Chapter 5

"As the night drew to a close the man walked over to me. He smiled down at me. And at that moment I was completely and desperately in love with him. Or so I thought." A dark looked crossed her face but as she did I didn't comment. I'm sure she would explain later.

"He lead me a little further away from the main camp. And leaned down as if to kiss me." She flinched and so did I In tune with her thoughts remembering my own transformation. She took a deep breath and then continued.

"After he bit me took me to a remote mountain top where he stayed with me for the full 5 days that it took for me to change. Throughout the process I heard my tribe calling for me from their camp but I knew that I couldn't respond. They couldn't see me as I was."

"When the pain was over he looked at me with greed and lust filling his eyes. At that I reacted taking him by surprise. I killed him tearing him apart in my frustration and anger and then watched him burn for the pleasure." When she said those words her lips curled over her fangs and passion which was close to violence filled her eyes. She obviously hadn't got over the betrayal then. After a moment of silence which I am sure she was thinking about an event which I'm sure I didn't want to witness Grace came back to herself and carried on her tone as if bored suddenly by her tale.

"After that I just wondered round aimlessly killing humans where I could find them and sometimes some animals here and there. However when a few centuries had passed I came to realise that I was dissatisfied with my life. When thinking about it I realised that my unique gift which I had thought to be a blessing was actually a curse. Every mortal I killed I knew what future I was destroying and what memories I had ruined. So I decided to only hunt animals after that."

"That's basically it, I took part in a few wars,governed a few countries and mostly just made the best out of what I have." At the conclusion to her story a thousand questions popped into my mind. The first one I voiced before it even registered in my mind that I was going to ask it.

"How is it that people don't...suspect what you are? I mean with the fangs and all" Grace laughed at that. But otherwise took my question seriously. Despite the chuckling.

" One of the people I killed had this power to make themselves look abit more human to mortals. So naturally when he died I inherited it. Stops the fangs showing though so that's good." She grinned cheekily at me. And I couldn't help smirking back. Even if I was a little disturbed.

"So you inherit powers from people? But how come I can't hear you?" She once again answered my question truthfully.

" Another one I inherited from a special friend of mine, I can block peoples mental powers if I want to." I guessed that when she said special friend she meant one of her victims. However when she said something about block my powers my mind immediately snapped back to what I was thinking about when she found me. My face crumpled up in pain and I was suddenly finding it hard to breathe.

"Oh Edward, This is why I brought you here." She muttered the words with utter sincerity, she wanted to help me. Not kill me,I should have relaxed my stiff posture but those thoughts didn't seem to comfort me. Grace scooted closer to me and held me in her arms shushing me softly when I started to breakdown.

"Don't worry Edward, It'll work out, It'll work out, I'm here now everything is going to be ok." And somehow these words comforted me. Even though Bella's face still swam behind my lids.