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A Cinderella of Sorts

Kim POV

My heart is pounding as I rise from my slumped position on the floor, and slowly walk over to the blood-spattered rose on the middle of my black marble kitchen countertop. I pick it up, careful of the thorns, and bring it to my nose. It smells metallic; the blood masking the beautiful scent of the bloom. My eyes wander to the counter where a single white card lays. I pick it up and read it. 'I hope you like surprises. Look upstairs on your bed.'

I shiver at the realization that whoever was in my house last night never left. Suddenly, the dark foreboding woods seem more welcoming than my own bedroom. I can't bring myself to leave, even though I know I could be in serious danger. My feet move of their own accord, leading me up the stairs to my bedroom. On the last step I pause. But before I can change my mind, I thrust my hand out and turn the doorknob then step inside.

My eyes immediately find my bed and on it is a medium sized box. I breathe a little sigh of relief; I was expecting something a bit worse. My body relaxes a little as I stride over to the box. I take off the lid and look inside. What I find there is puzzling: another little white card that says 'Turn around'.

I freeze and slowly turn around, my heart rate climbing to an alarming high.

The first thing I register is that the woman I see is inhumanly beautiful. She is tall with long blonde hair reaching her shoulders, and she's wearing a blue, off- the- shoulder dress that flows down to mid-thigh. Her most striking features though are her snow white skin, which is in contrast to, her deep, blood-red eyes. It took all of three seconds to take all of this in and for me to realize I should be afraid.

"Who are you?" I whisper.

I started trembling as she walked very, very slowly towards me, with an evil grin on her face and a predatory glint in her eyes. I tried to step back but hit my bed and fell on top of it. She laughs and keeps inching towards me. Her laugh snaps something inside me and my adrenaline kicks in as I leap off my bed, and try to sprint around her, to get to my door. I have a feeling she let me get around her because she made no move to stop me. I didn't care that something was off, I just kept running.

I was two steps away from the front door, when a white flash passed before my eyes and I ran into what felt like, a brick wall. I yelped and fell back on my butt, skidding a couple inches.

My eyes widen as I see that it wasn't a wall but the beautiful woman. She was no longer smiling, but the glint was still there in her eyes. My chest was gasping for breath, my heart was pounding, and my mind was going a million miles an hour trying to figure out the impossible.

How did she…? She moved so fast, too fast. It's impossible to move that fast. And she was so hard, harder than concrete, and ice cold. What is she? I think bewildered and terrified.

It's obvious she bears ill intentions towards me. I scramble backwards, towards the back door, hoping to get to Jared out in the woods. She just stands there and stares intently at me. I jump up and turn around to jog to the door.

"Aah!" I scream; she is standing in front of me now.

I stumble back a couple steps and scream at her, "What do you want?" She just stares and I start to think she is mute or something, when she eventually says, "Your blood."

I swear my heart stops as she utters this sentence quietly, but there is no mistaking what she said.

"What?" I gasp.

Then, so fast I don't see it; she covers the few steps between us and backhands me so hard I am jerked to the ground. I hold my hand to my cheek and feel it pulsating painfully. I clench my eyes shut trying to stop the ringing in my ears. I hear a cackling noise and I realize she is laughing. I muster the strength to start crawling away. I only make it a few feet when I hear the laughing stop and cold hands wrap around my ankles, and yank me back. I try to wiggle out of her grip, but her hands are like heavy vices around me. I feel her let go of one ankle and grab my hair, twisting it painfully.

"I am going to make you suffer," she growls at me.

I feel tears prick my eyes when she pulls even harder on my hair. I cry out in pain and she pulls me up so that I am standing.

"Why?" I manage to spit out between gasps of pain.

I vaguely see her smile at me through the blur of my tears and then she brings both hands up to my throat and squeezes, just enough to cut off my air supply. I claw desperately at her hands in a futile attempt to loosen her grip. The last thing I see is her evil smile and then black spots invade my vision.

Jared…

Anonymous POV

I let go of her neck as soon as I am sure she is passed out. Her body slumps to the ground and I catch it, and throw it over my shoulder roughly. Then I run at vampire speed out the front door and down the street to my mate's inconspicuous, black sedan. I toss her inside and get into the driver's seat. I pause for a split second and glance behind me, into the backseat, at the girl.

She smells heavenly, I think inhaling deeply.

I snap my head forward and chastise myself for almost feeding on the girl. Jackson needs her. Be good Elaine. I think, pushing down my hunger. I haven't eaten in two weeks and all because Jackson needed this stupid mortal. I don't see what's so special about her. I huff internally. Clearing my mind of all thoughts except where Jackson told me to take her, I start the car and speed to the destination.

To Kim Birche's final destination.

Jared POV

I woke to the sounds of snarling and growls. I groaned as I raised my head from its place in the dirt. I inspected myself for injuries and found that I had phased back to human form when I got knocked out. I glanced over at my pack to see them fighting the vampire who had knocked me out. I guessed it had only been a couple minutes since I'd been out. I ran my hand over my head searching for a wound. I winced as my fingers probed the spot where the leech hit me. It wasn't bleeding, thanks to my super healing; one of the perks of being a wolf. I suddenly remembered the vamp had been after my Kim. I got very angry, very quickly. I growled as I felt the familiar shifting of my bones as I phased, and then I heard the voices of the pack. They were yelling in rejoice at my being okay and trying to focus on killing the vampire at the same time. 'Jared, man, you're okay!' Embry whooped, always the energetic one.

'We thought you'd died or something, dude.' Quil told me, before tearing at the vamp's arm.

'Yeah, what happened before we got here?' Paul, the hothead of the bunch, asked.

I ran over everything that had happened in the last few minutes. They all internally gasped. After seeing the leech was messing with my imprint, they fought with more fervor than before. If you mess with one of the pack members' imprint, you mess with that pack member! And if you mess with one pack member, you mess with all of the pack members. That's just how it works.

I join in the fight and snap at the vampire's head. He looked at me as soon as he saw me re-join my pack, and what he says next has me trembling with worry.

"You shouldn't have left your mate alone." He says with an evil smirk, and then somehow he manages to leap out of reach of all of us, and gets away in the direction the pack had come in.

Before we can blink, he is gone, and then the pack is running after him. I stay rooted in place by fear.

'Go check on her,' Sam's deep voice reverberates in my head.

I comply with his command and phase back and pull on some shorts I had left lying in the bushes when I ran out of Kim's house earlier. I then sprint the short distance to her house at werewolf speed, and tear open the back door, which had been locked. I frantically look around and sniff the air. I freeze when I smell blood and then I see the rose. It has blood on it. I pick it up and sniff. I sigh in relief; it's not Kim's blood.

Everyone has a unique smell to their blood and this blood smells too sour to be Kim's. Kim's blood has a honey-like aroma to it. I freeze again though when I see the little card sitting next to the flower. I follow the instructions and see the other note the vamp left her. I cringe as I smell the bittersweet smell of leech that is prominent in her room. This smell is different than the one who was here last night.

I frown in puzzlement. I then gasp in horror as I realize he must have had an accomplice and that accomplice came and took Kim while I was outside. I crumple onto the floor and forget everything but my Kim and whether or not she is okay. I am scared.

She could be dead already. I think horrified, No! She can't be dead; I can't live without her; I won't live without her.

With that thought, I stand up and march outside to phase and see if I can trace her scent and find her.

Kim, wait for me. I promise, I'm coming for you.

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