Authors note: Please remember that everything that happens in this chapter happens for a reason, please don't get mad at me, everything will be explained in up coming chapters, It has to happen this way for the prophecy to come true. Thanks hugs.
It's also a long chapter so enjoy….
Not all the characters in this story belong to Stephanie Meyers and although it revolves in the world that she dreamed up this story is one of my making.
This is a story of love and death and the main ingredient that is thrown into the mix is
POWER OF THE WOLF
CHAPTER 6
MEETING EDWARD MASON
I must have been dreaming because I woke up to Jake shaking me and I had tears running down my cheeks, I looked up at Jake who pressed me against his chest telling me it will be okay. As I laid there I remembered the dream…..I was trying to wake Billy up and he wouldn't wake up which started me crying again, Jake kissed the side of my head and held me close and was humming a lullaby in my ear softly, I closed my eyes and cried myself back to sleep.
When I awoke, I felt like my eyes were swollen and I knew it was because of all the crying I had did the day before. I was still on Jake's chest and I looked up to see if he had went back to sleep and he had, he was resting peacefully, which scared me after finding Billy that way yesterday morning, but Jake was warm. I kissed his cheek lightly not to wake him up and he moaned a little so I knew he was okay.
I quietly got up so not to wake him up because I knew he didn't get much sleep with him taken care of me most of the night, I got me an outfit out of the closet a black short dress and black slip on shoes and went through my drawer and found some black lace panties and matching bra and headed to the bathroom and jumped in the shower, I dressed and brushed and blow dried my hair.
I checked on Jake to make sure he was still asleep which he was all cozy I couldn't help but smile to myself at how beautiful this man is even asleep.
I went into the kitchen and made some coffee and started breakfast for myself and Jake, I was frying the bacon as I stood there with a fork in my hand staring out into space and thinking about my life and how I got here.
I a little slow sometimes about something's but make up the difference in others.
I was remembering when Billy came to my house and explained to me about the supernatural things that I would be experiencing that he couldn't explain at the time, and though I still didn't know a lot I could only imagine if it's anything like in the twilight books I had read that Billy and Jake so elegantly keep telling me was more true than not.
I wondered to myself why I believed almost everything Billy had told me and what made me come here with a man I didn't really know and marry him within a week of being here.
That just wasn't me at all, my only thought was that I had been searching for so long for my soul mate that I let him sweep me away with the idea of finally finding my soul mate, I knew a little about the imprinting process from reading the books but I think its more powerful that it says in those books, for how else could Billy get me to come with him, I could feel the power pulling me as we spoke at my house.
I also know that it is possible to love two men at the same time, but what I felt for Billy and Jake goes far beyond anything I had ever felt before, it's almost like I had no control or choice as far as that goes at all over my actions, I just lost my husband the love of my life and I making out and making love to the other man I can't live without. Even I couldn't do that no matter what the circumstances were, I loved Billy and even if I love Jake as much I couldn't just make love to him not twelve hours after my husband passed away. I could be a little flighty yeah, but not that flighty, so I wondered what it was and why I couldn't keep my hands off him, whatever it was it was more powerful than the both of us, I will have to sit down and talk to Jake about it….
But for me I usually knew what I wanted and went after it, not to the point of hurting someone else of coarse but if I wanted something I fought to get it in most cases. I had been on my own for a while and was lonely. Who am I kidding I was a pitiful mess; after my last relationship ended I swore I wouldn't look for anyone else to take his place. I told myself if Mr. Right was out there he would have to come find me, I giggled to myself remembering that he did and drug my ass here to Washington.
The point is that I did love Billy and there was a connection with him, and I knew it when I first laid eyes on him, He was the perfect man for me and I knew it from the start and nothing was going to stop me from going with that man and living my life out with him. Which I would have Jake or no Jake I would have stayed with him for the rest of my life.
I sighed, even though I love Jake. I was going to miss Billy badly, although I did feel better than I did yesterday I mean I still grieved for Billy but after Jake and I were together it was less painful, and I will love Billy till the day I die. I stood there thinking about Billy and I realized I was crying again, when I felt Jake behind me.
