We eventually made it inside our home to find Jared and Paul there with Billy and the elders. Thankfully someone had gotten us clothes that Sam found in the tree line! He said it's the same place he keeps his shorts. I know Sam would never let anyone else see me naked, but him. I felt weird with clothes on and found myself itching. My husband doesn't say anything to anyone as he takes me upstairs, to our room bridal style, and finds me a pair of his shorts and a rare shirt to wear. I change and for some reason instantly feel better, we kiss and have a moment before heading downstairs, hand in hand.
We noticed everyone else had made themselves at home, by making coffee and had gotten the biscuit tin out. So after an introduction, Sam led me into the kitchen and we made our own cups of coffee. There was dimly one other there, named Sue who didn't look too happy to see me here, and I wondered why.
Sam kept his arm around me as everyone seemed to follow us into the kitchen, and I noticed the woman was no longer there and had left. When we were sat down around the kitchen table, nobody seemed to know what to say, except for Paul who sat next to me.
"Is it true?" He asked in a tone I couldn't read. I look to see Sam and Billy having a staredown.
"I said is it true?" Paul asked again, more demanding.
"Keep your fur on Paul! We were trying to figure out a way to tell you." Uncle Billy told him.
"I didn't believe it at first either." I say quietly, "until Ch-him told me he had done a DNA test behind my back, to see if I was his or not. It has been bugging him ever since he walked in on my mum and him, after a long shift!" I answered for Paul as the other two didn't seem to want to say anything at all.
"I need to make a phone call," Paul informs us all, through tight lips. Sam wraps his arm around my shoulders. I still feel a bit sad about our wedding rings, I genuinely did love mine. Sam has promised we will be getting the tattoo ring done this week. That way it won't break on us when we phase.
"Billy…" Sam suddenly growls.
"What I ask?"
"I'm sorry Sam, I had no idea she was bringing her, she was only supposed to get DNA tests to form the surgery." The guy named Harry said as an angry blonde came bursting through the front door.
"LEAH! Don't start this shit!" Harry yelled at the girl.
"Don't you tell me what to do, old man. This is your fault! You banned Sam from seeing me, and now he's shacked up with a pale face? It's not even been six fucking months! Yet you clearly have already moved on." Harry now stood in front of his, clearly daughter after the old man reference was made.
"Don't blame my wife Leah! Things weren't working out anyway. Before you say, no I did not cheat on you with Bella, we met on first beach after I ended things…she's Chief's godchild too. So show some goddamn respect!"
"I don't need to show respect to no bitch, but myself and my mother. She could drop dead tomorrow and I wouldn't give a fuck, at least id have Sam back then." I noticed Harry start to shake, as did Sam but I kept him calm.
"That's it! You're moving to Makah tribe permanently after those words, and staying with Emily and her family. I'm done with your behaviour and arguing against shit you don't understand. Sue, you're also in the shits. You knew she'd kick up a stink if she knew Sam had another woman with him, and you know better than Leah. Leave the DNA kits and help Leah settle in for a couple of weeks." He ordered his wife and daughter who both stared at him in shock, jaws dropped.
"I'm sorry everyone, Bella, Sam." With that, he took the box out of Sue's hands and put it on the table.
"Say shit about my family again bitch, and I won't be held responsible for my actions. I'm not as nice as Sam!" We hear Paul say, as he gets in Leah's face on his way in, and on their way out.
"We don't need to inform Terrance, he's coming!" Paul told everyone as he sat down, putting his phone on the table and reaching for his coffee mug.
"Coming?" Sam and I said at the same time. Paul looks back at the front door, before addressing us all. We all hear the Clearwater's leave, in their vehicle.
"He felt her phase! Gave him a bit of a shock, and got fired after dropping something at work too!" Paul said, chuckling as he voiced this.
"Oh no!" I said, suddenly feeling really bad. Sam growled at Paul and pulled me into his lap.
"Oh don't worry, he hated the job anyway, so it was perfect timing. We don't need to do a DNA test now, as he's clarified it by feeling Bella's phase. He had no idea he even had a second kid, if he did, he'd have stuck around a bit longer, and found work close by. My mother is a lying bitch, and yours is a cheating whore. I don't like Chief Swan but no man deserves to come home to that."
"Did he even know my mother was married?" I asked uncle Billy, who drank some of his coffee before answering with a sigh.
"I'm sorry Bella, but I think your mother slept with most of Fork's Washington. There was a new scent every time she came down on the res with Charlie at weekend cookouts. The men in Forks has no excuse, but Terrence wasn't really one for crowds and Sarah invited Renee down to a pack BBQ one day when Charlie had to go out of town, with work. I don't believe they'd met before that night, so I'm pretty sure he's as innocent as they get, in this sort of situation."
