"What?" Jane froze for a moment, thinking there was something wrong with her ears.
"Aro." Caius and Marcus frowned in unison. "Isn't this joke a little too much?"
"Shut up, you two." Aro snapped viciously. He was protecting the Volterra Family right now—what were those two causing trouble for?
"Jane, did you hear what I just said?"
"I-I heard it." Jane was still dazed. Aro's order had left her completely bewildered, as though he had made an absurd joke.
"If you heard it, why are you still standing here?" Aro asked irritably. "Get over to Mr. Aaron's side. From this moment on, you are expelled from the Volterra Family."
"Huh?"
"Aro." Alec hesitated. "Isn't this a little hasty?"
"Shut up. This is an order. Don't make me say it a second time," Aro said furiously. But when he considered Alec's relationship with Jane, he felt a headache coming on.
"Trust my judgment. This is the best choice for both Jane and the Volterra Family."
"I can feel your sincerity." Aaron nodded in satisfaction, then took two contracts and two pens from his Spatial Ring.
One was a contract forbidding Aro from telling anyone else about the vision Alice had foreseen. The other was a master-servant contract prepared for Jane.
"Since you saw the future and agreed to the deal, then please sign these contracts, the two of you." Aaron gestured invitingly. "Once you sign them, I'll offer up my bargaining chip with both hands."
Aro decisively picked up a pen and signed his name on the contract.
Even if Aaron had not said so, he had no intention of letting anyone else know about that future. The Volterra Family had actually been destroyed—who would believe it if he told them?
Jane, however, hesitated. The conditions of this contract were simply