No.”

“That is how Aro was able to get ahead of him on each mission!”

“What?”

“If Alice’s visions are defective, and Edward can’t hear the thoughts of a vampire made of his own venom then that is how Aro knew about the mission! They have been following him the whole time!”

“But there are only a few of us that Edward has turned.”

“Peter, do you think that I am an idiot?”

“No sir.”

“Well then why don’t you tell me about a little drug laced with a certain vampire’s venom? I treated those girls that night! I know the scent of my own sons venom! What has he been doing?”

Peter froze and his world tilted on its axis. He couldn’t say the words out loud.

“Peter.”

“He sold it.”

“Aro.”

“Yes.”

Carlisle closed his eyes and silently said a prayer.

© Robshandmonkey ~

Chapter 58 The Game

a/n please remember when reading this chapter…Bella is a very volatile newborn who has pretty much seen several various people come in and out of Edward’s life. She is also still a very eighteen year old girl that trusts him one minute completely but the next minute she doesn't trust him at all. She is sure he wouldn’t do anything to harm her…cut her a break before you get angry at her naivety in this chapter. 

Shhhhh…..

Chapter 58

The Game

“Emmett calm down please. I am working on it! We will find her!” Peter yells back at him into the phone as a hysterical Emmett is pounding on the hood of Rosalie’s totaled GT in the middle of a rundown towing lot. 

“I have checked every hospital, every police station damn it! Fuck Peter!! I can smell them on the fucking car! A goddamn vampire has her! She is probably fucking dead! You should see the car!!! Oh God…I…I have to call Edward! I have to go!” his voice drops and he lets out a strangled sob.

Emmett hangs up and dials Edward’s cell phone and still it goes to voicemail. It had been going to voicemail for three days now.

He had been in contact with both Peter and Edward and he updated them as to what he was doing.

Ever since they boarded the plane, Rosalie had thrown a fit about Bella’s change and she wanted to be far away from them. All of them and she emphasized the word them. The way she said it stung but Emmett couldn’t really blame her for the way she felt. He wasn’t exactly sure how he would have taken the news if the tables were turned and she told him she was a vampire if he were the human one.  

Peter flew her back to Chicago first after the incident in the forest and Emmett drove her home, but there was no way he was leaving her there alone even if she didn’t want to be near him.

Peter and the rest of them flew down south leaving both Emmett and Rosalie in Chicago.

As much as he tried to keep his distance, she would always spot him in a crowd. She would make eye contact and scowl at him, and yet there were times when she looked at him like she wanted to run to him. Those were the times he held onto every bit of hope he could muster.

His heart was twisted up like an impossible knot that was so tight it would never come undone over this woman, but if Emmett was anything, it wasn’t a quitter. He was not giving up. She belonged to him and he would protect her, and had been doing so up until this morning.   

Rosalie had been working at Exotic Eclipse. She could feel Emmett near as he watched her. He wouldn’t invade on her privacy but she still felt him around almost constantly. 

She was working on a old BMW for a customer that was in the middle of restoring it. While trying to reach up and tighten one of the engine mounts, her hand slipped and she smacked it hard against a solid part of the engine block. She yelled out with a colorful choice of curse words that most sailors would blush at the mere thought of saying.

She was getting that closed in feeling. Stress and the fact that it had been three weeks since she had last seen and talked to Bella was starting to get to her. She missed her best friend and needed an outlet. Her eyes landed on that garage that still had two fast little beauties sitting inside of it just waiting to be broken in. Between the two cars, both odometer’s didn’t have more than ten miles between them.

Rosalie washed her hands as best she could pulled off her coveralls, steps outside of the garage and began yelling. 

“Emmett Cullen get your ass out here!”

Of course he isn’t going to miss this opportunity and it doesn’t matter if she is just going to yell at him or tell him to fuck off, he only wants to be near her.

She is walking with determination as he flies to her side not even looking up and over at him. Then with a lift of her hand a silver ring with a key flies up in the air and with his vampire like reflexes he catches the set of keys.

“What’s this?” he asks.

“Edward says that all cars should have a name. I never really thought that much about it until he made it appoint to inform me of all people…that if you treat a car like a lady, she will respect you and never let you down so long as you care about her.”

She stops and turns to look up at Emmett. She smiles because in her eyes he is absolutely gorgeous and his golden eyes sparkle at her even after all the bullshit she has put him through.

