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Chapter 9: Let's Play Go Kiss in the Closet

Claire's POV

I was sitting cross-legged on the floor across from Quil as we played Go Fish. Sometimes I'd look over at him, noticing those panty wetter lips and they did their job. I knew everyone in the house knew what just looking at Quil did for me, and I wasn't in the least bit ashamed that they knew I wanted him. Since we shared that kiss a couple of days ago, that's all I've wanted to do is kiss him. It's been my life's dream. I mean who needs college? I'm doing just fine in lip locking 101.

He had suggested that we take a break from making out and just hang out for a while. I suggested Go Fish. It was a completely underrated game that could be fun if played right. "You got any sevens?" I asked him, finally managing to get my mind back on the game.

"No." He looked up at me then, trying to suppress a smile. Since our first kiss, Quil had had this big, goofy, adorable grin on face most of the time. "Go fish."

At that moment, I launched myself at him, tackling him. He knew that I wanted him to fall backward, so he did. Quil always knew what I wanted before I wanted it. After all there was no way in Hell I could've knocked him down. His body was rock hard…and every day I greatly appreciated that most of the time the wolves didn't wear shirts. Even now Quil was shirtless. I was straddling him with my hands on either side of the floor beside him. My lips touched his lightly in a chaste kiss before placing a lingering kiss on him as the tip of my tongue trailed across his bottom lip begging for entrance. He complied and I absolutely loved the way he responded to my kisses each time. He tangled his fingers into my hair, holding me to him and his free hand always seemed to find my ass. I realized then that Quil was an "ass man" and I had absolutely no problem with that.

We kissed until our lungs were about to give out and we had to break for air. He rolled us over so that he was hovering over me. "I said go fish, not go kiss." He was trying to go for serious, but that goofy grin was in place and I knew he wasn't.

"Who wants to play that, when we can play let's see how much you can turn Claire on with just your lips," I teased with a smile.

I heard a low rumble in Quil's chest and I knew he liked that particular game way more than Go Fish. He took a break from my lips and started his assault upon my neck. He was nipping and gently biting me as his hand slipped under my shirt softly trailing up and down my stomach. When his teeth grazed down my neck, I shivered and involuntarily moaned out, "Oh, Quil."

I knew I had an audience then, because I felt Toni and Rasika's presence in the room. I knew it was them because none of the others would be watching Quil and I roll around the living room floor like this.

True to my instincts, Toni thought to me, Look at you almost making a man out of Quil, finally.

He's doing it all on his own with those sexy panty wetter lips of his. Momentarily, my thought process had stopped all together when surprisingly Quil had slid my shirt up exposing my stomach and started trailing kisses across it. I was biting my lip then. That was so fucking hot! Quil was getting bold and he didn't even care that Toni and Ras were watching.

Believe me, we all know what those lips are doing to you, Toni laughed out loud.

"Keep it PG-13 in here kids," Rasika said and Quil simply pretended like she wasn't there.

So is it official? He finally asked you to be his girlfriend?

I was shocked out of my lust filled state when Toni asked me this. Come to think of it, Quil had not asked me a thing. We kissed and practically that's all we've been doing. He hadn't said anything about me being his girlfriend or even just being friends who touch each other. He had left out a big detail of our…whatever it was.

No! Happy lips over here hasn't said anything! I let her know.

"Quil…Quil, what are we you doing?" I wasn't in the kissing mood anymore.

"Playing Go Kiss?" he asked, kissing his way up my neck to my lips as I sat up.

Just before he reached my lips, I put out my hand to stop him and his lips crashed into my palm. "No. I mean what are we?"

He looked puzzled for a moment, no doubt figuring out that Toni had something to do with this. "You didn't tell her, Happy lips?" she asked him. Quil didn't reply and she said, "Oh…well…Yeah…um. C'mon Ras, we've got to go be anywhere but here right now." They both went running up to their room, not looking back.

I turned my attention back to Quil then. "What are you leaving out?"

He jumped up pacing then. "I wanted to say this smoother and have a special moment all planned out."

"What's more special than Go Fish and sucking face on the living room floor?" I joked, trying to lighten the suddenly serious mood in the room.

It worked. He laughed and rolled his eyes. "Everyone else did this so much better than me. Claire, I don't know how to say this, but I imprinted on you." His eyes were concerned as he kneeled down again looking at me.

I was silent for a minute before I burst into laughter. "No shit! You think I didn't already know that? I was just waiting to see if you had the balls to come clean about it!"

Quil was sputtering before he finally managed to choke out, "How did you know?"

"What grown man do you know hanging around a kid for 14 years, treating her like she's God's gift to the world and he's not even related to her? You've got to give me more credit here. I'm not stupid."

"It doesn't weird you out?"

"Hell no!"

"It does to me. That's why I've got to lay down some rules about our relationship."

I sighed, running my hands through my hair. "I figured Father Quil would come out at some point. This was just too good to be true."

"Before you start wondering, no we're not friends that touch each other. If I see another guy so much as look at you the wrong way, I'm going to kill him. I'm drawing the line at kissing. That's all I can give you right now. It's all I feel comfortable doing. And right now we can't tell your parents about the change in our relationship, so Miss handsy, I'm going to need you to keep your hands to yourself when they are around. I know I'm hard to resist but, even you can manage that, right?" He grinned at me.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! You're the handsy one, Happy lips."

"Could you be serious for once?"

To that I laughed. "I'm sorry I don't even know what that word means." He rolled his eyes. "I've heard all the rules, but I failed to hear the answer to my question. What are we, Quil?"

"Well I was hoping that you'd be my girlfriend?" he mumbled.

"Come again? I didn't quite hear you," I toyed with him.

He repeated it again but louder this time, and I jumped at him again, practically mauling him with my kisses. "What do you say we go upstairs to your room and suck face – within the reasons of your terms and conditions, that is."

Quil picked me up, throwing me over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes, and shook his head. "Claire, you're something else."

Nema's POV

I was in the kitchen cooking breakfast for Seth. He was going to have breakfast in bed today. My tiger deserved it, he even managed to tucker me out, and I didn't even need as much sleep as he did. I just slept regularly because it was the normal thing to do. I happily hummed the tune that we danced to last night. I wasn't the only one awake, this I knew but I was the only one up and about. Jake and Ness hadn't come back to find us, and we found them curled up on the couch in Billy's garage asleep together. I didn't want to wake them, figuring they would call when they were ready. Toni and Ras were upstairs doing only God knows what, and Quil and Claire were upstairs "sucking face" as she so eloquently put it. I was still coming down off the high of soon becoming Mrs. Nema Clearwater, when Antonia surprised me by walking downstairs.

"You whore! You got engaged and you were keeping it from me?" she accused.

"Shh! Keep your voice down!" It's going to be a secret until the time is right. I don't want to ruin your big day with Ras, and I don't want to rub my happiness in Ness's face either.

You're always thinking about others before yourself. If it was me, I'd be shouting it from rooftops right now. Hell, I already have. I've even called Hunter and the rest of our sisters and told them. Let me see the ring!

I held out my hand to show her. It was a beautiful, yet antique ring. It was simple and but ornate, only having one diamond, with intricate shapes and designs circling the ring. This ring had history behind it and it made it even more special to me. This was the ring his father, Harry, gave Sue when they got engaged. I smiled, looking down at it. My engagement ring was simple enough to go unnoticed with just a passing glance, but upon further inspection, anyone would know what it was.

