Chapter 27

Sam

An hour or so later, when we'd had some time to cool down, I decided to bring up the topic of meeting my pack again.

"I want you to meet the pack." I said quietly into her dark hair. For the most part I thought that Bella would get along with the pack just fine.

She and Kim would get along, and Jared wouldn't care as long as Kim was happy. Quil was a lot, but for all her blushing, Bella really wasn't shy either. Embry and Seth got along with just about everyone. I knew that Emily would play nice, but might give me hell about bringing her around without the imprint. Angela and Jacob, I knew were excited to have Bella around again, but I didn't know how she was going to take it. Then there was Paul. That was a whole other fucking can of worms. It's crazy, but I swear he and Bella are the most alike, at least when he's not being an asshole. Maybe I should have him on patrol, just for the first time Bella meets them all.

"Is Jacob Black in your pack?" Her voice was soft, and tinged with sadness. A sadness that she probably didn't realize was my fault.

"He is." I felt a heavy sigh leave her small form. I just held her a little tighter, trying to offer up some comfort.

"Honestly I don't know how to face him." She admitted. "I know it was a long time ago, and maybe I should be over it by now… but Jake was my best friend. We spent summers growing up together, making mud pies. Then when I moved back to Forks to live with Charlie in high school he was the first person I saw other than my dad. We became friends pretty much instantly. Maybe I should have realized that werewolves existed sooner, because he told me the legends, but at the time, even he thought they were just fairy tales. We spent afternoons after school in his garage working on some old, beat up bikes, and we'd go down to the beach on the weekends. Then all of a sudden… he just stopped. He just stopped hanging out with me, he stopped talking to me all together… and it broke my heart."

"Bella… that was my fault." I was afraid of her reaction, but the guilt was weighing heavily on my chest. I had to tell her the truth. All the heartbreak she went through because of Jacob, was really because of me. "As alpha of the pack, I can make orders. The wolves have no choice but to follow my command no matter if they are presently human or wolf. I don't like to give orders, hell, I never wanted to be a wolf much less the alpha wolf. The orders are necessary to function as a team and to protect the tribe. When Jacob first phased, I ordered him to stay away from you and advised that he ended any contact to make it easier. I didn't know you, it was not meant to be personal at all. New wolves are volatile and anything can make them angry, I just didn't want anyone to get hurt. I'm sorry, Bella, it was my fault. Jacob was just as heartbroken as you."

I willed her to understand. Now, years later, I'd had more experience as a leader and would have put a time cap on the order. I would have done a lot of things differently if I could. But I couldn't, and I hoped that Bella could accept that. She was nearly silent and time seemed to tick by agonizingly slow as she worried her bottom lip between her teeth.

"I understand. I think it will be hard, if not impossible, to patch up our friendship, but I can forgive Jake. I also can understand why you would give that order. I don't blame you at all. But Angela lied to me for the whole time her and Jake have been dating. Well, maybe she didn't lie, but she omitted the truth, even though she knew how much he'd hurt me. And unless she can be ordered into silence too then I can't understand, and I'm not sure that I'm ready to forgive and forget." She turned so that she could look me in the eye, and brought her tiny hand up to my cheek. "But I can tell that you consider her pack too. I can see it written on your face. I may not be able to forgive and forget just yet, but I will be polite and friendly because I want to be with you Sam, and I know that your pack is a part of the package." Her reaction and everything she just said shocked the hell out of me.

I've been told many times over my years that I was impossible to read. Then, once I became alpha, responsible for leading and protecting my pack and my people, I had to hold my cards even closer. Yet here she was, having only known me for a short time, and she could read me like an open fucking book. My mind replayed what it had thought, just about every moment since I'd met her… why didn't I imprint? Fuck imprinting! There wasn't a soul out there that could be a better match for me. Bella was exactly the kind of woman I'd always dreamed of, and she always managed to surprise me, and as i was finding out more and more each day, she knew me better than I knew myself half the time! Why the fuck didn't I imprint on her?

My brain to mouth function had completely deserted me, I couldn't manage to say a single thing. I just lifted Bella's perfect lips to my own and kissed her, trying to get everything I was thinking and feeling across to her without saying a word. It was in this moment that I knew, without a doubt, that Bella was who I wanted, imprint or not. And since I didn't imprint on Bella, I wasn't going to imprint at all. This time I didn't even bother to wonder or worry over how quickly I was falling for her.