"What about Paul's mum? She didn't deserve it either!" I say to everyone and get a smile out of old Quil.
"Don't feel bad for her, Bella. She and Terrence weren't mates like you and the boss there, and always on and off." Paul told me, then he added glaring at Sam. "I'd rather you did not have sex with my sister in my hearing range, I don't want to hear it."
"They are newly mated wolves, and she's just phased. What do you expect, Lahote? I can see she's marked him already too. What has surprised me is, I'm surprised we have not had a little pup from you yet, with your unfortunate reputation, that could rival your father's." Old Quil said, surprising all of us, including Paul who had his jaw dropped as he stared at the old wolf in shock.
"True!" Uncle Billy chuckled, "he's silent, but I don't think I've ever seen him speechless." Jared burst out laughing this time, he'd been rather quiet through all of this.
"I keep him well protected, thank you very much!" Paul said, sounding offended once he'd recovered.
"Good, we don't want any outsiders, discovering our secrets." Uncle Billy reminded him, looking at Jared too. Jared held his hands up.
"Kim doesn't know shit, I swear. She just thinks we are a cool group of people and loves the attention she gets when she's seen out with us all, Chief! Anyway, you and Alpha here, Alpha ordered my ass not to mark her or tell her about my wolf. Which I wasn't too happy about because she is my mate after all. And she still questions my body temperature to this day. Which I can't blame her, as we were a couple before I was a wolf and she's my mate, who unfortunately has a thirst for gossiping she got from her mother!"
"I thought Kim knew? When you said earlier about her having someone to relate to?" I asked, surprised.
"To Kim, we are a unique, cool group of friends who do odd jobs around the res, which is true, when we aren't playing wolf, we work for the council. She knows Sam and Paul have the same skin type as me, and just assumes we all stick together, because of it. She likes to call us her personal heaters." He explained.
"How come, I can know? And not Kim who's born and raised on the reservation? I know she is a gossiper but surely as Jared's mate, he has some kind of control over her?" I ask, looking directly at Uncle Billy.
"You are the Alpha's mate, Bella. That is the difference, in this situation. Plus with recent revelations, Terrence used to be our beta, until he decided to leave and find work elsewhere when we stopped phasing. He didn't like that idea and wanted to still phase. You have wild blood in your veins that's for sure. A beta, what Paul is, he's the second in charge of this generation's pack! Jacob will never be Alpha, as he did not phase first. Should he ever phase, even though it's his birthright, he won't have that option unless Sam decides he wants to hand over the reins to someone else, but my guess is that would be Paul or Jarred. If I'm correct in thinking?" He asked Sam.
"Yes! Your son is a royal pain in the ass, and I'm sorry Billy but I personally wouldn't trust him with the pack. He's too childish, jealous and doesn't take being told no very well. He proved that the first day I met my wife."
"I heard something about that. I know he's always had a thing for you Bella, even from a young age when the two of you made mud pies in my backyard, then rolled in them. Charlie and I probably didn't help that situation between the two of you, even though you've made it very clear you don't like him in that way, so for that, I do apologise. I'm still considering sending him to Florida, where it's sunny and less likely to run into Vampires. That way, he'll hopefully lead a normal life, and won't give everyone a headache, should his gene become activated." He frowns and becomes lost within his thoughts. I kiss Sam on the lips, get up and collect everyone's coffee mugs, to make some more.
Sam wraps arms around me from behind, whilst the kettle boils and kisses the side of my forehead. I wish we could communicate telepathically, like in our wolf form, that would be perfect. I melted into my husband and had just finished making the coffee when the front door slammed open, making everyone jump. Which apparently is hard to do. I look over my shoulder and get the shock of my life when I see a frazzled Renee standing in mine and Sam's doorway.
Everyone stares at her in complete shock. We'd been so lost within our own little worlds, lost within our inner muses that we hadn't registered anything else around us, so for her to scare the shit out of everyone is saying something, to say the least. I feel my jaw drop, as I see Charlie come running up to the door, looking like he'd rather be anywhere else but here.
"Fuck!" Is the only thing I can think of to say, as this is the first time I've seen Renee and Charlie together. None of us said anything after my outburst, of Fuck. Paul and Jared had since risen and stood on either side of Sam and I. I'm not sure how Jarred is looking but after I glanced at Paul, he stood with his arms folded and a narrowed eyed look on his face, as he eyes the two intruders.
"Coffee?" I ask, not recognising the sound of my voice as I said this in a, well, um, some kind of tone.
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