Prologue

Bella's POV

It had been almost two and a half years since I was turned into a vampire and it was the first time I hunted at night, usually we hunted during the day when it was sunny but we were desperate. It was a dark moonless night and Edward and I were hunting since we hadn't hunted for weeks, it has been more difficult to hunt because the animals we hunt were hibernating; besides the ones we could catch were skinny and didn't have much blood for us to feed from. We were deep in the woods when I smelled something mouth-watering, it was a human, and badly injured human… Edward smelt it too and I knew that he was hoping that it was dead so that we could feast off it; we decided to check it out.

We came across a clearing; I was horrified by the sight that lay before me, there, lying motionless on the cold snow covered ground was a boy no more than fifteen. The snow around him was bloody and the delectable stench was almost over powering to me but I kept my strength not to feast off the suffering child, Edward did not feel the same way. He made a move forward but I intercepted the attack, I would not let this human boy die or suffer any longer. "Bella let me drink, please! He's dying and we might as well make it short!" "No, I will not let you kill him!" I growled protectively, my motherly instinct was strong and could not over power it. "Imagine our daughter in this position, would you kill her for a stupid drink!" "Of course not but Nessie will never be in this position! Besides, we would transform her into a full vampire if that were ever to happen." His argument gave me an idea and he must have guessed what I was thinking since he shook his head. "Don't think about it Bella, besides, you think you're strong but you're not that strong!" I didn't listen to him, I bent down and removed the teen's shirt and bit down on the boy's chest, he moaned in agony. While I let go unwillingly of the boy I noticed the several scars and the two bullet wounds, one old and one still bleeding, probably the cause of his state. If I ever found out who put this innocent child in this state I would easily let Jasper feed off them slow and painfully and leave them just enough blood to survive but before they would turn into vampires themselves I would rip off there heads and let them burn on earth and in hell.

Edward could no longer stay and watch the scene and he left leaving me and the boy in the cold outdoors and then sun started to rise so I brought the boy out from the clearing to under a tree (which was no problem because of my awesome vampire abilities). It was probably about half past seven, eight hours after I had bitten the boy, when he started to finally stir and moan and I noticed the his wound was slowly but surely healing. For the first time that day I thought about bringing him home to the Cullen's house, my house, I picked him up gently and kept him close to my chest and I ran home where he got properly treated and we found out who he was, Alex Rider.