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JPOV
I watched mesmerized by the strength my little angel had in her. The wolf was quivering under her. I knew he was about to collapse. Alice was no longer trying to stop him but hold him in place.
The air in the room convulse slightly and the wolves disappear, one at a time, leaving three naked, mostly unconscious men on the floor of the now destroyed room. Something told me this house, or at least this room, was a write-off.
I took a step forward with Edward, his arm still extended in front of me, so we could get a better view of the superiority that our women had over these children. That was what the wolves looked like in human form, children. They couldn't be anymore than sixteen.
I looked questioningly at Edward. He didn't even turn. He just shook his head. They must be much older than their mid-teen appearance. Edward nodded.
Is that THE Jacob?
That's when Edward turned and looked at me. I didn't have to feel for his emotions. The look in his eyes was more than enough.
Alice gracefully jumped off Jacob's back and lowered herself to the floor. She was prepared to pounce if her "prey" even thought of moving. She was sleek and gracefully in her movements but I knew that she wasn't afraid to be a killer if she had to be. I knew I had many things to discuss with her. She wasn't the innocent angel I thought she was.
Bella, had at some point, gone upstairs and was, now, returned with some clothes. I felt the shock in her emotions turn quickly to anger as she looked Jacob straight in the eyes. She threw the clothes and continued to glare harshly at him.
The history stories between these two never mentioned anything about a wanted death on Bella's part. I was sure if no one would prevent it, she would kill the boy where he now stood.
Alice slowly matched Jacob's movements. She wasn't going to allow him to get the upper hand in this showdown. She looked in one-sixteenth of a second around the room and then back to Jacob.
"Kate, get the chains." Alice ordered. She was a leader as well as a soldier. Fuck, what a woman I had found. "Boys, you came to the wrong house to play."
The tone in her voice was frightening. I knew she had to be remembering the last time the Shifters came to her home cause her emotions were bouncing. She was satisfied with herself while watching Jacob holding his arm.
The pain that he was feeling because of his arm instantly hit me twofold as Bella appeared and threw Jacob against the wall but the neck. Both of their breaths were coming ragged. One from lack of oxygen, the other from the anger that was moving through her body.
"What are you doing here, Jacob?" Bella hissed.
Jacob was quite cheeky with his response. "Isn't is obvious, Bella? I missed you." He blew a kiss in her direction.
Edward nearly leaped from his spot. I slammed him with dull and numbing feelings. It wouldn't help if he exploded. I wanted to kill the fucker myself, but I was beginning to enjoy Bella and Alice's tactics. It was interesting to find women fight dirty like men.
Alice proved our dirty she could be. She moved in and pushed Bella's arm out of the way. I heard Jacob take a deep gulp of much needed air but it was pushed out of his body again as Alice brought her knee up between his legs and sending a deafening crunch throughout the room.
"Took you four long enough." Alice said smugly. She smiled brightly at me. I locked eyes with her and instantly forgot anyone else was even in the room.
I heard a soft cough and I side-glanced at Edward before I replied. "Now, why would I want to ruin your fun?"
Yes, that's right, man. I'm stealing lines now. I heard Edward groan and I decided to ignore the sound. I walked over and looked down at the half-naked man crumpled in a heap on the floor. "By the way, remind me never to piss you off."
Emmett had arrived at the last minute and, now, rushed by me and up the stairs. I stood statuesque in his presence. I was sure it wouldn't go unnoticed. Emmett could stay up there with the bitch. We didn't need him anyways. He would only be at half strength because of the interrogation and because of his worry of HER.
I put a foot on Jacob to make sure he wasn't going anywhere and folded my arms across my chest. I was proud of Alice and impressed. She was a little vixen and the heap on the floor was proof of it.
I watched as Kate came back into the house with an amused look on her face, swinging the link chain around in circles. She looked a little too happy with herself.
Edward chuckled and from my vantage point I wasn't sure what the joke was. Edward moved into view and draped one arm over her shoulders. I could feel the madness she had been feeling towards Jacob slip away from her.
