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CHAPTER ll SEVEN
Leah used all her strength to pull away. She raised her hand high above her head and used brute force to strike against Hunter's cheek with a large slap. The sound echoed through the study and Hunter seemed stunned for a moment. He nursed his cheek feeling it redden. He stuck his index finger in the side of his mouth and chuckled.
As he pulled the fingers out of his mouth Leah could see the blood on their tips. "Yes, definitely the Oleander" He said looking over her and sighing. "You're so beautiful when your angry, I can actually see the blood rushing through your veins"
Leah looked over him and noticed the way his usually perfect hair was dishevelled and almost as wild as her own. But it was he's eyes that she noticed most. The irises of his eyes where black, like a thick black ring around the normal chocolate colour that where his perfect eyes.
"How long has it been since you feed? Tell me" She said forcefully grapping his jaw and twisting his face to study his eyes closer.
He pushed her hands away and looked across the room. "Don't worry about that. I'm not hungry"
"Bullshit. How long?" She yelled as she watched Hunter pick up several books from the desk and place them back in shelf.
"I told you not to worry Leah!" He snarled through clenched teeth holding his palms open against the shelves. Leah looked over him and could see the muscles in his body tense and relax as his hand gripped against the wood of the shelf. She glanced out the window through the trees noticing movement out the corner of her eye. She wasn't sure but she would swear she saw a flash of russet fur blur through the forest.
Leah pressed her palms against the glass and watching the trees carefully, noticing the shrill winds blowing easily through the leaves. Her skin crawled with uneasiness as Hunter snuck up behind her and hugged her with his body. His hands slipped around her waist and he sat his chin upon her shoulder. His fingertips ran smoothly across her abdomen pressing against the skin hidden under her white dress.
"I can make you so happy Leah" Hunter sighed kissing her neck softly, letting his lips drag over her heated skin. "I love you so much and I don't want to fight with you. I want you to pick me. I have never needed anyone so much in my life" His kisses increased as he brushed her hair to her other shoulder. "I need you, can't you hear my heart" His hand moved to sit over her heart that was beating wilding in her chest. "My heart only beats for you Leah. Hit me, hate me, kick me but please never leave me."
Leah let the tears fall as she listened to Hunter's sweet words. She wondered if she just sat here, looking out of this window for all time that maybe it wouldn't feel like the world around her was crumbling. She loved Hunter. She was in love with Jacob. She had to protect Hunter. She couldn't hurt nor let Jacob be hurt.
Jacob lay tossing and turning in his small bed until he couldn't take it anymore. There was too many things on his mind too much situations to consider. If he and the pack fought against the Cullen's to take the life of Leah's imprint, would she stand in the way? Would she defend him till the death? Would Jacob himself be able to make her stand aside, would he Alpha command her to let them tear apart a boy she had literally raised.
Jacob sat on the side of the bed. His hands were pressed tightly into hair with his elbows on his knees. He looked around his small room in his father's house. He and Leah had decided to wait until they both knew where the relationship was going to get a place together. Leah had always brought it up with Jacob that they should get a place together but he had always had reservations about that. What if once Hunter was grown, she decided she didn't want him anymore? Where would that leave him? Leah had even gone further one night to try and convince Jacob that she wanted to make everything real and move on together… he should have listened to her.
~Flashback~
"Marry me Jacob" Leah asked softly as she ran her fingers around the shell of his ear.
Jacob's eyes widened and he caught her wrist as her fingers moved across his cheeks. He stared at her long and hard waiting for her to speak again.
"Marry me Jake" She said softly dragging her lips from his opposite ear to his jaw line. She stopped when she didn't hear a response pulling her face up to look into his eyes. "you don't want to marry me?" She asked as a hurt expression moved over her painfully beautiful features before it turned into a hard glare. "Right" She scoffed. "Of course not, I am so stupid to believe that this would go anywhere" She said pushing herself off his chest and stomping around the room to find her clothes.
She snatched her panties from on top of the dresser and slipped them on along with one of Jacob's shirts that were laying on the ground.