I began reliving the moment that he proposed so that I could share it with my sister, and she smiled. Nema, you do know you ruined the traditional moment Seth was attempting with your answer, right? We laughed together because I knew, but I was just entirely too excited to be thinking straight. So what's for breakfast? Rasika's stomach growling is the only reason I tore myself out of bed.

I'm planning breakfast in bed for Seth.

Tiger is all tuckered out from the praise he was giving you last night, huh? I guess he was hitting it so good you forgot your self implemented "I need to be fully clothed at all times" dress code. Antonia was laughing at me then.

I couldn't have been more embarrassed. I felt the heat rise in my cheeks and I knew that I was blushing so much that it was visible under my dark skin. In all the excitement of becoming Mrs. Clearwater soon and the amazing sex with Seth last night and into the morning, I had walked out of our room in only his black button down shirt to make him breakfast.

Okay, serious moment…There aren't any more holes in the walls I have to fix are there? She burst into laughter again.

I rolled my eyes, grabbing the tray of food and orange juice for Seth. I'm going to take my fiancé his breakfast. I'll talk to you when I'm fully clothed and you're not making fun of me.

When I walked back in the room, Seth was already awake and sitting up in bed flipping through the channels on the TV without interest. He looked up at me with a smile. "Kitten, you look so damn sexy in my shirt."

"I brought you breakfast in bed," I told him, placing it in his lap, but I could tell that's not what he wanted at the moment.

"It's wonderful, lovely love," he said, sitting the tray on the nightstand. My eyes were locked with his and they had turned black with lust. As if my body was moving on its own accord, I got into bed and straddled him, and he started unbuttoning the shirt. "But that's not what I'm in the mood for right now."

"You want something sweet?" I asked between gasps as he trailed kisses down my neck and kneaded my breasts.

"I already have it. It's a dish called Nema pudding and it's always served hot." I giggled as he took my shirt off and his lips finally met mine.

As we were kissing, my cell phone rang and Seth grabbed it instinctively. "Ignore it," I managed between kisses.

He stopped me. "I don't know, sweetums, it's not a number I recognize or a contact in your phone. It might be important."

He handed me the phone and I answered it as I shrugged back into the shirt and sat in his lap. Seth wrapped his arms around me and rested his chin on my shoulder.

"Hello, is this Nema?" an unfamiliar voice asked.

"Yes, this is she. How can I help you?"

"This is Mack –"

"Mack as in MY BABY SISTER, MACKENZIE?" I interrupted her. I was filled with joy at getting to hear my youngest sister's voice. I had never met her, but I wanted to and now she was calling me!

"The one and only, but quiet down damn! I'm in Seattle and I need you to come pick me up, but keep it on the DL because I want to surprise Antonia. If she thinks she's going to get married without me present, she has another thing coming! I mean really! Did she think just a call was going to suffice?"

"Truthfully, it wasn't even really a plan. It was just a spontaneous decision to make their relationship official," I tried to ease her mind so that she didn't think Toni was purposefully leaving her out.

"That would be like her to just jump the gun one day without much notice at all. So will I get to finally meet you when you come pick me up from the airport or are you going to make me run all the way there?"

"Of course not, Mack. I'll be there as fast as I can." I ended the call and jumped out of Seth's arms snatching random articles of clothing out of my drawer. It didn't matter if it matched or not. I was getting to meet my baby sister today. As I was putting on my jeans, I glanced over my shoulder at Seth, still sitting there with a confused expression on his face. "Don't just sit there! Get dressed! We've got to go!" I pulled out some clothes and threw them at him.

When he was dressed, I grabbed his hand dragging him to the garage. "Where are we going in such a hurry?" he asked.

"I'll tell you when we're out of Toni's hearing range."

I was already backing out before he had closed his door. We were speeding all the way to the Seattle airport as I filled him in on my haste to leave the house. He was excited for me to finally get to see the sister I never got to meet. I knew what she looked like because Toni had shown her to me in her thoughts when she mentioned her. Like Toni in the beginning, I didn't know who Mack was. Her likes and dislikes and her personality were a mystery to me. I was giddy at the prospect of meeting her.

When the car came to a stop, Seth jumped out, hugging a pole and saying, "Land! Oh I thought I was going to die for sure!"

I got out of the car walking past him. "Keep that up and that pole will be the only thing you'll be hugging. Let's go Mack is waiting."

I found Mack off to herself, looking slightly uneasy about the amount of humans in the airport. In all honesty, it bothered me as well, but I knew that I was completely in control. I just didn't know if she was. I walked up to her and she stood about five foot with blonde hair and piercing blue eyes.

"Mackenzie?" I asked, holding out a hand for her to shake. I really wanted to hug her but I didn't know if she would think that was appropriate.

She smiled brightly. "Are you kidding me? We're sisters, Nema!" She launched herself into my arms hugging me tight.

Once we were done hugging, she stood back. "I think I love you already for bring me this welcoming present." I was confused at first before I realized that she was talking about Seth.

Seth and I exchanged glances before I grabbed his hand. "Mackenzie, this is my boyfriend Seth."

He chuckled as she hugged him as well, holding him a little longer than she should have. "It's okay." She shrugged. "I'm pretty sure there are more beefcakes where he came from. Antonia told me there are a whole pack of wolves and from what I hear there are only two girls. So I know the odds are in my favor for coming across another perfectly chiseled god like this one."

"Oh yeah, trust me. There are plenty! And the very best part is they don't always wear shirts." I winked at her, and I could see Seth blushing.

"I have a feeling that I'm going to enjoy this trip." She poked Seth in the stomach. "You go shirtless too, beefcakes?"

Seth laughed, scratching his head, embarrassed. "Uh…yeah."

"Take it off now! Don't get dressed for my benefit!" Mack exclaimed as we walked to the car.

"Maybe later," Seth replied, finding Mack completely humorous.

In the car, Mack asked me tons of questions about my life and about Seth's. She was a curious little thing, and she always seemed to find humor in everything. As we got closer and closer to Forks, she seemed to be bouncing with excitement to see Toni.

As I was about to make the turn off the road, I saw Ness blur past and Jacob in wolf form right behind her. "What on Earth is going on with those two?"

Ness's toe touched the porch a millisecond before Jacob's paw and Jacob phased right there in front of us as Ness exclaimed, "Ha! I beat you!" I didn't know what those two had been up to. I swore it was like whiplash in their relationship. Maybe they were together now and maybe they weren't. Who knew anymore?

I thought Mack's eyes were going to bug out of her head as she watched the very naked Jacob Black put on his shorts. She hopped out of the car then. "Nema…You didn't tell me that they do that!"

"They are wolves. Of course they have to phase back and forth between forms."

She was shaking her head, gazing at Jake still. "No forget the wolfy thing they do. I mean they just walk around naked too!" Mack was still wide-eyed.

"Well, normally they don't. Jake has just gotten a bit comfortable around us and he didn't know we had company," I explained.

Jacob realized his blunder as soon as I had spoken. "I'm sorry. I didn't realize we had company…" He trailed off. Having never seen her before, he waited for an introduction.

"Ness, Jake, this is my little sister Ma –"

Before I could finish Toni was a blur of motion flying out of the house and swooping Mack into her arms. "Mack!" she exclaimed in surprise, smiling wider than ever.