“Yours is black as night. She is fast. She is one mean looking bitch and she needs a fucking name. I want you to be the one to name her.” She turns and pushes the button on the remote towards the seven car garages and two doors in the middle slide up simultaneously revealing her beauties in all their glory. 

Emmett’s mouth falls open and the words, “Fuck me those are badass!”fall out of his mouth.

Rosalie grins and is elated that he approves and she nods in full agreement.

“In the meantime, I got my own Snake to charm.”

A smile spreads across her lips and she slowly turns her head to look back at him, needing to tilt her head up to see him.

He is tall, dark, devilishly handsome with the sexiest of all dimples any man could have and she wonders if those same dimples adorn the top of his ass cheeks.

She knows that he IS the only one for her, and tonight she has every intention of finding out if her adorable, dimpled vampire has a matching set on his backside.   

She turns back to look at both cars swinging a set of her own keys around her long beautifully manicured but grease stained finger.

“Emmett drive her hard, drive her fast and break her in and when you are done, meet me back here. Then baby, I expect you to do the same for me.” Her lift lips up in a half crooked wicked smile not looking back at him but knowing she must of have left him motherfucking speechless.

She walks towards her pretty black and red snake and yells back, “Your burning daylight Emmett. I turn into a pumpkin at midnight.”

In the meantime, Emmett stands there with his mouth hanging open. He feels his heart swell along with very important other parts of his anatomy. The visuals she has now painted in his mind are stunning.

The car door slams and brings him out of his daydream as the beauty presses her foot on the gas revving the engine gunning it. A pang of jealousy hits him when he wants to be charmed too. The snake hisses and revs then rolls out only to stop right in front of him.

“Fuck that is motherfucking beautiful!” He declares.

She revs the engine, rolling forward ever so slowly she lets the bumper taps his leg. 

She slips on a pair of ray bans, leans her head out the window and says in a very seductive tone, “I expect you to whisper her name in my ear when you crawl into my bed tonight bare ass naked. Remember though Emmett…that better be the only time I hear another bitches name on your lips right before you will be fucking me!” she throws her head back laughing, backs up cranks the wheel and peels out leaving rubber and a very cheeky grinning Emmett in her dust.

That would be one of the the last times he saw her and she didn’t come home. He caught up to her once as he pulled up next to her revving the engine of the black beast she let him play with.

She left him in the dust and he cursed himself for not having the driving skills of his brothers. He liked his cars big and beefy. Not fast and sleek so he was a little out of practice.

He sat there on her porch and waited, paced and waited some more.

“Rosalie…what the fuck are you doing?” He left a message on her voice mail. She never answered and when that clock that ticked away in her house chimed ringing out the ding twelve times, and she still wasn’t home, Emmett began to panic.

The following morning Emmett had already been to every hospital, police station, her building where she worked, Bella’s house and even the few places he knew she had been in the last several weeks he kept coming up with nothing.

Then he got a call from a the police who asked if he was the guy looking for a black and red Shelby GT and his world shattered when he was told that the car had been totaled and strange as it is, Rosalie Hale was no where to be found.

He had been standing there next to her GT when he hung up with Peter now grabbing at his hair so close to a melt down he had to talk to Edward and he was at his wits end when he thought of her.

Isabella.

He dials her number and her voice is like an angels coming to him out of the darkest of nights.

“Hello Emmett.” 

“Oh thank God!! Isabella where the fuck is Edward?” He is frantic and pacing back and forth.

“He left a long time ago. Why…is everything all right?”

“Where did Edward go Bella? I need to find him!! He isn’t answering his fucking phone!!”

“Emmett I don’t know he said he had some business to handle. There were like several guys here, he said they were business acquaintances and they came by because Edward had not been in contact with them. He left several hours ago but he said he would be right back.”

The hair on Emmett’s neck rose up, a low gasp escapes his lips. His voice is barely a whisper,

“He what?”

Emmett knows that not in any lifetime would Edward choose to leave Isabella on that ranch alone by herself and although there have been more people that have become privy to where exactly Edward’s ranch is, there is no way in hell that any business acquaintances that Edward would trust enough to tell them where he was at.

“Who came over there Bella?” His tone shifts from anxious and worried to a more firm demanding one and it startles Bella.

