"I think we may have to hire contractors to fix all this." Bella said to Rosalie as they were looking at the damage in the sitting room the next morning.
Rosalie lowered her head in shame."Bella I am so sorry."
Bella pulled Rosalie into her arms."Sweetheart how many times do I have to tell you it's no big deal?You felt threatened and you defended yourself. No one got killed so everything is alright. It's just about when we want them to come. Now that the Denalis are gone we don't really need to stay the whole week."
Rosalie cuddled closer to Bella."It wouldn't be a good idea to have random contractors on the grounds with all of us here would it?"
Bella shook her head." Probably not. I trust the staff to over see it though. When other repairs have been done some of Gene's tribe members come and keep watch over them."
"Hi guys!" Alice said as she entered the room.
Bella gave her a smile. "Hey Alice. How did your night go?"
"It was so amazing. The club was better than we thought it would be and Emmett and I even got to dance the tango. Your car drives like a dream. Do you think I can test out that Porsche 901?"
Rosalie pulled out of Bella's embrace and glared at Alice."No, you are not driving an original mint condition car that only 82 models of its kind were ever made."
"I'm not going the ruin the car Rosalie. I'm not a child. I am a responsible adult." Alice said defensively.
"Is she going to let us race that car?" Emmett asked as she walked into the room.
Alice gave Rosalie a sheepish look." We weren't going to actually race it. We were just going to try it out at this race track we found close by."
"Yeah they let you bring your own cars. And it's an official race track. They do actually car races there and demolition derbies." Emmett said excitedly.
"Neither if you are touching any of Bella's cars again.I don't want you to even go near that warehouse." Rosalie told them sternly.
"Oh come on Rosalie. Bella please tell her we will be responsible. We didn't wreck the James Bond car last night. We'll be careful we promise." Emmett pleaded.
"We have a couple recent year Ferrari's you guys could take." Rosalie turned her glare to Bella. "What they can be replaced. It's not a huge deal."
Bella was suddenly unsteady on her feet as Alice had slammed into her throwing her arms around Bella's shoulders. "Thank you, thank you, thank..."
Alice was cut off mid thank you by Rosalie grabbing her and throwing her through one of the undamaged walls to pull her off her mate. The sound brought the rest of the vampires to the room.
"Oh my,what happened?" Esme asked watching as Jasper helped Alice get out from under part of the wall that had fallen on top of her.
"She attacked my mate." Rosalie said through gritted teeth standing in front of Bella protecting her from the others.
Bella put her hand on the small of Rosalie's back."Alice got a little to excited and decided to hug me."
Esme sighed. "How many times do we need to go over this? You can't just touch any member of a newly mated couple."
Alice made her way back to the room dusting herself off."Sorry, I just got excited."
Jasper gave her a concerned look." Are you ok? Did she hurt you anywhere else?"
Alice did a quick body check. "No I'm fine. The wall however is not."
Esme looked around at all the damage."I don't think I can fix this."
Bella took a step to stand beside Rosalie. "We were talking about that and decided we shouldn't stay here the whole week. I'm going to hire a company to come fix all this."
"What?We have to go? But we haven't even done everything yet." Emmett whined."and it's Rosalie who did all the damage not any of us."
Rosalie ignored Emmett. "We are hoping to have everything arranged so we can leave tonight."
"Of course." Carlisle said. "If you wouldn't mind could I speak to you and Bella for a moment."
"Sure we can talk in the study." Bella told him motioning for him to follow her as they left the other vampires in the room.
Stopping in front of a set of solid cherry wood doors Bella scanned her thumb and pushed open the doors. Upon entering Esme gasped. The room was large with floor to ceiling built in book shelves filled with what had to be thousands of books lined every wall except one with a sliding ladder attached to a metal railing that encompassed the whole room only broken up by a large metal coat of arms the same design as the one on the gate. Towards the end of the room was a leather arm chair with matching sofa and end tables with throw pillows and a patchwork quilt making the space a perfect reading spot.
Bella walked behind a large dark stained desk and sat in the matching leather and oak wood chair motioning for Carlisle and Esme to take the two seats on the other side of the desk. Rosalie stood beside Bella with a hand on her shoulder.
Carlisle cleared his throat and took a seat.Looking at Bella sitting behind the desk with a painting depicting the signing of the Declaration of Independence covering the entire wall behind her made him extremely nervous.
Rosalie was the first to speak." I'm sure this has to do with the Denalis."
Happy to escape Bella's now glowing eyes Carlisle looked at Rosalie. "Yes,they were rather unhappy with how things went yesterday and have concerns."
Bella chuckled."I bet."
"They are worried that you will try to overthrow the Volturi. I expect they have already informed them of everything they have learned while here." Carlisle told them.
