Chapter Two

Jacob

Fuck! Fuck! Shit! Fuck!

I turned off the shower, grabbed a towel and I nearly ripped the door off when opening it.

"Rose, they're back," I said, panicked. She wasn't in the bedroom anymore and I could hear her downstairs in the laundry room.

"What?" she replied, having obviously heard me.

I raced down the hallway and leapt over most of the stairs in one go. "They're back. I saw Edward up on the hill and he saw me." I reached her as I finished speaking and her face was completely blank except for the fact her eyes were the size of saucers.

I fastened the towel around my waist while she took in what I'd said.

"Fuck…" She whispered, obviously shocked. "They weren't meant to be back until tonight."

"Well that hasn't gone to plan." I didn't mean for it to come out as sarcastic as it did, but this was hardly a time where I could be totally in control of my tone. "What the fuck are we going to do?!"

She glared at me. "Obviously. Go get dressed. There's nothing we can do if he saw you. There's no possible reason for you to be in my bathroom that makes sense."

My entire body was frozen in shock and panic. This was the day I was going to die. There wasn't any huge concern about Nessie since I knew she had no exceedingly strong attachment to me anymore and was just keeping up appearances. Edward would lose his shit entirely. And then there was Emmett…

Fuck.

"I'm sorry," Rose said softly.

I blinked rapidly and managed to look up at her face. "What?"

"You're going to lose everything," she explained, her face very much softened compared to a minute ago. "I'm sorry for that."

My chest ached all of a sudden. She was right, but for both of us, not just me. I wanted to hug her, but knew it would almost certainly be poorly received.

Instead I reached up and stroked my fingers lightly over her cheek. "I'm sorry, too."

She smiled tightly and took a big breath. "Go get dressed. It won't help overall, but the towel will make things worse."

A small laugh managed to make its way out. "True."

I ran back upstairs almost as fast and found my clothes on the bedroom floor. After redressing in just a few seconds I left the room again. There was no point hiding in the bedroom.

Rose and I passed each other in the hallway - apparently she did think hiding was a valid option - and I heard the lock click in the bedroom door after she closed it.

By the time I got downstairs to the living room Edward was coming across the river. He wasn't rushing at all, which somehow felt more ominous than if he'd been charging at the house.

"You should run very fast, Jacob," he said in a low tone as I opened the door. "While I would love to rip your limbs off and then crush your skull, I think watching Emmett do it would be far more satisfying."

"I'm sure it would be," I replied. "Should I go before Nessie gets back, or…?"

Edward stopped about fifteen feet away from where I was on the deck. "No. I think you should stay. Tell her yourself. And then, if you can, leave after that. Why should you get to leave without seeing the consequences of your actions?"

I don't think she's going to be as upset as you think she will,I thought mostly to myself, but was aware he could hear it as always.

"Why do you say that?" he enquired, now looking genuinely curious.

After several years of practice I'd gotten quite good at keeping my mind silent. It was proving especially useful now.

I shrugged. "Just a hunch."

"Hey, Jake!" Ness bounded over the river gracefully, smiling brightly like she was the most innocent little Mary Sunshine on earth.

Edward expression tightened to a scowl as he heard my thoughts.

"Hey, baby." I smiled back at her. "Did you have a good day?"

She flitted across the yard in a heartbeat and was clinging to my waist a moment later. "It was too sunny. Certain people kept sparkling."

I draped my arms around her and lightly kissed the top of her head. "How inconsiderate of them."

Bella, Alice, Jasper and Emmett arrived then, laughing at first, but then fell silent when they took in the tension between Edward and I.

Alice and Jasper stopped right by the river, but Emmett and Bella continued forward until they were just behind Edward.

"Is everything ok?" Emmett asked, frowning with concern already.

Edward folded his arms and I could detect the smallest hint of a smug smirk begging to pull at his face. "Go ahead, Jacob."

It took until this point for Nessie to realize something was happening and to pull back from hugging me. "Jake?" Her almost angelic little face, framed in a profuse amount of curls, looked so perplexed. It was all I could do not to laugh.