“I don’t know who they were Emmett, you know how Edward is with me! He doesn’t tell me anything more than he absolutely has to especially about his business life. Hell, I barely got much out of him when you were all traveling around the world! I do know that one he called James. Emmett your scaring me and you sound different, why is something wrong?”

“Bella, don’t you dare leave that house do you hear me! If anyone comes but me you get your ass downstairs like before! I am on my way Bella!” Emmett didn’t even give her a chance to ask another question. He didn’t care who saw him as he took his leave from the lot where Rosalie’s car is sitting. He leapt the fence in one bound and was yanking the door of the Camaro opened as he started it up and peeled out heading for the Shawnee Forest at top speed.  

S*h*h*h*h*h…….

Edward’s POV

“I have been dying to fuck you the way the beast in me has been envisioning my beautiful Angelic little swan. Ever since you stood there in my office with that adorable as fuck little bitch brow cocked up at me and that sassy mouth sucking on that beautiful pouty lip the way you do teasing the fuck out of both of us with that virgin innocence, you have no idea how close I came to following along with his plan. I think it's time Isabella, I want to fuck you like an animal!"

As soon as I admitted to her what I had been wanting to do to her all along, my focus shifts to the voice now speaking in a tone that is unnerving in my mind.

The last few days at the ranch had been deadly silent with it only being Bella and I here.

And here out of nowhere, this voice speaks, his words haunting and foreboding.

I could feel the hair raise on my neck, my mouth flooded with venom, my fangs were already out but what freaked me the fuck out was the second set engaged and I knew what was about to happen could not be good.

My entire body now on edge, when suddenly the playroom light extinguished and my nostrils fill with the scent of more than one vampire entering the room. I find it odd that the thoughts of only one of them are getting to me. I try to access the others but I get nothing. They move with precision around the bed taking up their positions as if they had already planned exactly where and when before they even arrived.

I am frozen, my mind is trying to tell me that the smell of these vampires is my own. Why the fuck can’t I hear them?

I was damn sure Isabella could also distinguish the scent of those behind us now as well. Bree’s angelic face pops into my head and it is then that I realize what the fuck I have been doing this whole time completely oblivious and so fucking self righteous in my own fucked up mind, I had no one to blame for any of it but myself.

Bella lay here underneath me bewildered at first but then again I knew that she couldn’t hear what I was hearing even if it was only the one vampire’s thoughts that I can hear while the five others are totally silent.

I felt her body tense under me only a second after my own responded to the invasion of my personal privacy. I was fucking pissed and wanted to remove every one of their heads for breaking into my fucking home and then having the fucking nerve to come up here and confront me while I was fucking my girl.

The deepest growl rumbled from my chest out in a warning to them but it fell on deaf ears as he now spoke to me through his thoughts.

He knows of my gift.

Master Cullen…You are being summoned. It is time to make a decision. You can either come with us without incident OR we have been ordered to use her as a pawn and we go ahead and END her. Six against two do not make great odds, but when six of those are gifted…well you get the picture...I am sure you want no harm to come to her.

The beast in me is rattling his cage now. He is outraged and I am sure that it is both problems that seem to have him in an uproar. The first being is that he really doesn’t like cock blockers. The second is because there is a direct threat to kill her hanging in the balance.

If it were one on one it would be simple. This motherfucker had just threatened the life of my girl and he would most definitely be dead under more fair circumstances in the blink of an eye. However, there are five others that could harm her while I am busy with him.  

There is no way in fuck I was letting them near her to harm her.

I look through his eyes and see us both  in front of him and I thank God that her body is covered by mine. I watch with rapt attention as he willingly shows me everything.

It is Aro summoning me. The bastard is using these five fuckers created by my venom to do his bidding. I want to roar on them all. Anger is filling me completely.   

My skin is tingling as all my senses are so heightened because I was almost on the cusp of my orgasm and I knew those last few thrusts were going to bring the mirror above us raining down. I heard the last faint subtle crack of the edge of the mirror that was above my head and although I knew that there was a strong possibility that the bitch would come down, I didn’t need it to happen now of all times!

I watch through his eyes and I know he heard it too as his eyes dart up for a second and I can feel his lips lift in a shit eating grin as he watches. There is a fraction of a second I could have pulled her out but there was no guarantee that I could get her all the way out unscathed, so I did the only thing I could.

