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3. Explanations

Carlisle paused and then murmured, "We might have to leave. Remember, Jane and Alec are desperate. They'll do anything - I repeat, anything - to get back at us, especially Bella and Renesmee. Jane wasn't too happy about Aro's present -" he gestured to the large, perfectly rounded white diamond resting at my throat. "- because, you might recall, she was very devoted to him. Jealousy was what it was at first, but then...well, Alec was really looking forwards to finding some holes, some weaknesses, in your shield, Bella. And he was sorely disappointed. Besides, Jane and Alec would do anything for each other...Jane loved Aro, it is true - in fact, I'm not sure you know about the witch twins' past, Bella...it has much to do with us and why they hate us."

Carlisle nodded at me and began his tale. "Jane and Alec are the newest members of the Volturi ... American, in fact, in the eighteenth century... around Garrett's age.

"They were the middle-class children of Alec MacMillan Senior and Molly Anne Hill MacMillan. Alec Senior was a soldier, young and carefree - careless, actually. He sent Molly Anne and the children away, all the way to Italy, to keep them safe during the Revolutionary war. There...

"They met the Volturi. They were of course human at the time and knew nothing of vampires. To the naive little MacMillans, Aro, Marcus, and Caius were a group of handsome old men. Marcus seduced Molly Anne into an affair.

"Do not forget me, I was a member of the Volturi then and had been for a few hundred years already. Marcus was merely toying with Molly Anne, and soon he left her heartbroken. Jane and Alec were both fifteen at the time. One day, Molly Anne committed suicide. I could not save her, and the Volturi took the twins in, deciding that with their highly persuasive, seductive personalities, the twins would have some amiable vampiric abilities. They did, need I say?

"Jane and Alec learned of my compassionate ability to resist human blood. They hated me for not saving their mother. They had loved her dearly, but at the time I'd been busy. Jane and Alec took turns torturing me, yet Aro did not stop them. That was what caused me to leave the Volturi and set out for America. Meanwhile, the twins' hate for me grows every day. They learned to hate my family as well, since I saved them all and yet did not rescue their mother, whom they loved...and Aro's growing passion for you, Bella, as well as your shield, your daughter, the fact that you were never a newborn...adds to the witch twins' hatred for all of us. Jane and Alec would not hesitate to kill us all."

Carlisle looked up. "Now go and pack your things."

Edward led me slowly up to his room, quiet all the way. I knew he was worrying, and so was I.

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