Alice looked at Edward, he nodded and left the room. As he left, I looked down at her as I felt electric impulses down my arm as she pulled my hand away from my waist and wrapped her hand in mine. I felt complete again and even more so as she reached up, placing her perfectly plump red lips on my neck. I inhaled deeply and felt my knees go weak. I quickly pulled myself together hoping no one noticed.
Edward returned with the chairs and reached over for one of the chains Kate had been holding. Her delight hadn't diminished, if anything it had gone up a few notches at the sight of the chairs. Metal. Damn, these girls play nasty. Metal chains and chairs. Kate, the vampire lightening rod. Fuck, I really needed to be good around this family.
"Time to play, boys. Kate, wrap them up tight." Alice said innocently and then looked over at Jacob. "Jacob, if you or your friends so much as move, I promise you will get the shock of a lifetime. Do I make myself clear?"
Alice's voice had suddenly gone from innocent to sadistic. I felt a shiver run down my spine. I think that playing with Alice could be fun and a little dangerous at the same time. Hell, that would make it very interesting.
"So, how well can you control your ability, Kate?" I wanted to make sure there wasn't a chance of a repeat performance of earlier jolt I had received from her.
Kate smiled at me. "Well enough. If I was in their position, I wouldn't move an inch."
To prove her point, and I wasn't sure if it was for me or the boys, she drew a small flicker of electricity to her finger tips. She moved to help Edward finish tying the Shifters to the chairs. Kate was in her personal heaven. The chains were linked around their wrists and then snaked up their arms. The same had been repeated for their ankles and legs. From where the chains ended, I was certainly grateful I wasn't the men the girls were pissed off at.
Kate took the end of the chains and held them in her hands, grinning. There was a sparkle in her eyes that told me she was enjoying this a little too much. Sure I knew how to interrogate but I never took joy in it. She had a vendetta and was about to get her revenge.
I made my way to the other side of the room for my own safety. Kate had given me reassurances but I was still a Hunter and an outsider. I didn't know how she felt about me, yet.
"So, where should we start this little show? I would say the stage is yours, Alice?" I said softly. Something told me Alice wouldn't be in charge for very long.
Bella was recharging and her anger was crashing down on me like a small craft in a hurricane. She moved over next to Alice and Edward moved away from Kate to join the women.
Alice took a glance in Bella's direction and then stared for a moment at Edward. She must have relayed something to him because he nodded, she smiled at Bella.
The "pup", as I saw him, asked, "I thought you blood suckers weren't into torture?"
There was thick anger in his voice but the emotions filtering off him were anything but anger. He was worried and terrified at the moment. Kate's ability must be extremely painful as even half-strength.
"I thought you Shifters knew better than to crash through my house uninvited." Alice hissed through her teeth.
I could feel the sickening feeling wave off all three of them at the word "Shifters". I smiled. They never liked the idea that they were less than the Wolves. They continued to take wolf form to be associated as werewolves when in reality they were bottom feeders, leeches.
Alice continued, sounding more pissed than before. "I'm going to have to replace all of that now."
Jacob snapped, verbally, at Alice. "I know you or your little fucking friends killed Leah. I may not be able to do anything about it right now, but trust me, little bitch, you will burn for it."
I threw a wave of intense pain in Jacob's direction. No one calls my angel a bitch and gets away with it. I wasn't sure if it was my push or Kate's shock that she sent through the chain but the reaction was instant. He was suffering badly as was his friends.
Edward pinched the bridge of his nose as Alice put her hand against her temple. I could tell that both motions were well rehearsed and completely unnecessary.
Alice moved closer to Jacob. I could feel his anxiety level rise but physically he was unchanged. "I don't appreciate being called a bitch after I let you live, pup."
She had emphasized the word "pup" and it had the reaction I had thought it would. He was irritated. I was certain it was throwing his concentration off. One look from Edward confirmed this assessment.
"Remember who it is you are talking to. I did not kill Leah. We have been here all day." Alice added.
