Chapter 16: Liars

I was unsure of what to do I really didn't want Renee to die, but I had no clue what was waiting for me at the ballet studio.

I figured I had time before I should go in, but not much, as the cab made its way around the city towards the studio. I knew there was no way Alice and Jasper could come get me it was a perfectly sunny day, but the sun was dying, and Edward was on a plane to come get me.

I had a tough decision to make on one hand I could keep running, until I was changed and able to take care of myself in the vampire world, on the other I couldn't let Renee die because of a vampire with a vengeance, and if I went willing maybe James would show pity on me.

The phone rang, and I answered it.

"Bella, darling, where are you?" Alice asked me in a scarily sweet tone.

"Renee is in trouble and James is here, I need to go get her." I told her, might as well tell her the truth.

"But Edward is on his way his flight should be landing in the next three hours, this might sound mean, but Renee is just going to have to die. You aren't strong enough to face James I've seen it. You won't survive." She told me, as if trying to talk me out of jumping.

"But Renee has done nothing wrong!" I told her a little distraught.

"Has she really? Bella she is going to have to die at sometime, this is just sooner then you might've thought."

"It feels wrong to just let her die." I admitted.

"Would you rather die?" She asked. The cab pulled up to the studio. I paid the driver and got out.

I had to think about what she said, it wasn't like Renee ever made an effort to get better once she met Phil, and everybody had to die at sometime, it was just the natural course of life.

"You're right Alice I'm at a ballet studio…" I told her the address "I'll wait outside for you—" I didn't get to finish talking to her because the phone was ripped out of my hand. At the same time the figure grabbed my hand so I couldn't run.

A cloaked figure started talking to her "Hello Alice, I'm sure you can figure out who this is. Bella is prettier than I thought, she'll make a good partner for me don't you agree?"

I could hear her screaming bloody murder to him, whoever he was.

"Goodbye Alice, I hope we can meet eventually, maybe in a couple years you can see how happy Bella is with me." The creepy man said to her then he crushed the phone.

"Sorry Bella dearest, I believe we haven't properly met yet. My name is Demetri, and you are very gorgeous." He said flipping back the hood of his cloak. He was gorgeous, but nothing compared to Edward.

"Attract attention, and I'll kill you right now, you smell mouth watering." He threatened as if knowing exactly what I wanted to do.

"Prettier than I thought, she will make a perfect mate. Alice and Jasper will forever be hurt by me taking their beloved Halfling." He thought.

"Why do you think I will willingly go with you?" I asked him.

"Do you value your own life?" He threatened, yet his thoughts proved to me that it was an empty threat, I was no use to him dead. How useful my talent has proved to be.

"What use am I to you as a corpse?" I asked him, calling his bluff.

That pissed him off, he grabbed my throat tightly. "You're still useful injured" He growled. The he got really close to my face so that to a bystander it would look like he was kissing me.

"There is a car around back Bella; I suggest you get in it." He said sweetly, and then he kissed my lips.

I didn't dare move, knowing that if I did anything to aggravate him he would hold my throat tighter at least until I was unconscious, where he would plan to do things to me that only Edward has done to me.

"You didn't even fight?" he asked, although his face said he was pleased, he was thinking it was a pity that I didn't. "I'm sure you liked it, don't worry there is more where that came from."

"You wish." I hissed at him. "I'm here, let Renee go."

He smiled, and his thoughts displayed a scene. He smelled me when I showed up and was listening to the end of my conversation with Alice. He heard my hesitation to come in, so he allowed James to drain Renee. Once all her blood was gone he killed James gruesomely with a strange tool. At that point he walked out and took my phone.

"Of course she will be let go, she will go on her own way as soon as you get in the car." He said. I knew it was a trap; he was planning to knock me out anyway.

At that moment the sun disappeared and the city was now casted in twilight, it had been hours since I first got in the cab. He let go of my throat and stepped back from me, in order to pull off his cloak, as to not look anymore suspicious. I took several steps back knowing that I could never outrun him, but creating a distance from him.

"Liar!" I yelled at him.

He turned slowly and looked at me with his cold red eyes. "What was that?" He asked me making a grab for my throat again. This time I dodged him.

"You heard me, you're a liar. I bet she's already dead."

"And why is that?"

"I can hear no heartbeat in that building." I lied, I couldn't hear a heartbeat but that never meant I necessarily could.

"What if I already let her go, what if I never had her in the first place and you were just gullible enough to believe James?" At least he was a good liar; he was trying to catching me in my lies.

"I can smell her spilt blood." I said through clenched teeth. I did smell blood, not that I knew it was hers though.

He was thinking about how close I was to becoming a vampire because of my enhanced senses.

"So we have come to an impasse, haven't we Bella." Demetri said. "I do say though that your wit will make for an exquisite partner."

"That's what I think." Edward said behind me.

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