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Chapter 8
"Electra, dear." Aro said in an excited voice while rubbing his palms together as he and his two brothers sat in their thrones. Caius wore a slight smile hovering over his pale lips while Electra stood in front of them a few weeks later. She was dressed well in a sailor like shirt for women with tiny blue button roses in the front and black demi jeans with matching color high heeled pumps.
Caius had been up the wall with all her purchases in the first week of her living with them, buying lacy and black underthings that would have made him blush if he had the ability to do so, dress shirts and casuals of the latest fashion with other large sets of clothes that she added into a winter wardrobe.
The total cost of it all: nearing forty thousand dollars and that didn't include the shoes and other accessories as well. She had good tastes for a modern woman and seemed to really enjoy his impute from time to time when she asked for his fashion opinion before buying what she saw. He personally, didn't really care what she got just as long as she had them at her disposal and wouldn't have to worry about her wardrobe as much as worrying about their relationship.
Aro watched her surprised face with carful eyes as he leaned back in his seat and gracefully crossed one leg over the other. "I was able to get ahold of the head Dean at the local university here in the city." He told her in a businesslike fashion.
"Why don't you come with me and Caius in my private study so we can discuss this over without any other prying ears, shall we?" He motioned for her to follow him through a side door down the hall behind the thrones while Caius followed them from behind.
Felix who was her bodyguard for the day because her regular was on vacation for a week, merely stayed behind with Marcus discussing planning on her entry exam.
Electra walked into a same sized office like Caius's but more set in the time frame of the renaissance period with heavy drapery on the windows, Louie the VIIV style furniture, a long dark cherry oak desk with lions feet style cabriole at the ends and three four matching chairs in front of it while a red padded high backed chair sat behind with the similar designs of his throne back in the other room.
There was a low burning fire at the far side of the wall to the left and six ceiling high packed bookshelves on the other side to the right. Persian rugs, which she was learning from Felix, seemed to really be a high appeal to everyone in the coven, lay under the desk, before the fireplace, and in the middle of the room where a black leather couch and low coffee table stood with a few magazines on top.
Aro sat down across the couch in a love seat and motioned for her and Caius to take their seats in the couch together. Electra sat down and fingered her hair while she felt Caius swiftly ran his hand down her back before sitting back with an arm thrown behind her on the back of the couch with a small frown pulling at his face.
"What do you want to talk about that you must bring her in here?" He demanded in a slightly cross voice.
"Oh, just something about something I heard from a source that has informed me of what is going on between the two of you." Aro smiled widely at him. "I'm rather surprised by the fast progress between you and Electra."
He gazed at her for a long time until she couldn't bare it and had to look away from his eyes as she felt her cheeks flame up. Caius didn't show any emotion whatsoever. He only gritted his teeth but that was it.
"I would prefer that you stay out of my business this time, Aro. I can handle my own affairs just fine without any one gossiping." He said through clinched teeth. Electra shivered at the low growl that had escaped his chest. It was different from the one he had used when they were alone in his office days back. It was darker, more sinister that made her feel very cold inside as she felt it vibrate off of him. She lay a hand over his thigh, causing him to look down at her with dark orbs.
"No need for that, my brother." Aro stressed, waving a hand in that air as if that alone would stop him. Caius broke off but still had a dark look within his eyes as he relaxed and tighten his fingers around hers. Aro sighed. "She will need to prepare for the entry exam this coming November. I want you and Marcus to help cover her history, math and English, while I help her cover her ability in science."
Electra felt her head spin as she counted the upcoming months until her entry into the university in the spring. "What about my citizenship papers?" She asked. "Won't I need that in place as well?"
"Caius would be the one to do that if," Aro held up a finger. "You were to marry him sooner than rather later. That automatically makes you a citizen plus the fact that you are married into a popular, wealthy family in the media press. I assure you that we are not forcing you to decide now, just forethought to keep in mind as we progress in settling your paperwork in the system and have you start a new life with us."
A slight feeling of apprehension filled her. Caius had seemed a little more relaxed around her when they were alone, but when Dominica shows up in the middle of that day and Electra couldn't find him, she felt so lost without him. That and knowing he was still seeing that female made her sense that he just wasn't that ready to take full responsibility for a human girl that he was ordered to protect.
"I think I need more time to-to be able to think clearly on this, Aro." She finally said in a very small voice. "I'm mean, we only know each other for a week and you want me to marry?" She pointed out when Aro started to speak up. "I want to marry knowing that I will be loved and cherished, not used for a good image for someone's sake. That's not what life is about; it's about utter commitment to each other in body and soul." Her hands were trembling as she watched a flicker of emotions cross Aro's face before masking them behind a polite mask.
