Authors note: Alright guys, here is the promised chapter 13. I'm really sorry I haven't updated in forever. I didn't forget you guys. I've had work and school. I'm graduating in a month and then I go to college. I had prom and then I got sick. How Aurora met Grant is explained in this chapter though it's shorter than most of my other chapters. Next chapter will be the long one. Hope you like and as always, please review.
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.
Chapter 13:
Aurora let out a shaky breath. "Grant is...Grant did this." Demitri sighed. "Did what? Killed the girl or something more?" Her eyes filled with tears. "Killed Bianca, it's my fault." She watched as Demitri leveled his eyes with hers, wordlessly commanding her to tell him, tell him everything. Those eyes, the terrifying crimson burned into her. They were the last things so many people had seen yet she found herself trusting those eyes. Opening her mouth, she told him.
"I wasn't always the good little secretary." Heidi snorted behind her, startling Aurora. She had forgotten the vampire was still in the room. Demitri rubbed her arms, trying to encourage her to talk.
I grew up on the streets and to survive...you had to do bad things. I stole and fought. The first fight I had gotten in was because I had gotten caught stealing from another kid. I lost and after that I learned fast. I was ten when I got picked up. I pick pocketed a cop and instead of turning me in he adopted me. He died when I was sixteen and after three foster homes, I ran. Grant found me and gave me work but something was wrong." Heidi sat down beside Aurora, giving Demitri a knowing look and asked "What do you mean wrong?'
Aurora shifted nervously. "You messed up and you were punished. If you got caught he would let you rot in a cell and when you got out, he would punish you for getting caught and him being down a man. If you tried to leave..." She paused. "I've only ever known two people who tried to leave. I never saw them again." Demitri narrowed his eyes. "He killed them." It wasn't a question but a statement and it had Aurora nodding her head. "That's what most of us assumed."
She took a deep breath. "Grant had these contacts. They worked in business's that sold the type of things Grant's clients would hire him to get. They let him know when business was good. One day, one of the guys calls and say's that a necklace one of Grant's clients had wanted was no longer at the store. Someone had bought it and stealing from someone's house had always been easier for me, so Grant sent me out."
Demitri smiled. "You really aren't a good little secretary. I had you pegged completely wrong. now I need to go hide all of my valuables." Heidi rolled her eyes. "What valuables?" Aurora smiled before sobering. "I got caught. It was a cops home. I sold Grant out to save myself. I got a pretty good deal, a year and then probation. I got out, got into college that was doing a rehabilitation program and after graduating I came here. I forgot all about Grant but..." Heidi sighed. "He didn't forget about you."
Aurora shook her head. "I cost him a lot of money and because I got Bianca involved he killed her." Heidi stood up. "I will have to inform Aro. He will be interested in your so called compulsion and this Grant." She went to leave, only to turn to Demitri and say. "He will most likely wish to confirm all of this. I suggest you prepare her."