Chapter 8

Travis' POV

She resisted me. No one has resisted my charm before. When I removed my hand from her thigh, she immediately ran off. No one has done that before. Every single girl in the guard and staff has a thing for me but Alice was so different. She reminded me so much off her. I winced. I love my grandfather Caius but sometimes I can't help but me mad at him for changing me. Sometimes I don't want this life but being king is good. I sighed and ran to the throne room where my grandfathers were. I sat on my throne and Caius smiled warmly. Everyone noticed the good change in him when I came. They told me he was friendlier and he smiled a lot. Glad that I could be of service then.

"Travis, on the end of the week, we would like to host a party for you so that the vampire world will know you as the Volturi's newest king." Caius told me and I nodded.

"Of course, must I have a date or something like that?" I asked.

"Yeah, sure. If you want, you can have dates." Aro said with a chuckle and I laughed at him.

"I'm a man of honor, grandfather." I said with a wink. "Where is our guest?"

"Ms. Alice has left for a while to go shopping as she said. Travis, Alice is extremely fragile right now. Her husband has just left her. Do not make her your conquest." Aro said and I raised an eyebrow at him. Who in the right mind would leave a beautiful creature like Alice? I feel so bad for her.

"Her husband left her?" I asked, incredulously.

"Yes and the worst part is that he left her for her brother." Aro said, grudgingly.

"He's gay? Oh my god. I feel so bad for Alice. I promise that I won't make her a conquest but I want to befriend her. Did she say what time she'll be back?" I asked.

"She told us that she'll be back by nine. She wants to feed before going back. In the meantime, you should hang out with Felix. I can't handle more screams." Caius said as he shook his head and I laughed.

"We can always have a threesome." I said with a wink. The three of them groaned and I laughed. "I was just kidding. I'll be playing tennis with him."

I went off without another word and hurried to Felix' chambers. I lightly knocked on his door and he opened it and he immediately smiled. Among the kings, I was the friendliest and I told them to not call me master. It sounds so inhumane to me. He let me in without another word. His guitar and amplifier were out. He must have been writing a song.

"What can I do for you, Travis?" he asked as we settled ourselves on his couch.

"I want to play tennis." I said, hesitantly,

"You really don't want to play tennis, do you?" he said with a chuckle.

"No. You know Alice Cullen, right?" he nodded. "I was showing her my past and after that I went all seductive and she……… resisted me. It's unbelievable and she's plaguing my mind." I said, exasperated.

"She turned you down!?" he exclaimed.

"Yeah… The thing is that she reminds me so much of her. I want to follow her to the mall or something. We can get off easily since you know I love to shop as well."

"You're going after her? I don't see anything wrong with that but she has a husband."

"They're divorced; Grandfather Aro told me that he left her for his brother."

Felix's mouth was agape and his eyes were wide with shock. I laughed and nodded to confirm. He shook his head and smiled.

"I never thought that would happen. I'm going to get dressed first and we follow her okay? We should bring Demetri with us so that he could easily track, Alice."

I nodded and we grinned wickedly. There was something about Alice Cullen that I liked but what could I say, she was perfect to me. She was beautiful but it was evident that she was haunted by the fact that her husband left her for her brother. That was really stupid of him. I wanted to know Alice. I needed to.

Alice's POV

I was walking around the mall. I arrived at around eight am and I immediately started my shopping spree. I needed to shop. It always helped me think. It was already one pm when I felt someone following me. I shook the thought off and looked at bags in Chanel. I felt the strange feeling that someone was following me. Who would follow me? The three kings assured me that they would not let guard follow me since I wasn't really thinking of anything that would potentially expose our existence and let them kill me. I found a really cute hand bag and bought it. I already had tons of shopping bags so I wanted to bring my things back to the Ferrari that they let me borrow. I placed the things in it and went to Levi's to buy some jeans. I was caught up in the jeans I was looking at when someone bumped me. I turned around to see Travis, Felix and Demetri. What are they doing here? I went to the mall to avoid Travis and his seductions! He smiled at me.

"Hey, Alice. I never expected to see you here." Travis said, innocently.

"Uh… Yeah… Hi, your majesty, Felix and Demetri." I said, awkwardly.

"Please call me Travis." He replied.

"If you don't mind, why are you here?" I asked.

"The same reason why you're here. I'm shopping with Demetri and Felix." He replied. I raised an eyebrow at him. Men usually don't like shopping. Is he following me?

"Okay? I've never actually met men who like shopping." I muttered.

"Well, now you've met one." Travis replied.

"You haven't even seen his closet. It's larger than his room." Felix remarked and my eyes went wide with shock. He is perfect.

"He's the only one you'd see not wearing cloaks." Demetri added and I nodded.

"Anyway, I haven't found anything I liked here. Bye, Alice. See you around." Travis said and they were off. That was……. Awkward. I inhaled and I managed to take a bit of Travis' scent. It was like chocolate, mint, and there was a spicy edge to it. It was good. I resumed my shopping and the same feeling was back again. I sighed and returned to my own business again.

A/N: That wasn't so good to me but I just wanted to show a part of shopping and what Travis thought of Alice.