Of three things I was absolutely certain.
First: I was mortal. But that had always been painfully obvious.
Second: My mortality was what had me in a cureless depression. Nothing, not even my favourite hobbies, my closest family, or Jasper's gift consoled me.
And Third: I was dying. That was completely and unconditionally irrevocable. I had always known that something was wrong with my blood -the reason no one in my coven was ever too quick to want to kill me- but the results of my latest lab reports had been what tipped me over the edge into this blackening abyss.
I had leukemia.
I wouldn't live to see my junior year...
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"So, you're with the Cullens," He stated, almost like a question.
"Yeah. I'm Reese-Jackson. Only human to grow up in a vampire coven. Ever."
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Carlisle opened his mouth, but Edward spoke first. "Aro thinks that the father of the First Son is Caius."
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Reese Maylend's life is running out, and every day it seems like Death will come knocking at her door. Through kidnappings, rude awakenings, suicide attempts, and a vial oxygen tank, all hope for a second chance at life seem too far away to grasp. But when her captor, a young, ruthless Volturi Guard, finds that he has fallen for the mortal girl, will he be able to change her terrible fate?