He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me back against him as he kissed the side of my head, "You alright honey," he asked me as he turned me to face him and he wiped the tears from my face and drew me into a tight hug.
I shook my head yes as he whispered in my ear, "It will be okay honey, and I will be here for you always." I pulled away and looked at him and stroked my finger across his cheek. He kissed me softly. I got him a cup coffee and told him to sit down and I served him breakfast grabbing me a plate and some coffee and sat down next to him.
"Honey we need to talk," Jake said as he sipped his coffee.
"Yeah, I think your right," I told him. He looked at me and softly took my hand as he began.
"Honey, I know your feeling bad about last night I mean about what happened between you and I," he said and continued. "What we did last night had to happen for your sake," he said as he lowered his head in thought and frowned at what he was thinking.
"For my sake?" I asked. Confused like I have been sense the day I arrived here and been every day sense I have been here. He looked back at me and continued.
"Look, Imprinting is very powerful, more powerful than I think you know….," He sighed. "When someone dies that imprinted on you the binding doesn't go away, it still pulls at you until you join that person who imprinted on you."
"I don't understand how Billy can still pull at me if he isn't…. here…." I choked a little thinking that he was gone and he would no longer be in my life. Jake stroked my hair trying to console me.
"It's the imprinting thing and I hate it as much as you do but there is only one way to break the bond between the one who passed and his imprint and thank god I imprinted on you as well."
"Which brings me back to the story about imprinting, did Billy tell you that there was only one other circumstances where two men imprinted on the same woman?" he asked me.
"Yeah, but he said that it usually only happens when there are two brother and when the one that imprinted dies the other imprints on the brothers wife and he sort of picks up where the other one left off," I laughed and thought it was ridiculous, Jake laughed as well at the way I put it.
"Well that's one way of putting it," he laughed again, "But there was a case where two brothers imprinted on the same woman and it was like a hundred years ago and the brothers wound up killing each other and the woman died as well because she lost both of her soul mates and the bond between the two brother still pulled her until she died of heartbreak," he said. "It also only happens in the house of the chief, there has never been a record of two brothers imprinting on the same woman at the same time," he said. "Well until now," he chuckled.
"So…..What are you saying Jake that I'm going to die from a broken heart?" I asked.
He laughed and said, no honey, well…. You would have if I hadn't imprinted on you as well, it is said that if the imprinter dies and the other imprinter doesn't take his imprint within twenty four hours after the first imprinter dies, that imprint will join her imprinter to the grave," he said. I looked at him like he was out of his mind….."What?" I said. And Jake laughed.
"Okay let me put it another way without it sounding morbid, Billy imprinted on you. Right?"
"Yeah."
"Then when you got here I imprinted on you as well, yes?"
"Yeah," I said again.
"You married Billy and left me out in the cold," he said trying not to sound bitter and doing a very bad job at it.
"Yeah," I said filling sorry for him, "Jake I'm sorry," he cut me off shaking his head back and forth.
"No baby, that's over now that's not what I'm getting at, anyway Billy died and I only had twenty four hours to make you mine or you sooner or later would join Billy, you would die within a few months morning for him," he said. I looked at him in shock.
"I'm sorry baby but that's just the way it is, I had no other choice but to make you mine and I only had twenty four hours to do it in, and I was going nuts trying to figure out how I was going to do that but the force was working in my favor last night, when you asked me to make love to you last night," he swallowed hard, "I was…I don't know…..happy doesn't seem like the right word but I was because by making love to me last night you….we broke the bond that tide you to Billy which in turn makes you mine now. I know you love Billy and I also know that you will love him for the rest of your life but you will also love me just as much and I'm okay with that," he said with a huge smile on his face.
"Don't you feel a little bit different than you did yesterday, I mean I know you grieve for Billy as I do, but you got to face it yesterday you couldn't even walk or hold anything in your hand without falling or dropping things, you were headed straight for the grave yourself," he said.
