Prince of Blood

Chapter 4

Jacob snorted, "Like it matters what you say. How can you be any different, all bloodsuckers are the same. Bella is lost to us now; forever."

"Hold your tongue, dog! You don't know the first thing about being a vampire, about what we go through every day. You have no right to make any judgements." Princess Rosalie said in a terse yet melodic tone, this was the first time she had spoken in my presence, "werewolves are just as unnatural and abnormal than us. Don't tell me you don't fight the urge to kill every day? Ours is just more prominent. Don't you go hunting in the forest every full moon? Just because we are immortal doesn't make you any better!" exclaimed the very annoyed vampire Princess.

"Edward may be a beast by forcing Isabella to marry him, but by not supporting her you are not any better either." finished the beautiful Princess.

I was surprised to say the least by the amount of compassion and guilt these vampires had been showing regarding my situation. Who would have thought that they actually had emotions!

Maybe I was too harsh to judge them even before meeting them.

But before I could get completely lost in feeling of understanding towards them an image of Edward surfaced in my mind and I was restored to my earlier unpleasant feeling towards the Cullens. They were just covering his tracks and toying with us humans by pretending to be compassionate.

To this Jacob had nothing to say because he knew that his coldness and remoteness was hard for me to bear on top of everything else. He decided to simply give me a gentle hug- not like his usual bone-crunching bear hug- and leave. I could see the apology in his eyes for not being able to save me.

"It's ok Jake, you can always be my best man" I said with a small sad smile in hope of lightening the mood and showing Jake that there are no hard feelings between us.

I was astonished that I had kept myself together this long especially after the lilt display with Edward trying to get me to drink blood- human blood.

"Sure Bells" was all he said before exiting.

"Enough Rosie, I...I am sure Edward will keep his word and make everyone suffer if we don't succumb to his wishes; doing whatever he says is the safest option for everyone. He will hand over the Empire to James if he doesn't get Isabella." Princess Alice said her voice laced with determination and finality, like she was sure of her brother's actions. "We will star the preparation for the wedding tomorrow after breakfast until then we should give the Swans some space so we'll go sightseeing and hunting for the day." she ordered and with that the whole Cullen clan left nodding grimly and giving us apologetic glances.

 

As soon as the Cullens exited the ground rushed up to embrace me; and I was greeted by a welcoming darkness.

*∞*

My eyes slowly peeled opened as I resurfaced from my unconscious state. It took some time for my body to resume functioning.

I blinked my eyes open to the outline to my bedroom furniture. It was dark outside as the starlight shone through the balcony glass doors where the curtains were drawn back. The clear dark blue night sky dotted with sparkling stars as though someone splattered glitter across a plain canvas. The moon shone out like a trophy amongst the twinkling stars.

I noticed that I was freezing!

I could feel the soft smooth texture of silk sheets and the fluffiness of my pillows underneath myself along with the thick comforter but I was still cold.

"Finally, she decides to grace us with herself!" a smooth masculine voice spoke from beside me, shattering the peaceful silence of the night.

A silent gasp escaped my lips immediately recognizing who the voice belonged to. It was impossible to not recognise his voice after I had it demanding to marry me echo in my head all the time.