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 14
Sara's POV
Well, Jacob kept his word about us going out ring shopping. I was surprised that he wanted to do so, and of course, he tried to take me on a day that I was going to class. I felt bad that he didn't have anything to do for the day, and luckily the class was just a psychology course, so I decided to sneak him in. He was actually excited about going to a college class with me, and I wasn't sure why? I mean, college is a great experience when it comes to gaining independence, but it's a lot of hard work.
Anyways, we were sitting in the back of the lecture hall, as my professor started to lecture on B.F. Skinner's theory of operant conditioning. I watched Jacob, and I could see how intrigued he was with the class, and it surprised me to see how interested he was in this class. But, he has been in college before, so why should that affect me. Although, I liked seeing him happy, but he's always happy around me. There's just something about him that makes me feel whole inside, but whatever it was, I don't even know how or why I feel that way.
About two hours later, Jacob and I were together in a study room, where I would normally schedule myself after my class for about two hours tops so that I could get any assignments completed for my night classes. Jacob was trying to put the Chinese take-out that he got from the food court downstairs, but I stopped him when I asked him a question. "Jacob, you have been to college, right?"
"Uh, no, not really."
His statement was surprising for me, and a part of me feels empathy and sympathy for him. "Why not?"
He scratched his neck and answered me by saying, "I have a lot of responsibilities back home; to my family, the tribe, pretty much everybody living within a mile from the reservation. Sacrifices has to be made, and even though I would've liked to have gone to college like Rachel did, or traveled to pretty cool places like Rebecca, I couldn't. I made the sacrifices I've made, and for good reasons. I probably would've liked to have gone to college, but I'm proud of getting my GED online, so that's enough for me."
"But don't you ever wonder what it would be like going to college? Getting a degree, or going to frat parties?"
"Well, sometimes, yes. But, then again, I already have been in parties that seems like frat parties on the rez, so it's not anything new to me on that part." He said jokingly, as he stuffed his face with two spring rolls.
"Jake, I'm serious. Don't you ever wonder about going to college and experience some independence; without having to worry about what other people ask of you. Instead, you would be putting yourself first for once, rather than putting everybody else first for just one day?"
"Sara," Jacob started out, turning his body toward me. "I've made sacrifices for a reason, and I will always put everybody first ahead of me...including you."
"But Jacob—"
"I get it, you want me to have something I was cheated out of, and I want it too. But, the fact of the matter is that I made the choice to not go to college. No one else made it for me."
"Would you at least consider the option to go to college, even if it's community college?"
"Why are you asking me about that?"
"Because I care about you, Jake." Wait, did I just say that out loud?
"You care about me?" I realized that I really blew it, yet I saw a big grin appear on Jacob's face.
"I didn't say that," I said, unconvincingly.
"Yes, you did." He said again, this time in a sing-songy voice.
"No, I didn't."
"You like me, Sara. Just admit it,"
I kept shaking my head no, but Jacob stopped me when he pressed his warm mouth against mines. "Don't worry, I won't tell."
"Will you at least consider about community college, and maybe take just one class? For me?" I asked him, my body still buzzed from his kiss, and from the revelation that I've made about him.
"I do anything for you, Sara." And believe me, he would do anything, which both shocked me and also made me intrigued. Could I really be falling hard for Jacob, or am I living some kind of fantasy?...