Loving a beast

Forbidden to love

Chapter 3:

Marcus POV:

I watched her disappear into the crowd in tow of an elder woman. I sighed a bit.

"Marcus! Brother, there you are!" Aro smiled to me.

He was in his normal black suite. His raven like hair pulled back with it's normal clip. His ruddy brown eyes met mine. "We do need to be getting back to the car, the twins are anxious. Caius also wants us to call in updates to him. Do remind me why he chose to stay in Volterra?"

He was still confused on this fact. My features fell back into their bored-like demeanor. Aro sometimes really was a sickly sweet person and yet he knew this.

"Because he doesn't like to get caught up in this business you have taken up in stalking the Cullens'." I exhaled my drawn out answer.

"Brother why are you such a poor sport?" Aro asked rhetorically.

I just went back to looking in the direction Angela had left. Aro must have seen some sense of emotion in my eye since he began on this.

"Brother what is it about this human that has caught your attention. After two thousand years I thought surely your heart was dead, like you for a matter of fact."

I just shook my head softly. "I do not know Aro, this dark beauty caught my eye in the shop yesterday and fate brought her here today it seems for us to enjoy a tea. Which reminds me I have some things to empty from my stomach."

I felt the now cold liquid sloshing in my stomach as we made our way towards the doors were the twins and young Hellana our newest guard were waiting. I so badly needed this out and I even guiltily pleasures the idea of doing it here but a king does not make a disgrace of himself.

"Ah yes! Now that's one I must remember! You in took human goods all to spend time with a human! This one I must tell Caius. He will find it delightful." Aro's bell like laughter filled my ears. "But on a more serious note Marcus. I do not want her distracting you from our mission. We must see if the letter Ms. Alice Cullen-Whitlock sent is correct about this wedding."

"She won't. In fact she is one of the guest as you know Aro, if my memory serves me correct you got a glimpse of her mind yesterday?" I assumed with an arched brow.

"Yes, of course you know my power brother. Which is surprising. In a human of eighteen years old she is such a selfless person. Not a nasty bone in that one. But she was mesmerized by you. Odd how opposites attract. But something's that poor girl went through recently. I will not share it since even I, the 'heartless ruler of the Volturi', understand that sort of thing is private." Aro continued on. "Though I warn you to heed caution brother, she is delicate. She is like a rose, she had her walls to protect her but she is a beautiful blossom."

It was times like these I worried for Aro almost. But in three thousand years of knowing him there was one thing I knew of my brother than most. Was when it came to love he understood the best. Like when his sister was killed. My wife, my love, he cried the hardest besides myself. There was one side to Aro no one knee besides his family and mostly his wife, was that Aro was a grand lover. He would even make an excellent father if he could, I do dare to say.

"I know as much, her bonds are an oddity all are hinted with pink no matter how weak the bond is there is love for all of those bonds. She respects all her friends no matter how bad the person is she holds a bit of respect for them. There is no hate..." I murmured remembering the first time I saw her bonds.

All so strong, so pure. It had to be fake, yet here they were in front of me. All there laid out paths. She is an angel on earth, yet how does one like myself, so tainted fall for something so pure?

It was something I swore I'd never do again, I swore off love. All feelings of happiness since Didyme's death. She had been such a heart warming person, an angel truly that I loved. But her life had been torn from her on our wedding day. An assassin from a rebellious coven had destroyed her. At the time the wives roamed as they pleased no guards no cares until the day Didyme was in the gardens. She was waiting for me for a surprise I had set up. But I had a letter to respond to. And like a fool I answered that letter. In that snap decision I had decided Didyme's fate. And she was gone.

I was too unworthy of love. Since then. I let one of the gods' angels die. Sent from heaven only to be torn away because I was too careless to guard her more. And from that day my heart had been under lock and key.

Yet here I was, falling in love with a human girl, physically three years my junior yet thousands of years an infant to me. Yet there she had stood with the curves of a woman the defined face of a mature lady. Full lips, round brown eyes and long dark chocolate hair. She was taller than most women but smaller than my six foot. By several inches. Her legs thin yet fit, curved in the right places and her chest. I was ashamed I had let my eyes wander so low on her but she was a siren, and I the hopeless male falling into her lures.

"Master, I am sorry to bother you But Master Aro said when we had pulled over." Hellana murmured.

I looked across the limo seats not even realizing we had gotten into the car. Aro of course had classical music blasting into his ears he didn't notice we were pulled over. Probably because he had Alec take his senses so he could 'rest'. Aro enjoyed this close to sleep state Alec had learned to force upon people.

I stood feeling the icy tea in my stomach and quickly I heaved every drip out of me. Of course Hellana stood with a large bottle of blood waiting for me when I stepped out of the wooded area. I took it all down in a swig and I licked any remaining drips off my lips. I felt immensely better after it was gone.

I took my seat again and Hellana slipped in beside me. Soon we were back to driving. And I fell back to my thoughts. All I could really think about was her. Before her I was only a stone of a man but now she was the only thing really worthy of having on my mind.

I do wonder if she got my card. I do also hope she is alright after what had happened. She had cringed in such pain. I do not know where it had come from. One second she's fine the next she's nearly crying bloody Mary. I shook my head at the thoughts. Maybe she had been right, just a stomach ache but it was enough to worry me more than it should've. Next I knew it was Aro breaking my thoughts.

"Since we are nearing the boarder of Forks we know our plan?" Aro asked the little guard we had. The twins and Hellana and Demetiri who was driving. The rest were in Italy. We nodded. "Good, Hellana you will shield us and we shall begin. No harming anyone. Or your punishment will be grave."

His warning wad understood by all. Even as his brother I still understood his power over myself.