"Who knew?" Bella whispered in between kisses. I pulled back just enough so the she could explain what was going through that head of hers. "We met at a dive bar in Port Angeles and I was desperate to lose my virginity, to be someone different for a night. Out of anyone, I met you, and I knew you were who I wanted to lose it to, and now, you mean so much to me." Her chocolate eyes flickered between mine and my lips, before she leaned in and kissed me with a little more steam than before.

"That night when I saw you, you were the most beautiful, sexy, perfect person I've ever seen." I told her honestly. I hadn't known at the time that I was being used to rid her of her v-card but I'm so fucking glad that I was. I kissed her forehead, her high cheekbones, her perfect little nose with its splash of freckles, and her sweet lips. She giggled and kissed me right back.

"I'm definitely not perfect." She shook her head. I just turned us so that her back was on the mattress and I was holding my weight above her, instantly getting hard again.

"I think you're perfect for me." I admitted and a blush spread across her cheeks.

"I'm falling for you, Sam." Her breathy words were so quiet that even with my supernatural hearing I could have misheard her. The intense look swimming in her chocolate orbs, told me I hadn't. I lowered myself more onto her and my lips found hers as my hand found the bottom of her t-shirt. I wanted to know just how far down that blush of hers went.

I gave myself time to just feel her lips on mine and the soft skin of her waist as I made my way to her full breasts. I trailed my mouth down her neck and left little nips as I went. I needed to be careful this time, I had almost marked her again earlier. I'd decided that I wasn't going to imprint on anyone else and I knew it in my gut to be true, but I still wasn't going to mark her without her knowing the significance.

"Oh, Sam…" Bella whispered and trailed off as I finally removed her top all together and took one perfect rose bud in between my teeth. God, her tits were unbelievable. I could spend the whole day sucking on them, nipping them, adoring them with sweet torture.

Her tiny hand snaked down between us and pulled me free from my constricting boxers. My dick was already standing at attention for her. A low growl escaped me at the feel of her slowly pumping me up and down and running her thumb lightly over the head. She started to guide me to the wet heat between her legs, and I wanted it. I just wanted to taste her first.

I took her and flipped her so that she was face down but her legs were on either side of my shoulders. I held her firmly at her thighs so that she wouldn't fall. I now had the perfect fucking view or her ass in the air and her pussy lips gleaming in front of my face. To top it off she was now face to face with my almost painfully hard cock.

Bella didn't miss a beat, her mouth was on me as far as she could go, her small hand working as hard as it could on the rest of my length as she cried out in pleasure for me. She loved when I manhandled her during sex, and I fucking loved doing it.

She was practically dripping wet now and the smell of her arousal surrounded me and overwhelmed my senses. I growled again, bit down on the inside of her soft thigh, then dove in to taste my delicious treat. She let out a squeak in surprise at my love bite, but it quickly turned into a full, weighted moan that vibrated all around my throbbing dick.

"Fuck, Bella." I ground out at the sensation. I kept my hold on her with one hand, thankful for the supernatural strength and grace, and trailed the other one between her spread open legs. I plunged two fingers into her tight core and kept a fast pace. I was going to cum and I wasn't about to let that happen before she came first.

"Sam!" She squealed. I swelled with pride as my girl, this beautiful, crazy, sexy woman spread out for me, called out my name over and over as I finger fucked the hell out of her. I bit down fairly hard on one of her ass cheeks right as she ever so gently nipped at the head of my cock and that was our undoing. We both came, hot and heavy, but my wolf wanted more.

I helped her get back into a normal sitting position and she immediately crawled into my lap, straddling my hips and she sank down onto me, taking me all the way into her hot, tight pussy. We both let out a sigh like it had been far too long since we'd been connected this way, when in reality it had only been maybe two hours.

That's when my phone started going off, the shrill ringing ruined the quiet intimacy in the room. We both ignored it and Bella continued to move her hips against mine. I brought both my hands to her swaying tits and led one pink tip to my eager mouth. My phone silenced and she picked up her pace and wrapped her arms around me. I let her nipple go and attached my lips to her throat, right where her pulse point was.

