Twilight you are my light

Volterra is a small city with a long history. There are many ancient relics in this small city, such as the theater left in the ancient Roman era, the Medici fortress, and the remains of the ancient Etruscan Acropolis.Of course, there is an even more amazing tourist attraction - a majestic and rich museum.

The museum occupies a large area, and its appearance is more like a castle.This carved and jade building has existed in Volterra for hundreds of years, so it has become one of the most popular places in the small city of Volterra, attracting tourists from all over the world to visit every day.

But who would have guessed that this castle that has been converted into a tourist attraction is actually inhabited by a group of vampires?

In recent years, the Volturi have also begun to try to use humans to help the Volturi govern their territories.Jaina is a good example. She is the front desk employee of the Volturi recruited by the Volturi in the past few years, and she is also one of the few humans who knows the true face of the Volturi.The Volturi use her to lure tourists to the Volturi Palace, making these visitors their meals and providing the Volturi with a steady stream of food.

Gianna was a staff member of the Florence Tourism Bureau at first, but she was not satisfied with the meager salary in the Tourism Bureau. She thought that she could get a better life with her beauty.In fact, she did so. She got to know many rich foreigners through her work, and defrauded them of a lot of money, and received a lot of kickbacks in private.

I often walk by the river without getting my shoes wet.Soon, her behavior was reported, and she received severe accountability from the Tourism Bureau.Jaina, who lost her job and left a stain on her resume, knew that going to a big city was too risky, so she had no choice but to go to a smaller city to seek development in desperation.

This time, she set her sights on Volterra, 43 miles from Florence.This small town is densely populated and highly mobile, but mainly tourists. Here she can return to her old profession like a duck to water.

In the beginning, Jaina was attracted by the high salary offered by the Volturi and worked as a receptionist of the museum. She did not run away to call the police after knowing the true face of the Volturi like the previous receptionists. She gradually fell in love with vampires. lifestyle.

Despite Jaina's misdemeanor, Arrow doesn't care about it.Given Jaina's passable level of business, she was lucky to be left in the Volturi rather than a dessert.

Jaina desperately hopes to one day be transformed into a vampire and become a member of the Volturi.It's a pity that Aro didn't see any shadow of special abilities in her. He believed that Jaina could play a greater role as a human front desk than as an ordinary vampire.

She just does odd jobs most of the time, and the Volturi Palace is only partially open to tourists, and it is closed every Wednesday and Sunday.During the peak tourist season, Jaina needs to receive three or four groups of tourists into the Volturi Palace every day, and is responsible for selecting a group of humans to enter the museum every once in a while as food for the Volturi.

Fortunately, she only needs to be responsible for the diet of the royal family members and core guards, and she doesn't need to worry about the fullness of those low-level guards.

Volterra's peak tourist season is usually from May to September, and now it's mid-September, and Jaina's work is gradually relaxing.Recently, she especially likes to listen to a popular musical with headphones. She clicked on the video and skilfully skipped the beginning of the musical, and jumped directly to the first song "ThinkOfMe" that the heroine began to sing.

She was humming the familiar melody, and the person singing in the video was obviously Nora.Jaina opened the folder and began to organize the report. She needed to explain why the group of tourists had disappeared inexplicably.

"Jianna, go and sort out this report, and hand it over to the Volterra Tourism Bureau along with this missing report." Felix quietly appeared in front of Jaina, and he put the The report was placed on the table aside.

Jaina immediately took off her earphones and stood up from her seat, with a look of fear and awe on her face that she would definitely do it as soon as possible.

Felix nodded casually, indifferent to Jaina's submission.To them, a human being is no different from a bug that can be crushed at will, the only difference is that this bug is bigger.

As he was about to leave, he glanced at Gianna's computer screen. In the video, Nora was about to finish singing and was about to leave. A group of backup dancers took Nora's place.

Felix didn't miss the silhouette that was leaving the field in a hurry. He felt a little familiar, and his heart skipped a beat when he thought about it carefully.Felix asked what Jaina was watching, and after learning that it was the popular American High School Musical some time ago, he just said "um", and then left calmly.Jaina watched Felix, who was a little flustered, disappear before her eyes, and her mind moved.

Jaina has been in the Volturi for three years, and she has been in the Volturi front desk for the longest time in history.She still remembered that she was so frightened by the Volturi's brutality that she couldn't sleep all night long. Every nerve in her was screaming to escape from here, but she suppressed these thoughts forcefully.

