Their beauty and grace was hard to ignore as they came in. Aro had on a look of concern as he strolled over to me. "Are you feeling ill child? I heard you fainted earlier." I might have believed he was actually worried, but his concern didn't reach his eyes. He used one hand to lift up my chin so I was forced to look at his gorgeous face.

"I'm just spent is all," I cursed myself mentally for blushing, "Usually I don't faint so soon after using my abilities, but I haven't eaten since before the trip to Italy and I haven't been getting much sleep lately. If I eat, I will be fine." I didn't want to admit that I had tried to kill Aro. If he wasn't consciously aware of what happened, it would be a nail in the coffin to admit that apparently my powers don't work on him.

"But what of your injuries?" Aro knelt down with one hand on the bed while the other gently grazed my worst wound. I winced slightly in response. My legs tensed together and it became hard to breath. He smelled so heavenly. His body had mine trapped and I couldn't stop my eyes from resting on his lips. Every thought I had was flying away from me, being replaced by dark desires.

"They are healed now, except for the one you touched. That should heal overnight."

"Extraordinary," he whispered, "You heal faster than humans can. Tell me, does food speed up the healing process for you?"

"Y…yes."

With that, he used his vampire speed to stand up, leaving nothing but the breeze as a reminder of how close he was. "Very interesting. You see, that aspect it is the same for vampires. After what you did to my dear guards, they needed the energy to help heal their wounds, but because of your little dizzy spell, their meal had to be postponed." His last sentence had a bit of bite to it that worried me.

"I'm sorry about that." In return he clasped his hand and sighed. "It's alright dear, we only had to wait a few moments after for our food. Though… now we have to scramble to replace all the human staff we lost." He was searching my face for a response but I didn't feel like pretending to be shocked. His eyes hardened but his tone stayed pleasant. "You don't seem to be surprised by the news."

"I'm not. I figured you would find your meal elsewhere. I'm sorry that it was your staff. I didn't mean for the inconvenience." At least those humans knew what they were getting into I added in thought.

His lips turned to a fake smile. "No need to apologize young one. You didn't mean to take our food did you?"

"No." Instantly I was yanked of the bed and thrown to the ground. I slid till my back hit the wall of the room. Looking up I saw Caius in all his spiteful anger. He was godlike in his power and beauty. Marcus was in front of me as still as a statue and Aro was in the same spot. His evil smile seemed much more genuine now.

"She's LYING! She feigned sickness until the tourists were at the front door, than she acted perfectly healthy!" His face was contorted with anger. Those red eyes glared at me with so much hate and disgust. Although he always seems to have that look towards me, I don't think I'll ever get used to how terrifying and arousing…wait what? Oh my god do I like that I piss him off?! They have to have a power or something that Alice didn't tell me about that turns me into a horn dog. I'll ignore how attractive he is. At this point all I know is that if he tries to attack me again I'm going to beat the hell right out of that stunning face of his.

"Now, now brother, I'm sure she has an explanation for her sudden change in demeanor. Right dear?" Aro looked at me expectantly. My ribs were nearly broken again at the impact of being flung to the floor. I was pissed at Caius for that, but I did everything I could to keep my voice calm and steady.

"I'm not lying. I truly did not mean to faint. As you most likely saw for yourself, Aro, one of the gentlemen in the tour picked me up and carried me with them. That gave me enough time to regain my energy." My explanation was cut off by Caius, which damn near got him a fist to the nose.

"You will address us as Lord or Master you vile girl." I had to keep my eyes on Aro in order to keep me from sassing off to Caius.

"As for my sudden change in demeanor, it was an act. If I didn't pretend to make a full recovery they would have carried me off with them. I couldn't let them do that. I would've hated for you to think I was trying to run away," I moved my attention from Aro to Caius, "And for you information master Caius, I had nearly passed out on the way to my room. If it went unnoticed it was purely because your guard, Felix, was dragging me there by the arm like a doll."

"LAIR! You're just a fool who tried to get us back because you didn't like your sentencing!" I was about to get up and give Caius a piece of my mind… and my fists, until Marcus spoke up.

"I believe she is telling the truth." His soft monotone voice calmed me almost instantly.

After a couple moments of silence Aro spoke. "Hmm, well since we can't know for sure what her intentions were, we will punish her. I feel a fair punishment for now would be to deny her food, like she did to us, during her time here. Can we agree on that?"

Caius opened is his mouth in what seemed to be a protest, but then clenched his jaw closed while giving a slight nod. Marcus nodded and Aro clasped his hands together. "Wonderful!" Aro was giddy like a child. He and Caius walked to the door, but Marcus stayed in front of me.

He turned and offered me a hand. If it were the other two, I would've slapped their hand away, but damn it I just couldn't with him. I wasn't really hurt that badly, but I let him help me up. I stood there, with my hand in his, mesmerized. His sorrowful features were stunning. They each could be gods I swear. Marcus's touch was so comforting that I found myself fighting the urge to hug him. His large hands gently held on to mine as we gazed into each other's eyes. Then, all too soon he released me to walk over to the door. His brothers were giving him a glare which I figured was because Marcus was being nice to the oh so terrible human.

"One of our staff will come in shortly with a change of clothing. Do feel free to make yourself at home," Aro gleefully flitted away with his brothers close behind after his statement. Shaking my head I walked into the extravagant bathroom to take a long shower. There were lovely smelling soaps and shampoos provided. No food would be a problem. Pretty soon here I really will start passing out randomly. After the shower I wrapped myself in the super soft black towel and walked into the bedroom. On the bed was all the bathroom stuff I would need, along with a handful of neatly laid out lace panties. There were different shades of reds, but most were pitch black. Apparently they didn't have regular underwear here.

Picking up the brush I started to untangle my hair while walking to the large darkly stained armoire. When I opened it I saw several pairs of fancy dresses. Just like everything else, they seemed far too nice for me to be around, let alone wear.

Looking at the tags I noted that each pair had a size small or medium. On the end to the right was a silk pair of burgundy pajamas. I took out and put on the medium button up shirt than put on the black underwear. Usually I prefer to sleep naked, but I don't feel very comfortable doing so in a place full of enemies. Especially if the kings are going to make visits…

I turned off the lights and crawled into bed, placing the pants under the covers next to me. Everything was so soft and luxurious, but I found it difficult to relax. After several hours of tossing and turning, I finally slipped into a restless slumber.