Carlisle pursed his lips, his eyes locked on my sketch in deep thought, considering everything before he spoke, as was his nature. “She was familiar with Aro. Edward told her a little of our history and of my time in Volterra, but it is doubtful that she’d ever be able to find them on her own.”

“And why now?” Emmett asked. “We’ve been gone more than a year and Bella’s been fine.”

I lowered my gaze not wanting to admit that I hadn’t exactly followed Edward’s order to stay away from Bella. Worse, I never told anyone about my visions of her being hospitalized, my phone calls to Charlie, or my visit to Florida.

Jasper’s golden head snapped in my direction feeling the guilt that was flowing off of me in anguished waves. “What aren’t you telling us?” he asked quietly without reprimand in his tone.

“Bella wasn’t fine.” I stood and began pacing around the room noticing that the three succubae had vanished without me even noticing. Good riddance. Tanya was giddy over Edward’s relationship troubles and Irena spent half her time sneering at us. But, something about their quiet exodus from the room filled me with dread.

I glanced around at my family hating how focused they were on me. “I didn’t search her future. Not on purpose anyways…it’s just…well, things got so bad and I am highly attuned to her, after all,” I said quickly trying to absolve myself for the part I’d played in all of this.

“No one is upset with you, dear,” Esme said gently forcing a smile that she clearly wasn’t feeling. “None of us wanted to leave Bella – you least of all.”

“Please. Getting her out of our lives was the smartest thing we could do.” Rosalie glared daggers at each of us, daring us to argue with her. Her livid, honeyed eyes fell on me again, those perfectly sculpted brows raised high. “Well, get on with it. Tell us what the worthless human did that warrented a vision,” Rosalie sneered contemptuously.

“Rose,” Emmett growled in warning. It must be tough to be him. He adored Bella and his wife loathed her, though I still had no real idea why. Her hatred of Bella had to be more than just fear of having a human know our secret, but whatever it was, she kept it closely guarded.