He had spent centuries with only himself for company, he fed, tortured and killed that was his life and he liked it that way, until she came along and stirred something in him, something he couldn't and wouldn't accept. “If I were you I’d keep that stake sharp. Don’t expect anymore visits like this, next time I come I expect you to use that thing,” he told her pointing to the stake on the bed, and then he was gone.

when Edward leaves Bella for Tanya she is heart broken, she turns to the volturi for help, and it just so happens that bellas mate was never Edward it was a guard in volterra palace