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Leah sat staring out of the big picture window in the Cullen house. Embry would leaving this evening and she hadn't seen him since a week ago when he gave her a choice. Truth is told she had picked up the phone to call him at least a hundred times and every single time she heard him pick up she would slam the phone back down again. She wasn't used to feeling this way. Leah had always known what she wanted and usually she would go for it, but with everything which had happened in the last year she had lost some of her confidence and almost all of her trust. Going with Embry and telling him that he had her heard required a whole lot of trust she wasn't sure she had inside of her.
"If you didn't trust him you never would have opened up to him the way you have." Edward Cullen stated as he came to stand next to her in front of the window. The mind reading vampire had tried to ignore her thoughts and yet he couldn't since they were practically screaming out at him. "I know it is not my place and yet I feel the need to say something to you Leah. We are not friends and I doubt that we ever will be. Still we are not enemies in the same way we had been before you came to stay here. I have seen you with Embry and even I know that you are in love with him. You put a guard up to try and fool the world something I can understand because I do the same. You fear change because any change in your life as of late has been negative."
"If you are trying to cheer me up you are doing a piss poor job." She snapped still staring out the window with her arms crossed over her chest. "Aren't you supposed to be telling me that love heals all wounds or some crap like that?"
The bronze haired vampire chuckled as he let out a deep sigh. "I would be lying to you if I said that and we both know you deserve the truth. Love doesn't fix everything if anything it complicates things, but it does so in the best possible of ways. I was alone for over a hundred years and then I found Bella and I knew I had found my future. That does not mean I gave in to my feelings right away. Here I am nearly indestructible, but I was terrified. I did not know how to deal with this new feeling and so I ran from it, but I was miserable. When I finally took the chance and got in to a relationship with her I realized that while it would be complicated it would be worth it."
"You left when she got hurt." The she-wolf pointed out still not looking at him. "You did it because you thought it was what was best for her. You knew it would hurt her deeply and you still did it. You wanted her to have the best possible life even if it didn't include you."
"Is that what you are doing with Embry?" He asked looking over at her with a half-smile. "It is isn't it? You think that you are protecting him, but I do not know what you think you are protecting him from."
Leah finally tilted her head to meet his eyes and he saw sadness written all across her face. "I am protecting him from me. I know it sounds stupid and yet I am probably the most dangerous thing for him. I hurt everyone I have ever cared about. I'm like poison and I don't want to poison Embry. I want him to be happy even if I have to make him hate me first in order for that to happen."
The mind reader nodded as he took in this information. He had gathered as much from her thoughts. "Well you should know that he is never going to hate you. Whatever you do to him or don't do he will always love you. His faith in you is almost unbelievable. While everyone around you had doubts about you being able to overcome your cutting Embry knew without a doubt you could do it. Never once did he waver in that belief. Leah you may not trust yourself, but I know you trust Embry and don't you think you owe it to him to give the two of you a chance when he is so sure about the two of you being able to make it? Prove him right again and trust that he knows what he is getting in to."
She thought about what he said and while it made since she was still unsure. "Even if I wanted to he probably changed his mind since I haven't talked to him all week and I would never make it in time even if I ran at my top speed. It's too late leech and maybe that is for the best."
"It's never too late for love Leah." Edward stated as he headed towards the door with her following him in confusion. "Alice is already packing your things and I am going to give you a ride. I have permission to be on the Makah reservation. We can make it if we leave now. So are you in or are you out?"
Leah rolled her eyes with a smile. "I am in, but your stupid silver Volvo isn't going to get us there in time."
"Who said anything about taking my car?" The vampire replied before grabbing her round the waist and slinging her on to his back. "If you make a joke about me being a horse I swear I will run so quickly you throw up. You once wanted to know how fast I could go and now I am going to show you. We are going to make it Leah you just have to have a little bit of faith."
TBC…
AN: I couldn't sleep and so I wrote this chapter. There is one more after this and then it is the end. I may or may not do a sequel one of these days I have not decided. You all need to vote and let me know which story you would like me to work on next after this. Let me what you all thought of this chapter I do hope that you liked it.
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