EDWARD:
I watched Leah pull out of the small parking lot, wishing more than anything that she didn't have to be home soon. My day with her was better than the best heaven I could imagine. My lips burned pleasantly from the heat she had left behind on them. Her honeysuckle scent wafted around my car and I inhaled it deep into my lungs to satiate my need for more of her. She loves me. I was higher than any drug addict had ever been.
His thoughts came barreling through my euphoria, effectively spoiling it.
I know you can hear me, bloodsucker. We need to talk. If you aren't a coward then meet me at the treaty line. Alone.
I tried to look for more information on his plans but he just kept repeating the same thing over and over in his head. I was grateful now that Leah wasn't with me. I don't know that I could have kept it from her if she was, and the last thing I wanted was her anywhere near the unstable wolf and his unresolved feelings.
I slipped my car into park, grateful for the clouds that had come to shield me from the direct sunlight. I pulled my hood up just in case and stepped out of the car, walking casually towards the forest's edge. Once safely obscured from vision I broke into my true speed and was at the border within a few minutes.
He was there of course. I stayed back a few hundred yards and climbed a tree so I could conduct some surveillance before just strolling in blind and alone. I was confident if it came down to it I could take Samuel in a fight but if he has any other wolves hanging around it could make things a bit more complicated for me.
I listened as far as I could stretch my ability and heard nothing but his previous message to me playing on a loop. I jumped down and continued the rest of the way to the wide crack in the earth that marked the division of our opposing species.
His low growl started the moment he laid eyes on me. His train of thought faltered and was flooded with images of him and Leah, only now I replaced him. I could tell this enraged and disgusted him, but not because he still wanted to be with Leah. He just didn't want her to be with me.
"What do you want?" I spit, knowing he could hear me despite the football fields worth of space between us.
You need to stay the fuck away from her.
"That's not up to you. The treaty says nothing about relationships. I have not violated anything."
His hackles raised and he gnashed his teeth at me angrily
You have no relationship and you never will.
I smirked antagonistically. "I believe she would beg to differ."
Enough! Listen to me leech. Leah is a Clearwater. Does your stupid ass even know what that means?
I glared at him without saying anything, waiting for him to continue.
Not only that but her mother is partly descended from the Black family. She has shifting DNA on either side of her lineage. Now, do you know what triggers the wolf gene?
"All the ones we've ever met have been male. I've never seen or even heard of a female shifter." I said, shaking my head vigorously in disbelief.
How can either of us really know for sure? What I do know is that we went years without a wolf in our tribe. 70 to be exact. Wonder what could have possibly changed all of a sudden.
Realization was hitting me like atom bombs. Eighty-three years ago we left Forks for Anchorage. Three years ago we returned.
You might think you can be around her without hurting her bloodsucker, but you can't. The very fact that your kind exists is going to destroy her life.
"YOU'RE WRONG!" I roared but I knew he was right. There was no heaven for monsters like me.
Honestly I wish I was. Because the only thing I can think of that is worse for Leah than you is this.
His mind filled with every horrible moment since his own gene had been triggered, only this version had been altered to star Leah alone. The images of her terror and pain were more than I could handle. I turned and ran without stopping.
***I have been up literally all night working on these last two chapters so please tell me if anything is incoherent because I am seeing double at this point lol but I just had to get it out to you guys. thanks for all the love, as always please keep leaving feedback good or bad***