I covered her more shielding her body from the blow and the rain of glass as it slowly slips out of the frame. I don’t want to watch it from his point of view so I return to my own head and I look down at her. For her, I will take the brunt of the hit.

Damn that was heavier than I thought it would have been.  

The moment the large mirror dropped and made contact with a body that had the strength of marble, it shattered into thousands of tiny pieces and long deadly shards  that are now laying all around us.

My rage was all consuming as it crawled under my skin. My mind was wagering a war against those behind me. Could I end them like Caius if I let him out? Would I be fast enough? Could I risk it?

Fuck no! Nothing was worth the risk.

When the light came back on, the motherfucking breath is knocked right out of me. My mind was reeling with the danger behind me and my heart is swelling so fucking much and the flood of emotions became a volatile mixture that became so overwhelming it felt like my heart was going to explode right inside of my chest.

She was God damn fucking beautiful, her skin shimmered as if I had taken bags of the diamonds in the vault and poured them all over her. 

My very own sparkling little fallen Angel sent to me from heaven above lies under me with my cock buried up her ass while I have Satan’s spawn standing behind me to take her away from me.   

I was sure that by now my instinct to protect and defend her would have kicked in. I should have been up off her and facing them, but I couldn’t move. I could not look away from her.

She captivated every part of me. I felt myself falling yet again as if I was seeing her for the first time and everything was all new again.

I felt the cinch and the click rang out loudly in my head but I felt every bit of it in my heart.

I loved Isabella as a human but I had not realized that although she captivated me as a vampire, it wasn’t until this very moment that I fell head over heels all over again for my vampire Bella.

I was still buried deep inside of her and my instincts were working just as they should have. They didn’t let me down as I cover her body with my own to keep them from seeing any of her. Even if just for the moment, I was protecting her, even if it was just from their eyes.

I listen and watch in this unknown vampire’s mind as a sequence of the events that have been happening in Italy play out in his memories for me. He has been ordered to show me everything.  

I come to realize that Aro has been one-step ahead of me all along.

I could almost hear his voice in my own mind and the sound of his pawn sliding across this game that has been playing on for decades on our imaginary chess board. With that move I am not sure if it is him or I that can be held responsible for putting my lonely King in jeopardy. 

I can hear that weasels voice as if he were standing right here.

Check, my dearest Edward. 

I have never felt more vulnerable in all my life. I could feel the shift of what power and control I had over my life slip slowly away from me and I am going to have to decide if I will allow it to be taken by him!

These six large vampires have direct orders to kill her if I refuse to go with him. His thoughts show me Aro and Marcus standing there giving direct orders to have the two largest hold me down while the other four tear her apart. What sickens me more is the part where he commands them to bring her back with me in separate pieces to then use her against me for any defiance I show towards them in the future. Thankfully he left them with another option. I go without a struggle and willingly and Isabella gets to stay behind untouched.   

I am outnumbered and as much training as we have gone over with Bella, I still don’t know what gifts these bastards possess behind me and what she can and can’t control to shield either both of us or herself.

“Isabella? Angel baby are you okay?” I ask as I inspect her body knowing it was impossible for her to be cut by the glass but I still worried none the less.

Edward our flight to Italy leaves shortly. We don’t have all day. Say goodbye now or say goodbye to her in pieces forever. I have my orders.  

I wanted to rip his motherfucking head off for threatening my Isabella again! He would lose a limb at some point today at the very least, that was a given.

He allows me to see what he possesses as a gift. He imagines having to come back for her if I disobey any orders given by Aro. He is a tracker and he already has her scent in his memory and senses. I know now though that is not how they found me. I can smell my venom through their bodies although none of them smell as appealing as my beloved Isabella.  

I have been so fucking duped. He created an Army of vampires using my own fucking venom to gain an advantage over me.

Aro you crafty motherfucker. You are one conniving little weasel and definitely one I underestimated. 

Bella finally nods slightly and I knew that my fear for her safety now was radiating off me and affecting her. I couldn’t have prevented it because I am deathly afraid of losing her. It is the only thing in the world that scares me! Now I know that I am not the only one that knows this! Fucking Christ!!

Her beautiful milk chocolate eyes looked so fucking scared and if she knew what I was about to do, she would not let me move from this very spot and honestly I didn’t want to with everything I had in me. I was fighting to not let my beast out because I could not risk her being harmed because of my ill planned outrage.  

