Love Me Tender

Prologue

A/N: This is another story I've been working on as a side project when taking a break from Diamond in the Rough.

Full summary: Bella was bitten by Laurent in the meadow, but when she was close to death, she was saved by the most unlikely man imaginable. Now, thirty years later, Bella is a secret wife of the Volturi- having replaced the deceased Didyme. Marcus is a cruel man who lives for his own desires, but when the marriage is made public, covens from all over the globe come to meet this new wife. Fearful and wary of this new addition to the Volturi ruling power, one coven is graced with the shock of their lives when the true identity of Marcus' wife is revealed. A story of what would happen if Bella married Marcus after Edward left (BxE story, not BxM.)

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BPOV

Walking.

Running.

Pleading.

Crying.

Screaming.

The fire raged- burning its way through my system, eating at me like some sort of violent acid as it stole my life. The venom coursed through my veins and I felt it was eating them apart, yet still leaving them intact. The fiend at my neck drank my blood eagerly, taking more and more with each mouthful, his dark eyes turning to a vivid crimson right before me. As his eyes turned red, my vision failed me, and soon, it felt like the pain was detaching me from my body. The blood I was losing was nothing compared to the pain I was enduring, and even this close to death, I begged for it to end. If I could die one second before I was supposed to, I would praise whatever higher power that ruled me for all of eternity, even if I would be dead. I wanted out of this horrid pain, and I knew the end was imminent.

But something happened- something interfered with the death dealing demon at my jugular, and I cursed it with a scream of terror- one that made the creature in front of me cringe as it dished out death instead- but not to me. The man in front of me killed my attacker and I felt the fire raging as the thick purple smoke enveloped me wholly, rendering my lungs useless. I saw the dark figure make its way through the hazy smoke and my heart soared. Who else could this be but… him?

My heart shattered into a million tiny pieces when I saw the face in front of me- and it wasn't the one I craved. This face was different- older and waxier. He wasn't my Edward, but he did look at me differently than anyone else ever did. There was a cold malevolence in his crimson eyes that scared me to death, and his face was inching closer.

"My dear Isabella." He crooned, scooping my body up off the bloodied grass. He started to run, his body quicker and more agile than I could ever dream of being.

"I've saved your life, and now it's time for you to save mine." He hissed in my ear, making me shudder through the blazing inferno, as we ran- ran towards someplace unknown to me- a foreign land where I was to start my new life.

A/N: So there's the prologue. Let me know if you're interested in reading the rest, especially since its still in progress. Many twists and turns ahead for our Bella and Edward. Crappy summary before, but I don't know exactly what's happening yet.

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