I can feel hands stroking my skin. Too tired and weak to open my eyes I continue to lay here on this uncomfortable bed. I wonder where I am? The room smells not clean enough to be the one I slept in, in Volterra. It can't be my room at home in Forks too, because It's too dark in here even for Forks. And my bed is way more comfortable than this one. The hand is now slowly stroking down my throat. I stiffen.
Who is this? It's not Marcus, Caius or Aro, their hands are not so cold. Wait…a cold hand. So this person is a vampire. That means I am laying here with an unknown vampire beside me, who is stroking my throat? Oh no. That's bad. Really bad!
I try to pull my throat away, but I am too weak. What the hell did happen? Why does my whole body hurt so badly? "Don't worry Bella, I will take good care of you", the unknown man speaks for the first time. Bella? Why does he know my name? Who is he?
Now I am really scared, what does he mean he will "take good care" of me? What does he plan? I feel a tongue slide down my chin and to my throat. I have to gulp. What the…?
"The pain will go away soon, I promise", now his fangs are scratching on my throat. No. NO! I want to scream! To struggle, to do something, anything, but I can't. My whole body feels like a huge truck drove over me again and again. I can more feel, than hear his deep breathing on my skin. He is going to bite me, I just know it.
I try to get my attention to something else. So that I don't have to think about this with venom glittering fangs on my throat. Or about, what he is going to do to me. Or what he probably did to my mates. Oh my god! What did he do to Marcus, Caius and Aro? Where are they? He didn't hurt them…he couldn't. Right? Right?! Now I am starting to panic. What if he killed them and I won't see them ever again? I am on the verge to cry when I hear another voice on the other side of the bed. "Oh come on show some self-control. She is not your plaything." The other vampire growl, but releases me nearly immediately. "She is my plaything", she says and the evil smile is oblivious in her voice.
Aro's POV
She was gone. The love of our life, our soul mate, was gone. If I say that we are completely lost, it would be an underestimate. We are on the verge of being the first vampires, to die of loneliness. There is no way we could be without her, but why did she go? And how did she manage that? There were guards in front of her room. Not that she wouldn't have been able to leave us, if she really wanted. We would have accepted it, after all she was our sun. We don't want to see her sad.
I looked at the guard next to me and asked the question that was on my mind for a while now: "Are you sure that there was nobody sneaking through your guard?" "Yes master, but we are not completely sure about the back door thought. Someone told us that there was a tumult in front of the castle, so one of us went there to make sure everything was alright there." So she didn't run away. Thank god she wants to be with us after all, but suddenly I realize the meaning of his words and growl. How could they leave her alone? Even without protection! This is going to earn them a punishment later, but now we had more important things to do. Like saving our Bella. My brothers and I are getting more and more worried by the minute, her head was in a bad condition when we last saw her. I hope she is going to be alright…
Carlisle should be here in an hour and we really need to find her so he an look at her. I don't want anything to happen to my angel.
My first thought is that this was some sort of revenge plan from Edward, but he was still in his room with Alice. That is not good we have to find out, who did this and fast. I go to the room of my brother and see them looking exactly as worried as me. We stood there together for a while until Marcus suddenly stands up. He goes out of the room without saying a word. A bit confused Caius and I follow him. He walks into "Bella's room" and starts to sniff the air. What the…?
Oh… he tries to find the scent of a stranger. Great idea! Caius and I go into the dark corners and start searching for some unfamiliar scent. Suddenly we hear Marcus growl very loudly in his part of the room. We turn around a bit shocked to see him shaking with anger. He looks like he wants to kill someone. Caius and I look at him a bit surprised, when he orders us to stand at the same spot he stood before. As we breathe in Caius and I start growling so loudly that the windows shake.
So you want to play? We will show you, how real kings play!