I'm sorry this is taking so long! I'll try to update more.
The next one will be the torture chapter. This one is kind of a filler just leading up to it.
Chapter 3
Bella pov
Victoria seemed to be in shock that things had gone her way. She seemed to be in a trance. Her eyes were unfocused and she kept looking down at me. She must have thought I would disappear any second because she never took her eyes off me. She didn't even blink.
After one last glance, Victoria threw me against a tree. I heard something crack and I suddenly felt searing pain. I cried out. I was in a lot of pain but I knew if would only get worse. The thing is I wasn't really scared. Well, not for my life at least. I knew Edward would probably be safe. She wouldn't kill him. She wanted him to suffer like she did. Killing him would help him—it would end his pain.
Victoria was suddenly upon me. She produced a rope from nowhere. She didn't take her eyes off me as she tied me. I noticed how extremely thick the rope was. She was not going to let me escape. She didn't just tie my waste. She started with my wrists. She wrapped the rope tightly around each three times. Then she lifted me higher up on the tree so I was standing and my feet were about a foot off the ground. She climbed up the tree and tied my wrists to the rough bark.
Then, she wrapped the rope around the tree twice. She moved down to my arms. She wrapped the rope around the tree near my elbows securing my arms. Then she wrapped the rope around my neck, but all it did was choke me and cut off half of my oxygen because my arms prevented it from getting to close.
She circled around the tree twice, securing my waist. She continued down, securing my thighs and calves each wrapped twice. She ended with my feet. She wrapped my ankles just like she had wrapped my wrists. Then, she strapped those down too.
When she was done, I couldn't have moved an inch. The tying seemed to take an eternity to me but I realized that with vampire speed it probably had taken less than a minute. In the back of my mind I wondered where she had gotten the rope and why I hadn't noticed it before. But those thoughts were quickly washed away by other thoughts wondering what she would do to me.
Victoria stepped away to examine her work, only to step back a moment later. She smiled as she roughly tugged on each knot to make sure it wouldn't break or come undone. Then for the first time since we had arrived, she spoke.
"You know I was prepared for you to put up a fight. To offer some kind of resistance. But you have done nothing. Why is that?"
"I know what you will do to me. I know I will be in terrible pain and most likely die, but I don't care." I was surprised at how strong my voice was.
Victoria's face suddenly transformed into a look of utter confusion, then to a look of astonishment. "And I suppose you know why I am doing this. Yes?"
"Yes. A mate for a mate. You will kill me because Edward killed James. You want him to suffer."
"Of course. But I'm astonished that you are fine with dying for him. I'm curious, would he do the same for you?"
I ignored her question. I already knew Edward would do anything to save me. I asked her my own question, I needed to be totally sure. "Will you hurt Edward?"
"No. Well, not physically. He needs to stay alive. If I kill there would have been no point in killing you. He wouldn't suffer as I did."
I relaxed. My own life meant nothing to me.