“Don’t mind her, Bella. Rose is jealous that both Edward and Demetri seem to only see you,” she giggled and poked Rose on the arm.

“Don’t be ridiculous! Why should I care what those men think?” She slapped Alice’s hand away and moved over to the far window watching the rain stream down it.

“Back on topic, ladies. I think what Demetri needs is someone to distract him until he’s done grieving.”

“You make that sound so easy, Bella,” Alice replied a little condescendingly.

“But it is! I have Marcus’ power. I could help him along a bit. Not much,” I answered as both pairs of eyebrows rose in surprise. “I don’t want him to be as besotted as I was with Marcus. Surely there’s a happy medium somewhere. Just a little bit of power to get him interested. I just need your help to find some female vamps,” I admitted.

Alice’s eyes were alight with the prospects of such an endeavor. Even Rose seemed to be seriously considering it. She bit her bottom lip before turning those big caramel eyes toward me. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be a vampire, you know? That will make things a little easier. We don’t really want to deal with a bunch of uncouth vampires and there just aren’t many vegetarians out there.”

Alice nodded. “We can’t go and invite all those regular vamps into our territory. We owe the humans better than that.”

“Okay. So this is where you two come in. Matchmaking is so not my forte. I’ll give them a zap of my power when the time comes, but I need you two to help me get him out and about where there are plenty of single hot women.”

We kept at it for another hour discussing the pros and cons of using vampires compared to humans when Rosalie had a dreadfully sinister idea. “Oh! You’ll love this. You don’t even like her.” She smirked widely. “Leah,” she said barely containing her glee.

“Leah?” I asked shocked. “I’m not sure that would work. And,” I continued indignant. “I like Demetri, why on earth would I subject him to that?” I asked my voice full of horror.

“Okay, okay. It was just a thought. That wretched mutt wasn’t even thankful for what you did for her. It would serve her right if she was irrevocably in love with a vampire.”