I could feel the stress in the room rise and I needed to tone it down. This wouldn't be good for me so soon after Emmett's talk. I could sense that Jacob didn't believe any of them.
I moved across them room and in front of Jacob. I leaned over and rested my hands on the arms of the chairs. I made sure it was on the padded areas as I gave Kate a quick pleading glance. I looked back and came nose to nose with Jacob.
The pup stank from across the room and at this distance, it was loathsome. "Look at my eyes, dog. You know what the hell I am. You know how my kind feel about you. But even then, you know how I feel about them. I am telling you they have been here all day. No one in this room killed one of your kind."
That was one thing the Shifters knew about the Hunters. We never lied to them. We didn't have to. We hated them and killed them on site. The less of them the better and they all knew it.
I felt Alice's slender hand grace my back. I didn't have to look to know. The tingle that she sent through me gave her away. I suddenly was throw off track by two emotions. Alice's sexual intensity was thick like a fog and enveloped me. Edward's disgust was thicker.
As Alice gentle persuaded me to move with her, I knew that I had put a fear into Jacob that wouldn't be quenched anytime in the near future.
"Then who did? She was my wife...."
I felt the surprise tear through the room.
"...and you blood suckers took her away from me! And what the fuck is he doing here? I thought your kind didn't like their kind?"
"I didn't. It was probably the Volturi though." Alice answered switching the subject. "They have been coming around here uninvited recently..have you stormed their door and busted up their house?"
I could see the pup's mind working up an answer to the question. Alice didn't give him time to do so. "I assume not, considering you are still alive. It'd take a pretty strong army to get through them."
His emotions told me that he knew she was telling the truth. He had crossed their path at some point in the past.
"And you don't need to worry yourself about who we do or do not associate ourselves with, but I'd be careful not to make him too mad." Alice added.
I threw a small amount of terror towards Jacob. His eyes abruptly turned in my direction. I could see the pleading to make the emotions stop. Alice turned to me. She must have sensed I did something to him cause she moved to stand in front of me.
I was about to argue with her motions when she reduced me to rubble again. She pulled my arms around her sending me into a state of euphoria. I relaxed and allowed the warm prickly feeling to take over.
"Your wife?" Bella asked. Her voice was flat. She was indifferent to the word. It didn't seem to matter to her except by curiosity.
"Yes, my wife." Jacob snarled. "My companion. Is that term really so hard for you blood suckers to understand?"
"I thought you already imprinted?"
"On a stupid fucking blood sucker? No....she was my imprint."
The feelings in the room were so violent in nature. I didn't need Edward's mind reading to know what was going to happen. I tightened my grip on Alice as she stiffened.
"So, you came in here as a hormonal teenager and killed their parents for no fucking reason?" Bella was pissed. Everyone knew it. She hissed in Jacob's face. "You were supposed to be my best friend, Jacob!"
I silently asked Edward for permission to calm Bella down. He looked at Alice and paused then at me and nodded just enough for me to catch it. I sent a small blanket of serenity towards her. I focused it directly at her just as I felt a strange sensation blanket my body.
"Calm down, love." Edward said softly in Bella's ear.
"That's right, Bella. Calm down...listen to your captor."
Bella growled menacingly at Jacob. I could feel that sensation close in tighter on me. Her shield. She's protecting all of us.
Why did you come here so long ago, Jacob? What in the world possessed you to attack my family?" Bella wanted answers.
"Let's just say, one of your family members invited me."
Oh shit. Edward. This is not good. Not right now. This can't happen right now.
Bella's fury nearly knocked me off my feet. I grasped tightly onto Alice to hold me up. She looked at Edward and again stiffened.
"Why are you alive? Shouldn't you be dead by now, Jacob?" Edward broke in.
"And wouldn't that make you happy, Edward. No more competition around to steal your Bella...." Jacob baited.
Edward didn't bite. He was doing everything he could to keep the discussion from coming back to Rose. "If you won't tell me. I can fix it to where you are not alive. And, you were never any competition."