Antonia's Pov

I was wrapped in Rasika's arms for the second day in a row. She had to patrol the day before and I had wedding arrangements but as soon as she got back the bed was calling both of us. We had finally decided to try to get up this morning because I wanted to play my violin. We just ended up christening the music room and Edward's piano; she shouldn't have bet me that I couldn't play Chopin while I ate her out. I won that bet. On second thought, she probably won that bet. We finally separated when Claire and Quil were playing go kiss in the living room, but my blunder at assuming Quil had told her about imprinting gave us the perfect excuse to crawl back into bed again.

I turned around in her arms to face her and drape my leg over her before I nuzzled my nose into the crook of her neck. I didn't care how long I lived I would never get enough of her smell. It was spicy and exotic and woodsy and perfect. In the distant part of my mind that wasn't thinking about the wolf lying in bed with me, I could swear I heard Mack's thoughts but that was impossible she was at home with the others.

"What are you concentrating so hard on?" Rasika asked me as she traced circles on my back.

"I think I'm going crazy. I swear I keep hearing Mack's thoughts." I started to purr into her neck as she ran her hand up and down her fingers creating paths of fire across my skin.

"Do you want to post pone the wedding and give them time to get here?" Ras asked me. She didn't really want to and neither did I we were both excited to get married, besides all the arrangements had been made anyway. I let those thoughts drift into her head. I could still hear Mack and it was like she was getting closer. I immediately recognized Nema and Seth's thoughts in the car with her. They were coming up on the house. Seth has no idea what she looks like. If he's thinking about her it's because he met her. SHE'S REALLY HERE! Rasika jumped up at the volume of my last thoughts as I jumped out of bed and threw on the closest pair of jeans and a tank top before running out of the house in a blur.

"MACK!" I exclaimed as I picked her up and she wrapped her legs around me. I was excited to see her. It wasn't easy to surprise me which really sucked because I loved them. "Mack, what are you doing here?" I asked her as I attempted to set her back on the ground, but she wasn't done hugging me yet.

"After you called I caught the first flight out of Dublin. The others weren't able to put off what they were doing though." She jumped off of me. "How dare you decide to get married before your family can make it! You are the first person in this family to get married and you were only going to let one of your sisters experience it with you!" She had started punching and hitting me everywhere in retaliation. I just let her do it. I deserved it. I probably could have planned it all out better. I saw Rasika emerge from the house not seeing the humor in watching the tiniest sister I had beat me up. She wasted no time trying to pull Mack off of me, big mistake.

I had never seen Mack climb a tree so fast. She got out of Rasika's reach and waited for her to turn around before jumping down onto her back. She wasted no time beating Ras up either. I on the other hand could see the humor that everyone else saw as I watched my little sister, who looked more like a tiny angel, beating up my 6'2" werewolf and winning. She was busy lecturing her between punches on the importance of family.

"Okay, Mack, enough we both get the message. Don't damage my wolf right before the wedding please," I told her when I could sense that the blows were starting to actually hurt Rasika.

"Damn, it's official. Never piss off a hybrid. They are so bad ass," Claire informed the entire collective party. Her and Quil had managed to pull themselves apart when they heard the commotion. Mack turned and started walking back towards the rest of us. She stopped when she smelled Claire. Her first thoughts were that we were going to have her for lunch. I wasted no time stepping in front of Claire and informing Mack that humans were not to be touched while she was here. If she wanted to hunt she had to leave the state. My actions didn't go unnoticed like I had hoped they would.

"Okay, sis, no problem. I can be a little purple people eater at home. I can try something new while I'm staying here. Isn't that right, beefcakes?" Mack winked at Seth. I just shook my head and laughed. This was the reason I missed Mack so much she was fun and a lot like Claire they were going to get along great.

Rasika, are you okay, mi loba? I was a little concerned because she was still lying in the yard.

I'm alright. She jumped to her feet. Actually, I need to go. I have a date with a tattoo artist to have my wedding ring put on. I laughed as she followed us in the house before heading toward the garage.

"Hey, where the Hell do you think you're going? Where's my kiss?" I told Ras as she grinned and at least had the decency to look abashed that she had almost left the house without kissing me. Quil started laughing uncontrollably and muttering about who wore the pants as she walked up placed her lips against mine softly. I wasn't having it. I took her chaste kiss and threw all of the passion I could muster into it combined with all of the memories I had of what we had been up to just a couple of hours ago. She whimpered as she crushed my body into hers with enough force to have snapped a human's spine in half. I could smell her arousal and so could everyone else in the room.

"Do they do this a lot?" I heard Mack ask Nema.

"Oh, yeah, all the time. In fact, if you make it back to Ireland without walking in on them having sex somewhere you are the luckiest person alive," I heard Claire respond. She had walked in on me and Ras in the music room this morning when she and Quil arrived. She wasn't as shy about the stuff as Quil was when she was around. He almost had a heart attack trying to get Claire in the living room while she said good morning.

"Great, Antonia, I have walked in on you having sex enough times to last me an eternity. Now stop making out like horny little humans or I'm going to scream," Mack threatened in a sing song voice. Rasika flew away from me.

"Not necessary I only need to experience that once," Ras told Mack as I hugged her before pushing her toward the garage.

"Get out of here before I take you back to bed." I pushed her into her Vanquish, gave her one last quick kiss and ran back in the house.

"Well, she's gone let's see the stuff." Claire told me. I could see they meant wedding stuff.

Okay come on. All we really have are dresses and rings. It's all we needed, I thought to them as I led the way to my bedroom. Nema, Ness, you coming? Nema was afraid that now that Mack was here we would forget all about her, which was insane she was family and we loved her. We all got to my bed room everyone but Claire and Mack avoided my bed like the plague knowing what me and Ras did on it on a regular basis. Ness felt the need to warn Mack and Claire while I was in my closet pulling out our dresses and shoes. Claire just shrugged her shoulders and said she didn't care. Mack basically told her she had developed an immunity to being grossed out by bodily fluids between me, Netiri and Hunter.

I laughed. "Remember all the times you and I ran into Hunter and Demetri's room to sleep with them when we were little and they had both looked more than a little bit frustrated with us." I cracked up as I lay the garment bags down on the bed. She just laughed with me.

"Yeah, looking back we were both serious cock blockers." She laughed as she started unzipping one of the bags. It had my dress in it. It was a white strapless dress that came down mid thigh with a black ribbon tied around the waist.

"Isn't that a little short to be a wedding dress?" Nema asked me.

"Well, I figured nothing about our marriage is conventional so why should the dresses be," I replied holding up the black strappy Jimmy Choos that went with it.

"I love Rasika's dress!" Claire exclaimed. It was a simple knee length black that underplayed the diamonds that ran up the straps where they criss crossed down her exposed back. She had a pair of black strappy Jimmy Choos with diamonds running across the straps to go with that dress also. Ness finally spoke up from beside Nema.

"How about the rings? Have you gotten them?" Ness asked.

"No, Ras is picking them up after her appointment with her tattoo artist. We had them engraved so even with a rush it took a couple of days," I told her as I started to put stuff away.

"What do they look like?" she asked. She was excited for us, but also reserved. I could see that she was in a little bit of pain. I showed them all my memory of what they looked like. They were both platinum rings with a two layer design and a tiny flawless diamond inserted in the center of each band. Rasika's would have the word Mi Ciela engraved and mine would say Ma Vie.

"They're beautiful but what does that mean?" Claire asked. Nema and Ness spoke up saying mi Ciela meant my Heaven and ma vie meant my life.

"Why is Rasika having a wedding ring tattooed if she has one that matches yours?" Nema asked, catching on to where Ras was.

