The Alpha's Bride—Jacob + OC

Jacob Black was forced into a position of power when he first started phasing. Now he's been an Alpha to the La Push wolf pack for almost twelve years, and almost everyone on the reservation are hoping that he'll get married and produce an heir to the wolf pack and to the tribe.

Almost everybody on the reservation (at least those "in the know") still believe that having an imprint (or even just a wife) is essential to continuing the legacy of the Quileute heritage. Jacob, on the other hand, is still suffering from having his heart broken by a woman who left him for a vampire. On one night, Jacob and all of the guys from the pack heads to Las Vegas to celebrate a bachelor party for one of his pack brothers. What he didn't expect was that he would end up getting married to a girl that he not only just met the first night...but who is also his imprint.

Sara Carnegie comes from a well-off family from New York, but made a move to Washington to study teaching and hoping to work with children with special needs. She went through a bad break-up, and immediately put her heart and soul into her studies. Her friends, however, wanted to take her to Vegas to get her mind off of everything and to live life. What Sara never expected was to marry a complete stranger, and wake up in bed with him the next morning.

Sara wants an annulment, but Jacob wants more time with his imprint. With reluctance, Sara agrees to take her classes online and move with Jacob to La Push to at least make their marriage work for the next six months of it.

Could Sara love Jacob for who he is, or will she run the moment she discovers the truth?

Chapter 4

Sara's POV

"Sara, what the hell were you thinking?!" My friend Elise said, while my other friends Georgie, Whitney, and Delilah were all sitting on the bed in my hotel room. I knew they were mad, but still, it's my life.

"Look, it just happened. It was the spur of the moment, that's all."

"Sara, do you have any idea what you two did? Do you even realize what will happen when your parents finds out that you eloped with a guy that you hardly even know?"

"Elise, calm down." Whitney said, as she got up from the bed to wrap her arms around me. "People make mistakes, so just let it go."

"Yeah, well Sara's made a lot of mistakes when it came to guys."

Everyone else but me stared at Elise, trying to get her to shut up. I was fuming. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Um, girls?" Georgie asked, her Scottish accent made her voice go up an octave higher than normal. "Why don't we just forget about it and just get to know this Jacob fellow. He is pretty cute, after all."

"Yeah Elise, let's not talk about it and focus on our friend's new man. Please?" Delilah added.

"No." I said firmly, "I want to know what it is you wanted to say. So, if you all know something that I don't yet, just spit it out."

They gave one another a glance; all four of them, until Whitney finally spoke. "Sara, there is a reason why we're all worried about you. It's not that you can't get any guy, not at all. It's just that the last three relationships you were in didn't end so well."

"So? Doesn't everybody's relationships never work until they finally find the one, right?"

"Well yeah, Sara. But, not including the guy you've just eloped with last night, out of the other three guys you've been with, only one of them was able to nearly get you to walk down the altar with."

They were right; there was only one guy that I nearly married almost a year and a half ago, and that was Cole Holloway.

Cole and I met on our first day of college, and I honestly thought he was the one. He and I spent a lot of time hanging out with one another as friends, which eventually blossomed into romance. I thought we would have forever, but I was wrong. Cole did propose to me not even a year after we met, and on the night before the wedding, I caught him in bed with another woman...my maid of honor.

I felt so devastated, and I cut off all ties with both Cole and my former friend. Since then, I've kept my heart in a steal cage inside of me. When you fall hard for someone, you'd automatically assume that they'll catch you when you fall. Instead, I was shattered into tiny pieces. "You guys, I moved on from Cole. It's not a big deal,"

"You sure about that?" Elise asked me, as I tried to get my anger hidden from them. I have a lot of emotions from all of this, and I don't know why it happened to me.

"It's been almost two years now, and I moved on. Marrying Jake may have been the best thing that ever happened to me after what Cole did to me."

Elise's face showed nothing but anger and possibly hatred. Whitney was unsure of what to say, and Delilah was speechless. "Are you insane?!" Elise shouted.

"No, I'm not."

"This is absolutely crazy, and you're even more crazy to do something like this!"

"Elise, calm down."

"I will not calm down, Whit! What's Sara saying doesn't make sense!"

"Okay, okay, that's enough!" Delilah yelled, causing all of us to stop where we were and turn to her. Delilah is the only person in our group (though the youngest out of all of us) who never gets angry or frustrated. Well, I stand corrected. "Sara can make her own decisions, and if she thinks that she can spend the next couple of months married to a guy she just met last night, then let her do whatever she God damn well please!"

Elise was about to argue, but I put my hand up and said, "I think I need to be alone."

"But I-"

"Please, I'm not in the mood to argue with any of you anymore."

Whitney started to pull Delilah and Elise out of the room, but when she opened the door Jake was on the other side. "Oh, I'm sorry. I was,uh-"

"Just ruining her life,"

"Elise, just stop." I told her, as the three of them slipped out, while Jake stayed by the door. "You can come in,"

"Thanks," he replied, as he shut the door and went to sit down on the couch with me. "Look, Sara, I'm sorry about what happened. I was way out of line when I kissed you in front of your friends."

"It's okay, they would've known about it eventually. I'm gonna assume that your friends probably know as well?"

"Well, the wedding ring was obvious, since I've never worn a single ring in my life."

"Not even your class ring?"

"Actually, I never officially graduated from high school. I ended up getting my GED."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know,"

"No, it's okay. It's obvious that we don't really know a lot about one another, and we're married."

"Then why?"

"Why what?"

"Then why stay married? We hardly know each other, and we're probably miles apart. Why would you even think that a marriage that just happened would be in our best interest?"

I felt his hand, his strong warm hand, takes hold of mine, and I could feel the heat radiating through his skin on top of mines. I didn't want to look up into his eyes, because I knew I would get weak and would want to sleep with him again. To be honest, he's probably the best lover I have ever had in my life.

Did I just say that out loud?

"Sara, I know what we did is stupid. Insane, actually, but I want to at least consider the possibility of this working out. I mean, yes, my parents knew each other growing up and fell in love that way, but I'm not them. My guess with your parents is that they may have fell in love after getting to know each other for who knows how long, and eventually got married. What I do know is that I don't picture myself falling in love like our parents did. You and I have different opinions about love, and maybe this arrangement might work better for us."

"So you think that staying together will make us eventually fall in love? Jake, you don't know anything about me and my disregard with the notion of love."

"Then let me in..."