I thought about it and agreed, yesterday I couldn't even hold a complete thought and today I was better I still did grieve for Billy but I am not as bad as I was yesterday, I've seen people grieve for there loved ones and it was bad but what I was yesterday was way beyond that, this supernatural crap is killing me literally. I looked at Jake and said.
"So you're telling me if I hadn't asked you to make love to me last night I would have died?"
"Soon or later….yes," he said. I sighed.
"This shit sucks you know that right?" I asked him.
"Yeah, believe me I'm with you on that one," he agreed. The phone rang and Jake got up to answer it.
"Hello…."
"Jake is that you?" The voice said on the other end.
"Yeah this is Jake, Tatika?"
"Yes it is I, Jake I have set up the burial service for this afternoon at two o'clock, I wanted to let Lynn and you know, I will tell everyone else this morning so they will have a chance to say their good byes", he said, "How is Lynn holding up?" He asked.
"She's a lot better than she was yesterday," Jake said with a chuckle and looked over at me.
"Have you broken the bond yet?" He asked.
He looked over at me and smiled, "Yeah I did."
"Thank god," he said and continued. "I knew you could do it Jake. Well listen make sure Lynn get to the wake this afternoon, Sam has set up a bonfire to celebrate Billy's life so remember two o'clock, he said.
I'll remember Tatika and thanks man, Jake said.
"Yep," he said and hung up the phone.
Jake hung up the phone and walked over to me and sat down next to me again and looked at me, "That was Tatika, He wanted us to know that he sat up the burial service for two o'clock this afternoon and there's a bonfire immediately after to celebrate Billy's life," he said.
"That was fast and what do you mean a celebration?" I asked him a little upset, I've heard of wake's but to have a party after the funeral sounds kind of morbid but looking at how things work around here it doesn't surprise me.
Jake seen my reaction to the party and how fast the funeral was.
"We have funerals rather fast here, usually everyone lives close so we don't have to wait for someone to get here so we do it as soon as possible and as far as the wake well, we believe that you should rejoice the person who dies and celebrate all they were in live, sure you'll miss them but remember them how they were not stay upset that there no longer in your life….It completely the opposite of the imprinting thing which is why we do the wake completely different…. Are you okay honey?" he asked.
"Yeah I understand why you do it this way, I would rather celebrate his life than morn him in death," I said. As Jake shook his head in agreement.
"Jake, can I ask you something?"
"Sure baby anything."
"Did you know that Billy was going to die?" I asked him sorrowfully.
Jake lowered his head, and then took my hands in his and kissed the palm of both of my hands and slowly looked up into my eyes and sighed.
"Yeah, I did….but not until two days ago," he said sadly.
"You knew when I was calling you the other day when you didn't answer your phone, didn't you?"
"Yes, but it's not what you think I wasn't dodging you or anything, I was at the hospital with Billy, he had called me and told me to meet him there that he needed to talk to me."
"You were there? Why didn't you tell me Jake, for god sakes you knew how frantic I was with worry and you let me think everything was okay, what's up with that?" I said.
"Honey, yes I let you think that but…. I was only doing what Billy ask me to do, He didn't want you to worry any more than you had too, he knew what you would be going through and he didn't want to cause you any more pain, and I agreed with him," he said. I lowered my head and sighed.
"You were with him when I keep calling your cell phone that day weren't you, did he know it was me calling?" I said worried what Billy would think if he knew it was me trying to call Jake.
"Yeah, I was there and yeah Billy knew it was you….but he knew why you were calling me he had already told me that you were getting to close to guessing what was going on he said you were to smart for your on good," he laughed and I laughed with him.
"Why did he call you and not me, I would have been there for him," as my tears began again.
Jake pulled my on his lap and laid my head on his shoulders and rubbed my back as he finished telling me what Billy wanted him for.
