You sit under the sun, in the magnificient gardens of the Volturi. Your slender figure illuminated by the sunlight, as you submerge your feet in the water of the beautiful pond, with its tiny colourful fishes and lavender water lilies.

Your eyes were as dead as ever. No emotion in them. As you sat there, a husk of yourself.

You have long been depressed, even before you met Aro, due to your painful life of debts and horrors. Even though your mother protected you every time, till the last and nothing happened to you physically, you have been scarred emotionally.

And her death shattered you.

You had nothing to live for. So you had planned to wander the world one last time before dying peacefully in the cold mountains. And in one such trip to Volterra, Aro saw you andsaved you last minute from being killed by his coven during the Feeding, when he discovered you as his soulmate, as his destined one. And it has been a week, since that fateful day.

You thoughts come to a still, when you feel gentle hands combing through your silken strands. You look up and meet the maroon eyes of your soulmate's.