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Chapter Twenty Six
Cara POV
We were all sitting in silence, and had been for about three hours. Claire was fast asleep in Emily's arms. Addison was sitting sketching. I hadn't seen her do it since she got here. Deva, Colin's imprint was resting upstairs.
We met Deva and the rest of her pack yesterday. It turns out that they are a brother pack of ours. They're Cherokee and when they ran into Euan, he said that they were killing people and that they stole his wife – me, and were raping girls to keep their pack alive. They were very remorseful when they found out the truth. They were all really nice. It was good for Leah too, with there being more female wolves around, she was more comfortable. Deva was so quiet and shy, she'll get on well with Jade and also they were the same age. We heard her coming down the stairs with a smile on her face.
"They're on their way back, I can hear them." With that we all ran out to the front garden. We saw them all wrestling with each other at the edge of the forest. When they saw us, they ran straight for us. Emily and Sam were hugging, Kim and Jared were attached at the lips along with Paul and Kristen and Addison and Seth. Brady and Jade were standing just looking at each other until Brady grabbed her into a hug. Jacob grabbed me and spun me around. The Cullen's were standing behind them. I walked up to them. I hugged Edward first.
"I'm glad you're all ok." I said to them. Edward stiffened slightly. "Edward, what's wrong?" He looked down at me with a look of protection.
"One of the Volturi guards could smell your scent and became quite infatuated with it. I saw it in his head." Carlisle then joined in.
"That will be why they just left without a problem. They'll be waiting for her to go out on her own and then they'll grab her." Jacob's arms were around me instantly. All the wolves started to growl slightly.
"Which one was it Edward?" Carlisle asked. Edward looked at me.
"Alec." Everyone stiffened. I looked up at Jacob. He seemed to understand the question I was about to ask.
"Most of the Volturi have particular powers like Edward, Japer and Alice. Alec is possibly one of the most powerful and dangerous. If he wants you, he won't stop until he has you." I cowered into Jacob, who whispered in my ear.
"If he wants you, he has to go through all of us." I could feel myself beginning to panic. That was what I was worried about.
"What's his power?" I asked them.
"He has the power to kill all your senses, so basically you can't feel or see anything. So from now on, you do not leave this house unless you are accompanied by at least two of us." Edward was now going all big brother on my ass, with Emmett agreeing with him all the way.
"Do I have some weird vampire beacon that attracts insane vampires to me. That's three now!" I ranted, causing them to giggle slightly. Jacob's hold on me tightened. I squeezed his hand.
No one left Emily's house last night, other than the Cullen's who left to feed and a couple of the Cherokee wolves who offered to take the first patrol. I looked at everyone sitting in their couples. Addison and Seth were cuddled up in the corner watching something on Addison's ipod, Kim and Jared were asleep on the couch, Paul and Kristen were sitting talking with Deva and Colin. Jade was sitting reading with Brady sitting behind her cuddling her and reading over her shoulder, with a huge grin on his face. Emily was in the kitchen and no doubt Sam was shadowing her very move. Jacob was asleep with his head in my lap. I sat and stroked his hair and thought of a way out of my new situation. Could I not make a compromise with this Alec dude and then he could just leave me alone. Jacob stirred in my lap. He looked up at me and smiled. He sat up and kissed me gently on the lips before heading to the kitchen. Then Edward and Emmett came through the door with Rosalie a minute after.
"Cara Wallace, get that thought right out your head!" Edward shouted from the door. Everyone turned their heads to me and Jacob came out of the kitchen.
"What thought do you have in your head Cara?" Jacob asked. I just stared at the ceiling.
"Oh look, the ceilings white." This caused Addison to burst out laughing.
"Yeah she's hiding something." Was all she said before she went back to her film. Jacob came and knelt in front of me.
"I was just thinking that maybe I could make a compromise with this Alec dude and he would maybe leave me alone."
"Like what kind of compromise?" Jacob pressed.
"I don't know, a flask of my blood." Bad idea. Jacob began to shake and he just ran out the door. It made Colin and Deva laugh, but no one else.
"Cara, Alec will want to keep you and turn you into a vampire, and you'll be taken to Volterra and we'll never see you again. Can't you see how this is bad for us?" Rosalie sat next to me on the couch. "I would never wish this on anyone and you're like a little sister to me and I don't want anything to happen to you." I reached over and gave her a hug. "Now no more talk of you turning to the dark side!" That caused everyone to laugh.
About an hour later, I decided to head to bed. Jacob still hadn't come back, but after my talk with Rose I understand why he's so mad. I was about asleep when there was a knock at my door.
"Up for a snuggle?" I looked up and smiled.
"There's always room for you in my bed." Kim and Kristen came running over to the bed.
"The guys caught up with Jacob. He says he's sorry and he'll make it up to you." Kristen winked at me.
"Get your head out the gutter girls!" We all burst out laughing.
We were awoken to Jacob, Paul and Jared were standing at the door gawking at us.
"What exactly did we miss last night?" Paul burst out laughing.
"Well baby, we spent hours having a pillow fight and then there was all the making out too. What can I say Jared, you're a lucky guy." Kristen winked at Jared and the three of us walked past the three wolves we had just left gobsmacked at my door.
We had the rest of the girls in stiches when we told them what had happened. Deva and Leah fell off the couch laughing. The boys were quite sympathetic to the guys but were laughing behind their backs. I headed into the kitchen to grab a drink, when I turned around from the refrigerator and came face to face with Jacob's chest.
"Hello." I tried not to giggle but it just came out. He smiled and lifted me onto the counter so we were properly face to face. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him into me. He wrapped his arms around my waist and put his head in my hair.
"I'm sorry about freaking. It's just when you talk about giving into the vampires and you not being here, my heart literally shatters into a million pieces." I could hear his voice break slightly.
"I'm not going anywhere, I promise you Jacob." I leaned up and kissed him gently. He pulled back and looked me straight in the eye. I wiped the single tear that had dropped from his eye. I smiled and gave him another quick kiss before hopping down off the counter and joining everyone in the living room. Everyone looked so tired. Claire was still asleep in Quil's lap. I sat down next to Deva on the couch, pushing Colin off. He just growled slightly and stalked over to sit next to the fire. Jacob picked me up, took my place on the couch and then sat me down on his lap. I looked around at everyone and saw how happy they all were, no matter how close death and devastation always is to us, it's the moments like right now that make it all worth while.
Alec POV
Her scent was all I could think about. The way that the cherry blossom mixed with lavender went round and round in my head, making me go crazy. I had to have her, to make her mine. But she was too protected. I had to have her no matter what! Aro approached me.
"Don't worry, she will be yours soon Alec."
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