Chapter 1
"Don't worry, I'll be back soon." I comforted Bella, as I was about to leave for a hunting trip with Esme, Emmett, and Alice.
"Do you promise?" she asked, looking up at me with her involuntary puppy eyes she made when she was upset.
"Yes." I vowed. "Don't I always?"
"Umm hmm." She said and gave me one last controlled hug.
"I'll take her home." Carlisle volunteered.
"Sounds good." I said and he led her out the front door to his car.
"Maybe when we're gone you guys could do some bonding with Bella." I said to my family members who were not going with on the trip; mainly Rosalie and Jasper. They hardly knew her at all.
"Hmm." Rosalie huffed and walked over to bid good-bye to Emmett.
"I suppose I could try and think of something to do to keep her busy." He said, then glided over to Alice to say his good byes.
"We had better get going." Esme said. "Or it will be morning by the time we get to the grounds." We were going all the way to Germany to hunt because Esme liked it there and wanted to visit a few friends of hers. We didn't want to risk more human contact than we had to, so we weren't going to fly or anything. We each packed an extra pair of cloths, just incase and then set off.
It had taken us longer to get to Europe. The sun was rising as we got to the shore of Spain. We must have looked like a bunch, sopping wet, dirty, and outsiders, walking into the small Spanish village we would stay in during the day, just to be safe. We found an abandoned shed on the outskirts of town to stay in; hopefully none had seen us arrive.
When night fell again, we moved on; first to France, then onto Germany. Our hunting grounds were in the northern part of the country, where not many people lived and for this reason, no other vampires hunted here, so it was the perfect place for us.
But this time when we arrived, things were going to be different, much different.