Alessia Cullen was never meant to exist.
Years ago, Carlisle Cullen risked everything to save a human woman hidden away in Volterra, and the Cullens raised the child she bore as their own. To them, Alessia is family. To the Volturi, she is a reminder of defiance never forgiven.
The visit when Alessia is three, to see what became of the small, fragile, human. That should have been the end of it. But Demetri, the Volturi's infamous tracker, caught her scent then. And it never left him.
Now Alessia is grown. Restless. Beautiful. And Demetri is no longer content to only remember the sound of her pulse or the reminder of her scent he wants her, all of her, in a way that borders on ruinous. To Alessia, he is everything she should fear: lethal, possessive, obsessive. To Demetri, she is the one thing he cannot surrender, not to Aro, not to the Cullens, not even to fate.
Caught between the family who saved her and the predator who claims her, Alessia must decide what it means to survive when love feels like captivity, and danger tastes like devotion.
Because once Demetri has found her, there is no escape.
Meredith Cullen is the sister of Carlisle Cullen. She decided to go and enjoy the world a little before returning to her brother and his family.
One of her gifts are quite useful for that since she can look like a human if she wants to. With heartbeat and everything.
Right now she is in Italy, Volterra to be exact. Carlisle has warned her to keep on the lookout for the volturi, she knows that as well. That's why she was just about to leave again since she has pretty much seen the whole city already. That's however when a vampire thinks she could be a nice snack.
Just as she was about to kill said vampire, he collapsed on the floor in front of her screaming out in pain. To her left now standing four volturi guards.
„Fuck!" she mumbles out.
What will happen when the four volturi guards are her mates? Would it be wise to stay or better to run?