"She can't wear it when she has patrol or phases for whatever reason, so she wanted to have one put on that she couldn't take off," I told them, noticing Mack's thirst before she did.

"Mack you need to hunt you're thirsty," I told her. She hadn't noticed too much because she was enjoying hanging out with all of us.

"True, family hunting trip?" she asked, getting up and walking over to Nema.

"Come on, Claire, me and you can hang out while they get caught up," Ness told Claire as she led her out of the room and we all walked over to jump out of my window.

•••

We couldn't stop laughing as Mack stomped up to the house covered in mud and deer blood. Her first time hunting was less than successful. She ate but she made the biggest mess doing it.

"Mackenzie, if you want your bag is already in my room you can use my shower if you'd like," Nema told her stifling her chuckles.

"Thanks, Nema. I don't get it Antonia barely spilled and you don't even look like you've been hunting at all. I look like I just tried to take down a whole slaughter house and it was a huge epic fail!" Mack exclaimed a little frustrated at how her first animal hunting experience turned out. I kissed her cheek and went to the other side of the house to go to my own room.

When I got in the room, I heard Rasika in the shower and didn't bother to knock on the door. I hopped in stripped down and opened up the shower door. Let me see, I thought to her as I grabbed her hand. I just wanted an excuse to touch her. We had been separated for hours and it was killing me. The tattoo was well done and we were both happy with it. She had Heaven tattooed in Hindi. It is a beautiful written language and it was small so her ring would cover it when she wore it. I brought her hand to my lips and kissed her already healed finger.

Turn around I'll wash your hair. Rasika slowly turned me around to face the wall and quickly worked the shampoo through my hair. I grabbed the bottle of body wash off the shelf and handed it to her as she rinsed the suds out of my curls.

Can you wash my back too? I leaned my head back as she washed my shoulders, my back and then my sides and wrapped her hands around to wash my stomach all the while lavishing my neck with kisses and nips. My breasts must have had a lot of blood on them because she spent what seemed like hours washing and kneading them although it was actually only about ten minutes. What's my prize for winning our little bet today in the music room? I asked her as I bit back a moan.

I'll show you just as soon as I dry you off and comb your hair, she told me as she threw the water off and jumped out of the shower wrapping a towel around herself and grabbing another for me.

This better be good. I was more than in the mood in the shower, I grumbled as I crossed my arms while she towel dried my hair for me.

It will be just be patient. She laughed as she sat down on the bench behind me and combed my hair. We had started doing it every night before bed or after I got out of the shower. It was one of the most intimate things about our relationship it was simple and sweet. Once she finished, she stood up and put the comb back on the counter before she kneeled down in front of me and started kissing me softly. I wrapped my arms and legs around her as she stood up and carried us to our bed. She had just laid us down when I heard Mack and Claire's thoughts at the door. I was hoping to tell them to stay the Hell out of our bedroom but Rasika sucking my nipple into her mouth while simultaneously slipping her fingers inside of me muddled my thoughts too much. All I managed was a half moaned "Rasi…" before I heard them both bound through the door.

"Wow, I thought people were exaggerating about how often you two go naked. Rasika, please pull your hand out of my sister and vacate the premises and nobody gets hurt," Mack said sounding very 70's bad cop with Claire right beside her.

"Seriously, there seems to be a certain wedding tradition about not seeing the bride 24 hours before the wedding that you are both ignoring right now," Claire chimed in.

"Well nothing about our relationship is traditional so go away," I told them as I pulled Rasika back in to keep kissing me. I would start whether they were here or not eventually they would leave.

"Mack, be my muscle," Claire motioned to us.

"You got it, Claire," she replied as she jumped on the bed and pulled Ras off of me and onto the floor. She held her arm behind her back with her on her stomach while I sat up to gawk at what I had just witnessed. "Claire, be a dear and go get my new sister some pajamas so that she can go sleep elsewhere." Claire wasted no time running into the closet and coming out with two pairs of sleep clothes. One set she threw at me and the other at Rasika.

"Sorry, Ras, but I can't have you sleeping with my man naked." Claire shrugged as Mack picked her up and crossed her arms until she complied and put the clothes on. Mack then physically pushed her out of the room with a last "good night" and rounded on me.

"Get dressed so that me and Claire can get in bed. The human needs sleep you know. Chop chop I swear you are the slowest vampire on the planet when you get caught off guard." Mack laughed as she crawled into Rasika's side of the bed. I quickly put the shorts and t-shirt they had given me on and looked up at Claire.

"Scoot over you have to sleep in the middle so you can't escape in the middle of the night," Claire informed me. I wrapped Claire up as tight as I could with the extra blanket we had and then laid on top of it. Apparently Hunter's strategy lessons hadn't just sunk in with me. Mack had all her bases covered as she wrapped her warm arm around me. We both knew that if I made a move to get out of bed she would feel it and stop me. There was nothing else for me to do but think my goodnight to my wolf and go to sleep with Mack's arm around me and Claire cuddled into me.

•••

The next morning, I was not allowed out of my bedroom until Rasika and Mack had left the house with everything she would need to get dressed for the wedding in addition to what seemed like five thousand hair products that Mack thought she would need to style our hair. She was adamant about doing it the whole time preaching about no sisters of hers looking crazy on their wedding day.

After they had been gone an hour, I was finally allowed out of my room. I grabbed my dress and shoes and put them in Quil's car so that it would make it to the hotel in Vancouver. I walked inside feeling way to crummy for me to be getting married today.

"What's the matter?" Nema asked me as I moped into the kitchen after coming back in to put my stuff in the car.

"Nothing, it's crazy," I told her as I pulled the peanut butter out of the cabinet and grabbed a spoon.

"Trust me it can't be that crazy. It has to be important if it has you down on your wedding day." She sat down next to me and waited for me to tell her what was wrong.

"I miss her. I know that's insane because it's only been like ten hours since I saw her, but I really do miss her. Even before she moved in after patrol every night she would come see me before she ran back to La Push, and she would come back before patrol started. I'm not used to being without her for any amount of time. My heart hurts because she isn't around me," I told her, playing with my feel good human food.

"That isn't crazy. I understand you've never been away from her for this long. You should have seen me when you went to get Ness. I was a mess until Seth came back. Just think, you'll see her this afternoon and you get to make your relationship official to the human world and our world." Nema smiled at me and tucked a stray curl behind my ear. "Now let's get Quil and Jake fed so we can leave and you'll be that much closer to your wolf," Nema said as she put the finishing touches on everybody's breakfast.

Breakfast didn't take long with me standing there rushing everyone threw it. I was required to get to the hotel with everyone so that I wouldn't follow Rasika's thoughts until I found her. Nema and Claire were to be my babysitters for the day. Claire and Quil piled into the car with Nema and Seth and Ness and Jake took his Jaguar while I rode my ninja. It needed a little TLC. I thought to Quil and Jake that they better keep up with me and I had no intention of driving slow. My tires hit the road past the turn off to our house and I took off like a bullet. Jake kept up fine but Quil struggled in his little Aveo.

•••

I parked my ninja and waited at the entrance of the Opus hotel in Vancouver for the others. I really wanted to just go inside and look for Ras but Mack would have my ashes on a platter if I tried. Jake and Ness were the first ones to me.

"Nice place," Jake commented while he whistled. Are you okay you look nervous? Jake asked.

I'm fine just a little antsy from being separated from her, I thought back to him.