It has been three years since Jaina has not been transformed, which means that she may become a Volturi snack at any time due to a trivial mistake, and end up like those tourists, but she is not willing to step on this ship that is destined to turn over. boat.

Jaina needed a pair of strong thighs on the list, and she set her sights on one of the three elders of the Volturi.She chooses Ah Luo first, but since she knows that Ah Luo already has a beloved partner, she can't separate them, so she can only set her sights on the other two.

One is Marcus, who has the demeanor of an old-fashioned gentleman. His urbane demeanor makes him look like a knowledgeable scholar.The other was the wild Caius, who seemed to be the youngest of the bunch, and also seemed like the easiest type to impress.What's more, she never heard that Caius had a partner.

For this type of man, Jaina has long been familiar with it and has rich experience.

Jaina is very confident in her charm, she opened the drawer and took out the mirror inside to look at her face repeatedly.She looked critically at her appearance, and took out a gorgeous lipstick from her pocket to fill up her lips.In the end, she put down the mirror with satisfaction, and raised her shapely and slender legs. She was very proud of herself.

Compared with Kia Shinodora's dignified and girlish beauty, Jaina is a type of mature woman.

Although in the past three years, Jaina had seen only a handful of elders, but this did not prevent her from carrying out her important task of seducing Caius with dignity.She seized every opportunity to meet Caius, and was even more attentive to Caius' cronies.

This gave her the illusion that she had gradually integrated into the Volturi.But she seemed to have forgotten that she was originally a figure at the bottom of the Volturi food chain.She remembered the positive communication with Caius two days ago, and a triumphant smile appeared on her face.

The exchange was actually just a few short conversations. Aro and Marcus happened to be away that day, and Caius was the only one in the study.After Ahinodora's death, Caius spent a lot of time in his study.Jaina had received a letter from a Volturi guard somewhere, and it was her job to deliver the letter immediately to the elder in the study.

Jaina tidied up the skirt she was wearing, squeezed her breasts vigorously, and after arranging her hair in front of the mirror, she walked to the elder's study with graceful steps.Jaina took a deep breath at the door, knocked lightly on the door of the study, and she heard Caius' cold and lazy voice say "come in".

When Jaina opened the door, she saw Caius lying on the sofa, his feet in black leather shoes were folded on the expensive leather sofa, his head was lazily leaning on the armrest of the sofa, his platinum blonde hair Scattered on the gray-brown sofa is particularly eye-catching.

Caius was holding a slightly thick hardcover book in his hand. His slender fingers were resting on the spine of the book. His beautiful square nails were neatly trimmed. He glanced at Gianna who was exuding a sexy charm and was unmoved , My mind went back to the book.

Caius didn't speak, and Jaina could only quickly hand over the silver tray and present the letter on the tray to Caius.

Caius didn't move until he saw the letter. He put the book on his lap, unwrapped the letter and read it quickly.

Jaina stood aside and didn't dare to show her anger. This was the first time she was alone with Caius so close. The faint sandalwood fragrance mixed with the rich amber fragrance on Caius made Jaina feel a little lost. His eyes shifted to the book on Caius' lap.

She didn't know what the book was about, but she looked at it as if it was old.The written language is neither English nor Italian, and there are some plant illustrations next to the strange symbols.

"Crack." Caius closed the book in his hand, making Jaina shiver in fright.She boldly raised her eyes to look at the man lying on the sofa, trying to maintain her composure.

"Bring Aro and Marcus." Caius sat up from the sofa, and he gave Jaina a cold look.

"You can get out now."

Panicked by Caius' sudden anger, Jaina nodded quickly and exited the room.On the way, she thought carefully about whether she had offended her target person somewhere, but she didn't come to any conclusion after thinking about it for a long time.

She attributed Caius' displeasure to that letter, perhaps there was some bad news in that letter.Thinking of this, Jaina regained her confidence, and she accelerated her pace of progress.

"I'm going to have to work harder to get this man."

After Jaina escaped from the study in some embarrassment, Caius opened the cover and fondled the first page of the book, and the name of Ahinodora was impressively written on the paper.

It was the Encyclopedia of Plants compiled by Yashinodora, which recorded a series of information such as the characteristic structures of various plants in detail, and she also carefully marked these plants with illustrations and notes.This book, which took Yahenodora's painstaking efforts for several years, was regarded as a treasure by Caius. He hugged the whole book in his arms and took a deep breath, as if he could still smell the remnants of Ahinodora in this way. The smell of the book.

