Edward POV

Raven had done nothing but bring pain and strife into our lives. I was raised to be a gentleman, but at the moment, all I wanted to do was slap the smirk off her face and rip her head off. My face must have reflected how I felt because both Jane and Felix were tense and standing on either side of Raven in a protective stance, waiting for me to make a move.

Raven's thoughts were loud and clear.

"You are consumed with anger for me and would love to see me dead. However, I can guarantee that the day will come when you will love again and that person will love you back and never betray you."

How dare she think that after what she'd done to Bella I would believe anything thing she had to say? I hissed, "There is nothing you can say to me that I will believe. You are a mind manipulator. I loved and trusted you, and you used that to help my enemy."

Jane snapped, "Enough!"

She turned toward Raven and said, "Finish this so we can leave."

Raven told us that how she was changed was the truth, but Demetri from the Volturi was the one that changed her. She said one of Demetri's gifts was that he could detect what a human's gift would be if they were turned into one of us. Every couple of centuries, Demetri traveled the world in search of prospective humans that would make the Volturi Guard stronger.

Ravens gifts were detected, and Demetri insisted on being the one to change her because he wanted her as his mate. Raven had had a hard time letting go of her humanity and didn't want to take human life. The control she had around humans as a newborn was unnatural for a vampire; she could resist the bloodlust and didn't let it dictate her actions. Even now, she still preferred the blood of animals over humans, but she blamed Aro for her change in diet.

As angry as I was with Raven for what she'd done to us, I felt nothing but sympathy for her when she told us what the Volturi had done to her human family.

After being a member of the Volturi for five years, Aro decided to take matters into his own hands and force Raven to drink human blood like the rest of them. He summoned her into his chambers; that was when she realized that she hadn't had a vision in about a week. Aro had used a member of the Volturi to block her visions. He had kidnapped her human family and told Raven if she wanted her family to live then she would have to start feeding like a real vampire. Aro told Raven that her compassion for humans was a weakness, and he wouldn't tolerate it anymore. Raven agreed, and before the sun went down that same day, Raven lost the last of her humanity and took a human life.

It made no sense that the Volturi would go through so much trouble to bring in a couple of humans just to force Raven to do what they wanted. They didn't have that kind of compassion to let them just walk away unharmed even if they had the ability to erase their memories. If Raven was telling the truth, she was very naive to believe that her human family left Volterra alive.

Raven confirmed my suspicions when she told us that a few years later she discovered that Aro had lied to her-her family had been killed the same day she last saw them. That was when she decided to leave Volterra and venture out into the world on her own. Aro didn't attempt to stop her because he knew that one day she would come back.

Raven reminded us that Aro did nothing out of kindness; he had not come to Isabella's rescue as a favor to our family or because he had taken a liking to Bella. Aro changed his mind about changing Isabella Swan because he realized allowing her to become a vampire would cause our family to become too powerful—there was a chance that because of our acquaintance with the shape shifters we could overthrow their throne. Therefore, her staying human would be in his best interest.

Jane interrupted Raven and told us that we were never to have any contact with Isabella Swan again. We had to leave Forks and never return. If not, we would be destroyed.

Bella POV

Pain radiated from every part of my body from the top of my head down to the tip of my toes. I was grateful for the pain,

though —it meant that I wasn't a vampire or dead. The brightness of the light coming through the window hurt my eyes as I slowly attempted to open them.

"Bella, thank God you're awake! I was so scared that you would never open your eyes again."

I slowly turned my head toward the voice that sent a wave of peace through my body. Jacob picked up my hand and slowly brought it to his lips as tears ran down his face. There were dark circles under his eyes that gave away that he hadn't slept for days.

As I opened my mouth to respond, I realized that breathing hurt and trying to talk was a difficult task. In a very weak and low voice, I asked, "What happened to Victoria and Raven?"

Jacob leaned forward and kissed my forehead.

