Chapter 24

"Sam… I… I don't remember. I have no idea what happened."

Sam:

When I saw the tears running down her face I warred with the part of me that said she isn't my imprint so I needed to let her go, and the part that didn't care that she wasn't my imprint, that she should be protected and cherished at all costs.

The second part of me won out. I pulled Bella back into my body and held her there, more than a little afraid to let go.

My head was reeling from the whirlwind of protective and possessive instincts that had taken over just moments ago. The scent of Bella's hair and her genuine fear had allowed me to reign those instincts in some, but I could still feel the vampire stench burning through my nostrils, and that kept me on edge.

"I… I don't know what to do." She looked up at me with wide, fearful eyes. Beautiful eyes that should never have to be afraid like this. Vampires in all their inhumanity caused this.

I was never a man filled with many words, and they escaped me now when I wanted nothing more than to say the right thing to ease her mind.

"You need to shower." I sounded gruff to my own ears and I grimaced. I had to have offended her by saying exactly the wrong thing.

"Oh my God I must smell horrible to you, right? Since vampires are your sworn enemy?" She shocked the hell out of me by laughing and hitting the nail on the head. She was strong. She was scared, but she was strong.

"Honestly, that scent is driving me mad right now. My wolf is on edge." I told her, while I started to gently nudge her towards the small bathroom.

Her tiny hands gripped at my arms and I could tell that despite her more cheerful demeanor she was still scared. Her cheeks were red, I realized that she was embarrassed of her need to be around me. I wanted to tell her she had no reason to be, that I needed to be around her too. My wolf wouldn't allow me to leave her at the moment, even if I had wanted to.

"Let me put the sign on the door." I said calmly, and coaxed her to loosen her grip on me. I quickly hung a small sign that let the doctors and nurses know that she was just in the restroom and to wait for her to be out to check her vitals. We didn't have a whole lot of time before someone would be by.

I tried again to nudge her towards the bathroom, and this time she followed my unspoken direction. I sat on the uncomfortable cot-bed and fully expected to wait for her to return. When she turned on the water, however, she opened the bathroom door back up and stood in the doorway completely nude.

We were in a hospital room as it was, she reeked of vampire, my mortal enemy, and she had been ill, I could tell that she had lost weight. Yet, she was still the most beautiful thing I had ever seen before in my life. She didn't need the extravagances of a hotel or the comfort of home to be stunning.

"Will you come in, I don't want to be alone." She uttered in a shy, vulnerable voice, so quiet I wouldn't have heard it if I'd had human ears.

I stood, and wordlessly eliminated the space between us. The room seemed silent and still, but since I, in fact, did not have human ears I picked up on every muffled voice outside the closed door. I recognized every beat of her heart, which was so earthy and organic above the hum of the TV and other electronics in the building. A fire built inside me at the sound of fabric moving as I made my way to her, promising to silence itself one I removed it and stood naked in front of her.

I wanted her. With the distraction of her nude form and the fact that her clothes, which reeked of vampire, weren't on her, I couldn't smell the awful sweet bleach so much. I was reminded how painfully long it had been since I'd been able to touch her. Since I'd been able to mold her soft, feminine body to my much larger, masculine one.

"Can I kiss you?" I asked. I had to remind myself that she hadn't texted or called before she'd been emitted into the hospital. Even though since I'd been coming to see her she acted happy to see me and still interested in me, she may be feeling that way just because I'm company during her stay in a hospital.

Bella gave me a look like I was an idiot and tilted her head the smallest bit and pursed her lips. Maybe I was an idiot.

Without wasting another moment I kissed her. My hand drifted up to her elegant neck and the calloused skin of my fingertips caused a chill to run through her and goosebumps to appear all over her, despite my supernatural body heat.

"That tickled." She pulled away slightly and giggled. It was a delicate, girly sound I hadn't heard from her yet. It was so endearing I couldn't help but to smile along with her.

"God, you're sexy" she said under her breath, I figured it was something I wasn't meant to hear. But I did, and it was some serious ego boosting. It also changed the mood up again. There was a spark in the air crackling between us now. I closed that distance once more and crashed my lips into hers.

The kiss was needy and wanting, it was aggressive and demanding and called to the alpha wolf inside me like no one else's kiss ever had before her. A growl came up from somewhere deep in my chest and I pulled her even closer to me.

My cock was long and proud now, and had managed the way between her thighs. We both moaned out at the sensation. She squeezed her thighs together, trying to find friction where she needed it, but it only put more pressure on me.

I closed my eyes and intensified the kiss. It was all tongues and teeth everywhere, messy and hot. She moaned again and I couldn't help myself, I lifted her and she wrapped her legs around my waist. I carried her back into the shower that had definitely gotten warm at this point, and slammed her back into the tile wall.

It did cross my mind that we were currently in the hospital, and how was it that she was suddenly feeling better, but it didn't matter right now. What mattered was that one tiny hand was clawing at my back and the other was gripping my rock solid dick, trying to guide it to her dripping wet center. My eyes nearly rolled into the back of my head when she leaned in and pleaded in my ear.

"Please, Sam, I need you."

Bella bit down on my neck after that and a switch flipped within me. My wolf allowed her to bite me, but I still needed to show her who the alpha was around here. I flipped her around so that her beautiful breasts were pressed into the cold tile wall and her perfect ass was pushed onto my overheated abdomen. I slammed into her pussy hard and she nearly screamed at all the sensations assaulting her body at once.

"Yes. God yes." She sighed and lifted her hands, trying to grip onto the wall. She didn't need to worry about falling I had her pushed tightly in between the wall and myself and I had a hand under each thigh of hers. I was in heaven.

I drug my teeth along her neck and she turned to meet me when I got past her jaw. Our open mouths clashed once again and I'd never felt so connected to someone, even though we weren't making love, we weren't having sex, we were fucking. Plain and simple. I was dominating her, manhandling her, and she fucking loved it.

Bella's tight walls squeezed around me and she cried out as she came, but I didn't stop. She closed her eyes and turned her head to the side giving me full access to her delicate neck. Another growl escaped me at the tantalizing sight and I bit her right where she had bitten me on my neck. She screamed this time as another orgasm took over and I burst over the edge along with her.

I set her down and helped her to stand steady and she just looked up at me with wide, beautiful brown doe eyes. She was flushed from the exertion, it made the freckles across her nose stand out even more. Her full lips were pouty and a little swollen, I could look at her face, and into her eyes all day. it was hard to believe and accept that I hadn't imprinted. Everytime I looked at her I hoped that it would happen, but it never did.

I pumped some soap out of the dispenser and started to wash her body for her. It wasn't until I got up to her neck that I realized I had bitten her incredibly close to where a mating mark would go. Given the situation when I bit her it was a really good thing I hadn't marked her on accident. What would happen if I did imprint someday? We'd have been bound together, she wouldn't be able to carry children for another man, and I'd be magically, sadistically, in love with someone else.

"You look upset." She said as she prepared to return the favor by washing me down too.

"I'm not." I lied. I felt bad, but it wasn't the right place or time to explain imprinting to her. I knew I needed to do it sooner rather than later though.

Author's note:

You know, I didn't plan on them getting it on in this chapter... I mean at the hospital? Its a little much. But the characters had their own agenda. I hope it cured Bella's headache at least? I wonder when they will start to figure out Edward's game? hmm...

Happy reading!

~Dahlia