"I miss you, honey."

……

Bella's 18th birthday is coming up soon, and this day means that Bella has entered adulthood.Early in the morning, Nora rushed into the room and excitedly woke up Bella who was still sleeping.

"Bella! Happy birthday!" This was Nora's first birthday with Bella after she transformed into a human form. She was more excited than a birthday star and got up early in the morning.

"God, Nora, what time is it?" Bella was woken up from her sleep, and she saw Nora, who was still in her pajamas, lying on the bedside.She picked up her phone and glanced at the alarm clock, it was only 06:30 in the morning.So Nora woke herself up at least half an hour earlier.

Bella got up from the bed in despair, and in the next second there was a small gift box in her hand.

"This is for you, Bella. I hope you like it." Nora blinked her eyes, and calculated that this was her sixth birthday with Bella, and she was finally able to say happy birthday to Bella herself. .

"Thank you, Nora." Bella opened the gift box, and a beautiful bracelet lay in the box.After picking up the bracelet and putting it on her hand, she raised her wrist towards Nora.

"It's so beautiful, I don't even want to take it off. Jessica will definitely be jealous of me when she sees it! I must wear this bracelet to my birthday party today." Bella's flamboyant expression attracted Nora burst into laughter.

There is a birthday party hosted by Alice for Bella at Karen's house at seven o'clock tonight, and Nora is gearing up to dress up Bella.

At about 06:30 in the evening, Bella wore the dress Alice gave and drove Nora to the Karen family who lived in the forest.Bella put on a little makeup today, and her pale cheeks also had a hint of rosiness today.Their arrival was welcomed by the Karen family. Alice looked at Bella's well-fitting dress and smiled smugly at Jasper, because it was a gift from her to Bella.

"Hi, our big birthday and big star." Emmett jumped off the banister with a quick leap.

"Oh come on, Emmett, do you even make a fuss?" Nora rubbed her forehead in embarrassment.

Nora is now the undisputed star of Foxtown.After the musical, almost everyone in Fox Town knew the name of Nora Chirino overnight.More than one person filmed the night of the musical and posted it online.Because of her outstanding appearance and touching singing voice, it caused a lot of upsurge on the Internet, and Fox Town followed suit.

In the past few days, Nora has received invitations from many theater groups one after another. Some universities, knowing that Nora is still a high school student, offered her an olive branch and invited her to study at the Conservatory of Music.But they were not interested in these Noras, so while keeping an extremely low profile, the craze brought by Nora gradually subsided.

Human enthusiasm comes and goes quickly, and for Nora that's a good thing.Although I got a human certificate, who knows what would go wrong if I was exposed to more human beings so hastily, this kind of move is too dangerous.

"I'll take Bella around first." Edward took Bella's hand and said this before walking towards the corridor.

"Tsk." Nora pouted at Edward's back in disgust, then went to the kitchen to prepare dinner for Esme.

At this time, Edward and Bella had come to the attic room.There are several huge portraits hanging on the walls of the room, all of which are inlaid with expensive and heavy gold frames without exception.They looked over one by one, and finally stopped in front of the two portraits.

One is a single portrait of Carlyle, and the other is a group photo of three strange men.

"I didn't expect Carlisle to have such a photo." Bella stared at Carlisle's solo portrait and sighed.

The tone of the whole painting is reddish, and Carlyle in the painting is dressed in the popular British clothes of the 18th century, standing upright.Such Carlisle is very charming, but Bella always feels that Carlisle is frowning faintly.

In another painting, there are actually more than three people. The sharp-eyed Bella saw Carlisle standing beside her.

"These are three Volturi elders. Carlisle had a chance to be the fourth, but he didn't want to stay in the Volturi." Edward briefly introduced to Bella, "From left to right are Caius, Arlo and Marcus."

"They don't look easy to get along with." Bella looked carefully at the three men in the center of the painting. They were also dressed in eighteenth-century costumes, but their poses looked more casual.

Caius was leaning on the balcony railing with one hand, Arrow was supporting the railing with both hands outstretched, and Marcus stood aside with a blank expression.Because of Nora, Bellardo glanced at Caius.