Jacob lay in the bed, propped up on his elbows and watched her as she stalked around the room. She sat on the window sill slipping her oversized boots on. Jacob frowned taking in the boots. He knew whose boots they were and that was the exact reason he didn't give her an answer. They were the half breed's boots. The kid had had a birthday party earlier that day and Leah had been absent until the sun went down. He looked like a 15 year old but in reality he was on 4 human years old. Jacob greatest fear was that she would never come back from the Cullen's one day and he would be left to rot in the turmoil of his own bitterness. He wanted so desperately to scream at the top of his lungs that he would marry her and that he loved her and that he would die for her.
"Lee…" He said softly noticing that she was wiping her cheeks hard to make the tears go away.
Leah hated crying in front of Jacob. He made her into a sissy. He loved her but still he doubted that she loved him back just as much. She just wanted him to understand that she didn't want her imprint. She had rejected any quells of becoming sexual in her relationship with Hunter and that even if her imprint wanted it she would be loyal to Jacob.
Leah ripped off the promise bracelet Jacob had made for her and threw it at him, smacking him right in the face. "Fuck you Black" She seethed through her wet eyelashes. "What are we without trust? What are we?" She screamed unafraid to wake up Billy down the hallway.
"We are… us" Jacob said softly. "We are Jacob and Leah. We are us" He said feeling the hurt of her face crush his windpipe like a tonne of bricks.
Leah stared blankly at him, void of any emotion. "Wrong answer Jacob." She said wrapping her arms around her torso and crying into her own shoulder.
"I don't know what you want me to say Leah. I don't know how to-" Jacob was stopped by Leah placing a hand to signal him to go no further.
"I love you Jacob and until you realise that I would die for you, I don't think we should do this anymore."
"Wait Lee… just-"Jacob ran a hand through his ink cropped hair looking down at his own chest before looking up at her again. "Just can we wait? I mean, I need to be sure that nothing – that the imprint… urg! Just please, give me time"
Leah looked over at him and felt her bottom lip tremble as she nodded. "Okay" She whispered feeling like someone was squeezing all of the blood out of her veins. "I have to go" Leah sighed opening the window and letting the cool LaPush breeze sweep through the room.
"Will I see you tomorrow?" Jacob asked watching as she placed a foot out the window.
"Sure" She nodded giving the best smile she could attempt at the time.
Jacob hit his head against his pillow as her scent slowly disappeared along with the soft sounds of the boots as she ran across the grass. He groaned as he wiped the tears that where now streaming down his own face. Why couldn't he just say yes? Why did he have to be such a fucked up kid and keep denying that he wanted nothing more than to have Leah by his side always. She was always running 10 steps ahead of him and this time, it was him running away from her.
~End Flashback~
Moments later Seth barged through the door almost ripping the hinges off as well. His eyes were wide and his face was full of worry which made Jacob react immediately. He jumped to his feet and moved toward the pup, gripping his shoulders in his hands.
"What happened Seth?" He said feeling his heart sink to the bottom of his stomach. "Seth, speak!" Jacob yelled shaking him.
Suddenly Seth snapped out of his trance snarling at his Alpha and speaking quickly "Paul was on patrol and noticed a silver Volvo driving along the State Highway. He went to investigate and found the Cullen home empty. There gone. All of them" Seth said as tears welled in his own eyes.
"And what of Leah? Tell me Seth!" Jacob said watching Seth closely never wavering his gaze.
"She's gone. She went with them…" Seth said with sorrow in his eyes.
Jacob didn't have time to think and quickly pushed the young shifter out of his way and ran towards the front door, busting through it and flew across the yard. His heart was beating the thick blood through his veins faster than he could have imagined. He knew what she was doing and he wouldn't allow her to. She was going to sacrifice herself so that none of them would be hurt, including Hunter. Jacob let his legs blindly push him to the tree line before he burst into a huge russet wolf mid step and ran even faster through the dense forest.
He wouldn't allow her to leave like this and he would definitely not allow her to leave with that fucking bloodsucker.
"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt"
-Thomas Merton
AN- Is Leah doing the right thing? Would you leave to save the ones you loved even if it meant dying inside?