I knew I had to say it. And I knew I'd need to be prepared for an explosive reaction from Emmett. But I wasn't sure where to focus my attention when I spoke.

I opted for Nessie. "I've been fucking Rosalie for about six months now, and Edward saw me in her bathroom about five minutes ago, so I guess we're kind of busted."

Wow, that came out easier than I'd thought it would.

Ness opened out mouth as if to say something, then froze, and then a few seconds later she closed it again and brought her hand up to cover her lips.

I chanced a quick look at Emmett and found he was also frowning quite deeply as if trying very hard to understand what I'd said.

My eyes moved back to Nessie and I found her… smiling. It was partially obscured by her hand, but the wrinkles around her eyes and the way her cheeks were so lifted and round made me very sure she was trying to hold back laughter.

"What?" I asked after waiting several seconds for her to speak.

"Why Rose?" she asked, dropping her hand from her face to reveal a huge grin. "Like, as an attractive person I get why, but… of all the people, why her? Once or twice, ok, but for six months? Possibly the stupidest choice you could have made if you were hoping to not get caught."

I shrugged very exaggeratedly. "I'm well known for making bad choices, Ness."

She laughed lightheartedly and seemed genuinely amused. "True. So when you say six months do you mean a couple of times over that period? Or are we talking more like as much as you could for six months?"

"More like the latter." I answered.

"Huh." She was thoughtful for a few seconds and I used that to check on Emmett again, but he was still in much the same state of processing. "So are you, like, in love with her? Or did it just go on for too long?"

That is the million dollar question… I decided to give an answer that would be easily understood, rather than the complex reality. "It was pretty good and easier than finding someone else."

Nessie took my answer and pondered it for a moment before humming sharply and nodding. "I get that. It's not really ideal that my fiance has been fucking my aunt for longer than we've been engaged, and we probably shouldn't get married in June, but… can't change it now, can we?"

I looked to Edward then and if he still had blood I knew his face would have been bright red.

If only you knew the half of it.

"So, did you want to fuck now?" she asked casually, and managed to startle the hell out of me that she'd say that in front of her family.

"Um, later? I kind of just…" I let my sentence trail off and figured she'd pick up the insinuation without me having to say the words fucked Rose for hours out loud.

She giggled and reached up to pat me on the back. "It's ok. I can smell her. Later works."

And with that she headed inside with just as much spring in her step as usual.

And then I was left with the eyes of five much less light-hearted vampires fixed on me.

Emmett finally spoke before I could think of anything to say myself.

"So… Rose repeatedly fucked you? By choice? On a regular basis?" His words came out slowly and his expression was still very much a frown of confusion.

"Yeah."

He continued. "Didn't rape her? Threaten or blackmail her?"

I scowled and shook my head. "No. No rape, threats or blackmail."

Emmett looked me directly in the face for the first time since I'd said what I'd done. "I don't get why she would, bro. No offense, but she hates you. A lot."

"I know," I nodded. "I can't answer that for you. You'd need to ask her."

"I intend to." He assured me.

The question I'm sure everyone else was dying to ask as well finally made it way out of me. "You're not pissed?"

"Oh I'm pissed!" He nodded vigorously. "Don't mistake this for me being cool with you fucking my wife. I'm not ok with it and you really should stay clear for at least a while, but there's only a certain point where I can hold you responsible to. And if she electively fucked you, knowing I wouldn't be ok with it, then my problem with with my wife. I don't remember you at the alter any of the times I've married her promising to be faithful and honest."

I damn near snorted at that image. "That's true. But, yeah, I won't be around much, if at all, so you'll get plenty of space."

"That will be helpful," he agreed.

My muscles tensed in anticipation of being launched at when he started walking towards the stairs, but Emmett just walked by and said, "I'm gonna go have a talk with Rose now." and that was it.

The sound of a car coming along the driveway on the other side of the house registered with us all then.

Must be Carlisle and Esme.

