A/N: thank you all for the reviews.

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Previously,
I gestured the others to move quickly, ripping the beads from his neck and spiking them in the tree with my knife after I carved a V in the trunk. Just letting the stupid bitch know I have her mate and I was still after her. Vampire or not she will suffer by my hands.

Bella POV

I was getting frustrated beyond belief; I still couldn't push out my shields more than a few inches. No; I lie. I couldn't push out my physical shield at all, only my mental one with great difficulty.

"Come on again Bella!" Kate encourages me; her mate Garrett pleading with me from her side as he tenses for the onslaught of pain.

Grunting, I concentrate on pushing the shield out and over Garrett. Letting out a roar as my head snaps back a little as the shield flings back into me. I watch as Garrett's body spasms as the electric current jolts through him.

"AGAIN!" I roar, rubbing my face.

"Bella; how bout we take a break for now? Poor Garrett needs to hunt." Kate whispers as she looks fondly to her mate.

As I open my mouth I breathe in, the familiar scent of my mate filling my senses as his warmth surrounds me. Pivoting around on one foot I smile at Nahuel, his eyes sparkling with joy as he pulls me into his arms.

"Bella, I'm going to go for a hunt with Leah. Try not to rip Kate's head off in a rage." He chuckles and places a soft kiss on my lips.

We had done nothing so far but for kissing and I was okay with that. We had yet to confess our feelings for one another and are taking it slow; we were still learning about one another.

I knew Leah wished to speak to Nahuel and hunting was a ruse. That sneaky bitch had been speaking to the pack since we left and I knew my father wanted to give 'the talk' to him. So since he wasn't here to do it; she was.

"Okay, but hurry back." I tell him, my eyes scanning the trees for any sign of danger; only to land on Kachiri's dark eyes. "Take Kachiri with you too; she needs a hunt." I whisper the obvious lie to him; he just shook his head and laughed.

I watched as he ran into the tree lines, his hair flying behind him as the sun shone down on his flesh.

"You love my brother." I nod my head at Maysun as she dropped from the treetop. She had been watching me train.

"Sorry?" I ask her; slightly more confused.

"You look at my brother like my mate looks at me. Utter devotion and awe filled with some other emotion that makes you all warm inside. It is love, you love my brother." She tells me, her cowbell like voice striking a chord in me.

Do I love Nahuel?

Memories of Nahuel flashed through my mind, the first time I saw him, the way he looked at me and how he looked in the forest, his eyes and face as his sister drained me. He was beautiful and no matter what he never left my side, he never did anything but what I wished to do.

He was caring, so sweet and loving. He showed me I was worth it, that I was his saving grace and treated me like a warrior queen. He encouraged me in times of hardship, like my near slip on the way to Forks. He risked his life for my father knowing it would kill me to hurt my father.

I do love that man.

Yes, I love him; everything about him.

"Yes… I love Nahuel." I whisper giddy before grasping my chest and crying out in pain.

"Bella? What is wrong?" Huilen asks as she drops from the trees with Senna and Zafrina.

"Nahuel… something wrong…" I gasp out in pain once more as Paul howled in agony.

"BELLA!" I heard my mate cry from the distance and I took off running, the others following my every move.

I pushed my legs to go faster as I smelt the familiar smell of blood and venom in the air. A cry of horror escapes my Amazonian sisters as they see Kachiri's glazed eyes peer up at them from under a shrub, her body shredded. There were unknown vampire pieces around her; morbidly trying to fuse themselves together again.

My eyes scan the field till they landed on a naked Leah, her face twisted in agony as she let out silent screams. Her legs at awkward angles as she clawed at the dirt.

"NAHUEL!" I scream as I notice he was gone. My eyes land on a tree on the far side, it held the beads of my love the ones that belonged to his mother.

A crudely carved V rested below them.

Pulling the beads gently from the tree; I place them around my neck after fixing the broken clasp. A sob building up in my chest as I realised I wasn't here to protect him and that Victoria had taken him from me. She had finally grasped her hands on someone I love, someone who if were killed would destroy me.

"She took him." I cry as I felt Huilen's arms wrap around me. Her body rigid as a soundless rumble vibrated in her chest.

"How did she know?" I sob out as I burry my face into her arms.

"We will get him back Little Swan. She will suffer great deal for all she has caused, she will die by your hands." She tells me, holding me tighter.

"Bella?" my eyes snap to the Denali's, Rose, Emmett's and Jasper's grim faces. Each one though grim had anger in their eyes.

"What?" I whisper.

"We know who helped her querida." Carmen spoke angrily, her Spanish accent thicker.

"Who? Who helped her take my mate from me?" I snarl stepping away from Huilen and looking them all in the eye. "Who hurt my sisters?"

They all share a look, one they seemed they didn't want to share in fear. Fear of what I don't know, was it of me or of whom it was.

"Bella, Darlin', it was Edward who helped her." Jasper spoke calmly, his gift rolling over me like the waves in Florida or a simple breeze.

Edward… Edward…. EDWARD!

I screamed in my head before the world swayed and tinted red.

A/N: *gasp* ruh roh…

Ellie