"Billy fought his disease, at one point he thought he had kicked it, but he didn't and when he knew he wouldn't make it he called me, he wanted to make sure I looked after you knowing I had imprinted on you and to make sure I broke the bond within the twenty four hour period, that was very important to him to know it would be broke, he didn't want you to follow him it scared the hell out of him, and he wanted me to tell you that he loved you more than life it self and that you should live out your life with me and be happy and that he would watch over us to make sure we would be safe." I was crying harder now as Jake consoled me the best he could.
"Oh Jake why did he have to die," I cried… "I'm sorry baby," he said as his own tears flowed down his face.
"There's something else," he said.
"What?" I said rising up to look at Jake.
"Billy asked me to give him that night after he got home, he wanted to be with you one last time, the next day I was supposed to come over and he and I were going to tell you about the disease, he had a cancer and I was suppose to stay with you both until the day came for him to pass on…I am so sorry honey I wasn't there for you….for you to have to go through that alone was unbearable, Billy thought he had at least a couple of more days he didn't want you to be alone when he passed and you were….I am so sorry baby."
I sighed and pushed back my tears the best I could. "So he was going to tell me….it's not yours or Billy's fault who could have known for sure, I'm just glad I had that night with him, I really loved him….so much," I told Jake. "I know you did honey," he said, and held me close to him and continued rubbing my back.
We went to the funeral that afternoon and everyone was so sweet and consoling and at the bonfire everyone sat around the fire and told stories about Billy and there experiences with him, everyone loved him and they even had me laughing at some of the stories they told and crying at the sad one's, Emily sat up a buffet of food that some of the woman cooked and it looked like an army was going to eat it all but they ate it…. every bit of it gone, unbelievable I knew Billy and Jacob could eat but some of those guys could really put it away, hell Jake brought me a plate and I only picked at it and he ate what I didn't, I chucked at him when he asked if I was going to eat the rest of that… the guys on this reservation have good appetites.
I thought a lot about Billy. The first couple of months was the worst, I woke up a number of times screaming for Billy and Jake never left my side and he took care of me through it all.
Things started getting better and I found myself really getting closer to Jacob, Well closer than we were I mean I never made love to him again after that night until lately, we were together now I was his imprint and he gave me time to morn for my husband and his brother, and slowly we bonded together a little slower than Billy and I did granted, but we finally got there.
I love Jacob almost as much as I did Billy, I know we are imprinted but some how I couldn't let Billy go he was still in my heart and I still wore his mother's engagement ring and the wedding ring he gave me the day we married.
Jacob moved in with me and we lived as husband and wife only without the paper, I didn't want to marry right away in respect to Billy and Jake understood and he didn't push me…. he said, your mine now and you'll be mine forever so it doesn't matter if we have a paper or not but one day he did want to make it legal….I agreed.
It had been two month's sense Billy passed away and although Jake took over immediately as chief he still had to be sworn in by the council. Sam and Emily were throwing a bonfire to celebrate the new chief. I had told Emily I would bring a few things to help out with the food so Jake and I headed to the store we pulled up in the parking lot and Jake was messing with something under the dash of the car when I got out, "You coming Jake?" I asked, "Yeah, I'll be there in a minute go on I'll catch up with you," he told me. So I made my way to the front of the store, I turned around to see if Jake was coming yet and of coarse he wasn't so I turned around and walked at the same time when I bounced off something.
"Oh…I am terribly sorry I didn't see you standing there," I said as I looked up at him he was very handsome and had a very pale complexion, he stood tall and thin and dressed very well, his hair was mussed it was brown with a hint of red in it and his skin looked soft and smooth too smooth.
"No harm done," he said. "You're new to this town are you not? I haven't seen you hear before."
"No, I've been here for over a year," I told him.
"Forgive me where are my manners, I am Edward Mason."
"Hello, it's nice to meet you I am Lynn Black."
"Black," he said, as he thought a minute. "Your Jacob's wife, I didn't know he had gotten married, my wife will be so happy for him," he said with a smile.
"Well actually," and before I could say anything more Jacob walked up behind me and grabbed me by the waist and pushed me behind him.
