CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE

Jacob Black

"Dam Princess" I cursed letting out a soft whistle from are concealed position across the street.

She was like a woman possessed, she just didn't know when to stop. I stepped forwards and was about to stop her but Quil jerked me back shaking his head firmly.

Erin looked down at the machine on the lawn, shook her head and stamped back into the house. She emerged only a minute later and I looked over her creamy legs that stuck out under the shorts feeling my mouth go dry.

Her gaze was intent and she circled the contraption eyeing it with caution like it was something wild. She paused turned her head to the side analysing it before sighing.

Noah was away at a car show, he'd been hand picked at the last minute to fill in for a mechanic at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and I was a little jealous. But his absence had forced me into the garage and since then Erin had been avoiding the place like the plague and her sister Paige had been sending me menacing glares every chance she got.

It wasn't just the garage Noah put me in charge of. He'd be gone for a little while, which meant he tasked me with keeping Erin in check.

Not that it was going to be an easy task. She wouldn't even be within a five mile radius of me.

I felt a little guilty at how blissfully unaware Noah was about the hole situation. He had no clue about what had unnerved Erin so much. He told me he'd made her see a therapist again. It was one of those really expensive ones, and he reckoned she hadn't even spoken during a session yet.

Dam stubborn was Purser.

"She'll blow herself up" I grunted looking at her with the lawnmower and considering for a moment that it was perhaps her plan all along.

"Look she'll be fine. Don't be so negative" Quil snapped and I glared on.

Negative. I wanted to rip Quil in two and spit him out on Erin's lawn.

"I cant watch this" I insisted stepping forwards but he lugged me back again.

"Are you crazy dude! Do you want her to friggin pass out on her front lawn, or worse through the lawnmower at you and have you turn into a wolf right there and then!" He demanded.

I snorted. "As if I'd shift" I snorted at his doubt in my self-control.

"I'm pretty sure if Purser through a lawnmower at you, you'd shift Jake" he snubbed.

"Lets put it to the test" I smirked stepping out across the road and towards her.

It only took a few strides to reach her and she shot upright her hands grasping around the mowers handle and her eyes dark.

"Don't you need a license to be handling one of those?" I teased.

"Go to hell Jacob" she snarled.

"Come on Princess" I begged.

"Get off my lawn before I mow you down and feed you to Quil and Embry in a pie" she hissed her face emotionless.

"You wouldn't dare" I teased but forced myself to keep quite when she pulled the starter cord and the engine roared to life.

"Don't test me Black" Erin warned and I wanted to laugh, hell I probably would have had it of been anyone but her. But this was Erin, messed up, unstable Erin.

"So I got a little bored waiting for you to restructure your world and stuff" I admitted.

"So you thought you'd come find me" she processed.

"I did try and stay away" I shrugged. "It's harder than you'd think" I added.

"Move please" she requested moving forward with the lawnmower which sliced through the lawn. I stepped back onto the pavement waiting politely until she'd done the entire lawn.

It seemed to infuriate her the harder I stared, and I had to admit her temper was turning me on. So I stared harder.

I eyes up her curved figure, rounded arse, creamy thighs, bruised knees, fleshly shaved legs, tight shorts and band shirt. I glared at her messy hair and red eyes which were bloodshot. I glared at her concentration and she tried to keep her breaths even but her nervous shake gave her anxiety away to me.

Erin stopped abruptly tripping over the cable she stumbled to an ungraceful halt and puffed the hair from her eyes.

"You. You and your lies, your deceit, your behaviour. I know I haven't even begun to understand it properly Black. But my God when I do I am going to be coming down on you with all sorts of evils. You just wait. I'm going to write you. Im going to write all of you and bring you and your little secret down with me!" Erin hissed her eyes menacing as she stood up to her full height.

I hadn't expected an outburst. Let alone a threat from her.

"You think people would believe you?" I accused my tone more mocking than it should have been but it flared her up.

"Your right, who would believe little psychotic Erin anyway? Well I guess we'll find out soon enough wont we" she smiled.

"I live in fear Jacob, fear everyday, from an anxiety you have added to. So now it's time you lived in fear. Fear of me" she hissed.

"Erin have you been taking your medication" I demanded trying to silence her ranting.

"Have I been taking my medication!" She shrieked and I wondered what was holding Quil from coming bombing out of the woods and towards us.

"Your sick" I tried to state but she swatted down my feeble attempt of understanding.

"I am sick Jacob. I am sick of your lies. Of your betrayal. I am sick of the sight of you, get of my lawn, get out of my property and get the hell out of my life!" She cried the tears beginning to mark at her wild face.

I backed away slowly not daring to turn my back on her.

"See you around then, Princess" I added for effect and she began to physically shake. I watched her as the tears became to much and her persona dropped away until it was just Erin. My beautiful, psychotic Erin crouching into the grass, curling herself up as a sob racked through her and a rasping panic attack wrapped through her small body.

I turned my back on her which was a betrayal. I should have stayed with her. A better man would off, could off.

But I was about to shift and my strides left Quil behind as I dashed towards the woods the Wolf taking over me.

"Well that went as well as could be expected" Quil mocked and it was all it took to send me over the edge and I shifted instantly letting out a fierce growl that I'm sure she could hear.


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