That nod is her signal to let me know she is okay and I know she is anything but okay. My baby is confused and she is scared, and I want to kill them for scaring her! Every last motherfucking one of them.

How could that fucker do this to her of all people!?

To us?

She had been so fucking full of piss and vinegar all day and she was so sassy and erotic with me since we entered the playroom today, so for her to not say something now only to nod spoke volumes.

I lean into her closer, my nose brushes up to hers and I put my lips right over her soft sensuous ones to breathe in her scent before I tell her the most important thing I need her to know.

I soften my tone, “I hope one day you will forgive me. I love you more than my own life.”

My heart feels like a piece of blown glass and Aro is holding a hammer and swings his arm back to deliver the final blow because he is making me do this, knowing exactly what he is doing and not caring one way or the other. He is most likely getting some sick perverse pleasure out of it.

I reach down and pull the blanket up and around her off the bed. I wrap her in it while I pull out of her hating with every thing that I have in me for being forced to leave the warmth of my girl. The bastards ruined the most intense orgasm she was in the middle of having and as sick as this is, I am elated at the fact that she at least got to experience that one more time. She was so aroused I could feel her love for me.

I am enraged but fighting everything in me as I step off the side of the bed to face them.

I don’t even care that I am naked, my anger over my lack of security knowing it was I that sent them all away in a hasty decison. I narrow my eyes at a large group of vampires that I know nothing about and the fact that I can’t hear five of them is maddening! None of them were on the list of Aro’s acquisitions from the intelligence we gathered.

Fuck Peter…what the hell happened? How did this slip by us?

 “Isabella baby, I want you to get up and go get dressed.” I don’t take my eyes off any one of them and they are pissing me off even more with the amused expressions they are sporting.

She stands up holding the blanket around her to keep her covered and her eyes dart from them back to me. She steps over the clothes I had strewn all over the floor in the frenzy of my need for her, walking to my dresser. I know she doesn’t have any clothes up here yet and she starts to move faster now as she reaches out yanking a handle off the damn drawer of the dresser that has my old jeans stored in it.

“Shit. Damn fucking vampire strength.” She curses and turns to dig her fingers in to get the drawer to open for her, but instead she yanks the wooden facing off the front of the drawer, still not able to get what she is after.

“Fuck me running, I swear to God I am so fucking cursed!” She huffs and is so dangerously focused on her task that it unnerves me she has her back to the threat in the room. She is still too fucking new!

Then out of nowhere, she steps to the side of the dresser reaching around to the back of the damn thing. I am in awe of the way her mind works. She is so damn stubborn and unwilling to give up as my entire dresser tilts forward and the drawers all slide out crashing onto the floor as she tips it.

My little problem solving girl.

I wonder what the fuck she is doing at first but her plan gets her what she needs and screw the catastrophe she left in her wake. Not that I ever doubted Peter when he said she was intelligent, but I still marvel at how smart Isabella is for one that is of such a young age.

Fuck she is only eighteen for Christ sakes and I watch this entire scene of her out of the corner of my eye never taking them off the deadly threat of the six vampire’s that are solely now focused on her rather quirky actions that any vampire would be fascinated by.

One of them starts to chuckle before the next one follows and in a fraction of a second, half of them burst out laughing at my Angel’s misfortune to handle that newborn strength and I realize she is struggling because she is nervous.

“Careful.” My tone is deep with a warning to them all.

I have to verbally warn them because she is a newborn. Her emotions are not very stable at the moment and she could lash out at any one of them for laughing at her. She turns quickly and I allow my eyes to leave those who are not paying me any mind anyway as the thought over the fact that she makes a rather odd vampire puzzles some them as it was written all over their faces.

I am so on the edge, but I look down at my Bella. I smile at my girl as she holds out a pair of my jeans standing in front of me blocking them from anymore of my nudity. I take them not bothering to take my eyes from hers as she looks up at me bashfully.

I simply cannot stop myself from bringing it to her attention again.

“Cue blush.” I murmur, knowing that she would be blushing like a strawberry at harvest time for her whole one-woman comedy show she just put on for our uninvited guests.

Could she be any more perfect?

She is too fucking adorable and I feel my heart start cracking in the middle of my chest.

I never believed I could feel such a strong emotion until I met her and those emotions damn near wrecked me. Now I know exactly what it means when one says that suffering through a broken heart is a horrific experience. And it is going to be because these son of a bitches that are leaving me no other choice, by fucking forcing me to leave her behind to keep her safe.

