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For Christy. Who never gave up.

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Chloe groaned as Alec responded with the same passion and fervor as she'd always fantasied he would. His hands were everywhere, his mouth consuming and urgent and melting as he kept her pressed against the tree with just the weight of his body and the intensity of his kiss. Her fingers clenched in his hair and the blonde whimpered as he cupped her ass and used it to raise her up against him, letting her feel how much he wanted her. A thrill unlike anything else she'd ever felt, though very close to the satisfaction of a successful hunt, zigg-zagged crazily throughout her whole body as she straddled one of his thighs. The black skirt scrunched up around her thighs, baring pale thighs that glittered as the few bits of sunlight that escaped through the leafy trees above shone down on her. "Damnation." Alec hissed, tearing his lips from hers to nibble roughly down her neck.

Chloe tilted her head to the side, giving him better access to the curve of her neck, closing her eyes as a near-pur escaped her lips.

Suddenly the vision came upon her, and she went limp, eyes wide, as images took over, quick in succession.

When she was let out of the visions, Chloe gasped, clasping the front of Alec's shirt. "We have to go."

"What?" Alec had held her limp body during the vision, and now looked deep into her face in worry, brushing back some hair from her eyes. "What did you see?"

"The rogue vampires...they're in trouble." Chloe slipped out of Alec's hold, fighting back the embarrassment she felt welling up in her. Honestly, ever since she'd met the Cullens it was as if she'd been infected with their overwhelming emotions. "The one called James caught the scent of one of the Skoocoom and his group were hunting it, until it turned on them. They're not going to make it if we don't get there on time."

Alec hesitated before going towards her and fixing her shirt and skirt. "We're going to have a serious conversation when we've done saving their asses, do you understand that, Chloe?" He reached for her chin and forced her to look at him. "You do realize that I wouldn't have just taken you against the tree if it wasn't for the fact that-."

"That what?" She asked, eyes narrowed. The whole situation was embarrassing, but she needed to know what he was going to say. "If it wasn't for the fact that what?"

Alec opened his mouther, and in a rare sign of vulnerability he closed it before opening it once more to take in a deep breath. He then looked at her, crimson eyes determined. "If it wasn't for the fact that I'm going to marry you."

Chloe took a step backwards, eyes wide, feeling as if she'd been slapped. "Marry?"

She was confused.

Had-had Aro decided that he wanted the next to Ascend to be married to his daughter-and thus make Aro have more power?

Had Alec agreed to this?

What-?

"I always planned on marrying you." Although Edward was the mindreader, Alec was doing an impressive job at it. "Why do you think I went through all the trouble of training you, protecting you? Why do you think I left my training, to come here with you?"

Chloe's crimson eyes couldn't have gotten wider as she realized that he was serious. "I-you've always been protective I-I thought you only thought of me as your brat sister."

He snorted. "I have a sister, and believe me, Chloe, when I say that what I feel for Jane and what I feel for you are completely different emotions." Alec's eyes narrowed. "You're going to marry me, and I will not suffer anything to happen to you."

"I'm...going to marry you." Chloe paused, before she looked away. Then she'd looked back and clocked Alec so hard his head swung and he stumbled back. "Fuck!" She winced, shaking her paining fist. "You do not tell me that we're going to get married! You ask me you asshole! I am not your little toy! I'm not a puppy! I am a vampire, blood of Aro. You ask me to become your bride, you convince me to say yes, and then we'll get engaged and maybe we'll eventually get married. But there's nothing, not even an engagement, unless I agree to it!"

"The fuck, Chloe!" Alec winced, clutching at his jaw. "We're already engaged!"

She froze in the process of turning away, turning back to look at him. "What?"

Alec flinched. "I wasn't supposed to let you know like this."

"What do you mean we're already engaged?" Chloe stormed towards Alec and grabbed him by the front of his shirt, glaring up at him.

The cracks on his crystal skin were already healing, disappearing. "On your twelve birthday I went to Aro and I asked him for your hand in marriage. He gave it to me. We've been engaged since then."

Chloe's grip on his shirt loosened, her face showing the extreme shock on her features. "But I was turned when I was fifteen."

He nodded. "But as soon as Aro decided to turn you for Sulpicia's sake, and then he discovered your ability, I was placed in charge of your protection."

The blonde let go of him and backed away, shaking her head, as if trying to clear the whole mess in her mind. "So-you've known me since before I was twelve?"

He nodded once more, face emotionless.

She brought a hand to her forehead. "Why didn't you ever tell me this before? I only thought you'd been put in charge of me from the year before I was changed. I never realized-." She looked up at Alec, trying to understand. "How many other secrets are you keeping from me?"

"None that I am aware of." He answered her.

Could she believe him?

What if he was lying to her again?

Hiding something else?

"He's not."

They turned to see Edward leaning against a tree.

"You knew?" Chloe whispered, feeling more betrayed than she had in the longest time.

"Don't think that." Edward sighed, pushing away from the tree. "Everyone knows, and we've been waiting for him to grow the balls to finally tell you. It was something he needed to do. Not any of us."

"So everyone knows." Chloe couldn't help but feel like an idiot as that piece of information was thrown in her face. "So all this time everyone was laughing behind my back about how I was so ignorant and naive that I didn't even know about my own engagement?"

"No dammit." Alec had never showed this much frustration before. "Chloe, no one was making fun of you!"

"If anything, they're annoyed with him." Edward assured. "And, you know, he loves you. He really loves you."

Her eyes widened, and she knew she'd be blushing if she could as she turned to look at Alec. "You love me?"

Alec sent a glare in Edward's direction.

Edward winced, scratching the back of head. "Sorry, I thought since you were talking about the engagement that you'd finally told her that too."

"Remind me to sic my sister on you the moment we return to Volterra." Alec growled.

Edward flinched at the thought.

Chloe and Jane might have been the two cutest and tiniest blonde vampires in Volterra, but they were two of the most respected females...if not the two most respected Volturi women. And both were ruthless in their own way.

"Edward, why are you here?" Chloe changed the subject with narrowed eyes.

"Oh, right." Edward nodded. "I heard the thoughts of some vampires close to here. They're in trouble."

"The nomads." Chloe nodded. "I Saw them." She looked between the men.

The men shared uneasy looks.

"Edward." She started, glaring at him dangerously, her eyes nearly going black. "You're my right hand man, which means if you find out anything in the future, I don't care what, you're going to tell me, do you understand me?"

He nodded.

"Alec." The blonde turned to him and backhanded him with her left hand. "In accordance to the laws laid down by Gregorious the Grandiose, I renounce our engagement in the presence of a witness on the claim of subterfuge."

Alec stood there, eyes widened, an expression she'd never seen on his face there as he didn't even react to the hit.

Edward looked like he really wanted to come to Alec's aid, but then he just grinned and shook his head.

Chloe sent Edward a glare before turning back to Alec and reaching for his face, framing it with her hands as she pushed him back against the tree and kissed him hungrily.

Alec hesitated only a second before wrapping his arms around her and kissing her back nearly desperately.

Edward snorted and rolled his eyes.

Chloe pulled away from Alec with a last peck on the lips, smiling. "So, now you'll have to do it the proper way." And with that she turned and walked away. "Come on, we have to go save those Nomads."

Alec just watched her go, a half smile on his lips.

Edward smirked as he raised an eyebrow at him. "Do us both a favor and think those kind of thoughts when you're no where close to me."

Alec forced his eyes away from Chloe to glare at her second in command. "Erase what you just heard from your memory."

Edward snorted and turned to follow Chloe.

With one last touch of his fingers to his lips, Alec smirked and followed suit as well.

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