"Jacob, what did you mean by If only you knew the half of it?" Edward interrupted my intense focus on the approaching car.

"You should ask your family. I'm sure they keep their secrets for a reason."

Before he could get truly angry at me for my deflective, smart ass response Edward's head started turning in small jerks to multiple directions in turn.

I think I just triggered a few mental confessions, I mused mostly for his benefit.

Faster than I could see, Edward disappeared. He then reappeared fifty feet further away when he collided with Jasper and the two launched into the river.

Even Alice hadn't seen that coming it seems because it wasn't until Jasper was in the water with Edward and they were swinging nearly invisible punches that she even turned.

"Edward! Stop!" Bella screamed, but nothing changed in the splashing fight.

Suddenly Nessie reappeared beside me and Carlisle and Esme came from the front of the house.

"What happened?" Ness asked.

My shoulders bounced. "No idea."

"Carlisle, make them stop," Esme pleaded with distress evident in her voice.

"Emmett, I need your help," Carlisle said.

Heavy footsteps signaled Emmett's approach and he definitely did not have the same haste as most of the others.

I knew from experience how frustrating it could be trying to get Rosalie to talk, and he was likely getting as much response from her now as he'd have gotten from a brick wall.

Before the two of them made it to the river though the splashing stopped and as the water settled we could see Jasper was holding Edward in a shoulder lock.

"Jesus Christ," Nessie whispered beside me.

"Know what that's about?" I asked under my breath.

Her lips pursed tightly. "Pretty good idea."

Surely she didn't sleep with him…

"Feel like telling me?" I asked even more quietly than prior.

She reached across the small gap between where we were standing and weaved our fingers together.

I fucked him a while ago. I'm pretty sure Dad just found out. Nessie projected into my head without having to speak for all to hear.

My eyes went wide. That was probably the only truly shocking thing that had happened today. By comparison everything else seemed insignificant.

"I have a lot of questions," I told her.

She pulled her mouth into a tight smile. "We can have a long talk and compare notes. You're probably the only one that will tolerate me for the foreseeable future."

"Edward?" Bella - and everyone else - looked at him expectantly for a reason for his outburst.

"He had sex with Renesmee," Edward announced without hesitation, and seemingly no concern for how that would make Alice feel either.

Of course, that's precisely where everyone's eyes went. Straight to Alice, and then to Nessie, but then most looked back to Alice yet again like they expected her to do something.

"Well…" Carlisle was the first to speak from his position on the edge of the water. "I think you should let Edward go, Jasper, and perhaps it might be best if you gave each other some space."

Jasper's hold on Edward fell away then and they both stepped away from each other immediately. Edward moved towards the house while Jasper climbed up the other side of the river bank and disappeared into the forest.

"Ok, good." Carlisle turned back around to face us all. "Anything else?"

"Only if you count Jake and Rose sleeping together for the last six months…" Emmett muttered. He seemed to have taken it in a bit more in the last few minutes and was noticeably more bitter now, which was understandable.

"What?" Carlisle's face became deeply marked with frown lines.

Emmett nodded. "Yeah. I'm trying to talk to her, but it's not really going well."

The two stood in silence for a minute, then Carlisle looked around the yard at the scattering of people still here.

"Is there anything else that would be best brought up now?"

Nobody spoke.

"Alright-" Carlisle started to speak but was cut off by Bella.

"I… messed around with Rose too." She started off the sentence at nearly a shout, but was barely above a whisper when she finished.

"Show of hands. Is there anyone here who hasn't fucked my wife?" Emmett asked, exasperated.

Edward,Esme and Alice raised their hands, and that was all…

I'd be more surprised if Nessie hadn't.

Esme looked at Carlisle then from across the yard and her face fell. "You didn't," she whispered.

"I'm sorry. It was just after she arrived."

"We were married for over ten years when she joined us."

Carlisle looked down with anguish in his features. "I know."

Esme disappeared inside the house then and a few moments later Carlisle followed her.

