Raymond LeBlanc blinked his eyes in annoyance, his contacts would need to be changed soon and he had yet to find a suitable candidate in the bar he had chosen as his backdrop for the night. He was distracted, not an easy feat for a vampire, but for Raymond nothing was more distracting than a loose end and Adel Dupree was a loose end that had been a constant distraction for the past two months. Sighing in disgust Raymond pushed his beer, yet another prop in his charade, to the side as his thoughts shifted to Vargus and the human who got away.

Raymond had not been happy to find out that Vargus had let the human go, and was even angrier to learn of his disappearance. After his idiotic tracker got himself destroyed by a rival coven Vargus was the only tracker he had left and without him it made finding the girl just that much more troublesome.

He currently didn't know much but what he did know was that she was heading north and that worried him especially after hearing of a coven of animal drinkers from the north who had made a stand against the Volturi and lived to tell about it. The last thing he needed was for them to find her. It would throw a serious wrench in his plans especially seeing as he was in such early stages of his operation; no that just couldn't happen. Standing Raymond tossed a few bills on the bar and made his way to the exit with a determined gate. Adel Dupree had officially become a thorn in his side, and she was one that he would personally attend to before he moved any further with his operation.

Adel felt the beginning stir of consciousness creep upon her and restlessly tried to keep it at bay. She was in that blissful state between sleep and awareness and wanted nothing more than to slip back into dreamland but luck didn't seem to be with her.

The first thing she became aware of was the skull splitting headache located behind her left eye, the second was the very warm hand that held her own. She was confused, was there an accident at work? Was that hand Trent's? The dull ached in her chest reminded her that it was not; Trent was dead, she was on the run. So what had happened?

As if on fast forward, she let her mind run through the events of the past two months. Vegas, someone was watching her… LA, Betty…blood, they had found her, panic… Washington, wrong turn, broke down. She was walking right? Something was in the woods, it was chasing her. She tripped didn't she? She remembered glowing eyes and fur, lots of fur… wolf.

Adel's eyes popped open in a blind panic. She quickly took in her surrounds, cream colored walls, low lighting; she was in someone's home. She turned to look at the large hand clasping hers, slowly letting her eyes roam the length of its muscular arm to find that it was attached to the body of a handsome bare chested stranger. Quickly she pulled her hand free of his causing him to look down at her.

He smiled, "You're awake."

There was something alluring about his eyes, "Who are you?" She asked backing away from him.

Almost as if sensing her panic, he pushed his chair a few inches away from the bed before answering, "Embry Call."

"Where am I?"

"La Push, Washington," He answered calmly.

Franticly her mind raced putting the pieces together, she had been just south of the Olympic National Park when her car broke down, she couldn't have walked but a mile, maybe more. La Push was north. "How did I get here?" She asked.

"My friends and I were hiking in the park, we heard you scream. You were unconscious when we found you."

"Why here, why not a hospital?" Despite the fact that his calm demeanor put her at ease, she was worried.

He looked at her thoughtfully, "Would you really have wanted us to take you to a hospital?"

He had her there, a hospital is the last place she would want to be. Just one finger print and the last few months would have been for nothing, but how much did he know?

"Why were you in the forest at night?" He questioned.

She sighed, "My car had broken down, I was trying to walk the next town for help. I heard something crashing in the woods to my right, I panicked and ran into the forest to my left."

He raised a brow, "So you ran into the forest to escape something that was crashing around… in the forest."

She had the decency to blush, "Well it was either run and hide or stand in the middle of the road and wait for whatever it was to come and get me."

He chuckled, "Do you remember anything else after entering the forest?"

She reached her hand up and felt the bandage on her head, "I was running… I tripped and hit something, guess that's how I got this," she added motioning to the bandage.

"Anything else?"

"Well there was something but I don't know maybe I dreamed it…" she trailed off.

"What was it?"

She let her eyes roam over him until their eyes connected, "I remember seeing a wolf just before I passed out."

She watched him as he shifted uncomfortably in his seat when she thought of something, "Wait, why were you hiking at night?"

If it was possible he looked even more uncomfortable, "One of my friends had gotten lost so we circled back to find him, we where just about to our truck when we heard you."

They both fell into a comfortable silence that left Adel puzzled. This man was a complete stranger, yet Adel felt no threat, in fact, if anything she felt drawn to him. He was beyond attractive, but it was more than that. It was almost as if her instincts were telling her she needed to know him.

When his gaze met hers with an intense look she decided that maybe she should do just that because for the first time in two months she didn't feel like running, she felt safe.

He broke the gaze as his brow furrowed in thought, when locked eyes with her once again Adel felt her stomach flutter, "What's your name?"

Adel hesitated, this man had saved her and for some unknown reason she felt like she should trust him, but was it really smart to give him her real name? One more quick look into his warm brown eyes and she had her answer, "Adel Dupree."

So we meet and learn an tiny bit about the man behind all of Adel's troubles... Also Vargus is missing? ...And Adel and Embry offically met and Adel feels drawn to him! Where do you think Vargus is? What are your thoughts on Embry and Adel? Let me know what you think. Thanks for reading!