Her Ruby Eyes

Chapter 6

Garrett smiled down at his little vixen and pulled her in his arms. Taking a deep breathe of her comforting scent, he relaxed. "But you should be glad I came just in time." He chuckled. Isabella smiled warmly and snuggled under Garrett's neck, ignoring the mating pull and the snarling man coming toward them. Her shield wrapped around them and Jasper went flying. No wasting a second later, Isabella took Garrett's hand and ran. They zipped towards her mansion. An earsplitting roar rang out and shook the forest. She smelled Peter before she saw him. He ran close by her and gave her a raised eyebrows. She waggled hers at him. Then Char join them.

"I see the Major is out again to play." Peter spoke, ducking a tree. The mansion was coming into view.

Isabella shrugged. "He tried to forcefully claim me for the past week even after I said no. Ass just doesn't know when to quit."

"He is your true mate though Lil' Bit." Peter pointed out as they raced through the mansion and out in the fields. Garrett looked over her, eyes shining with confusion.

"The Major is your true mate, Isa?"

She sighed as they slowed to a stop. She sat him down and sat by him. She truly didn't want to leave Garrett. He was the best thing that ever happened to her. She leaned back against her arms and stared up at the sky.

"Yes, he is." She looked at him with dark red eyes. "But that's the thing Garrett. I do not want him as my mate. When I said I did not want anything to do with the Cullen's I meant it. But I'm glad they did leave me the way they did. It got me you guys. My family. My children. I was born to be like this. It was my destiny. My fate." She leaned forward and scrubbed her face tiredly with a growl. "But it seems as fate wants him as my mate. I, for one, do not." Feeling vulnerable, she laid down with her head on his lap. The ground was shaking. The pull in her chest was lessening. Garrett ran his fingers through her hair. She loved it when he did it. Said it calmed her down.

Isabella watched as her children appeared from many different directions, sitting around her. They looked relaxed but she knew better. They were tense, ready to battle. It was a tactic she drilled in them. To make the enemy think you are not a threat, before striking. The doors slammed open and in came the Major in his fury glory. She did not remove her head from Garrett's lap and he did not cease running his fingers through her hair.

"Isabella!" The Major roared, seething with rage that his mate dismissed him and was in the arms of another man. Her head lulled lazily to stare at him. She did not blink. She did not smirk. She showed and felt nothing as she gazed at him.

"The answer is no." She hissed. Eyes turning white. "I refuse to be your mate. What will it take to get you to understand. I will not stand by a man who stayed with the family that abandoned me. I will not be the mate to a man who thinks he should try to get me to submit to him as the way he should see fit." She roared standing up. Garret back up and left her to say her business. "Look at the people around you! Look at them! These are my children, my family. I made this whole thing for them for peace! They are the family I could ask for. I became the way I am not to rule them but to guide them. They could leave at any time they want but they won't! No matter what I say, they love it here. I became this way to protect them. They are my life! Now your family, the Cullens," She spat, taking a step forward. "are trying to ruin that for me. Isabella Marie Swan died the day Edward Cullen left her in the forest! She died the day, you and your family up and left without so much as a 'Fuck you'! She died when she was turned by her lovely sister." She took more steps forward. Her children split down the middle giving her an aisle to walk through. "She completely died after her change when she decided to become someone whom would take of her family! Someone would take people in and help them. To teach others, to protect others, to love others. I am a mother, a sister, a protector, a vampire, and a giver. And it will never change!" She made it out of the sea of vampires and stood 20 yards away. "I will not change for the likes of you. I will continue my life as the way it is. And I will not have anyone, not even your coven, get in my way." She hissed eerily at him.