Yeah, I get that. Here come the others. "It took you guys long enough." Jake opened the door for Claire while I got Nema's and Quil went around to the trunk.

"Seriously, Quil, you have to get a decent car," I told him jokingly.

"If you think I should get a better car then give me your Maserati." I tried to grab my garment bag but he just shrugged me off and said that he, Seth and Jake had it and to go check in to the hotel.

"Not on your life, Quil," I laughed as we walked up to the front desk.

"Can I help you?" the woman behind the desk asked. She was eyeing the boys like she was a starving hyena and they were a three course meal.

"Yes, we have reservations under Atera and Moreau," I replied to her, not enjoying her internal debate on which wolf boy was more attractive.

"Here are your room keys for Atera and the keys to the Penthouse suite. Enjoy your stay at the Opus. If there is anything any of you need just let me know my name is Tabitha," she remarked as she winked at the boys. Ness, Nema and Claire were all debating ripping her throat out so I decided it was time for all of us to go upstairs and get dressed. Nema shocked us all by walking over to Seth and planting a huge kiss on his lips before she pulled him off to the elevators.

Okay, mental note about Nema. Do Not look twice at her man. I thought to everyone but Seth and Nema so that we could all share a laugh.

"So who gets to sleep in the penthouse?" Quil asked.

"Who do you think, Quil. Wait I'll give you a hint one is a screamer and the other can play the piano while they have sex, and nobody is going to want to be anywhere near them tonight." Claire laughed.

"Oh, it won't matter Claire because everyone in this elevator but you is going to be able to hear them anyway," Ness joked.

"Ha ha that's right guys keep laughing at my expense. At least I'm getting laid tonight," I told them as I stepped off the elevator and walked down the hall to find our room.

"Showoff," I heard Claire mutter under her breath bringing her sexual frustrations front and center of her mind. That girl was going to kill Quil. I was willing to bet everyone in the house that she tricks him into bed before the New Year.

As soon as we walked in the room I shuffled Claire into the shower because I knew she would take the longest to get ready once she got out. Ness, Nema and I didn't need one we had taken one the day before and hadn't gone hunting since. Not sweating was like a god send in these situations. Now we didn't have to fight three werewolves and a human teenager for a shower. Nema called Mack as soon as we were in the room to tell her we were at the hotel whenever she was ready to do my hair and gave her the room number.

"Give me the phone," I told her reaching for it. She didn't think twice as she just gave it to me. "Mack, let me talk to Ras, please," I asked. I was willing to beg her just to let me talk to her for a minute.

"No," Mack was even using her no nonsense voice that she picked up from Hunter.

"Let me talk to her or I'm going to rip your arm off and beat you with it before I put it back on." I was getting agitated. Everyone was just looking at me. Quil decided to weigh in with a "Wow, It's really a wedding when family starts to fight. They're definitely sisters with threats like that going around."

"Fine but you get exactly one minute and I will take the phone away when it's up," Mack replied with an exasperated sigh.

"Toni?" I almost collapsed with the relief just hearing her voice brought me.

"Hey, mi loba. How are you? Mack isn't killing you is she?" I laughed into the phone trying to disguise my worry.

"No, I just got out of the shower. She is such a little Nazi. Her and Alice should get together sometime they are just alike with getting people dolled up for things." My internal clock told me we only had seconds left before Mack took the phone away so I had to tell her my goodbyes.

"Ha, Netiri is so much worse. I love you, mi loba feroz. Tu eres mi Ciela," I told her as I waited for Mack to take the phone back.

"I love you to-" I could hear the phone getting snatched away and Ras getting irate in the background.

"Get the wolves dressed and I'll be there to get you ready in a couple of hours. Tell beefcakes I said good morning." She giggled into the phone.

"Bye Mackenzie." I clicked the end button on Nema's phone and threw it back to her.

A couple of hours later I was putting the finishing touches on Seth's suit jacket while Nema tied his tie. They were just so damn cute sometimes while they were laughing and smiling with each other. I heard Mack's thoughts coming from down the hallway. She had finally managed to finish Ras up but she was refusing to think about what she looked like so she could hide it from me. Of all my sisters Mack had the most control of her thoughts around me. I opened the door to let her in. She walked in and completely took over. I sat on the chair in the bathroom like she had thought for me too.

"Okay, wolves, let me look at you," she announced as the boys walked over to her looking amazing in their suits. "Okay you guys look great. You all clean up real good isn't that right Beefcake?" she said as she leaned into Seth. I think I was the only one who thought her "advances" were funny. Nema was starting to get fed up with them. She kicked all of the wolves out of the room and told them to go keep Rasika company because she was losing her mind without me.

"Nema, you don't have to worry about Mack taking your man," I told her out loud as Mack spread out her torture products on the bathroom counter. "She's waiting for her true mate." Mack quickly combed through my hair.

"Huh," Nema couldn't help but say out loud.

"I'm still a virgin, Nema. I don't want any regrets when I find my mate so I'll wait as long as I have to. Why rush I have an eternity to practice baby making 101, right?" Mack held up part of my hair trying to decide what would look best. "Now I want to do an up do, but my existence was threatened by your bride to be if I pin your curls so we're just going to have to compromise. I think I want to leave your bangs out on one side and twist the rest in diagonals across the top. Finish it with a topknot and let your curls hang free." Mack had already started twisting my hair as she spoke so clearly I had no say. Thankfully what would have taken a human hours to pull off only took Mack twenty minutes and she was pacing herself.

"Okay, thanks to your mother being a model and our father being a vampire I was pretty much guaranteed to have a perfect canvas to work off of but even though you don't need makeup I want to make your eyes pop even more. I'm going to add a little eye shadow and liner plus these are really cool little jewels." Mack talked away while applying the makeup and sticking one jewel on the corner of each eye and another near my tear ducts. Her finishing touch was to pin a lily to my topknot and I was pronounced ready for my dress. Nema zipped me in while Ness and Claire put on my shoes and Mack grabbed her camera.

"Hunter made me promise to take pictures after you were ready and once you and Rasika actually got married so smile," Mack said as she started snapping pictures. Nema started backing away but I had to pull her back in. After Mack and Ness had enough pictures of everyone to fill a photo album, she walked in real close and raised the camera. You'll understand this later, she thought to me as she took a close up of my eye.

"Okay family time is up or Rasika is going to end up marrying someone else," Ness said from the door with Claire. I couldn't help the growl that built in my chest at the thought of Ras with anyone but me.

Rasika and the boys had arrived almost an hour before us. I saw her for the first time through Seth and I let out a small gasp at the sight in front of him. "Great one of the wolves gave away the surprise," Mack pouted. I was distracted with the sight in the wolves' thoughts. Her dress looked better on her than I had even dreamed, and Mack had done a wonderful job with her hair and makeup. She gave her a French twist it was simple yet classic. The final touch was the white lily that matched mine pinned to it. I could tell from the wolves' thoughts that Ras was a nervous wreck, but she had managed to talk to the judge about changing a small part of the vows from "'till death do us part" to "as long as we both shall live". It seemed more appropriate for beings that never planned on dying, knock on wood. We made our way to the room the small ceremony was to take place in a little faster than we should have.