The six of us still dotted around the yard looked from face to face briefly. Alice's expression was vacant and I was half waiting for her to crumble. Emmett and Edward both looked pissed. Bella was staring very intently at a blade of grass. And Nessie… was smiling lightly as usual and rocking on the balls of her feet, totally unphased.

When we made eye contact she reached out for my hand again.

Wanna fuck me? She projected into my head and her cheeks dimpled as her smile increased.

I laughed once, genuinely amused by how unaffected she was by the events that had just unfolded, and shrugged. "Sure."

She turned, pulling me with her, and headed back inside. We went up the two sets of stairs to the third floor and into what I knew was Edward's old bedroom. She'd moved back into the main house from the cottage about a year and a half ago to have some privacy from her father's mind reading - coincidentally about the same time she had started sleeping around.

We stepped in the room and she closed the door before spinning around and leaping backwards onto the bed with her deep brown curls bouncing around her face.

I looked to the left out the windows to the backyard just in time to see Edward and Bella walking back out towards the cottage. Emmett was standing with Alice, rubbing her arms and talking to her.

"Why Jasper?" I suddenly asked, looking back to Nessie.

Her lips tightened for a moment and then she shrugged. "I don't know. Impulse."

I couldn't really begrudge her that without being hypocritical. I'd been a bit of a slave to my impulses lately.

"Why everybody except me?" I made sure to keep my tone gentle and my face calm.

She pat a spot on the bed in front of her as an invitation to sit down, which I took silently. Once I was on the bed she took my left hand in hers and began tracing lines over my skin with her fingertips.

I waited, knowing she'd talk.

"I lacked faith in your ability to control your thoughts around my dad," she finally answered. "And maybe a little bit that I wanted my parents to still think I was innocent and that they didn't have to worry about me doing anything crazy-that would have meant they'd watch me more."

"I guess I've kinda proven that I'm capable of keeping my thoughts controlled." I replied.

She looked up from my hand to my face with a smirk on her lips. "Yes, it seems I was wrong."

I laughed. "I never thought I'd hear those words leave your mouth."

Nessie laughed too. "It won't be a habit, I assure you. So why Rose? Surely it would have been easier and less risk to find someone else? I know it would have been really good, but still."

"Moment of emotional weakness to start off with. And then the risk was kind of appealing-the fact we had to sneak around and no one knew. But then after a while it was just… comfortable."

And I fell in love with her, even though it was one-sided, but no one needs to hear about the second time I've done that.

"Never anyone else?" She continued.

I shook my head. "It really didn't even cross my mind. There's not any options in the pack besides Leah. And humans are more complicated than they're worth if all I want is sex. Then there's the fact I do still love you."

"Even though I'm a dirty slut?"

"Especially because you're a dirty slut." I whispered,smirking.

She laughed loudly this time and her smile wrinkled her nose. "Thank you!"

I reached up with both hands then to hold her face and kissed her deeply. As much as I was enjoying the new level of honesty, it was also a subject I really didn't want to delve too deeply into, and would rather have sex instead.

It took a few seconds, but I felt her relax and lean forward and we found our usual rhythm almost immediately after that. She rolled up onto her knees and climbed into my lap and I dropped my hands from her face now and held her body against mine instead.

The heat was one of the main external differences for me between Rose and Nessie. One was as cold to the touch as the other was warm. Parallels.

After a minute or so she pulled my shirt up from the hem and we broke the kiss so it come come off over my head. Once mine was off she removed her own and then got back off my lap to lay on the bed and take her pants off as well. I took the hint and slipped my shorts off too, and then climbed over the top of her and rest on my elbows once our faces were level.

"Have you ever really imagined this happening?" She asked while moving her hips around until my cock was laying along the front of her pussy with the underside between the lips.

I pretended to think about it while slowly rubbing myself against her, and then nodded. "Only every day for, like, two years."

"Yet you never pushed very hard."

"I pushed enough for you to know I wanted to and make sure there was no doubt."

