While being smashed against Paul, can't say I minded, I had to wonder what events lead me to been surrounded by human shifting wolves or would that be wolf shifting humans. Gah I'm confused just thinking about it.

I had just come here to thank them for finding me and I ended up finding out that shifters exist and by default that vampires do as well. Not to mention I have a soul mate that happens to be the most cocky, tan, ripped…getting off track. He's overprotective and my best friend is also a wolf who thinks he has the right to have a say in my life after spending so much time out of it.

I seriously need an aspirin or some other pain reliever right now, between almost being squeezed to death and the incessant growling. Well I may not need the meds if I just go crazy first. I haven't decided which one it will be.

"Let her go I need to talk to my friend." Embry snarled, breaking me from my crazy induced trance.

I sighed; this conversation had been going on for the last 20 minutes. And I mean the same one, Embry says let her go, Paul says no, they growl at each other and it starts all over again. I guess I have no say in the matter because anytime I tell them to shut up I get completely ignored. But the moment I try to pull from Paul's side, his attention is on me for a total of three blinks. And then he's off yelling at Embry again.

Yep, this is my lovely screwed up life.

Finally getting sick of it all I hit Paul's shoulder, hey it was the highest I could reach while glued to his side, and realized my hand still hurt like a son of a bitch.

A small whimper of pain and the whole room silenced.

"I'm so sorry babe I forgot about your hand." His concern was sweet. He led me into the kitchen where a tanned woman was cooking.

"Hey Emily can you fix up her hand, I think it may be broken." He asked the petite woman. She turned around and gave a kind smile; I immediately knew she and I would get along. When she was facing me fully I could she three deep scarred over gashes across her otherwise flawless face.

I held out my hand not staring at her scars, "Nice to meet you, I'm Bella."

She shook it, her warm smile never leaving her face.

It was then I realized that Paul had retreated back to the living room, most likely to argue some more. I just rolled my eyes at his hot headed behavior. Emily picked up on my thoughts, "He's not so bad, a bit of a temper but otherwise a good guy. And he's already a lot more mellow with you imprinting on him." Well not that I would know I had known him for a whole 2 minutes before he imprinted on me.

"I just can't stand the tension between him and Embry. I feel like a freaking chew toy." She laughed.

"You will come to realize that wolves are very protective of what is considered theirs. Being an imprint you are his as much as he is yours." I knew that last part was added to pacify my dislike of being considered a possession.

"I just don't understand why Embry's pissed. He gets to see me now and doesn't have to hide it from me." I couldn't figure out his problem, unless it was because he really did have feelings towards me that were more than what's considered friendly. Red started creeping onto my chest and cheeks as I thought about the time we slept together. I just hoped Paul never found out or this could make things worse than they already were.

"Well were you and Embry just friends?" She asked seemingly knowing where my thought laid; it was kind of creepy the way she did it.

"Yeah…well…yeah" I didn't really want to go into detail with all the pack in the other room.

"You seem unsure." There was a hint of teasing in her voice.

I just shook my head back in forth, indicating now was not the time to talk about it.

"Well if you did Paul would see it anyway." She said with growing smirk at my shocked expression.

'Fuck me, this cannot be happening' I wanted to cry. This really couldn't be good.

"How?" she gave a knowing smile. Damn her all-knowing looks.

"They have a link to one another's mind when they're in their wolf forms. So what one thinks the rest can hear. Maybe if something happened with you and Embry, Paul could be reacting to it."

Crap.

My life on the suck-o-meter just went from a 6 to a 10.