As I opened the doors and made my way to Ras I had to hand it to Mack. I enjoyed the fact that Rasika's mind stalled for a moment when she saw me for the first time. I didn't hesitate as I walked to the front of the room with Nema at my side. Everyone else took their places behind us. I was in that moment immensely grateful for Nema and Seth as they gave us to each other. Seth placed a gentle kiss on the side of Rasika's head and whispered that she would always be his sister and he loved her. I barely caught the last part of his thoughts as he left off the even if Sam doesn't. I ignored it because it was an errant thought that he hadn't even realized he had. Nema hugged me tightly barely able to contain her tears of happiness for us as she placed my hand in Rasika's.

"Take care of her," Nema told my soon to be wife as she held our hands together.

"I will I promise." Ras leaned down and kissed Nema on the forehead. We turned to the judge as he began with the standard we are gathered here today. I couldn't take my eyes off of Ras and hers were glued to me. Neither of us were paying as much attention to the judge as I think we were supposed to be until the time came to recite our own vows. I went first because she was going to be the first to recite the more traditional vows.

"Rasika, you are my life, my world and mi Ciela. I was a broken toy the day you saw me in that field. I had been used to within an inch of my sanity. I was only able to see one way out, but then there was you offering up another solution. You have held me as I cried and painstakingly put the pieces of who I was meant to be back together again. I owe you my life and I'm honored that you are willing to share yourself with me for the rest of our days on this earth," I finished as she squeezed my hands and began her own vows.

"You owe me nothing. We are equals and always will be. You were not the only one to be saved by our relationship. I hated what I was every day of my life. It cost me my dreams, my friends and my family. I was wrong. Though it gave me the opportunity to see you and gain new friends and a new family, but most of all it gave me a new life with you. I may have put you back together again but you made me love the life I have for the first time in a long time. I love you." Rasika was only focusing on the two of us and I had to snap Rasika out of it as the Judge repeated himself about the rings a second time.

"Oh, right. Seth do you have it?" she asked Seth looking away from me for the first time as Seth set my ring in her hand. I was so enthralled by her that as she came to the close of her vows and slipped the ring on my finger I had to fight my body's natural reaction to kiss her with everything I had. Instead, I turned to Nema to collect Rasika's ring from her.

"Repeat after me…" was the last thing I heard the judge say. I knew the vows I just went ahead and said them all at once ignoring the repeating part.

"With this ring I signify to the world that I, Antonia, take you, Rasika, to be my wife, secure in the knowledge that you will be my constant friend, my faithful partner in life, and my one true love. On this day, I affirm to you in the presence of our friends and family my sacred promise to stay by your side as your wife in joy and in sorrow and through the good times and the bad. I promise to love you without reservation, comfort you in times of distress, encourage you to achieve all of your goals, laugh with you and cry with you, grow with you in mind and spirit, always be open and honest with you, and to cherish you for as long as we both shall live." The silence in the room as I ended my vows and kissed the ring on her finger before looking up at her again was palpable.

"You know you can kiss her now, right?" the judge chuckled as Rasika threw every ounce of passion she could into our first official kiss, and I returned it with my whole heart. I think my knees actually gave out by the time the whistling and Seth and Mack yelling to save it for the honeymoon registered in both our minds. We finally separated as she thought mine to me andI quickly returned my usual answer of yours as she leaned her forehead against mine and we made our way outside where Mack took more pictures. The trip back to the hotel was quick although the two of us were slowly building nerves that neither of us could place.

The mood on the elevator was ecstatic. Everyone was in a great mood now that all of the pre wedding nerves and attitude were gone. Quil interrupted everyone's conversation with his stomach. "Hey we should go out to eat before Jake and I have to take the girls home. You two in?" he asked, looking at me and Rasika. We finally stopped, in the words of Claire, "sucking face" to look at him before we looked at each other and considered it for exactly .2 seconds before he was met by both of us with a resounding "NO!"

"Okay jeez just asking," he said as everyone got off the elevator to go get changed for dinner, and Ras and I went to our room for the night and the rest of tomorrow, or at least until we had to checkout, if I had any say at all.

Rasika's Pov

I had bats in my stomach - forget butterflies - as the elevator stopped on our floor. I couldn't understand it. It was still just the two of us we weren't different we just had a piece of paper and a couple of rings that told the whole world what we were. Well, hopefully not exactly not what we were that would suck to have a ring that could detect vampires and werewolves. Toni started chuckling at my thoughts as she leaned more fully into me. She had been pretty quiet for the trip back to the hotel and in the elevator even though she had been insistent on kissing me the entire way. That was probably the reason she hadn't been talking. I kept catching snippets of her thoughts and how she was feeling.

I held her hand as we walked to our room. After we got there I let her open the door before I scooped her up and started kissing her like she was oxygen as I carried her into the room. I didn't know we were doing the carry over the threshold thing, she thought as her lips traveled down my neck to the sensitive spot behind my ear.

Well, it is tradition. I could barely think speaking was out of the question.

Yes, because the half vampire and werewolf lesbians scream tradition, she mocked as she ran her tongue around the shell of my ear. I gently set her on her feet and started to pull the pins out of the topknot her sister had put in her hair. I was happy Mack had done as I asked and kept her hair down for the most part. She did a wonderful job. If someone had told me they could enhance her beauty before today I would have called them a liar, but my new little sister managed.

I kissed her softly as I turned her back to me and swept her curls over her shoulder so I could see the smooth planes of her back and shoulders as I unzipped her dress. I felt the need to run my fingers down every inch that I exposed before I let her dress fall to the floor. She turned to face me, her blue and gold eyes looking straight through to my soul.

I believe you're a bit overdressed for this party Mrs. Moreau, she chuckled as she slid to her knees and started gathering my dress in her hands and raising it up my thighs, following with an icy trail of kisses. I felt like I was losing my mind as her lips met my hips on their journey north. When she stood and dropped my dress to the ground I had to restrain myself from attacking her. I wanted to take my time with her first. I didn't want our first time married to be a crazed lust fueled struggle until we came, probably breaking furniture in the process. She wrapped her hand around the back of my neck and pulled me to her waiting lips as she let me see her current thoughts. She wanted to bite me, but this was different from the others she had given me since we learned what it did for both of us. She wanted to take a part of me into her the only way that we could. She wanted to drink from me. I started kissing her neck letting her know I was okay with it as she kissed and licked her way to my chest, above my heart. I braced myself for the initial pain as I felt her teeth slice through the skin. I shuddered as I felt the pull of her taking my blood for only seconds before she licked up any falling blood while my body healed itself.

By the time I laid her on the floor and began kissing a trail down her body it was nothing more than two angry red lines. In just a few more minutes there would be no evidence of the intimate act we had just shared. I could feel her pulling pins out of my hair while I spread kisses over her breasts as she moaned and arched into me. I slowly kissed further down her cool skin until I reached her black lace panties that I really hoped she wasn't in love with as I gripped them with my teeth and ripped them off of her. I gently kissed her soaking opening before I traveled down first one leg and then up the other, trying to kiss and lick every inch of her. I flipped her on her stomach as I reached her hip and started my slow torture again from the back of her neck down her body. I could hear her begging in an interesting mix of Spanish and Italian, although I couldn't understand any of it, as she moaned and rolled her hips. After I reached the small of her back I went back for one more pass over her scars. I kissed the couple on her shoulder and upper back before I kissed the bite on her calf. I turned her over so that I could kiss the scar on her ribcage and ending in the scar over her heart and the one on her collar bone. I dragged my tongue down her abdomen as she pulled my partially taken down hair and moaned. I ghosted my breath across her slit until she got sick of my game and surprised me by arching into my mouth. I loved the taste of her she was sweet with a hint of spice. I could hear her thoughts and how I felt to her after she hit my tongue it took only minutes for her to reach her release. Her mind was silent again as I kissed her abdomen. I would have stayed there all day until her thoughts floated into my mind.

