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Chapter 25

When see where Paul's truck is parked, I see him already there pacing on the passenger side. I was feeling more and more nervous. I didn't know how this was going to go. When he notices me, he doesn't say anything but opens the door for me. I didn't hesitate to get in. Once he started driving, neither of us said anything but I would catch him looking at me in the corner of his eye. This is the closest I've been to him in a very painful week and I just wanted to touch him, kiss him, tell him that I love him and for him to say it back.

Once we finally stop I notice where we are going...our spot.

He opens up my door and surprisingly takes my hand leading the way. Chills were all over my body at his is still very hot touch.

As we walk through the clearing to the cliff, all our memories here come to me and my emotions start to take over. I want to say something to him but when I look at him his lips crash into mine.

I immediately wrap my arms around his neck and return the kiss.

When we finally pull apart a few tears escape but are wiped away by Paul.

"Please don't cry," He says to me softly and reality sets in and all the pain I went through came crashing back on me and I pull away.

"How can I not cry Paul? Do you know all the hell you have put me through this week?" I yell at him and he nods. "You broke my heart...You broke my fucking heart Paul! I tried and I tried to get you to explain to me why you were doing this to me, to see what I did wrong, or what had you do what ever it is the hell you do with Sam and Jared but you gave me the cold shoulder and broke me. Putting that scrapbook on my doorstep was your proof that you no longer loved me!" I was hysterical but I wasn't just going to welcome him right back into my heart without answers.

"And after I try one last thing to try to get you back, it gets your attention. Why?"

He starts to pace and runs his hand through his cropped hair. "You don't understand Gem, I had to push you away. I had no choice."

"Why?"

"I couldn't tell you before."

"But now you can?" He nods as he looks me in the eye making my heart skip a beat.

"I can now and you are probably going to think I'm crazy but with who you are and everything you believe in...I hope you will believe me."

Where was he going with this, "So tell me."

I can tell he's nervous as he takes my hands in his, "Things that we thought were only legend are true."

Did he see the wolves too and know what they are?

"What do you mean Paul?"

"I'm...I'm a werewolf or as you know them to be, a spirit warrior."

I just stared at him. I didn't know what to say. How could he be a spirit warrior? A werewolf? I think back to the wolves which I though just had the spirit of our ancestors in them. "You're telling me that the wolves I've seen lately are...is..." he nods.

"Wa...was that you...Friday?" He shakes his head, "No that wasn't me...that was Jared."

"Jared!" I remember that he was the one that "found" me and brought me home. He nods and pulls something out of his pocket...my necklace. "Holy shit you are telling the truth. But how?"

"Everything that we learned, the legends, all of them are true. The spirit warriors and the cold ones." I pull my hands out of his and sit down. I go through my brain remembering everything about the legends and remember the reason for the spirit warriors and why they shift. My heart jumped, "You mean that there really are vampires out there?" He closes his eyes and nods.

"I can't believe this," I say more to myself and now understand why the secrecy. "If I couldn't know before, why am I able to know now?"

He sits down next to me, "Because of Sam." I felt my anger rise, "What about Sam?"

"He's our alpha since he was the first to shift so anything he commands we have to do."

"I understand that you couldn't tell me but what does breaking up with me have anything to do with this? If you told me that I couldn't know what was going on, I would've trusted you and not push you for answers."

"Because of him, Leah, and Emily."

I look at him confused, "What does that have to do with anything?"

"Something that they didn't tell us along with the legends is that the spirit warriors were given a gift from our ancestors as a thank you for what we do to protect the tribe and that's the gift of imprinting. It's like love at first sight...true and unconditional love. When you make eye contact for the first time with your imprint, you feel the pull. It's not gravity holding you to earth, it's her. She becomes your light, your life, your everything. You would do anything for her, be anything for her."

I felt my heart clenched at his words, that is an amazing thing.

"When Sam first saw Emily, he felt the connection, the pull. He had no idea what it was until he talked to the council members and they explained to him what it was. He tried to fight it because he didn't want to hurt Leah, but it was to difficult for him. He's not the only one to feel it but Emily is too so she also had a hard time fighting the pull even though she had no idea what it was that was drawing her to him."

I now completely understood. The looks they gave each other, it all made sense.

"When Jared shifted for the first time after Hawaii, Sam explained to him what happened. Then when I shifted, he told me that I needed to break up with you because he didn't want to risk you going through what Leah did."

"Is that why you wouldn't look me in the eyes?" He nods.

"So...so why are you telling me all this now?" I ask looking at my hands. I was so scared because I didn't know what he would say.

He leans down in front of me and tilts my head up so I'm looking him in the eyes, "Because Gemma, I imprinted on you." My eyes started to well up with tears, "Really?" He gives me that amazing smile that I love so much that I haven't seen in so long. He puts a strand of hair behind my ear as he looks at me lovingly, "Yes really."

