Chapter 2

Volturi Coven

Eleazar's POV

It took me a couple of days to persuade Aro, Marcus and Caius Volturi to let me leave the coven. My only problem was that they all wanted to me my mate, Carmen. She was so small and innocent that it made me wonder how she was going to deal with my ex coven leaders.

I had packed my bags a couple of days ago just in case I needed to leave Italy in a rush. I walked down the Volterra streets in order to find my mate. I sniffed the air again and soon found her staying in a dusty looking motel. As I stepped off the street, and away from the staring human females, I was hit with the strong scent of her.

I softly knocked on the door and in less than a second I found her on top of me. She was squealing at the top of her lungs and talking about how bored she was staying in a room. I had to lift her off me and push her into the hotel room before she started drawing attention to us.

"Did everything in our conversation slip your mind after I left?" I asked as I sat her down onto the mouldy looking couch. She frowned and shook her head. "You went shopping? Yes?"

"How'd you know that?" Carmen whispered to me.

"We don't get very many roaming vampires" I explained. "It was very easy to tell if you left the motel by your scent"

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help it" Carmen said. "I was so bored. The TV reception is horrible and there isn't any internet connection"

"I only left you for three days" I mumbled as I scanned my eyes around the room. There wasn't very much to this motel room. Only a lumpy bed, which hadn't been touched by Carmen, a small TV, an empty book shelf and a small wooden desk.

"So?" She asked. I looked back at her and saw that she was obviously waiting for me to do something. "Are you leaving?"

"Yes, I managed to persuade them to let me leave" I said. "But-"

"There's always a but" She said.

"They want you to come up to the castle and meet them before we leave" I said. I watched her facial expressions change from happy to scared in less than a second. "I'm pretty sure they aren't going to try and do anything. But I can't be sure at the moment"

"Their not going to try and kill me, right?" She said.

"You haven't done anything wrong" I said. "They won't hurt you unless you've broken a law"

"But what if they just don't like me and end up killing me" She asked. "I've heard a lot of rumours that vampires can get very vicious"

"Trust me" I said. "They only want to talk to you, not hurt you"

I watched her think about it for a minute before standing up and dusting off her clothes. I looked up at her in a confused manor and watched as she grabbed her bag from the desk and headed towards the door.

"Are you coming or not?" She asked. I jumped up and followed closely behind her. We had only been walking for a couple of minutes before she started asking questions about my ex-coven members and leaders.

"Remember what I am about to tell you" I said. "Aro is the one out of the three coven leaders and is able to read a person's every thought with a single touch, Marcus the second coven leader and is able to sense relationships between a couple and then we have Caius who is the third coven leader and has no power at all"

"That seems easy enough to remember" She said happily as we continued out walk. I stopped her and pushed her softly into a deserted alley way so nobody would over hear us.

"Aro will ask many questions about you, Caius will most likely hate you from the start and try to make you feel uncomfortable or upset and then Marcus will most likely not ask any questions; he will probably not take any notice of you" I explained. She shrugged and nodded.

"I'm starting to think you're more nervous for them to meet me than I am" She said with a soft smile on her face. "I'm sure everything will be fine, you seriously worry too much"

"Carmen, you don't understand how controlling they can become" I said. "You don't want to get on their bad side unless you wish for a very painful death"

"I don't plan on dying anytime soon, so I promise to keep my opinion to myself" She said. I nodded and kissed her softly on the lips. We walked out of the alley way and walked along side of many humans who stared at our unpredictable beauty.

It seemed like only a couple of second until we were standing in front of two large, wooden doors which led into the room where Aro, Marcus and Caius were waiting for us. I took a deep breath, even thought I didn't need it, and held onto Carmen's hip tightly.

"Here goes nothing"

A/N: Hey guys. I decided to write a second chapter for my story. I didn't really get a very good response from my first chapter so I'm hoping that if I write a couple more that I will start to attract more readers. Please remember to review after you've read each chapter to let me know what you thought of it.

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