The Dark Princess 35

“How did the trial go?”Rosalie didn’t bother to greet Tanya properly when the coven leader walked into the sitting room.Tanya has sent them a text saying that Bella’s parents were going to be brought before the kings.Ever since then Rosalie, Emmett, Alice, Jasper and the rest of the Denali had gathered into the Cullen’s sitting room waiting for word of what happened.Rosalie had wanted to be in the throne room during the trial but when Tanya asked the royals had denied her and the others.Rosalie wasn’t surprised as they weren’t members of the guard or bonded to Bella.Even though it felt like it at times with how much Rosalie cared about Bella.Now that she allowed herself to befriend Bella Rosalie found that she cared about the girl more than her siblings.The overwhelming urge to protect the human had Rosalie fighting her instincts to search her parents out and kill them for the abuse they put Bella through.

“Are you alight?”Irina didn’t need Jasper’s gift to feel the grief and anger that was coming off of Tanya in waves.

“No I’m not.”Tanya admitted.

“Come sit and tell us what’s wrong.”Carmen suggested.

“Is Bella ok?”Alice asked.

“Bella’s fine.She is watching movie with Sulpicia and Aro.I think Athenodora is with them as well.”Tanya didn’t think that the queen would be leaving Bella’s side for a long time after what they learned during the trial.

“We need to ask Bella if we can watch a movie in the theatre sometime.I bet it’s top of the line.”Emmett would enjoy having a movie theatre all to himself while watching a movie.He wondered if they could set up a game console to play video games on the big screen.He would bring it up to Bella next time he saw her.Her parents would make it happen if she was the one asking.

“What happened at the trial?”Rosalie wanted to get back on topic.Emmett did have a good idea though.It would be nice to have a theatre to themselves.If they were given access Rosalie would plan a date with Emmett.That could wait until later.Now Rosalie wanted to know what was going on with Bella.

“The pair were brought to the throne room first.The woman didn’t hide her fear.I was honestly surprised that she didn’t lose control of her bowels with how terrified she was of everyone.”Tanya thought the woman was going to hurt herself with how much her body was shaking.

“How did the father react?”Jasper was pushing out waves of calm with his gift trying to help Tanya with her anger that seemed to be getting stronger as she spoke about the trial.

“He was cocky.It was obvious he thought he could trick the kings into letting him go.”Tanya told them.

“From what I know of him that sounds exactly like how Charlie would act.”Alice said.

“He tried to paint himself as a loving father who’s daughter was kept away from him by the mother.I don’t think he expected that the royals did their homework on American custody laws.They exposed his lies easily.”Tanya had taken great pleasure watching Charlie’s face when he realized he wasn’t going go to pull over over on the kings.

“What exactly did he do to Bella?”Irina and the others had been told by Alice that Bella had been seriously abused by her mother.The father on the hand Alice wasn’t completely sure about.

Tanya growled thinking about what Charlie had told them.Hearing the sound of wood breaking she took a deep breath and loosened her hold on the arms of the chair she was sitting in.”I’m going to have to replace this chair.”

“Was it that bad?”Carmen wasn’t sure she wanted to know based on Tanya’s reaction.

“Although he didn’t raise a hand to her he was planning on pimping Bella out to his friends and the boys from the reservation after she graduated.”Tanya wasn’t surprised by the outrage from he occupants in the room.Even Eleazar was growling.

“I’ll kill him!!”Rosalie was going to flay the man before she did.

“I’ll help.”Irina wasn’t going to let someone who thought they could use her sister in such a way live.

“I’m going to drain his blood from his body.”Kate was more than willing to break her diet to kill Bella’s father.

“I know that you all would like a chance at him but Bella has already decided both her parents and Carlisle, Esme and Edward’s punishments.”Tanya told them.

“What did Bella decide?”Alice asked.

“We all know that Edward is still of the belief that Bella is his mate and that she is just biding her time trying to figure out a way to break them out the castle.It’s because of that Bella’s plan is to send a guard member that is good at hiding their thoughts into the dungeon under the pretense of Bella sent them to release everyone.”Tanya said.

“Even if Edward could read the mind of the guard he would still believe the narrative.”Rosalie wouldn’t doubt that Edward would believe Bella sent one of the kings to release him.

“What happens once they’re released?”Irina was sure that they weren’t going to let them actually leave the castle.

“Bella wants the royals, myself and Jane to hunt them down as they try to escape.”Tanya was looking forward to getting the chance to do so.

Kate laughed.”That’s epic.Can we join?”

“I can ask but I don’t know if they will let you.”Tanya didn’t think that the others would be allowed to join.She would ask though.

“I want to join as well.”Rosalie would love to be able to kill not only Bella’s parents but Edward and Carlisle to.Both of them had put Bella in danger and then turned their backs on the coven almost getting all of them killed.If it wasn’t for Bella they would have.

“Me too.”Emmett wasn’t going to be left out.