Not being able to take the distance between any longer, I throw my arms around his neck attacking his lips.

I couldn't believe that the legends I grew up loving so much were true and that Paul and I truly were meant to be together.

When we finally break apart, he pulls me into his lap and we just hold onto each other. We stayed like that not saying anything for a while. We were enjoying being back in each others arms.

"I'm so sorry about everything Gem and especially for Friday. When Sam saw the conversation between you and Jared about you not giving me up until you knew I no longer loved you; he commanded that I do something to prove it."

"What do you mean he saw our conversation?"

"Oh yeah, when we are in our wolf form, we can see and read each other's thoughts. It helps us stay in contact. But it's hard to keep anything hidden from each other."

I simply say 'oh'.

"Yeah. No matter how hard I tried to fight him about it doing it, I couldn't help it because he gave the alpha order. It was already killing me to be away from you and to see you in so much pain. When I saw through Jared on how he found you, how broken you looked; I wanted to die."

I now realize he was the painful howl that I heard.

"But today when you performed that beautiful song and our eyes met...I saw our past and future together. My heart was screaming at me to run to you and take you into my arms. I couldn't believe and be happier that you are my imprint." He says wrapping his arms tighter around me.

I smile brightly at him, "It just shows that we were always meant to be together. The magic that we felt when we first made love was preparing us for the imprint bond."

"It sure was," he says before bringing his lips to mine.

Paul pulls away to soon to my liking making me pout, "Oh stop pouting. There's something I want to ask you." I cork up an eyebrow at him. "Would you be mine again? I promise as long as I live I will never hurt or leave you again. We were always meant to be together and the imprint was proof of that. I want us to continue moving forward. Please be my girl again."

I so badly wanted to scream yes but I wanted to see something first, "Before I make up my mind, I have to see something first." He gives me a confused look, "What would that be?"

I give him a smirk, "I want to see you shift." He chuckles at my request, "You would want to see that." He kisses my forehead before he lifts me off of him, sitting me on the ground.

I watch him has he starts to strip. I was going to ask him what he was doing but honestly, I was enjoying the show. When he was completely naked he gave me that cocky look of his before his body started to shake and this shimmer was in the air. Next thing I know Paul shifts into this huge, beautiful silver wolf.

I get to my feet and approach him. I run my hands over hand as I look into those familiar deep chocolate-brown eyes. "You're beautiful." Something then clicks in my head, "You look identical to the wolf you gave me so long ago." He licks my face in response, "Eww Paul, seriously!" He barks which I take as him laughing.

He pushes his nose against me before shifting back into himself. I was so amazed that I just watched him as he got himself dressed. "That was amazing," I say as he approaches me. "So what do you say? Will you be mine?"

I acted like I had to think about it, "Of course I'll be yours again. I love you so much Paul!" He sighs with relief as he pulls me into his arms, "I love you so much more Gemma."

...

For the next couple of hours we stayed out there making up for lost time. I had my head on his chest with his arms wrapped around me as we were watching the sunset.

"You have no idea how relieved I am that you took this all so well," He tells me kissing the side of my head. I look up at him, "Why do you say that?" He sighs, "Emily didn't take it well at all once she found out everything. She freaked completely out but once she accepted it is when Sam asked her to move in with him."

I nod, "So I guess I really can't hate them anymore since I know exactly what it was that made them do that to Leah." He nods. I just felt even worse for Leah because now I know that her and Sam truly weren't meant to be together.

"Now you know that you can't tell anyone about this," He says looking at me seriously. "Of course I know that. So only the council members know about this?" He gets a guilty look. "What?"

"Well along with your uncle and Harry who are council members, my dad and Jared's dad...your dad also knows..." I sat up looking at him, "Are you serious!" He nods, "When Leah came over that day when Sam flipped out on his mom, he knew what was going on."

"But how?"

He scratches the back of his head, "Well...your uncle and Harry, mine, Jared's, Sam's and your dad were the last generation of shape shifters."

My mouth drops open, I couldn't believe that. Then I remember why when I saw the tattoo for the first time why it looked so familar...dad has the exact same one! His is mostly covered up that's why I didn't think about it.

"When Sam shifted he knew it would only be a matter of time that I would too. That's why he said what he did to you when we got back from Hawaii. He didn't want you to go through with what Leah did because of the whole imprint thing."

I now understood. He was really only trying to look out for me.

"Well now we get to tell him that you imprinted on me and our plans for when we graduate." I say beaming up at him.

He sighs throwing his arm over his eyes, "Yeah, that's going to be a fun conversation." I giggle at him and kiss him lightly on the lips only for him to put a hand behind my head to deepen the kiss.

As he rolls us over so he's on top of me, I couldn't help but think about how lucky I am to have Paul back in my life and know that there is nothing that will ever tear us apart. Our ancestors made sure of that.

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