Chapter 3

"Enjoying your meal?" Jane surely wasn't asking this to make small conversation so I swallowed before she continued. "That is Mike's liver."

My stomach turned, but despite how incredibly disgusting the thought of eating parts of somebody I knew, was, I was still hungry. The Volturi seemed to forget that I am a human with need to be fed every few hours rather than days so every opportunity to eat was god's gift. The meat had strange taste from the start, but I wasn't picky these days. It was Mike's liver as Jane said and that was disturbing, but I couldn't help Mike as he was killed yesterday. I could barely help myself.

"It is wonderful, cooked properly... Can I have more?" I pushed my empty plate back to Jane who snorted and left.

Jane returned after a week and I got what I asked for. She brought Angela's heart. People who had even the slightest connection to me were brought from Forks to Volterra, where they were thrown in dungeons. After a few months it was easier to count who was left than those who were often killed before my eyes. Their lives ended in similar fashion, first Volturi would eat them and then I would.

"In truth young Bella immortality would become you most extraordinarily. It is as if you are designed for this life. A survivor!"

"The answer is still no." I felt stupid repeating same thing over and over, if only Aro would give up already. "Why am I important to you?"

"You have a unique gift, my dear. You resist our gifts and your bond to Cullen clan is most useful. I could use you as a bait to lure Edward here, Alice even. Your Cullens would be mine!" He placed hand over his mouth and did something very alike to giggling, but I could never associate giggling with Aro, it was unbecoming.

"They are not mine."

"Then you will always be their pet." Aro was weird, he behaved as a baby trying to control burping. "Strange... You really are something Isabella Swan. I fear, if I stay, I tell you all of my secrets." Like I had the power to actually make him say anything.

"Like how you killed your sister?" Why did I ask that?

"Exactly." He replied without thinking. "How do you know that?"

"Maybe I got others to tell me their secrets." It was dumb idea to piss Aro of, but I wanted to know more. "Why did you do it?"

"Because she wanted to leave me and drag Marcus with her... Why am I telling you this, little witch?"

Really why? I asked other questions and he would reply instantly. Maybe he was messing with me, giving me truthful answers to make me feel like I have some sort of control over him. So whenever he appeared as if he tried to swallow his answer instead of saying it out loud, I doubted him. His eyes changed the color after a while, at first I thought it was because of growing hunger, but his eyes weren't black. His eyes had strange pulsatory blue dots.

"Stay!" I yelled when he started for the exit. He stopped for a second, but continued walking afterwards. "What will happen once you kill everyone I know?"

"You surprised us, Bella. Surviving for so long... We won't kill you or anyone else after our next guest arrives. It won't be one of mine who ends you, but one of yours. Volturi have loyalty one to another, one I picked is nothing but a mortal."

One of his, that could be member of the Volturi and a vampire, but what one of mine is exactly... I had no idea, one of humans or one of people I knew. For all I knew they could bring Edward and have him kill me, but that made no sense or at least it didn't in the past when he still loved me or was pretending to. Most people I cared about were already dead, only Quileutes remained untouched and if Aro didn't find out about Jacob before, the chances he will bring him now to kill me were slim.

The number of vampires who descended to the dungeons was almost non existing. Usually Aro or Caius who came, reduced their visits is to avoid my questions or accusations. Caius, one in charge to torture me, now didn't come at all. I remember his last visit and how strange it was, he was shaking his head whole time and his eyes were like Aro's, with blue dots. It was almost as if they didn't dare to come, I became their burden and then... They ripped my tongue out.

"I can't believe this all is about you. Why am I even surprised? It is always about you. All those people died and now I will!"

Are brought Jessica and that was maddening. She was placed in the dungeon across mine and wouldn't shut up. She blamed me for everything and it made sense why Aro chose her. She held loyalty to no one and she won't hesitate to trade her life for mine. Aro wants to show me the downsides of being human, as if I don't know them by now and loyalty is something he has as he bound everyone to him, but I am human and so is Jessica. Jessica who has always been envious of me. If she wants Edward, she can have him.

"That long haired guy, Aaron or something like that, he touched my hand and said few weird things. Hey, do you know... Ah, yes, you don't have a tongue."

I cringed after every word that left her mouth. I just wanted her to shut up! My head hurt because of her and there was pain in my chest. At least for that I knew Jessica wasn't the cause of the pain. I felt it for a while now, as if it was always there, it only got worse after I lost my tongue. I spaced out and meanwhile Jessica stopped talking. Her eyes were glowing blue, what is happening to everybody? Are my eyes blue too or what?

"Miss Stanley, Master Aro will now see you." Felix didn't strike me as polite one.

Felix grabbed Jessica and took her to Aro. Three days later he brought her back and threw her in my cell. He left without looking at me. Only then I noticed healing bitemarks on Jessica's neck and wrists. She was changing to a vampire. The transformation is almost complete and soon she will be a newborn vampire locked in cell with a tasty smelling human. Where her loyalities lies is unimportant now, she will kill me due to uncontrolable hunger.

In a few minutes I will stand no chance and my end will come. Still, after months of surviving pain, starvation, dehydration... I think I deserve to live. I ate parts of my friends to ensure prolonging my life, why would I accept defeat now? A lit candle was on the wall next to cell bars gave me idea. Weak in the knees, I stood up and took it. Then I took off my shirt and set it to fire before throwing it on Jessica. Curled in a corner, I closed my eyes and covered my ears. When I opened my eyes, Aro was standing in her ashes.

"What a happy surprise! Bella is alive after all. Isn't that wonderful? I love a happy ending... they are so rare."

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