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The conversation with the girls turned out to be tedious and slightly annoying, no matter how many arguments I gave about it, they only began to insist on their own more strongly. Counterargumenting this by the fact that they won't let me go anywhere alone anymore, no matter how much I tried, but I couldn't get it into their cute heads that since the last time I became much stronger, many times stronger.

"Alex, you can't change our minds! Therefore, it would be better for you to take us with you, otherwise…"

"I'm saying... ha, okay! I'll take you with me, but so that everyone listens to me!" I blurted out emotionally.

"And even me?" The mother's eyes flashed suspiciously.

"And even you..." I stopped, realizing what I had said, which immediately made me feel a little ashamed.

"All right!" mom beamed with a smile, not paying attention to it. And since it didn't bother her in any way, then I shouldn't worry about it either.

"But today, we're not going anywhere! Let's go hunting together" I concluded. As much as I wanted to deal with Aro, right now, most of all I wanted to spend time with my family.

With this, my debate with the female half of the Denali family came to an end.

A little later, we really went hunting. My interest was not only to spend time with my family, but also to taste the blood of an animal, or rather how I perceive it, after my metamorphosis.

Although it's not that I will drink blood often, now that I can eat ordinary food, you can almost forget about blood, but the whole nuance is that the qualities of a vampire have not gone away and blood makes me more energy-saturated and strong than human food.

Therefore, occasionally, but you will need to eat blood to keep yourself in a certain tone.

Denali was well known for grizzlies and black bears. But since I've already tried the bear today, it's the turn of the moose. It was thanks to my nose that I was able to smell one moose a few hundred meters away. There was absolutely no problem to overcome such a distance, it seems that as a result of a special symbiosis of my essences, I could better navigate the space in front of me, and my gift for teleportation also made a considerable contribution to this.

Therefore, after a couple of seconds, after running an approximate distance, I overtook the animal, stopping a meter away from it.

"The feelings are not the same at all ..." I said thoughtfully, looking in the direction of the moose, which, seeing me, began to cheerfully scamper away.

Having decided to change the rules of the game a little, I grinned cheerfully, giving the animal as much time as possible, and after experiencing the crunch of bones again, I turned into a black wolf.

"Now that's another thing!" I thought to myself, because of the unity with my wolf, I was able to feel his approval, to which I just grunted and rushed forward.

The girls also found something to profit from, so they slowed down their running quite a bit before returning to their previous pace. It was too unusual for them, my transformation into a wolf.

Although the sisters were familiar with the local kind of werewolves, but how did they react when they said that my transformation was different from what they saw. From memory and books from the library, I could also notice some differences, but it would be desirable to see them in real life.

That's right... I never asked about the "children of the Moon". It will be necessary to ask the girls about this, perhaps they may know something about it, and if not, when there is time, they will have to visit Forks.

In order to catch up with the moose, it didn't take much time, but I stretched it on purpose, not lagging behind, but also not reaching it. At that moment, an extraordinary lightness reigned in my soul, a little more and it seems that I will know the existence of a wolf.

In predatory excitement, when, seeing that the moose ran out to a small edge of the forest, I make a long jump and right in the air, at the peak of my height, I assume a human form.

Moose, because of his clumsiness, loses sight of me for a couple of seconds, which I use, diving at him from above. And no matter how powerful his body is, it is not able to compete with a vampire.

"oooh!" the moose let out a strong roar at the very last moment, before I broke his neck, so as not to torment the animal anymore.

When the moose calmed down, and I could no longer hear his breathing, as well as his heartbeat, I tore his throat, touching an artery, which caused blood to pour into my hands in a strong stream, without even touching the carcass with my teeth, sipped the dark red blood that had flowed into my palms and felt the sweet liquid spreading down my throat, but it is perceived quite differently, most likely because of Hope's blood, I will not be able to forget the taste of her blood for a long time…

Having finished with my experiment, I cleaned my hands with magic, such a simple action is given to me quite easily, quite slightly causing tension in my head.

I decided to leave the carcass here, as I said earlier, bears live here, because the moose will not disappear just like that.

By communication, I felt that the girls were already a couple of kilometers away from me and there, to my surprise, I found not only them, but also a long-time acquaintance, I use the ability and go to them.

***

"Oh..." I said when I noticed a new, old face in the company of girls.

"Alex!!! Long time no see! Do you know how worried I was about you!?" a vampiress with whom I had a special connection rushed into my arms. This windy person shamelessly clung to my body, the smell of strawberries immediately hit my nose, a pleasant feeling began to spread through my body, but still I was able to restrain myself.

"Martha, I missed you too" nevertheless, I relaxed, and allowed myself to hug an old friend.

"When I felt that you disappeared, I couldn't find a place for myself..." it was the same Marta, Mom's friend from the bar. Mom didn't want to leave her friend too much, so soon I turned her, and she was the only one I turned. But, after the appeal, her craving for travel was revealed, and the girl, having set a goal for herself, decided to visit everywhere at once. And some semblance of vampire immortality only helped her in this.

No one forbade her to do this, and in this way she disappeared from our life for a while, and after so many years later, feeling that something was wrong, she came back. How nice it is, after all, when such girls worry about you!

"I…"

"You don't have to explain anything, Emma and the others have already told me everything!" without letting me out of her arms, she looked up at me. "I'm glad you're okay!"

"And it's really true! Is your heart beating!?" and how much, the girls and mom were able to tell her…

"Khem-khem" it seems that some people don't really like my cuddling with Marta.

"Really, really, and now let's go back to the house" I have already said the second part for the others.

***

[Volturi Clan Dungeon]

According to the exhausted and slightly hunted appearance of the woman, it was quite bad to sit in a damp dungeon. But despite the current situation, there was still the same firmness and some stubbornness in his eyes.

"Darling! I come to you with good news!" Aro began to broadcast infantile, who directly broke into her conclusion.

"...." Sulpicia, hearing the cheerful mood of her husband, rather now ex-husband, was wary, but she did not give a voice.

"Do you remember I promised you that I would kill this geek?! So, the promise is fulfilled!" with joy, Aro clapped his hands, so much was he pleased with the current situation.

The confidence in the vampire's voice did its job, and the woman shuddered. She couldn't believe that this was really the case. Until that moment, the vampiress did not even realize how dear Alex was to her... Something inside her broke, but Sulpice did not cry poisonous tears, but fixed a cruel, burning gaze on Aro.

"That look is... annoying!" noticing how Sulpicia was looking at him, his face showed disgust. That's not what Aro wanted to see at all...