“Bella was the one to decide this?”Jasper was very surprised that the human would pick such a vampire centric punishment.

Tanya nodded.”She said she knew that everyone would get more satisfaction out of hunting them through the castle then just killing them.”

“It seems the princess has a good understanding of vampires.”Eleazar said.

“She is very in tune to vampire behavior.”Tanya had seen the way Bella had reacted to the vampires around her and how she adapted to each of their needs be it by asking one of them for something or initiating contact when one of them needed it.

“Speaking of vampires when is Bella going to have her surgery?”Rosalie asked.Tanya had told them it would safe for Bella to be turned after her surgery and Rosalie wondered why they hadn’t done it yet.

“We were going to do it in the next few days but Jane was sent on a mission and we are going to wait until she comes back.”Tanya told them.

“What’s the mission?”Alice knew it had to be important for them to postpone Bella’s surgery.

“When Aro read Charlie it was revealed that the human had already made arrangements with the boys on the reservations to have Bella when she graduated.Jane was sent to retrieve the entire pack and some of the men Charlie had made deals with.”Tanya wished she could go with Jane but she wasn’t strong enough yet.

“Can we please get a chance at the shifters?”Kate really wanted to fight a wolf.She had never gotten the chance before.

“Once Bella is turned she will be in charge of what happens to them but until then they are going to be use as training tool for the guard.I’m sure anyone who wants to fight them will be allowed.”Tanya didn’t think the royals would mind.

“Yes!!”Emmett cheered.

“I personally would like to be a part of that.”Rosalie had always wanted to fight the wolves.Knowing what they had planned for Bella just made that want grow more.

“Speaking of training with the guards.Do you think maybe we could get a chance to train with them?”Kate asked.

“I think the person to ask about that is Bella.The royals would agree if she requested it.”Tanya didn’t think the royals would like being asked for anything.Unless Bella was the one asking.”Maybe you can use the excuse of wanting to keep her safe because that’s the reason I am going to be training with them.”

“You’re going to train with the guard?”Emmett was already mid plan on how to get Rosalie to let him train with them as well.She didn’t want him to because she was afraid they would hurt him.Emmett wasn’t worried though.They had Bella’s backing.She wouldn’t let anything bad happen to them.

“I’m the weakest link when it comes to Bella’s bond mates.When Bella is turned she will be able to protect herself better than I can.It’s because of that Caius requested that I learn how to fight so I could protect not only myself but Bella as well.”Tanya was looking forward to learning.She wanted to prove her worth amongst Bella’s other bond mates.

“That’s true you don’t have a gift and aren’t much of fighter.”Carmen said.

“It makes be regret not putting in more of an effort the last thousand years.”Tanya knew if she had started training when she was turned she would have been an accomplished warrior.Not that she could doing anything about it.She would just have to push herself hard and make up for lost time.

“I have no doubt that you will catch up to the others quickly.”Eleazar had seen the way that Tanya succeeded when she put her mind to something.He doubted that learning to fight was something she was going to fail at.Especially because Bella’s safety was on the line.

“When are you meeting back up with Bella?”Alice asked.

“I was invited to spent time with her at dinner.I don’t know if she will choose me to sleep next to her.”Tanya hoped she did.She had been very pleased that the night before Bella had picked her and enjoyed spending the night with Bella in her arms watching over her as she slept.Athenodora had dropped in numerous times but that didn’t bother Tanya to much.She was learning that the queen checking in on them was one of the conditions to spending time with Bella.

“When you see her can you ask if she would be willing to spend time with us tomorrow?”Now that they knew what happened with Bella’s parents Rosalie wanted to see for herself that Bella was alright.

“I don’t think that will be a problem.Unless the queen has plans with her.”Tanya said.

“Hopefully she can fit us in.”Alice was thinking the same thing as Rosalie.She wanted to make sure Bella was alright.

“I’ll try to convince her.”Tanya wouldn’t mind spending some time with Bella with her family around.She hadn’t spent as much time with them lately due to Bella being sick.She also wanted them to get a chance to know her mate better.The had hung out with Bella twice now but the first time had been a short visit and the second time they were all distracted by the beating Edward was getting.Tanya wanted them to see for themselves why she thought Bella was so extraordinary.Then they would understand why their coven leader would probably be spending a lot more time at the castle.That was something the Denali needed to discuss.There was no way the royals were going to let Bella live in Alaska with them.The problem was Tanya knew that the rest of her family probably wouldn’t be comfortable living in the castle.Tanya wasn’t really sure she was but so far she had been treated very well.It would all depend on what happened after Bella was turned.She might not want to stay at the castle.Tanya doubted it but it could happen.If not maybe they could work something out that let them split time between Italy and Alaska.There were many things that needed to happen before those decisions were made.One of them being killing all the prisoners.Tanya smiled at the thought.It was going to be very rewarding to kill the boy who thought he could claim her mate as his own.The only regret she had was that she could only kill him once.