Sorry for the long wait for this chapter. It`s a bit sappy but I think whatever is said here needed to be said.

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"Was it true what you said earlier?" Kim asked Jared somewhere from the jumble of sheets and blankets that she was under. After she had said yes to marrying him Jared basically spirited Kim back to his house and made love to her again and again, the sex had been claiming for both of them. Kim had just finished giving Jared what was the best blow job of his life. He lay on his back contented, unwilling to move away from her and to think about any more problems.

"What did I say earlier?" He asked, pushing the covers away from her head and pulling her up to him. She looked at him with that shy eyed expression that he adored.

"That you always knew my name, and noticed my smiles." She said hesitantly.

That was true. Of course Jared noticed Kim before. Noticed her smiles and shy looks. Before he was only interested in sex. In the past he chose his girlfriends for this reason. He didn`t want conversation or love, he had wanted girls who would put out and make him look good in the eyes of the losers he used to hang out with. He knew a girl like Kim would have wanted more than that. Why would he have wasted his time on a girl that other guys said was frigid and who he would have to bring out on a date about ten times before she gave head? Christ! Jared cursed himself for his shallowness.

"Yeah..I did." He was unwilling to say anymore. He doubted whether she would be content with his short answer. She looked at him expectantly.

"So you called me Karen just to be a jerk?" Jared was not pleased that Kim asked him this, it was something else whose answer would hurt her.

"Yeah, stupid of me I know."

"So why pick on me?" She pouted jokingly.

"Because you didn`t smile at me." Jared said seriously. It was the plain and honest truth. Kim frowned at him.

"Because I didn`t smile at you? Oh man!" She laughed and sat up a little.

"It`s the truth. Imagine Kimi. I come back to school with the knowledge that I could change into a giant wolf. I`m angry about it too. I have super hearing that can pick up every stupid piece of gossip being spread about me. I can smell every cheap perfume and cologne. Everybody is looking at me and whispering. Then, I get to my history class. I sit beside the shy girl who I kinda had a sneaking suspicion liked me, who I ignored because it felt nice having a sweet girl like me, the one person who always looked up at me and smile even though I never smiled back, although... I did picture your face sometimes when I was getting head from other girls. When you didn`t even glance up from your book once, it got me pissed. I was the one who ignored you, not the other way round. To make matters even worse you were giving off this amazing smell. I think it made me a bit insane and a bit more angry. I wanted, I needed you to look at me, I wanted to make you feel small, because when you didn`t give me one look it made me feel small. So, I called you Karen, and eventually, you looked at me and changed my world forever."

"Wow!" Kim was looking at him wide eyed.

"I`m sorry if I hurt you...but it`s the truth." He smoothed away her hair from her face and tucked it behind her ears.

"You didn`t hurt me, don`t worry. I`m just surprised that you knew that I liked you. I thought I hid that well." She blushed when she said that. Jared smiled at her sadly.

"You`re mine to read Kimi, I`m not a stupid person. Your eyes say a lot you know. I knew..and I didn`t want to do anything about it. I didn`t see..or want to see you that way. I was the type of person who was terrified of falling in love. Of having my heart broken. I had never wanted to feel weak or vulnerable. When I imprinted on you I knew the reason why I ignored you for all this time. You are the only girl that could make me feel that way. Somewhere in the back of my mind I had always known that. That`s why I ignored you. That`s why I could look at any other girl and not you. But you...you always liked me...and when I imprinted on you, I felt like the biggest asshole for never acknowledging it."

"Maybe I should have made a move on you?" Kim said sadly. Jared contemplated her. It would be best to be honest.

"If you had...I would have found a way to get into your undies and have my wicked way with you, after...I would have probably blown you off." Jared was gripped with self hatred when he saw the effect his words had on his sweetheart. She looked so hurt.

"Why didn`t you tell me any of this before?" She was so downcast that Jared sat up and pulled her upright and into his arms and into a tight hug.

"Because I didn`t want to hurt you anymore or make you think any less of me. I want to be the type of man you deserve, not the stupid kid I was before. I want to be worthy of you! I swear I have changed! I`ve grown since then."

"Jared, I`ve loved you since before you imprinted on me, since before you`ve changed! I know your history and it definitely doesn`t change the way I feel about you, I could never love you any less. I fell in love with you because I knew that deep down that you were one of the good ones...that deep down there was something special about you. Everything you did or said had my interest. The questions you would ask in class. The books I knew you read, the music you liked, not the Jared everybody saw on the outside, the superficial, carefree baseball player who liked blondes and parties, but the Jared who had the highest G.P.A in class and used to play the violin in middle school. The Jared who had hopes and dreams for the future, the same types of dreams as me, even if he didn`t bother to notice or find out about them."

Kim took Jared`s face in her hands and looked him straight in the eye with overwhelming intensity. She had never gave Jared this type of look before, it unnerved him a bit if he was honest.

"I have always loved and desired you Jared, always, never forget that, warts and all." She whispered into his ear.

"I love you too Kimi." He whispered back and her before kissing her. She broke away before it could get too heated. Her skin was flushed.

"I would kill for you Kim, as creepy as that sounds."

"I know you would...I know." Kim sounded resigned.

"I am here to protect you...I know you don`t want me to..to kill or hurt anyone..but when it comes to you and our child, everything changes."

"I know Jared. Have you...has the pack...thought about what I think about the others? About what happened to Santi`s tribe."

"We have, we are taking that quite seriously. Sam is probably talking to Santi this minute. You are smart for coming to that conclusion. I suppose we won`t be so welcoming to any more visitors in the future." Jared said the last sentence quite bitterly.

"When you find Whitney..." Jared cut Kim off with one look. He could hardly contain his anger when he heard that bitches voice.

"When I find Whitney..I will tear her limb from limb."

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