"I did wonder why you'd stopped trying at all the last few months." Nessie reached down between us then and moved the head of my cock to her entrance. With one thrust and a sharply gasped breath I was almost fully inside her. The temperature difference was very noticeable for me now, as was the throbbing of her pulse around me.

We stayed still for a minute and I took the time to answer her as a distraction from the unexpectedly intense feel of being inside her. "Yeah, I wasn't very good at remembering to act like I was desperate to fuck you every second of the day after a while. It was probably nicer though, I imagine."

"In some ways." She agreed. "It's nice to be very obviously wanted too though."

I made a pointed look between us. "I think it's safe to say I want you."

"But not too desperately it seems." Her voice had picked up a teasing tone and it lit a spark instantly.

I pull my hips back a few inches and then sank into her hard, making her suck in a sharp breath and almost squeak in the back of her throat.

"Ok, ok, you definitely want me," she said quickly, now breathing heavily.

"Just a little bit," I murmured, dipping down to kiss her and started moving again in a quicker but less aggressive pace. She was getting wetter by the second and I could hear her heart pounding in her chest (yet another difference) at faster or slower speeds depending on what I did.

"You feel so fucking good," Ness whimpered. Her hips were moving in time with mine and it was nearly moving the bed already.

"Too bad you didn't trust me," I teased. "You could have been having this for the last year. Every day. As much as you want."

"I was stupid."

"Now I guess we'll have to make up for lost time." I slipped my right arm around her left leg and pulled it up over my shoulder to open her wider and give me more room to move. The result was another inch of my cock being able to fit inside her.

The pace naturally picked up quite quickly and within just a few minutes I could feel myself starting to tighten and throb.

"Rub your clit." I instructed. "Reach between and rub it until you cum on my cock. I want to feel that."

For once in her life Nessie actually did as she was told and I felt her hand snake down between our bodies. As soon as she started rubbing circles on her clit I could feel her whole body tense and her heart rate increased dramatically.

"Good girl." My words came out in a growl now and I slammed into her harder than before.

"Oh my god! I'm gonna cum." Nessie said somewhere between and moan and a scream, hips pushing up to meet each thrust as her hand circled vigorously.

The rapid clenching of her orgasm started around my cock, pushing me over the edge too. I grabbed hold of her shoulders with both hands, her left leg still beside my head, put my face in her neck and drove deep into her as my second load of the day was released with a deep groan.

Barely a moment passed before there was a huge crash from the room across the hallway and Emmett's voice boomed.

"I'm sick of tip-toeing around this shit and trying to gently coax every word out of you like you're a scared child! Talk!"

I moved off Nessie then and we both looked at each other as the banging of what sounded to be a fist on a door began again.

"I don't want to talk to you, Emmett! How much clearer do I have to be?! I don't want to go through everything in my head with you or I would have a long time ago! Take a fucking hint!" Rose screamed at a piercing pitch.

I tried so hard to keep my face neutral, but it sent a stab of pain through my whole body listening to them and a part of me wanted to tell him to just leave her be and that this wasn't helping anything.

Not my wife. Not my… anything. She wouldn't want me to involve myself; it'd probably just piss her off more.

My eyes had glazed over briefly until I deliberately focused on Nessie.

"I'm gonna have a shower and then go home." I told her quietly.

She nodded. "Yeah, I'm gonna get out of here too."

We both got off opposite sides of the bed. Nessie went to her bathroom and I pulled my shorts on and headed out the door to go to the first floor bathroom.

"Open the door or I'll come through it!" Emmett continued to yell from the top floor as I made my way down.

When I got to the bottom of the second set of stairs I turned left and crossed to the rarely used bathroom off the living room.

Just as I opened the door to the vast, white room there was a huge crash from the top floor that vibrated the whole house and then…

The first fraction of a second the sound was comparable to rain, but as the pieces of shattered glass from every window on the rear wall of the house began crashing to the ground the sound was deafening.

And then… silence.

A door opened on the third floor and two sets of feet crossed to the rear of the house.

"I hope you know you're going to clean this up." Esme was the first to speak.

"Whatever." Emmett replied.

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