Prologue

Didyme was a remarkable vampire woman, transformed by her brother the leader of the Volturi coven, Aro. Aro hoped that due their relation, she would possess an extremely useful talent just like his. However it turned out that her powers weren’t exactly what Aro had hoped them to be. Her gift was simply that those around her became incredibly happy. Though this was not we had expected, Aro still planned to put such a power to use.
Because of the aura of happiness around her, many people fell in love with the beautiful and somewhat sweet Didyme. However, she only ever reciprocated such feelings for just one man, Marcus, Aro’s most trusted partner in his growing coven, the Volturi. The pair became incredibly happy together and no longer cared much for Aro’s plans to take control of the vampire world. After centuries with the Volturi, the pair made plans to leave.
Though Aro pretended to give his blessing, he murdered Didyme when he knew no one would ever find out who had been the killer, this in his eyes was the only way that Marcus would stay. Aro did truly love Didyme, but was willing to sacrifice her, and any of his loved ones, for power. After Didyme’s death, Aro had Chelsea use her talents to force Marcus to feel loyalty to the Volturi, though he became a zombie-like being without his Didyme, but not even Chelsea’s gift could make Marcus show any enthusiasm for it. Even though Aro expects that the Didyme ‘problem’ is solved there is one secret she was able to hide from everyone, the only one left that knows what happened that night.