It was a blond man with light, almost white hair. His face was the youngest among the three, and the rebelliousness on his face was completely recorded by the artist.He raised his chin slightly and looked contemptuously at the group of demons dancing under the terrace, with a faint smile on his lips.

Bella could feel the breath of his superior through the painting, she couldn't imagine what kind of existence Caius' wife would be.In her mind, she unconsciously copied and pasted Nora's face next to Caius, and she was surprised to find that the two matched so well. Sometimes Nora's expression was exactly the same as this man's.

"Why is there no portrait of Caius' wife?" Bella looked around but did not find any portrait of a strange woman.

"Carlyle said that the wives of the elders are usually locked in the Volturi tower, and their portraits are usually only hung in the Volturi Palace. Marcus' wife was also killed in a war, where Afterwards, Aro and Caius were very strict with their partners. It was a coincidence that Carlisle was able to meet Caius' wife." Edward patiently explained to Bella.

In fact, Edward didn't have any personal contact with the Volturi. He heard all his news from Carlisle.If Carlisle hadn't repeatedly told the members of the family to be careful of the Volturi, I'm afraid Edward and the others wouldn't have cared much about a family like the Volturi whose dragons can't see the head and the tail.

Edward stood behind Bella, staring at Bella's back seriously looking at the painting, and remembered Carlisle's earnest words when he was just transformed by Carlisle.

"Edward, maybe there will be more members in the family in the future, or maybe only the two of us will live together in the future, but we must remember one thing: don't mess with the Volturi. I have personally seen them with their bare hands. A strong vampire torn to shreds for the crime of accidentally letting a human see his skin gleaming in the sun."

Carlisle thought of that period of history with sympathy. He put his hands on Edward's shoulders: "No matter how badly injured we are, we can recover, but once we are burned to death, we can only die. So don't try to go against Wall. Turi's laws."

"Edward, Bella, come downstairs quickly." Alice's voice woke up Edward, who was distracted, and he went downstairs with Bella in his arms as if he had just woken up from a dream.As soon as he got downstairs, he saw his family members standing in the living room with Nora together, watching them come down the stairs with a smile on their faces.

At this moment, Edward seemed to have an illusion. This scene was especially like welcoming a newlywed couple.Pleased by his own thoughts, Edward hugged his shy and nervous girlfriend tightly.

"Bella, we have prepared a big cake for you, and now we are waiting for you to blow out the candles." Esme rolled out a 12-inch cake from the kitchen, on which beautiful and elegant patterns were framed.

"I heard from Nora that you like whipped cream cakes, and Esmet made one for you. Come and make a wish, child." Carlisle stood aside and smiled softly.

Bella stood in front of the cake with her eyes closed for a while, and the happy birthday song rang in her ears.She opened her eyes and blew out the candles, happily showing a big smile to the people who came to celebrate her birthday.Nora looked at Bella surrounded by the crowd and was moved. Her little girl had grown up.

"Come and open the presents, Bella." Alice cheerfully urged her family to take out the presents quickly.Emmett installs a super-swanky stereo in Bella's car, and Rosalie prepares a necklace.

"Hiss." Bella let out a soft cry. She was about to unwrap Esmed's gift, but she was cut on her finger by the sharp gift wrapping paper, and the blood was continuously overflowing from the wound.

Bella quickly covered the wound with her hand, but it was too late.Being wounded and bleeding in a house full of vampires is an extremely dangerous thing to do.Before everyone could react, Jasper rushed towards Bella with bloodthirsty eyes. That drop of blood was enough to drive Jasper who had just started a vegetarian diet crazy.

Nora tried to pull Bella away quickly, but the vampire was even faster.When Nora had just grabbed Bella's arm, Edward, who was closest to Bella, had already pushed Bella away, and even swung out with Nora.

Edward's hands were too strong, he directly pushed Bella hard to the cake cart beside her.The ceramic plate on the car was shattered due to the impact, and the fragments directly cut Bella's skin. Bella's exposed skin was covered with small wounds, and her calf was cut open.

blood.

The faces of the members of the Karen family changed, and they chose to escape from the blood-smelling room immediately, otherwise Bella's birthday would become a death day a few steps later.

Jasper has been firmly controlled by Emmett, Alice and Rosalie left the house far away with the out-of-control Jasper, and Esme also took away Edward who was frozen in place and refused to leave.In this room, which could be called a murder scene, only Dr. Carlyle and two wounded were left.