Her naked breasts were pressed tightly against my bare chest, her pussy was soaking wet and wrapped around me, taking in every inch of my length and Bella was letting little whimpers and moans out right by my ear. I was convinced that this had to be fucking heaven...until the blaring sound of my cell phone ringing went off again.

"Just answer it, make them go away." She mumbled into my neck with a sigh. I reached over to the nightstand and answered the phone without looking at the caller ID.

"Who is this?" I said more rudely than I'd meant. I heard several of the guys laughing at my expense on the other line and knew that it was my pack. "What?" I asked, not having the attention or patience for this when I had Bella literally riding me. She must have heard the change in my voice or heard the other end of the line when I realized who it was that called because she started to move again. My eyes were nearly rolled in the back of my head in the effort to not growl or moan.

Her little fingers were dragging across the skin of my chest, leaving a trail of heat wherever she went. She pushed me down so that my back was on the bed and lifted herself almost completely off of me and slammed back down, taking me into her. She repeated the action deliberately, and slowly, again and again. The view was breathtaking to say the least. Her tits were bouncing with every movement she made, her eyes were closed in concentration, and I had the perfect view of myself disappearing inside of her. It was all I could do to stay quiet. I was practically biting my own lip off in the effort.

"You busy dude?" More snickering followed Embry's rhetorical question. I should have guessed that they'd hear Bella's little mewls even if I'd somehow managed to stay quiet for the moment. This time, she'd obviously heard the other line too as she turned red as a tomato, then hid her face in the crook of my neck. She stilled for the moment and waited for me to be done with this call that I didn't want to take in the first place.

"What do you want?" I demanded, ready for the conversation to be over.

"We are at your place, we came by earlier and you weren't here, so thought we'd try again. Now we know where you've been." I heard Quil shout something from the background that sounded a lot like, "Bros before hoes man!"

"Go home then?" I said, losing it a little as Bella started to rock her hips again, starting to pick up the pace little by little. She leaned down and bit at my pec, then nibbled on my nipple. This time a growl did slip out.

"The girls all wanted a movie night and you said as long as Emily brought some baked snacks we could use your place? We're all here man." Embry reminded me. I had completely forgotten. Again I heard Quil shout from somewhere behind him, "Must be some damn good snatch to get our mighty Alpha to fuck up!" Which was quickly followed by an "Ow!" also in Quil's voice as I assumed one of the girls must have smacked him upside the head.

"K. We'll be there." I cut the conversation off and hung up, losing my damn mind with trying not to pin Bella down and take her as hard as she'd let me. I tossed the cell phone, not giving a fuck about it at the moment, and gave Bella my full attention once again.

It was only about a half hour later that we pulled up to my house on the res. I realized that this was the first time Bella would actually be seeing my place. It hadn't been on purpose, it just hadn't happened yet.

I walked her up the steps, but before I could even reach for the handle, the door swung open in front of us. The guys stood in the doorway and the girls had scrambled to look out the window and spy on us.

"Hey there love birds!" Kim shouted from her perch by the window.

"Nice to meet the new Bells! Sex voice suits you." Quil chimed in. Bella blushed and Quil turned to me, doing a poor imitation of Bella's voice, "oh wouldn't you agree Sammy?"

I was ready to tell him not to call me that, and warn everyone else before it turned into a habit. Everyone chuckled at Quil's antics, but it was Bella's response that had everyone cracking up.

"Oh, Quilly, I've not once called him Sammy, he's far too big for that." She said, shocking the hell out of me. I'd known she wasn't as shy as some people thought and I knew she'd been friends with Quil before when they were in high school, but I didn't realize they'd click again so easily.

Kim made her way to Bella, tapping Quil's hanging mouth closed on her way, and gave Bella a hug.

"Oh my god, you're my new best friend. I'm Kim by the way. I'm glad Jared talked me into giving you a chance." She pulled back and looked at Bella and scrunched up her nose. "No offense but you run with Vampires."

Bella's cheeks turned red and she seemed to not know what to say. Thankfully Jared came to the rescue.

"I don't know babe, Sam here could have turned her into a wolf girl." He said as he came over to wrap an arm around Kim's shoulder. "I'm Jared, it's nice to meet you Bella."

The guys went through introducing themselves. Emily and Paul weren't here yet. Jake and Angela stayed quiet from where they stood by the couch. Bella walked over to them and tentatively hugged them both. It was forced, but I could tell that she was trying.