"I see, then perhaps you don't mind me asking of what you are going to do if you were to have to compete for him, my dear." He spread his hand wide before him. "It's normal, but he has no queen at the moment and the longer he has no queen, the more open he is, as you well know it."
"Love is the same in a human heart, with all due respect." Electra said strongly. Caius turned his head slightly towards her with a look of surprise. "I can give it to him, if you only trust me." She turned to him. "Just trust me and I will prove to you that all humans are not as bad as you think, Caius."
A perfectly blond curved eyebrow went up. "Trust you? How?"
Electra blushed bright red before studdering a response to her answer. "I-I-I, uh, mean, bu trusting me, y-you would be t-trusted me because of our situation...er.. you know."
"No, I don't know." Caius shot back at her.
Aro slightly coughed into his fist before clearing his throat loudly. "I think we need to be paying attention to the current conversation, my dears. Not discussing your private affairs from the bedroom."
A hard glare from Caius made Electra giggle slightly before she covered it up with a cough.
"I think you should be glad that she's alive and well since her arrival to Volturia, Aro." Caius growled. "Or else all hell would break loose around here with me being in the current state without a female mate by my side. Given the fact that the girl has just recently lost her only child to one our own," He gestured toward Electra for further emphasis of hi viewpoint. "Its going to be a challenge to us all on converting her to our views and ways with the changing of time."
"But the question is here, shall we really put our trust in a simple human such as her?" Aro pressed. "I saw some of her ability but not fully, my brothers. In the end, it all comes down to if she can be able to not only be trusted, but be use to us in our coven."
Marcus sighed deeply as he gazed upon the human standing before them. He ability sensed the sudden bond between Caius and the girl, but was it really just for the sex, or something more deeper that only time could tell?
"Caius," Marcus said in his gentle soft voice. "The fact that you have another female in your bed gives grave concern about how safe our human is from us or even herself. Are you really willing to allow this female vampire be around Electra?"
His younger brother scowled at him. "I am not saying to place the girl's safty at stake, Marcus."
"And yet, brother," Aro smirked. "You took her to your bed and not even an hour or so later, ended up in Dominica's arms, am I not correct? Hmm?"
Electra could feel the tension begin to grow from Caius as she watched his crimson eyes turn stone cold and pure black with anger as he stared back at his brother beside him. "Does it really matter at the moment?" He hissed finally.
"I refused to be a pawn." She blurted suddenly. Aro's eyes slide towards hers.
"A pawn?" He raised an eyebrow as if amused. "If we were to do such a thing, child. I'm afraid to tell you that you would have been one of us already. No, I wouldn't allow such a thing to happen. But..." He leaned forward towards her with a slight smile that sent shivers of cold fear up her spine. "I would be sure if i were you, to not forget who exactly save your life and gave you a second chance without straight out having on of our own kill you."
"Enough, Aro." Marcus said sharply. "You have already scared her to death, there is no need to say such rude things to her after all what she had to go through since learning about us. Leave it be."
Aro waved off Caius's low growl of agreement as he stood up. "Just making sure that Electra is aware of her place here when it come to dealing with the master of volturia." With those words said, he fickered out of the room, leaving Caius and Marcus to try and calm the human down.
"Please, don't mind what Aro's says to you." Marcus said kindly. "But I would be careful of what you say to him. Aro can very easily have you killed for saying the wrong words to him in a flash."
Electra shiverd visably and shook her head side to side rapidly as if trying to get ride of his words out of her head. "So whats the point of keeping me alive then?" She cried. "I'm better off being with my dead baby, then be alive, constantly threaten by immediate death by the hands of your very own kind that was responsible for his death in the first place." Electra broke down sobbing as Caius looked over at Marcus with frown.
"Leave us." He said softly.
Marcus stood up and gazed down them. "I believe that fate had a hand to play in this life, Caius. Nothing happens without a reason for it to happen. Your dead queen should have taught you this long ago when you first turned her into one of us. Being one with the sight and the ability to look into another past, serves us all well. She saw something in this girl that Aro cannot see. Its up to you and her to find out what it is exactly before Aro does and uses it against you, Caius.'
Caius stared after his brother in dead silence as he absently rubbed Electra's back. "And I will be sure ready to kill him, if he even lays a hand on her." He muttered under his breath.