We never made it to the bed, she laughed.

No, we didn't, but we have all night to get there. I looked at her before she tossed me to the side and ran to the bedroom.

Nessie's POV

Rasika and Antonia's wedding was a beautiful affair. It wasn't at all because of the setting or the dresses and make up. What made it beautiful were their words and their love for each other. It was conveyed with every utterance, every touch, and every glance. I was happy for them, but the sight also made my heart ache. I wished them all the happiness in the world and their union today brought tears to my eyes for their happiness – and for the emptiness I felt.

We were riding back in Quil's compact, little Aveo, and it was taking forever to get home. I closed my eyes pretending to be asleep, just so that I could have an excuse to put my head on Jake's shoulder. It was hard pretending to be asleep when I had to listen to Quil and Claire arguing about the radio station. Everything had been fine until Claire started rapping about licking lollipops and then Quil had decided it was time for some Radio Disney. After a while, Jake absentmindedly wrapped an arm around me and it instantly reminded me of the two days we had spent in La Push together after the bonfire party.

After agreeing to just be friends, something truly just broke inside of me as I looked at Jacob, lying his ass off about the pain just to get me to stay around. I burst into tears, begging and pleading with him to forgive me for always hurting him and never knowing the right thing to do. We sat on the couch and he held me as I cried, and he cried too, saying that he was partly to blame for just how fucked up our relationship had become. That night, we cried together until no more tears would fall, letting out all our pain and falling asleep together on the couch. We woke then next morning to Billy calling for us to wake because he had breakfast ready.

He was so overjoyed to see us together that neither of us had the heart to tell him that we had settled on just being friends. Jake and I decided that since Nema and Seth had left us, we would just stick around La Push for a while and work on being friends, seeing as the house was full of sickeningly happy imprints, Nema and Seth, and the sex crazed imprints, Rasika and Antonia. It really took a toll on the two of us and most our anger stemmed from having to see what could've been for us and the crashing reality of what wasn't. Being together without a single relationship to go by was refreshing, and we were just able to hang out and be friends. We went cliff diving together, rode his motorcycle, and spent some quality time with Billy. It was truly fun and Jacob and I had managed it without any hurt feelings or foul words toward each other. After two days of our "friend workshop" as we liked to call it, we decided it was time to come home. He had offered to take his motorcycle back, but nothing would ever compare to the rush and free feeling of running. Jake even decided on having a friendly wager about who would reach the house first. What would the winner receive? One last kiss that could be cashed in at any time. I won but I hadn't cashed in on my winnings yet.

I opened my eyes as we arrived back at the house, feeling the car come to a stop. Claire had her arms folded, generally unhappy about having to listen to Hannah Montana all the way home. "God, Quil, you drive slower than my grandmother! At least she has the decency to get in the slow lane if she's going to drive 55 on the interstate! It's a sad day when people are passing you in the slow lane."

"Just shut up and kiss me. I know you're just cranky about going a whole day without getting to suck face with me," Quil said rather smugly.

Oh these two were something else. When she leaned in to kiss him, I knew that it was my queue to leave. Even Quil and Claire were turning into…well there wasn't really a category for what they were. I got out of the car before they started making out, and Jake hopped out as well after reminding Quil of what time he had to patrol.

I knew that Jake and I would have the house to ourselves tonight because Claire had cleared things with her parents for Quil to stay over. Since their relationship had started to change, being without each was starting to prove more difficult for the two of them. Though Quil would have to sleep on the couch, just his presence in the house with her would comfort her. It had been that way for Jacob and me, but my dad hadn't been so lenient. Jacob slept outside my bedroom window most nights, but the close proximity was enough for a while. The thought of the way we used to be put a damper on my semi content mood.

Jake walked me inside the house and checked that everything was just as we left it, so that I would be safe when he went to patrol in a few minutes. Who would be waiting in the shadows of a house occupied by hybrids and wolves was a mystery to me, but I let him check it out without saying a word. When he was done with his security check, he told me that he would be done in a couple of hours to trade off with Quil. Jake made a move as if he was going to kiss me goodbye, but then backed away awkwardly, apologizing and leaving me standing there.

I was alone now, in more ways than one. I tried to go to bed, but all I ended up doing was thinking of Jacob and me the way we used to be before the war with the Volturi. We were happy, and probably would've been married by now had it not been for all the unforeseen circumstances. He and I would have been standing before our friends and family professing our love and making it official, just as Antonia and Rasika had done today. Our lives would have turned out completely different had the Volturi never came, and Nahuel had never visited, but that would have meant that Rasika and Seth's lives would have been affected as well.

I got out of bed then, making my way back down to the living room to sit on the couch in the dark. I sat curled into a ball with my knees pressed to my chest and my arms wrapped around them. The thought of what our lives would have been had all of this never happened made me feel even worst. Had Nahuel never ventured back to Forks to make me his, Nema would have never met Seth, and if I hadn't turned Nahuel down, he wouldn't have gone to the Volturi to strike up a fight and Rasika would have never met Antonia. In a way, it seemed that good things happened to them, because bad things happened to me, but I wouldn't dare trade their happiness for my own. The fact that I wasn't with Jacob was my own fault. Everything was my fault. I had two chances and I blew them both. In Florida, he begged me not to send him away, but I didn't want him to miss La Push and I made the decision for him. In the garage, we kissed and all the sparks were still there, the passion and the love, but I didn't know if we could fix all the wrongs so instead of asking him I decided for him what was best.

With painful clarity, I realized that it was all on me. Jacob was never to blame for any of this. I had set it all in motion and I could fix it, but I was scared. What if after all the rejection, he rejected me this time? After all the pain, what if he didn't want to go through it with me anymore? All I would have to say when he walked back in the door were three little words, and he would know. That's the reason he made the bet, and that's the reason he let me win the race. He was giving me the choice. All I had to say was"kiss me, Jacob" and he would know. I could've said it on the porch after I'd won, but the words were frozen in my throat. I could've said it in the car on the way to the wedding, but I talked myself out of it. It could've easily been said at dinner after the wedding, but I felt that it was too soon. Too soon for what though? What am I waiting for? I just have to open my mouth when he gets in the door and say kiss me, Jacob. That's it three words. I can think it, but why can't I say it. Maybe I can practice before he gets here.

The first time, no sound came out. The words just resonated in my mind, but never translated. I stood then, pacing back and forth chanting to myself that I could do this. I took a deep breath, visualizing him walking through the door, and I said, "Kiss me, Jacob." With a contented sigh that the words could come out, I smiled.

As soon as the words left my mouth, a very naked Jacob burst through the door, crossing the room in four strides. Without saying a word, he picked me up and his lips came crashing into mine in a searing kiss. There was no way I would mess this up a third time. I threw myself headlong into the kiss, giving him everything and holding nothing back. Jake's lips against mine were rough and demanding. His tongue swirled around in my mouth, greedily tasting me. The kiss was insistent as he took and took as if his life depended on this one moment. In response, I gave without complaint.

When we broke for air, my legs were wrapped around his waist and my arms around his neck. I was clinging to him so tight that no one would have ever been able to pry me off. "Jacob, I'm so sor-" His lips collided with mine again, silencing my apology. He pulled back just slightly, as if he was going to say something, and it was me this time showering him in kisses. I placed them on his cheeks, his lips, and his nose, all the while thinking to him how sorry I was and I how much I needed him in my life.

