CHAPTER EIGHT

SHE KNOWS

The next morning Bella looked shaken and confused. I didn't really want to know. It's not like I didn't hear Jacob sneaking into her room through the window.

But I didn't say anything.

When she left, she looked determined. And I knew that whatever Jacob told her last night wasn't enough and she was going to try and get more information.

Couldn't she leave well enough alone?

I got a call almost an hour later from Embry, "Bella knows. Paul and Jake phased."

"Is she okay?"

"Yeah, don't worry. She's just a little shaken. Can you come to Emily's?"

"Who's Emily?"

Later I found myself driving down to La Push to Sam's fiance's house. Embry and Jared came out to great me, "Hey!"

"Hey," I greeted after hugging them, "So where's that troublesome sister of mine?"

Jared got a disgusted look on his face, "Out talking to Jacob."

It didn't bother me.

It didn't.

They brought me in to meet Emily. I paused slightly when I noticed her scars. It reminded me of my scars.

I smiled, "Hey fellow wolf girl."

The woman smiled warmly and giggled, "You must be Callie."

"Must be," I grinned.

I heard Jared and Embry talking. I heard 'red head'.

"What red head?"

Embry and Jared looked at me, "We've been chasing this bloodsucker. She keeps getting away from us."

"She's a red headed vampire? Like really curly bright red hair that look like she's been sleeping on the ground?" I must have looked crazy, gesturing around my head to my hair as if that helped illustrate my point. But I didn't care. I had to figure this thing out.

"Yeah..." Jared answered slowly, "How do you know?"

"I met her. When the Cullens were here."

Embry looked at me, "Do you know why she's here?"

"Yeah..." I took a deep breath. "She's here to kill me and Bella."

"WHAT?" Embry shouted.

I flinched a little when he yelled.

"She's out to kill you and Bella?" Emily asked.

"Last year she, her mate and Dreadlocks came while we were all playing baseball. Her mate, James, got a whiff of Bella and started hunting her. Alice and Jasper ran with her all the way back to Phoenix but she snuck by them and Alice had a vision of James killing her. So Edward, Rose and I flew down there and while Edward killed James, Victoria came after me because she thought I was Bella. She landed me in the hospital and got away." I pulled my shirt down my shoulder to show them my scar, "Got this little present to remember her by."

"Shit," Jared commented intelligently, "She bit you and you're still... you?"

I nodded, "Rosalie sucked the venom out before it spread to my heart. Saved me." I sighed at the memory, "The point is that Victoria wants revenge on Edward by killing Bella and revenge on me by killing me."

"Why you? I mean, Edward killed her mate. She kills his mate. I get that. But why would anyone want to hurt you?" Embry asked.

I sat by him quietly, "I played decoy. I dressed in Bella's clothes to smell like her and I look like her so I went with Edward to try and lure both her and James after me instead of her. But James figured it out and followed Bella. Victoria wasn't as quick. She was still following me the whole time. All the way to our hotel room. Then she tried to kill me once she realized that James was being killed while she was wasting her time with me. She blames me for her not being there to help James. So she wants me dead."

Embry put a rough arm around me, "We won't let her near you."

The Saga continues and Victoria is BACK!

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