"Leave her alone Mason," Jacob said through his teeth. I didn't say anything the one thing I learned sense I had been here is if Billy or Jacob pushed me behind them there was danger and they were trying to protect me so I did what I was told nothing surprised me about this place.
"I was only introducing myself to her Jacob, Bella will be so pleased to hear you have met someone and been married finally."
"You heard me Mason stay away from her I mean it," he pulled me next to me and said. "Come on honey," as he lead me into the store, we grabbed a cart and went shopping, Jacob asked me.
"What did he say to you?" He asked with a mad face but sounded concerned.
"Nothing really he just introduced himself and I told him my name and he mistook me as your wife, you came up before I could tell him any different."
"Listen Lynn; don't talk to any of the Mason's, their dangerous."
"Okay," I said.
"Let get what we need and get the hell out of here," he said, and we got what we needed and headed for the car, Jacob was putting the groceries in the trunk and I was getting ready to get into the car when Edward came up to me again.
"It was very nice to meet you Mrs. Black," he said.
"Lynn get in the car now!" Jake ordered. I couldn't get in from my side because Edward was blocking the door so I hurried around to where Jacob stood and he opened the door and I climbed in and scooted across the seat to my side and locked the door. Edward told Jake,
"I will give Bella your regards."
Jacob got in the car and gave Edward a look, let just say if looks could kill Edward would have been dead.
On the way home, I looked at Jacob and he was in deep thought.
"Jacob," no answer.
"Earth to Jacob," I said again. He looked at me and smiled.
"I'm sorry love, I was thinking," as he picked up my hand and kissed it and laid it on his leg.
"Jacob," I said again.
"Yes my love."
"Did Stephanie Meyer make up anything in her book?" I asked him. Jake looked at me and laughed and said.
"Yeah, she changed the Mason's name to Cullen's," he said laughing again.
"And Bella, were you in love with her as well?" I asked. He looked at me and said.
"Yes, yes I was, but that was before I imprinted on you and before she….. Married Mason", he said.
"Or became a Vampire, right?" I said. He looked at me again and smiled.
"Billy was right, you are to smart for your own good," he said.
"And you and the Pack…are wolves, shape shifters?" I asked again. He looked at me again and smiled but didn't say anything.
"Look Jake, If more than half of the book's I read are true, It stands to reason that you all are shape shifters," I told him. He looked at me again and smiled.
"Are you going to marry me baby?" He asked.
I smiled and said "Maybe."
"Well maybe doesn't get an answer," he said with a laugh. We pulled up in front of the house and I got out and started to go into the house, Jake ran up to me and caught my arm and turned me around and wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me to him.
"Well you marry me Lynn?" He asked. I looked at him as he smiled at me with his brilliant smile. I smiled back and said.
"I'll think about it," I told him. His smile disappeared and you could tell he wasn't expecting that answer. He dropped his arms and I proceeded to go into the house.
He ran up to me again and grabbed me and pulled me to him again and said.
"Lynn marry me," he held me waiting for an answer as he smiled again.
"Marry me baby," he said again. As I looked into his eyes.
"Why should I marry you Jacob?" I asked him.
"Because I'm handsome and charming and because I love the hell out of you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you, and we have the best sex ever…. Marry me baby," I looked at him with a smirk.
"Marry me baby…..Please?" he asked again.
I wrapped my arms around his neck and said, "Yes, Jacob I will marry you."
He smiled and picked me up and swung me around and kissed me and yelled "YES!"
"I love you baby," he said.
"I love you too baby," I told him.
He kissed me and turned me loose and went to get the groceries out of the trunk.
"No wait Jake, leave them I'll take them to Sam and Emily's after I take a shower and I will meet you over there when your done with the council I told him. Jacob was to be sworn in as chief today, and I was so proud of him. He was doing everything that the chief would do anyway but it had to be legal, so he was to be sworn in and we would have a party a bonfire at Sam and Emily's.
"I'll just meet you over there when your done with the council," I told him.
"Okay baby, but I will stop back by just to see if you have left or not," he said.
"Okay baby," I told him as he grabbed me and kissed me softly and he left.