Rosalie pinned him with a hard look. "And what exactly have they learned in the few short hours they were here."
Carlisle shifted uncomfortably. "I may have discussed the changes to your body and what we know of Bella's shifter abilities."
"You may have?" Bella asked.
"No I did. Eleazar is a close friend and I trust him with my life."Carlisle said.
Rosalie slammed her hand down on the desk leaving a small crack causing Carlisle and Esme to jump in surprise."So you betrayed us to save yourself?"
Esme held her hand to her chest shocked."What?! Rosalie no one betrayed you or made any deals."
"So you sold us out for nothing?" Rosalie yelled."You are my sire and are supposed to protect me. You have stood at Edward's side through all of his horrible misdeeds and yet you give no thought to my safety when you told Volturi loyalists information that would guarantee the Volturi would want to investigate. Does my life mean so little to you?"
"Rosalie no! I would never put you in danger. I love you like a daughter. Please believe me I only ever have your best interest at heart." Carlisle pleaded.
"So when the Volturi summon us to Italy what will you have Bella and myself do? Just turn ourselves over and let them experiment on us or worse yet kill us if they deem us to much of a threat. Don't worry Carlisle I'm sure your good friend Eleazar will at least come to your defense so nothing happens to you." Rosalie scoffed.
Esme's eyes were glassy filled with tears that wouldn't fall. "He didn't expose you on purpose. You know neither of us would do anything to purposely endanger you or your mate."
Rosalie chuckled harshly. "I don't know if that's better or worse. That you have so little regard for me that you didn't even think twice about telling them."
Carlisle felt his heart breaking as he realized the extent of his betrayal. "Rosalie I'm so sorry."
"Did they at least agree to help us with Edward?" Rosalie asked.
Carlisle cleared his throat. "They said they would discuss it amongst their family and let me know what they decide."
Rosalie rolled her eyes. "So your good friend who you trust with your life won't automatically come to your side when you and your family are in danger because of what?"
Carlisle averted his eyes from Rosalie." They wanted to make sure Bella and yourself were the lesser threat."
Bella grabbed Rosalie's arm as she made to advance on Carlisle."I guess all we can do is wait to see what the repercussions of the Denali's visit are.Until then keep us informed on any new developments.We will let you know when we are leaving."
"I truly am sorry for all of this." Carlisle said as he and Esme stood to leave.
Rosalie waited to speak until she could no longer hear Carlisle and Esme in the hallway. "I'm sorry I didn't even let you speak the whole time. I'm sure there were things you wanted to say to them."
Bella turned her chair and pulled Rosalie into her lap. "It wasn't my place to say anything. I may be the white tiger but you are my imprint. Our relationship is that of equals. I'm no more important than you are. They are your family. It was your right to deal with them."
Rosalie sighed and nuzzled her head into Bella's neck inhaling her scent. "I feel like I should be more forgiving towards him. I mean he is my sire but I barely feel a connection to him anymore."
"What do you mean?" Bella asked.
"Carlisle changing me created a kind of bond between us. It's not as strong as a mate bond but it's the same principle in the sense that I feel the need to protect and defend him. I shouldn't be able to feel any aggression towards him at all." Rosalie explained.
Bella ran her hand through Rosalie's hair." And you feel different now?"
"Yes. It feels like I have no connection to him at all. I had to stop myself from attacking him when he confirmed he told Eleazar about us and if you hadn't grabbed my arm I would have ripped him apart.I don't see him as anything other than an untrustworthy nuisance now."
"Do you think it's because of your changes?" Bella asked
"I'm not a vampire anymore. Maybe that mean all my bonds to others have been broken as well. It's weird because as the bonds to them weaken my bond to you feels stronger everyday."
Bella gave her a kiss on her forehead." I feel the same. I wonder as time goes on if there are going to be other changes that aren't physical."
Rosalie leaned back to look at Bella. "What do you mean?"
"Your body has almost changed completely so what's to say we don't have mental changes as well. You can already tap into the mind link when I'm in tiger form. What's to say others things won't happen?"
Rosalie sighed. "I'll study the book of legends more throughly and see if it has anything that can help us find out."
"I need to make some phone calls. Do you want to stay with me while I do so?" Bella asked.
Rosalie stood up."I'm going to go round everyone up and make sure they are ready to go. Did you have stuff you wanted to take back?"
Bella pulled out her cell phone." I have the couple boxes from my room and the photo albums I will get when I'm done. Can you check with Jasper to see if he had anything he wanted copies of from the war room?"
Rosalie kissed Bella on the cheek. "I will check in with everybody and find you as soon as I'm done."
"I love you." Bella told her.
"I love you to sweetheart." Rosalie said making her way to the door. "I'll text you if I need anything."