Love is a fickle object that few can ever truly observe and contain; I should know, after the things I've seen in the last few months. Was it really only half a year ago that I was home, watching shooting stars bleed across the sky with my family?
Sometimes life offers you distractions, often too tempting to resist- before you know it every door you've seen open suddenly closes, and everything becomes a darker place. A distraction, as I've learned, can be as deadly as a mouse trap; for me, I was a mere guinea pig, who could neither die instantly from the contraption nor break free of it. Trapped was a good word for it; I had no choices left but one other, and it only lead to exile and a life on the run. The family was better off left to their own workings, instead of constantly having to flee from the people who longed to use me, to destroy them.
One thing almost kept me from crossing over the lines to a dimmer future- almost. How could Jasper assume that one detail of my life that had finally come out of the shadows ruin everything we'd worked for? Did he honestly believed that this…this creep, Doyle, or whatever he called himself, meant more to me than he had, when Jasper had given me everything Doyle had taken? Was he really so selfish, as Chelsea claimed?
Leander watched me, bored, as if the only reason he was with them was because there was nothing better to do- which was probably true, for him at least; only Jacque seemed to have the same distaste for this place as I did.
I would give my family the peace-of-mind they deserved, my last action to protect them. It was all I could give.
"On one condition Aro- you leave the Cullens alone, all of them."
His waxy skin seemed to gleam in anticipation; he nodded, then stretched his arms wide to accept his most unwilling new member of the Volterra coven.
Starting a AxJ storyline, 10 reviews until I update next. r&r