Prologue
BellaPOV
Fifteen years, 23 days, 3 hours, 12 minutes and 45 seconds. It's been fifteen years since he left me. Fifteen years since I'd been bitten. Fifteen years since I had to find a new family, fifteen years since I changed my identity. I am still known as Bella but now...now that name is feared. For those who had even a single ounce of self-preservation, unlike myself once, know to stay away. Which is why, for their sake, I hope to never run into the Cullens. No amount of power, vampire or otherwise, would keep me from ripping them to shreds. Although, if we did happen to meet somewhere, if our paths ever did cross, I think I'd immeasurably enjoy myself. And, even that is an understatement.