PREVIOUSLY-
"Vampire. Em picked up the trail near your dad's. Whoever it was had been in your room, Bella, and it made Embry freak. Luckily, Billy took Charlie fishing today. We knew you were safe in school with everyone around, but now I just need to get you down to the res. Can't this truck drive any faster?" He said frantically. I'd never seen Seth like this before and it made me terrified. Who could it be? Victoria and Laurent were both dead…
He topped out my truck at 55mph and as we got closer to La Push, I occasionally saw my wolves flanking the truck while staying hidden in the trees.
Once we crossed the distinct border into La Push territory, there was a howl and Seth immediately pulled the truck over.
"Stay in the truck, Bella, please?" He begged and I nodded to him before he got out of the truck and ran into the woods. I could see the wolves, the whole pack, standing in a defensive line, teeth barred next to the border. It wasn't until I saw a flash of bronze hair that I knew immediately what was going on.
Edward was back.
I had dreamed about the day that he would come back in the beginning, just after he left.
I had wished and prayed that he would for so long, but now I was just angry.
I was fuming.
If I had the wolf gene, I would've phased on the spot.
How dare he?
I had no feelings for the creature standing in the woods opposite of my mate, other than repulsion and contempt.
I knew I had promised Seth to stay in the truck, but just I couldn't help myself. I jumped out of my truck and started walking towards where they all were.
As soon as I was noticed, three wolves were surrounding me, trying to urge me back to the truck.
"It's okay, I won't be going anywhere near the boundary, I just want to talk to him." I told all three of them. I heard Embry whimper as if he were hurt and I realized how that must've sounded to him. "I promise I'm not going anywhere. I'm with you, Embry, I'm yours, and that will never change. I just want to give him a piece of my mind. You guys can be there with me the whole time."
My wolves finally conceded and escorted me to where the rest of them were. I saw Edward and immediately knew something was wrong with him. He had dark circles under his pitch black eyes and was pacing back and forth like a caged animal.
"Bella, my love, what have they done to you?" He said as I approached. I almost gagged at hearing him call me 'his love'. His voice was no longer melodic and beautiful, it sounded like nails screeching down a chalkboard to me. Had he had me under some sort of spell before? Or was this because I was part of a wolf pack now? His sound, his look, even his scent had changed for me.
"First of all, Edward, I am NOT your love. Please refrain from calling me that ever again. Second of all, they've done nothing but help me. And third of all, what the HELL are you doing here?" I yelled at him. My anger was palpable now.
"I didn't mean what I said to you when I left, surely you must have realized that? I love you and I always will. I'm here because Alice said your future disappeared a few months ago. I didn't know until yesterday. Bella, why are you here with these dogs? They are dangerous! Three of them have borderline obsessive thoughts about you, some incredibly inappropriate, and why has your scent changed? You need to come with me to have Carlisle look at you. I'll take you away from these monsters. You haven't even been living at your own house. Have they been keeping you hostage?" He asked as a crazed individual. I scoffed.
"These dogs are my family, Edward. Obviously, during your little overview of my new life, you've failed to notice an important piece of information." I held up my left hand. His eyes widened and he growled, teeth dripping with venom barred, his fists gripped at his side.
"You're engaged to one of them?" He growled deeply. I ran my fingers down Embry's fur as he stood next to me.
"Yes, I am. This is Embry, my imprint." I told him and he looked positively murderous. I worried for my wolves.
"Imprint. I keep hearing the word imprint, what is it?" he asked before what I'm sure was the pack thinking directly about it. "No, no, no, that's impossible, because you're my mate."
Embry growled deeply beside me. I felt the disgust at the thought boiling up in my lungs.
"Obviously not, Edward. I'm just your singer, something you mistook as a 'mate'. The bond between Embry and I is a true 'soulmate imprint'. He is mine and I am his. It's 100 percent absolute. I'm sure you can read his thoughts." I told him, growing impatient with his childishness.
"If he is your 'soulmate' then why are two others 'imprinted' to you as well?" Edward asked with a snarl. "Is this some sort of four-way love triangle and you're in the middle? What kind of sick and twisted things have they pulled you into? One of them is only 15! What would Charlie say, Bella?"
"They are my protectors, Seth and Paul. It's not some four-way thing, and how dare you suggest that! Paul has his own soulmate imprint. None of them would ever hurt me. I'm part of the pack. I'm legally already married to Embry through tribal law, and by the way, Charlie loves all of them, a hell of a lot more than he ever liked you." I told him and that seemed to make him more angry.
"He's defiled you, Isabella." Edward growled. I'm assuming he was reading their minds to find out more.
"No, he's made love to me, as a husband should. But you wouldn't understand that, would you?" I said, and I knew it was a low blow, but I was pissed and I wanted to defend myself and my wolves.
"You're not the same Isabella Swan. Your attitude has changed, your vocabulary, obviously your moral compass. Even your scent has changed, and your heartbeat is strange." He snarled, as if being haunted.
"You're right. I'm not the same. First, my name is Bella Marie Call. After the hell you put me through for four months by leaving, of course I'm going to change. My scent is probably changed because I'm a marked imprint, and my heartbeat is a bit erratic with my extreme anger right now." I explained. Embry put his nose in the crease between my neck and shoulder where my mark was and sniffed before licking it.
"No, there's something else different with your heartbeat… it's not just yours I'm hearing." He said and I looked at him in confused anger. "You mutt! First, you defile her, then you impregnate her with your cursed wolf spawn?!"
A/N- Don't kill me! I know it's a short chapter, but I really wanted to cut it off there to see your reactions.
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