Chapter Four

The group had gathered into the living room the tension was as thick as black smoke the previous events were still running though everyone's mind. Everyone still stood on guard just incase things unexpectedly escalated. I tested the vibe of the room looking around for a moment my eyes landing on Jacob for a.

"I feel like I know him but from where." I thought, Edward looked at me oddly, I had forgotten that he was a mind reader.

Domenica cleared her throat gracefully, "I am sorry for behavior a few minutes ago it will not happen again."

"If it hadn't been for my husband you would be dead at this very moment." the blond woman stated stepping to Emmett.

Domenica looked at him then to the blond smiling, "I am fully aware of what could have happened if it were not for your husband. I am very grateful to he and Jacob of course for restraining me."

"Or do you just want them on top of you." the blond said coldly.

"As flattering as it is to have two beautiful women arguing over me, cool it okay." Emmett said looking to Rosalie.

Rosalie's nostrils flared with anger while looking at Emmett before glancing back to Domenica with an icy glare, Domenica stared back and Emmett was trying not to look proud of the situation.

"Okay with all due respect I am going to make this as brief but detailed as possible, I think we have had enough interaction for one day. The bottom line is we have one week to return to Brazil with your grand-daughter but we both know that will not happen." I spoke attempting to break the ice.

"But you aren't going to take her instead you are going to formulate a plan to bring him out of the shadows." Alice said.

"Yes, how did you know?" I questioned.

"Alice has visions, premonitions you could say." Edward explained.

"That is how you knew we would be coming." Domenica said cutting her eyes from Rosalie to Edward.

"Yes, I saw a vision of your group coming here and the idea involved Renesmee so I caught wind of it quicker." she explained.

"Very impressive you all have quite a family here." I nodded slightly.

"My question is what is going to happen if you do not return with Renesmee." Esme asked.

"Since he wants her pretty bad, we will be punished within an inch of our lives. We are a little too valuable for him to completely get rid of but there is another. And then he will send someone else to do the job, less trained of course." Domenica bluntly explained.

"So it is safe to assume that is hand work?" Jacob pointed to my face.

"Yes it is I just asked the none of you feel pity over it." I said crossing my arms, "but there is another way to at least attempt to keep everyone safe. It would not involve any of you of course you certainly do not owe us anything."

"Vivvie what are you talking about?" Amelia whispered.

Jacob snorted then covered his mouth trying to hold in the laughter, I looked to him smiling slightly "okay Chewbacca let it out."

The room filled with laughter melting more of the tension as a cell phone rang Amelia reached into her pocket looking at the display.

"It's father." Amelia whispered handing the phone to me quickly.

I took the phone from my sister answering it quickly, the less suspicious he was the better.

"Hello father….yes we are here, we arrived a good twenty minutes ago but with a God awful small town as this it is hard to get a signal I had to walk half of a mile to find one….we are constructing the plan this evening we should have the child within the week…" I heard a faint growl and held my hand up quickly looking to Bella to keep quiet, "yes I know we have a week….it will be done….yes sir…." I closed the phone and handed it back to Amelia. "We follow the same protocol as usual the last thing that we need is for him to send back up. If you speak to him instead of me tell him exactly what he wants to hear and nothing more, we will figure out the details as the week progresses."

Amelia nodded and tucked the cell phone into her pocket.

"I take it based on the organization of your group that this is something you do often." Bella sneared at me.

"Unfortunately because the only way to survive my father is to play stupid with him. He is like a child sitting around with his little soldier pieces playing war, you have to let him play." I explained.

"Something tells me that dictators do not play with little toy soldiers anymore." Jacob laughed.

"We tried to get him into the video games and it worked until he realizes he wasn't actually ruling over an army." Domenica rolled her eyes putting a hand on her hip, shifting her weight to her left foot, the room laughed again except for Rosalie who was glaring again.

I shook my head smiling, "today has been a very long and exhausting day so I suggest the girls and I find this house we are renting, get some rest and food then we can meet again tomorrow."

"A rental home isn't necessary, you are welcomed to stay here we have plenty of rooms with beds that we do not use. I am not sure what you eat but we have human food but I do ask if you wish to hunt that you go to another town. We have a treaty with the Quileuttes to not bite a human here this peace is very important to us." Carlisle explained over growls from Rosalie and Bella.

"Thank you very much for the invitation but it is not necessary I think it is safe to say that it would probably be best if we stayed somewhere else." I said looking at Bella quickly, "and we will honor the treaty as well however we do not dine on human unless father is concerned. Once I heard the buzz about the animal blood craze I wanted to give it a try."

"Not to mention human hunting is just plain boring I mean seriously, find a human, stalk the human, bite the human that is all! But when you get yourself near a puma or jaguar and you have to fight for supper…"Domenica grinned.

"It's a rush ain't it!" Emmett gleamed.

"Yes! I will never forget the first time I tackled a jaguar that little shit was fighting for all he was worth beneath my hands and teeth instead of just laying there like a sour sport." Domenica's eyes were wide with excitement.

"Too bad the jaguar didn't win." Rosalie glared.

"Too bad the hair dye didn't win against the flaky complexion." Domenica shot back as Jacob let out a single laugh that sounded more like a bark.

"D…" I whispered shaking my head.

"What?" she grinned.

"It is nice to see that there are others more open to the idea of animal verses human. If you need to hunt there are a couple of us going this evening if you wish to go." Carlisle said trying hard not to smile.

"Thank you I think that offer we will take." I smiled.