He was walking with me then, as he quickly snatched my tank top over my head, throwing it over his shoulder and it landed on the ceiling fan. His tongue ran down my neck and over the swell of my breasts. He bit down on my already hardened nipple through thin lace of my pink bra. I moaned out in pleasure, and he repeated the motion this time biting down harder, causing me to whimper. With one hand, I began to fumble with the claps on my bra, needing it off so that I could feel Jake's lips on my skin. I was too excited, feeling too much need for Jake, and in too much of a rush to swiftly remove it. My hands had become clumsy. Jake just simply tugged on the front and ripped it off of me as we reached the second floor. Feeling his mouth on my exposed flesh felt even better than it had through my bra. He was tugging at my pants and I unwrapped my legs from around him so that he could slide them off.

We were standing in our bedroom doorway as he painstakingly took his time taking off my pants. I realized then that Jake was calling all the shots tonight. His lips found mine again as his hands went under the waist band of my pajamas. He pulled them down slowly, stopping to squeeze my ass and pull me closer to him. His hands traveled down my thighs before the pants simply fell to the floor. Jake leaned me up against the wall, hooking my right leg around him, and started grinding his erection against me. I leaned my head back against the wall. The friction felt so good through my soaking wet panties. I needed Jacob touching me. I needed his hands on me, his lips on me, and I needed him inside of me.

Please, I thought to him and he complied, picking me up once more and laying me in bed.

He kissed his way down to my panties, taking them off with his teeth and licking his way up my right thigh. He stopped before he got to my hip, and did the same with the other thigh. Jake came up kissing my stomach and then my breasts, saving my lips for last. "Do you know how long I've waited to see you in my bed?" he asked, his voice just a seductive whisper. "I've dreamed more than a million times of what it would be like to taste you again." He licked the length of my stomach with the tip of his tongue. Jake continued on down, dipping his tongue inside my pooling wetness. I moaned out his name, and he repeated the action twice more.

"Oh God." I shivered. Jake was teasing me, and I needed more. I was throbbing and swollen with need, feeling like I was going to explode if he didn't touch me soon. He was watching me, waiting and playing the cruelest teasing game I had ever played. Just when my hand moved to touch myself since he wouldn't do it, he grabbed it pinning it down on the bed with a smile. He knew that I couldn't take anymore. When his tongue entered me, I thought I was going to come at that moment. His tongue explored me, and his thumb teased my clit. I felt my body tensing. There was no way after teasing me that much could I hold back. I tangled my fingers in his hair, holding him in place as I whimpered and begged for more. I was coming undone then, screaming his name over and over as violent spasms racked through me. I was in complete ecstasy.

When the spasms stopped, and I was back from cloud fifteen – fuck cloud nine Jake had taken me much higher – all I could manage to say was, "Oh Jake…that was…" I couldn't even find a word for what all the building up to that release was.

Jake kissed me then, his tongue caressing mine. "You know, you seem to talk entirely too much." He smiled against my lips, taking my bottom lips between his teeth.

I flipped him onto his back so fast he didn't even know what was happening. I was on top, hovering over him now. "And you know, you are taking entirely too long to make sure that I'm thoroughly fucked."

Without a word, he rolled us over once more, getting on his knees and placing my leg in the air so that my foot rested on his shoulder, he finally entered me, filling me completely. It felt amazing to finally having my missing puzzle piece. He began thrusting hard and fast, all the teasing had been taking a toll on him as well. He needed me as much as I needed him right now. Jake started kissing and biting my neck and pinching my nipples as he thrust into me. My hands were roaming up and down his back, digging and scratching. It felt so good that I never wanted it to end. "Don't stop, Jake. Please don't stop," I begged. He complied, pounding into me faster and harder. My hands were in his hair again and I was pulling and tugging, as I screamed for more, meeting his thrusts with thrusts of my own. We were both so close, but I didn't want it to end yet. "Jake…Jake," I managed to say his name in short gasps. "Please...oh please…oh…oh, baby…I'm not ready…can we slow - " I couldn't finish because his tongue was flicking over my nipple, causing me to moan out his name, but he complied with my request to slow down.

We were making love now, slowly and passionately he filled me over and over. Jake was moaning my name with every slow thrust, as my hands roamed up and down his chiseled chest and rigid, rock hard abs. I sat up, kissing him, and nibbling on his earlobe, before I bit down on his neck. I knew that Jake couldn't hold on much longer and neither could I. I slipped my hands between us massaging his cock as it entered me. "Nessie, I can't hold on much longer," he groaned. He laid me back then and began thrusting into me hard, with more force than ever before. Jake was still moving at his slow pace but he was pulling all the way out of me and thrusting in hard, causing the bed to shift away from the wall. He did this over and over with me screaming for more. Soon we were in the middle of the room, and it felt so good that he wasn't being gentle with me. I begged for it faster. I was on the brink and so was he.

He began plunging into me as fast and as hard as he could and the bed ended up on the other side of the room. "Oh Jake, yes. Oh…shit! Fuck…Fuck…Fuck." His face was in the crook of my neck and he was biting down on me harder than I thought he was capable of as I screamed. I could feel my body tensing and I could feel myself toppling over the edge as he went faster, plunged deeper, and thrust harder. Jake was moving with such force that it probably would have killed a human. His teeth had broken through my skin and for the first time in my life I was bleeding as he bit down on me, and he had this guttural growl coming from him as he continued to plow into me. At the speed we were going the bed had reached the other wall and had completely burst through the wall and into the closet. But that didn't stop us in the least. We kept going as mine and Jake's climax was vastly approaching. As we came, I screamed out Jake's name so loud that it probably woke up everyone in Forks, and if it hadn't the feral sound coming from him would have.

Jake slumped over, falling on top of me and I held him to me. "Damn," we said at the same time.

We were silent for a few minutes. Jake was still trying to catch his breath as I laid still, hoping that my neck would heal before he noticed how hard he had bitten me. "Are you okay?" he asked, lifting his head, touching his lips tenderly to mine.

"I'm great," was all I managed. I was better than great. I was fanfuckingtastic.

"I hurt you. I bit you harder than I even knew I was capable of biting you. I don't know if…how does it…do you heal?"

I turned my head. "Do you see it? I don't even feel the pain anymore." He kissed the spot gently, and I knew that I had healed.

He gathered me in his arms so that I was laying on top of him and his arms were wrapped securely around me. "Nessie, I love you. I never want to lose you again. You're my world, even when you weren't in it, it still revolved around you. All the stuff I did was to try to forget you, but I never could. You were always number one, and you always will be."

"Jacob, I love you more than anything. And this may seem off base, but everything I did I thought was in your best interest, but I made decisions for you and not with you. I will never do that to you again, baby, I promise. I can't lose you anymore. I'm really sorry for not seeing it sooner."

"I've missed you so much. I just want to forget about the past, and make a future with you. You're the only one I want – the only woman I'll ever want. I just need you to promise me one thing." He touched his forehead to mine and our noses were touching.

"Anything."

"You will never leave me again, no matter what."

"I promise." My lips touched his. "I will never in all of my existence leave you no matter what."

We kissed and made love on and off for the rest of the night, confessing our eternal love for one another. In that moment, I had been the happiest woman on the planet. All was right in my world once again.

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