1900s
Aro sighed as he put down the report. He was happy for his friend Carlisle, but now that he had started a coven and found a mate it was unlikely that he'd visit anytime soon, and even if he did it would most likely be a short visit, a year at most.
The second report he picked up also made him sigh as he read its contents. Bella was ravaging towns with her mate randomly. Well more accurately they were creating newborns then letting them run crazy. She always cleaned up any humans that saw them, but it was still a dilemma for him.
Caius was urging him to send out guards to dispatch her, or at the very least warn her to stop her foolish actions. She had to know the bind she was putting him in. He couldn't tell his brothers that he couldn't interfere with her. That would lead to questions and those questions could lead to the truth of Didyme's death being revealed. But if he did nothing his brothers would eventually start prodding him to do so, or worse order the guards to act without Aro's knowledge.
For the third time in the past five minutes he sighed again.
Aro hadn't parted with Bella on bad terms when he released her from the Volturi, but they hadn't exactly been friends. She had been one of the first vampires to join the Volturi and a key player in its rise to power. Bella had pushed the idea of keeping vampires a secret, and this was the reasoning Aro used to get his brothers to stop urging him to kill her.
So instead he chose his most trusted guard, Jane, to deliver a plea to Bella asking for her to tune down her games and if she was going to continue to do so to please do them far from Italy, preferably in an uninhibited area.
And his plea seemed to work. Half a century went by and not a single new report came in about her actions. He assumed Bella and her mate hadn't stopped their games, just took them to quieter places.
Another chapter with a character we haven't seen in this fic yet. Any guesses?