"I'm sorry I haven't called you back yet, Ange. I just didn't know what to say, but can we just move on?" Bella asked quietly, then added, "us too, Jake."

"Of course Bella, I really am sorry." Angela pulled Bella in for another hug. "Also, can I just say I knew you and Sam would get along if you ever met. I'm glad you did meet by the way."

"Yeah, me too." Bella laughed, then looked at me sweetly. I couldn't help but smile back at her.

"I'm ordering pizzas! What does everyone want?" Embry called from the kitchen. Everyone responded, yelling out what they wanted.

"What are we going to watch tonight, ladies?" Seth asked, knowing that Kim and Angela probably had something picked out already.

Everyone took their seats and sat around the television. Seth, Embry, and Quil had borrowed chairs from around the kitchen table. Kim was curled up in Jared's lap, Angela was tucked into Jacob's side, and Bella was nestled on the floor between my legs, so that I could run my fingers through her hair.

"Do you want to sit up here instead?" I asked. Bella just shook her head no, and leaned further back into me.

"Should we wait for Emily and Paul to get here before we start the movie?" Angela asked.

"Ohhh no. I have a feeling they're a little caught up in something at the moment!" Kim gushed as Jared just shook his head, smiling.

"Oh yeah! That's tonight isn't it!" Embry chimed in.

"What am I missing?" Angela asked, confused.

"Yeah! I wanna know what's going on too!" Quil complained, obviously feeling left out.

"Yeah, it's happening tonight." I told those who knew what I was talking about. Bella just looked up at me in question.

"You'll just have to wait till they get here to find out." Embry said, laughing at Quil's expense.

"Soooo what's the movie?" Seth brought up again, slouching low in his chair.

"Well the girls picked out… The Shining?" Jake said in surprise as he picked up the case to put the DVD in. "You just want an excuse to hop up in my lap don't you?" He waggled his eyebrows at Angela.

"Guilty." She winked at him.

"Yeah, we might get scared." Kim pouted at Jared. He just kissed the top of her head, then her forehead, then a sweet kiss on her lips.

I looked down to see Bella watching them intently with a thoughtful expression on her face. As the movie played, I kept an eye on her and several times throughout the movie I'd catch her sneaking a peak at both imprinted couples in the room.

During a quiet part of the movie the doorbell rang and everyone, including the wolves, jumped. I guess we'd been too engrossed in what we were doing. The girls all buzzed in excitement, hoping that it was Paul and Em. It wasn't and the guys could all tell. It was the pizza man.

Once he left the pack was on the pizza like, well, wild animals. I'd intended to grab a few slices for Bella and myself, having insisted she stay sitting by the couch so she would get run over by the 6' something men. But before I could get there, Jake blocked the way and said, "imprints first and Bella too."

Two things happened in me at once. First, my wolf growled, angry that Bella had been seen as less than the imprints. Second, oh fuck. Bella definitely hadn't missed the word 'imprint'. Worry settled in my stomach. Would she accept me? Would she believe me when I say her I'm not going to imprint?

Bella stood and came towards the front of the line where Angela and Kim were grabbing their share of food. Bella then grabbed herself a plate and made a second plate.

"This plate is for Emily and Paul when they get here." She announced as she stuck the plate in my fridge. The rest of us filed through to get our fill of pizza.

When we'd all finished we sat back down and I pushed play on the remote to resume the movie. Bella sat on my knee, close to me, but she seemed far away. Again, she stole glances at the imprinted couples.

After awhile, Bella seemed to relax a little and snuggled in closer to me. She left little kisses on my neck then whispered in my ear.

"Sam, what is an imprint?" She didn't realize that even though she was whispering, the whole pack could hear her.

"Let's just step outside for a second." I told her. I helped her up and led her to the porch as my heart hammered in my chest. I got several looks of pity from the guys and an apologetic look from Jake.

Author's Note:

Thanks again to MacabreMystic for proofreading and bouncing ideas around with me! The next chapter is sure to be dramatic... especially with another visit from our villain on the horizon... Did I say too much?

Anyways, let me know what you think! I always appreciate comments, ideas, and constructive criticisms, so feel free to drop a review or PM me!

Happy Reading!

~Dahlia~