“Go Angel.” I order her again to go downstairs to get some clothes on as I pull my jeans up over my hips now. Isabella narrows her eyes at me and then looks over at them and I should have known that her volatile behavior would sneak out when we needed it the least.

With the blanket clutched in her tight little fist against her chest, she faces off with the biggest one out of all of them.

My baby may be scared but she is fucking strong and she will face any fear she has.

“Do you always go barging into people’s private residences and interrupt one really hot fucking awesome sex scene and ruin orgasms for some sadistic pleasure or something?
Who the fuck are you?”

None of them answers and I am glad for it.

She cocks her head to the side and when she realizes they won’t be answering her, she pushes a little further.

“Maybe we need to all go downstairs so I can teach you a lesson for a new course I am offering. It is called Everything you need to know about doorbells 101. That would be the little button that is so very strategically placed for even a fucking handicap vampire in a wheelchair to reach! You know where…that big huge door is you just fucking walked through uninvited? Well next to it is a little button that you push. Anyone care to come see how it works?”  

I pinch the bridge of my nose and know that I am going to miss her.

“Angel.” I whisper softly hoping it gets her focus back on me without upsetting her.

“I am going!” she growls and moves towards the door, then once I hear her close the bedroom door I move like lightning causing James to flinch as I am now in his face.

“Don’t you dare say a motherfucking word. I will go with you. Leave her alone.”

I spoke right into his ear so fast and low she would not be able to hear it. Her senses were still a little confusing for her, and she wouldn’t understand the speed at which we would speak because the words that came out would be jumbled together and confuse her even more. It would be a few years to come before she could master it. If there is one thing about being a vampire, with age comes even more heightened senses. She is still so fucking new that when she does come into her own, years down the road she will be a force to be reckoned with.

I never thought I would live to regret a thing I had ever done in my past. My arrogant attitude with my ability to feed my huge fucked up ego believed that I would never care about anyone more than myself. I have always loved my family and I would always take care of them and do anything for them. Aro tried to threaten me back then when he started the opening game of chess with me. He thought that threatening the lives of my father and my brother and Esme that he would use them if he needed to get me to forfeit and work under him. Over the years it was the middle of the game and he was losing bishops like Felix and Rooks like Caius and over time I was so fucking sure that I would win the endgame. That last time we had a confrontation he warned me but he also thought out loud as he made a strange observation.

You protect that Queen Edward even though you don’t know your doing it. I find it very interesting your Queen has no face.

At the time I had no idea what Aro was talking about.

 A queen without a face. He murmurs. Fascinating.

I positioned my pieces on the board of this ridiculous game we have been playing perfectly over the last several decades by acting as if that would never be the reason I caved to his demands. I had a perfect Rook in Peter, a knight in Emmett and Tyler was one of several pawns that were loyal and dependable.

I now stare into the eyes of James and know that this pathetic pawn before me is up for promotion.

What do you plan on telling her?   

I glare at him. The desire to wipe that fucking smirk off his face is gnawing away at my control. I am trying to think quickly and for once, I haven’t a fucking clue what to tell her.

I feel like I am so fucking out of the loop that I want to regroup and refocus. I never should have lost focus to begin with. I had this perfectly planned out. How the fuck could I fuck this up? I have never fucked up like this before! My mind is zinging at ninety miles an hour and I am standing still watching everyone go by.

May I suggest that we are old acquaintances and we need to settle some unfinished business?

I cock my head looking at him curiously wondering why he is so willing to help me lie to Isabella. I don’t trust the motherfucker but it doesn’t appear as though he is hiding anything. I search his thoughts and his objective is clear. To have me on that plane with him at any cost.

Fuck!

“Wait downstairs for me.” I demand. “It is the least you can all fucking do!”

They look at one another and nod walking out quickly.

I open the door to my room and she is re adjusting her ponytail. She smells like heaven and I rush to her hugging her to me, holding her.

“Baby, I need to go take care of some old business with James. I promise I will be back as soon as everything is taken care of and we can focus on getting ready for our trip.” I lie.

“Edward what the hell is going on!? Couldn’t they have called? Jesus a fucking phone call or hell a text message versus breaking and entering would have been nice!”

