Rage (verb): feel or express violent uncontrollable anger.

Anger (noun): a strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility.

Chapter Six

I am currently standing in front of The Cullen's and I want to scream my head off. The rage I was feeling was not just directed towards one person in the group that just walked in but all of them. I once considered them my family, friends even, but now they are just strangers to me and I want nothing to do with them ever again. Why are they even here? The better question is how did I even end up here?

In all honesty, I can say that I have felt anger in many situations in my life up to this point but right now I didn't feel anger. I felt … RAGE! Never in my life have I felt this overpowering emotion that started in the middle of my chest that slowly spread throughout my body to my fingertips as well as down to my toes. I could feel myself getting hot like at any moment I would boil over and just burst into flames. I couldn't believe that this was happening right now. If someone would have told me that I would end up in this situation a few weeks ago I would have … believed them… and ran the other way just so I wouldn't have to be here right now and be dealing with this.

"What are you doing here? Did you come looking for me? I didn't realize how much your love for me would put you in this much danger. Do you realize where you are?" Edward went on like he was the one coming here to rescue me from my own demise.

"Are you serious right now?" I spat in his direction. The heat from my rage just went up a few degrees and I stepped closer to Edward to give him a piece of my mind. It was getting ready to just flood out of me like word vomit but a hand stopped me.

"Do you know these people?" Ashleigh asked me in a hushed tone while she was staring really hard at the group of vampires.

"No," I responded.

At this moment, I realized a few things and one of those being that I can't believe how stupid I was to actually believe that Edward and his family actually cared for me. I turned around and Caius was standing right behind me without me realizing that he was no longer sitting on his throne practically ignoring me.

I heard gasps from those behind me but I didn't care and nor did he since I was surprised at how welcoming his hug was and how it felt so right. It ended faster than I wanted it to. Slowly looking up at him I realized the rage behind his red eyes matched the rage that I was feeling. It stirred something within me and I stared at his lips with a silent whisper asking permission to kiss him. If I didn't know any better…

"Mate."

Still, in the haze in my mind from staring at Caius I felt like it was just the two of us and everyone around us just disappeared. Oh god, please let it be true that Caius is my mate.

Wait, who said that? Did he say that?

I swear if that idiot called out to me saying I was his mate because I was currently in another vampires' arms, I will rip his fucking head off.

"Oh, this is very interesting indeed!" whispered Aro not hiding his own excitement a couple of feet away.

Caius would not fully release me but I was able to turn back around and I was very surprised at who said that and who it was direct towards. At least it wasn't who I thought it was.

Rosalie said that word which I could have sworn that she was with Emmett but then again who could believe anything anymore. She was looking at my friend Ashleigh like she was the most precious thing in the whole wide world which was saying a lot. "What?" Ashleigh asked in confusion looking directly at Rosalie. Of course, she still doesn't fully understand everything that is happening all around her and who she is with.

"Bella, what is going on? I need an explanation. Do you know these monsters that murdered our classmates?" She continued with a slight shake in her voice.

I saw Rosalie flinch when she said the word monsters but the accusation was there in her voice but I didn't know what to say. How do I explain the last couple of years to her? They are vampires and the world if full of all kinds of creatures that we thought were just a myth but are actually real I wanted to blurt out. But if I was being completely honest with myself right now even though I know more than she does on who exactly is around us I am equally at loss on what is going on right now.

Opening my mouth trying to say something to her, anything at all. I closed it and opened it again. From an outside point of view, it would look like I was a fish out of water trying to breathe. Which was exactly how I felt right now, like a fish out of water. At any time, Caius would like to replay the last time we were in this room and run me out of here would be great right about now. Take two! Nope. Okay. Not that lucky.

"Well…" I started but was cut off.

"Marcus, please explain what is going on to our guests," Aro said while he started to lose a bit of patience.

Everyone looked over to him for answers and he very slowly lifted his head and with a very monotone voice explained what was going on with a few simple words.

"Two vampires have found their true mates in two humans." He sighed and looked away bored with the situation that was happening in front of him.

Edward was going to step forward but Alice stopped him and hissed "Don't Edward!".

"I am not Edwards mate!" I shouted which surprised not only myself but everyone in the room.

"Of course not!" Caius growled a bit. "You are mine!"

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