Laurent

"Well hello there Bella. What are you doing here?"

"Just going for a walk. What about you? I thought you were in Denali?"

I didn't want him to sense my fear. I could tell he hadn't been on the vegetarian diet for a long time. If I didn't play this right I would be his next meal. Hopefully if I keep him talking long someone will find me and I can figure out a way to get out of here.

"I was in Denali at first, they were very welcoming actually, nevertheless, there lifestyle got quite boring after a while. I made a big decision to leave because I made quite an attachment with Irina. I really liked her but not enough for her to be my mate. I decided to visit a friend who sent me here as a favour."

I couldn't understand what he meant by that. What friend would ask him to come to this dreary town?

"You look confused dear. I'm sure you know her. She was with me when we first met. Your mate killed her mate."

Victoria. Why would he do something for Victoria? The Cullens aren't even here so what would he be doing here?

"Victoria. Why has she sent you here?"

"Well you see my dear. I was scouting out the area to see when the best time for her attack would be. She's been biding her time to go in for the kill."

Kill. She was going to kill Edward. I couldn't let that happen.

"I won't let you kill Edward."

"Don't worry dear. She has no intentions of harming him. That would be letting him of too lightly."

Now I was confused. If she wasn't going to kill Edward then who? Laurent came closer, raising a cold, stone-hard hand and tucked a piece of hair behind my ear.

Then it dawned on me.

"Why does she want me dead?"

"Her words were 'a mate for a mate'. I'm not sure that will work now though. If you really were mates you wouldn't be here alone, unprotected and vulnerable. I've been to the Cullen house and it appears that no one has been there for months. I thought they had moved on so came for a hunt when I came across your scent. I must say you do smell delicious. No wonder James wanted you so bad. I've never seen him try to go through seven vampires for one human. You're special Bella. Now why would you be here when the Cullens have been gone for so long?"

Come on Bella. Tell him something, anything.

"They had some business to attend to a while back that would take quite a while. In fact I'm going to meet up with them on Thursday. If I don't turn up they will just come back and catch your scent. They will know it was you who killed me. I know Edward. He won't give up till you're dead."

"I don't doubt that Bella, however you are under the impression that I don't have an escape plan. You may not know this but Victoria has a certain skill of evading people. Your mate has been attempting tracking you know. He spent the last few months going after Victoria. He wasn't very good. Victoria led him south to Brazil and got away. I have no worry of getting away."

Edward was in Brazil. Tracking Victoria no less. How dumb does he get? Going after a vampire alone is a suicide mission.

It doesn't solve my problem though. If I was a vampire already I could take him down or a least run away. Everyone knows I have a glitch in my brain; that I'm a freak. Instead of being scared of vampires I fell in love with one. If that doesn't scream freak I don't know what does. What would a normal human do in this situation? Well to start with a normal human wouldn't be in this mess. They would have a 99.9 percent chance of death whereas I like to see my chances of death as an 83.4 percent. Screaming is out. No one would hear me. Fighting is definitely out. I can barely walk across a flat surface let alone fight a vampire.

As I continued my plotting Laurent's head snapped up with a fleeting look of fear before he masked it with an evil smirk.

I turned in the direction he had been looking to see a large black wolf followed by a russet brown wolf on his left and a light grey wolf on his left that were backed up by two others.

"Well Bella it seems your time is up. I would like to stay a while longer but it seems I must be going. Victoria would kill me if I let you go after all I've said. I hope you've had a good, short life."

With that he lunged for me. The last thing I saw was all three wolves pounce in mine and Laurent's direction and two others surrounding us.

The world went black.