“I know Angel. I was always available to any of my investors before I met you and it seems I haven’t been keeping up with my end of the business negations I had agreed upon. That is my fault. Please forgive me, but I will handle this and then we can go back to where we were.”

“Edward you are holding on to me like you are never going to see me again.”

I curse under my breath. Fuck pull it together or she will know.

“I need to get dressed and get this over with. The faster I do this the faster I get back to you.”

“Does this have something to do with Aro?” she asks and I stiffen but I let her go quickly before she notices.

“Yes baby and I will always protect you from him.” I lie again and the damn lies keep coming out of me as they always have. If there is one thing a vampire can do and do it well it is to be able to lie.

They have to believe the lie.

Lying to Isabella should not be this easy but I swear on my life if I have to lie to keep her safe then I will.

I move to the closet dressing the part of an executive, grab a black suit, and a silk tie and move quickly to get dressed. She watches me curiously and I try to smile and ease her concerns as I stand in the mirror and begin to tie the tie.

She steps up behind me and reaches around to do it for me and I stare at her stunned.

“How do you know how to do this?” I ask.

I watch her as she thinks for a moment and then she says, “Phil.”

Our eyes meet in the reflection of the mirror and it suddenly comes to me from long ago.

Aro’s words.

You protect that Queen Edward even though you don’t know your doing it. I find it very  interesting your Queen has no face.

My eyes look down at her fingers as she ties my tie and I turn to her and do what I have to do and I do it fast because if I don’t it will end badly.

“I love you Angel I will be back soon.” I give her a quick kiss on the forehead, inhale as discreetly as possible and hold in my sob as I turn and leave her standing there rushing down the stairs and out the door and out of her life.

S*h*h*h*h*h*…..

When most of the pieces are gone, Kings typically take a more active part in the struggle and sacrifices must be considered.

This is my sacrifice as I walk down the long dank corridor that reeks of human waste and putrid smells before going through grates that slide up under dungeon built walls underneath this city. I want to vomit but I barely fed from Isabella before I left so there was nothing there to expel.

I enter the more presentable wooden door throwing them open with all my strength as they crash loudly against the walls. All six of my personal escorts are on my heels of course, and my temper is balancing on a tightrope as James smirks over at me in his celebrated victory of placing a check on this King.

She is worth it and I will forfeit this game so long as my Bella is kept out of playing then it is a sacrifice I don’t think twice about.

“Ahh, Edward my dearest. I am so glad you could join us.”

“Cut the shit Aro you win. I forfeit.”

His wicked devious red glowing eyes gleam in victory and his hands clasp together on his knee now as he crosses his legs.

“Pity, I was just beginning to enjoy the challenge.”

His mind is totally blank.

Fucker.

“There never was one obviously, what do you expect from me?” I glower at him and the hate is seething out of me.

“Eternal servitude young one. You will sit by my side clue me in to every thought around me and watch and learn from a real Master as I maneuver the pieces of the next game.
You do know of which game I am speaking of Edward.”

He wants to rule the world. Idiot.

I roll my eyes.

I cannot believe that I did it and a smile slips out as my lips lift slightly and I am reminded of her.

I look down for a moment to take in the beauty of her face in my memory and even though it hasn’t been more than twenty four hours since I was buried inside of her, I miss her so fucking much and my heartbreak is only beginning.


Aro startled me as his hand brushes over my cheek to steal my thoughts and memories away from me.

Fucking vampires lately are giving me whiplash. She distracts me so completely! 

Fuck!

His voice is soft and he marvels now at what he sees.

“Well, well....she does have a face.” I can even hear the awe in his tone as he reads my thoughts with that one touch.

I cannot help but smile even in this fucked up situation I have put myself in and I nod once and reply.

“She had one the whole time Aro. She just wasn’t born yet.”

©Robshandmonkey~

I loved writing this chapter. Do I know how to play chess? FUCK NO BUT I TRIED TO LEARN and let me tell you its hard!
Muah!
I am already half way into the next chapter and I got my mojo back after nine hours of Rob movies one right after the other, popcorn, coca cola loaded with sugar and a sexy quirky Art, a dashing Toby smoking a cigarette like a motherfucking porn star, and a Tyler lust filled scene all got me past my funk!
Ever see the movie Wargames?
All the time I was writing this…I kept hearing that creepy voice say…
“How about a nice game of chess?”
Just thought I would share that with you! lol