Authors note: Hey guys, I'm back with the next chapter! Thank you guys for the positive reviews. I did have one person have a question, so I thought I'd answer that to clear up any confusion for anyone. The man following Aurora is real, he is not a hallucination. Aurora has a past with him. That's all I'm saying. All will be reviled in this chapter I do believe.
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, although I'm still trying to capture Demetri!
Chapter 8:
Aurora roamed the streets of Volterra, looking for something to entertain herself. She hadn't gone home like Heidi had suggested. It was to lonely there and she did not want to be left alone with her thoughts. She knew if she had nothing to keep her occupied she would think back to what happened the night before.
She sighed. Bianca was still working and she didn't want to intrude on her at the cafe. Spotting a vender on the corner selling what looked to be vegetables, she jogged up to it. Her kitchen was surprisingly sparse and Aurora knew that if she wanted to eat for the next week she might as well get her grocery shopping done.
Picking out what she needed from the vender,she payed. The vender smiled at her kindly as she handed over the money. She gave a small smile in return.
This was one of the few things she liked about Volterra. The people were nice, the city was gorgeous and she had met one of her best friends her first day.
Best friend. It was a foreign word to Aurora. As a child she had more things to worry about then friends. While in college she had been to busy trying to graduate and leave Virginia then to get to know her classmates.
Aurora sighed, Bianca was in all sense her one and only friend. Heidi was more like a co-worker than a friend and she had always got the feeling that the woman was hiding something from here. She hadn't even had the time to think more on the conversation between Heidi and the man Demetri that she had over heard.
Shaking her head, she looked at the watch on her wrist. 5:00. Bianca would have just gotten off. Turning around she decided to take her groceries back to her apartment and maybe go over to Bianca's.
As she walked the sun was slowly starting to set. Aurora started to walk faster, wanting to get home before dark. She had just turned the corner when she felt it.
The feeling that it was no longer just her walking down the street. Breathing shallow, she slowly turned around. The bags dropped from her hands. He was standing there. A grin plastered on his face. She shivered. That grin had tormented her nightmares for almost three years.
"Hello Fawn." He said. " You weren't very nice last night. I went just to see you and you didn't even say hello."
Aurora was shaking now. "Don't call me that. What do you want." The grin turned into a sneer. "You know what I want, Fawn." He purred her name. Aurora took a step back. " No, I don't. Just leave me alone." The words were sharp, laced with venom.
The sneer fell off his face, instead a look of pure rage filled his features. He strode forward, Aurora scrambling away from him only to have her arm gripped tightly and to be pulled forward. "My money, Aurora! That's what I want. The money I was supposed to get for the set of jewelry you were supposed to steal and never did. I'm down 20 grand, Aurora for that and much more since you decided to take this vacation."
"It's not a vacation! Don't you understand Grant, I'm out I've been out for the past 3 years. I don't want that life." Grant's face turned dark. He gripped both her arms,slamming her into the wall. Aurora's head made contact with a loud crack. She winced.
"Sweetheart, There is no out. Once you're in, you're in for life. I took you in. Saved you from the streets, you can't leave. You'll come back.." He shouted in her face, enunciating each sentence with a hard shake. "...Even if I have to drag you back by your pretty curls."
The last sentence was what set her off, bringing her knee up she jammed it into his groin. Grant fell to the ground and she brought her foot back, kicking him. Turning around she ran.
She ran as if her life depended on it and thinking back on what she just did to Grant, it did. Her legs were burning, lungs working I over time when she finally got to where she was going. Looking up at Bianca's apartment complex, she quickly opened the door, scrambling inside.
She took the stairs 2 at a time and as she rounded the corner to Bianca's hallway, she stopped. She needed to catch her breath, to assure herself that at the moment she was fine. When her breathing was finally normal, she walked forward. Knocking on the door, she waited patiently. It opened, Bianca's surprised face looking back at her. "Hi, Ro. What are you doing here?"
She took a deep breath. "Bia, I need to tell you something."