Iris D̶w̶y̶e̶r̶ BENNETT | Cullens X OC

13 | THOUGHTS

"What's wrong baby?" I ask her.

"It smells funny" she scrunches her nose up in disgust and bares her head in my chest.

I take a little sniff and start to realise it too. AND my window was open. My suitcase was slightly unzipped.

Something wasn't right....

I released a mystical dust to retrace the steps and footprints in this room.

I identified most to be mine, Faye's and Rosalie's. But one unknown.

Shit.

I hear a gush of wind and turn to my window.

"Edward?"

"Do you know h- why does it smell like that?"

"You smell it too" I point out.

He looks down at the mystical dust.

"Someone's been in here"

"Exactly, but who?"

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Edward and I left my bedroom and went home.

"Who was it?" Carlisle asks. "Someone we know?"

"It was a stranger, I didn't recognize his scent" Edward replies.

"His footprints are foreign too" I add.

Yes, I know everyone I know by the way the walk and the steps they take. A little trick Borra taught me.

"A nomad passing through?" Esme suggests.

"A passer by wouldn't have kept Bella's father alive" Rosalie states.

Emmett and Jasper then enter the house again.

"The scent disappeared about 5 miles south Bella's house" he states.

"Someone's orchestrating this" Carlisle states.

"Has to be the Volturi" Edward says.

"I don't think it's the Volturi, I've been watching Aro's decisions" Alice states.

"Then it's Victoria" I state.

"I would've seen her decide" Alice says.

"But what if she's blocking you out? Like putting someone else in charge so you don't find out" I say as everyone becomes more interested.

"I say she's behind all the Seattle deaths too" I state.

"What makes you say that?" Rosalie asks me.

"She's killing people, taking them from their lives and making them vampires. She did it to Riley, in Seattle. I witnessed it. She could be recruiting vampires as we speak" I rest my case.

"That actually sounds legit" Emmett says to Carlisle and he nods in response.

"Of course it is" I flip my hair. Like duh.