"Please try not to talk. You were hurt very badly, and it's going to take a while before you completely recover. Just listen, and I will try to explain everything to you that went on with Victoria and Raven.

"I don't know how much you remember about what happened, but Paul was on patrol by your house when Victoria showed up, and he went after her. She was just a distraction to get Paul away from you so that Raven could take you away. Once I realized it was a trap, I told Paul to go back to you. However, by the time he got there, you were already gone. We looked everywhere for you, but we couldn't find a trail anywhere."

Jacob let go of my hand and started to roughly run his hands through his hair as he thought about what had happened.

"Cullen's psycho fiancée never wanted to be a part of their bloodsucking family; she was using them to get to you. The redheaded leech tortured you and almost killed you, but the leeches from Italy showed up and killed her. They instructed the Cullens to have no more contact with you or they would be destroyed."

Jacob picked up my hand, gave it a slight squeeze, and took a deep breath.

"You have been unconscious for four days. You have three fractured ribs and your left lung was punctured. You will be here for about another week and a half, but the doctors believe that you will make a full recovery."

Looking around the hospital room, I realized that Jacob was the only one here with me. Where were Charlie, Renee and the pack? Something didn't feel right.

"Jacob, where is everybody? Why are you the only one here with me?"

Jacob closed his eyes; I could tell that he was battling with what he needed to say to me next.

He squeezed my hand again, took a deep breath, and said, "You are just too observant. I was hoping that the news about the Cullens would keep your mind occupied for a while before I had to tell you this. Once you were taken, we called Sue's to tell Charlie that you were missing. That was when we found out that Charlie never made it to Sue's, so not only were we looking for you, but we were also looking for your dad. A few hours after you were found, we got a phone call from the fortune-telling leech, telling us to check the boat in your driveway. We went to your house and sniffed around the boat that is in your yard, and we smelled nothing. I pulled off the tarp, and there was Charlie."

Jacob let go of my hand, stood up, and walked away from me toward the window. He had his back toward me, but I noticed that his shoulders were shaking, and I could hear as he attempted to hold back the sobs that threatened to overtake his body. I realized what he was going to say, and I didn't want to hear it. With all the effort that I possessed, I said as loudly as I could, "Please, don't say it. Go get my dad. I want to see him. He should be here to know that I am okay. Jacob, look at me! Tell me that Charlie is in the cafeteria, waiting for me to wake up. I don't want to hear you say anything else."

Jacob turned around and looked at me with tears falling down his face. He fell to his knees by my bed.

"Bella, you know that I would do anything for you. You are my life, and I would never want to do anything that would cause you harm or pain. I don't want to tell you this, but you have to know. Charlie is dead; he was killed by a bloodsucker."

I am so sorry that it took so long to update. This chapter was difficult to fix. I was stuck until I realized that the POV needed to be changed. It originally was in Raven's POV but there was way too much dialogue.

I hope you like it and I think there is only one more chapter left.

Thank you, Kay-Gemini and for helping beta this chapter.

I have good news, for those of you who have read The Alpha's Imprint; someone has requested to do a fanfic of it. She's working on it now and the first chapter should be ready within the next month. It will focus on Quil and Claire's son Walker and Embry's daughter Tamera. I will be posting the first chapter under The Alpha's Imprint to help introduce her story so be on the look out for that.

I'm in the process of having a video made for "The Alpha's Imprint" so be on the lookout for that also.

I must do a story rec. There are so many stories out there that I'm in love with right now but there is one in particular that has me on the edge of my seat every time she updates and that is "Unspoken" by Naranwien. I know I've talked about it before but man….. She also has a prequel to it called "Fragmented" don't read it until you've finished chapter five of Unspoken. She also has another part to the story called "Unspoken In Glimpses" I would read that after you've read all the chapters of Unspoken. Naranwien has a way of sucking you in to a world that is all Jacob and Bella that almost has you forgetting to breathe as you read line after line. Please take my advice and read it.

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