I knew Edward was baiting his own hook. He wanted Jacob to screw up and force his own destruction. I wasn't sure that was the best idea. We needed to get Jacob on the trail of the Volturi not dead.
I loosened my hold on Alice. Loosened and nothing more. I was strangely, during all this, enjoying her touch and scent far too much.
"Pup, you know what? I think you know that you have laid charges on the wrong house. The wrong family. I can promise you one thing. They haven't killed you and your ass fuckers yet because it's against their way. It's against their laws. My laws don't apply. I don't have a problem in killing you.
With that being the case, I think you deserve your revenge against those who wronged you and took your life from you. I can give you a lead on the Volturi. It would be somewhere for you to start in your search for those responsible." I hoped he would take my bait.
I could feel the anger hitting me. Wave after wave smashing against my body. As much as Jacob and his friends deserved their fate that the family wanted to give, I knew sending the pack against the Volturi would kill two problems without getting our hands bloody.
I waited impatiently as Jacob looked back and forth between his two companions. I just wanted the fuckers out of here before the house blew up. I knew Emmett wouldn't stay upstairs for long. And Rose, fuck, if she woke up while Jacob and his pack were here, it was game over. The Shifters win. I wanted to see Rose pay for the misery she had caused this family but this wasn't the way. I wished the fuckers would decide.
I looked at Edward. He didn't move. He didn't signal me in anyway. Was he listening for their answer before they gave it? I wasn't willing to wait any longer. I looked to the other side of me. As I did my nose caught Alice's scent. God, she is such a beautiful distraction.
As I was about to signal Kate to do her stuff, Jacob slumped a little in his seat. "Tell me what you know."
Suddenly, Jacob jumped and yelped slightly. I had seen the small lightening bolts skip along the chains and looked at Kate. Had she seen my signal? Damn, she is quick.
"Sorry, it slipped....scouts honor." She answered in response to Jacob's stare.
Alice's perfect head leaned back against my chest and I took the advantage of the moment. I wasn't letting her scent, touch or feelings distract me from getting Jacob the hell out of here. I wrapped my arms under hers and around her waist. Because of the difference in our heights, if forced me to lean down. My mouth was dangerously close to her ear. I sighed lightly and felt her body melt against me. I had won that round but she still had about three up on me.
"Jacob, there is a house in Olympia. I can give you the address. There are two Volturi High Guards and two of the Royals hiding out there. Would that work for you?" I hadn't moved my head. As I spoke, I purposely used all the air in my lungs and allowed it to brush against Alice's ear.
I could see Jacob wheel's spinning. His feelings were excitable. He was wanting a fight and what was better than handing him Royals wrapped up in a bow. He would be stupid not to take the bait.
The thing was, it wasn't bait. I was sending Jacob and his pack to their deaths. Since shit was already breaking out at the Hunters' stronghold, the Volturi would have put the wives into hiding. Sulpicia and Athenodora were there. The guards were nobodies but if Jacob and his group killed the Queens the repercussions would be massive. The Volturi would bring an onslaught against the Shifters.
In turn, both sides would annihilate each other. Half the war would be finished for good. I looked at Edward. He had the same stupid grin on his face as the cunningness of the plan as I did. We both hid it quickly as Jacob spoke once again.
"Let us go. I need to get to Olympia."
"Fine, but next time you decide to come over, could you please just knock? My house and my furniture would greatly appreciate it." Alice's voice was calm and almost friendly.
She sighed as she looked around the house. I looked also and realized for the first time how much damage had been caused. I silently wondered how much damage she and I could cause.
I was turning my attention back to Alice as she leaned into me when I caught Edward's eye. He was glaring with a tight squint. Before I even had a chance to respond, Alice pulled away, brushing against me as she did. Damn, woman. Your brother's watching. She turned within my arms. She wrapped her hands behind my head and pulled my face down to hers. I drank in her scent and felt a spark lightly tickle my lips as her brushed over them. As I stood stone solid, she slipped out under my arms, leaving me thinking such dirty thoughts that Edward was gagging and running from the room.
