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By Sunday, Alexander forced Embry to drive her to Carlisle's house so he could take off the wrist brace and the knee brace. At first there was much argument about it but Alexander would not budge. It was either take the brace off or she would break it off. After proving to Carlisle that she was fine without them by doing various exercises, she then had Embry drive all the way to Port Angles to get Duncan Donuts.

Embry couldn't help but think about Alexander's rapid recovery. He wasn't sure how to bring it up. He watched as she ordered two boxes of munchkins and a scalding hot large latte. Joked about how she was going to get fat but for the most part he remained silent.

"Hey Alexander?" Embry started timidly, when they were close to home.

"Hmm?" she answered, her face dotted with sugar particles as she chewed.

"How come you healed so quickly?" he asked. And she laughed.

"I was waiting on that one. Wouldn't you like to know!" Alexander smiled mysteriously.

"Yes, I would and so does everyone else." Embry swallowed.

"Well, why are you the only one asking?"

"They figured I'd pass it on through word of mouth." He said.

"I see…" Alexander simply said.

"Um. The guys want to show you something today. Is that fine?"

"Sure, sure."

The turned off the main road and up Jacob's drive way. Outside on the step was Sam, Jacob, Quil and Seth. They all murmured a greeting and waved halfheartedly. Seth was the first to rush over and open the car door for Alexander. Stepping out of the jeep, Seth commented.

"Oh? No cripple, today?"

"Nope!"

"Then I guess I shoulda left your car door closed. I guess I get points for being chivalrous to the demon." He joked.

"Shut up, Seth!" Alexander grinned from ear to ear, handing him the second box of munchkins. She looked at Quil who smiled at her dejectedly. Alexander opened her arms to him and he gladly hugged her.

"You guys wanted to show me something." Alexander said, turning to them as a group.

"Everyone wants to see what we had a deal over…" Quil whispered to her.

"Oh…" Alexander seemed slightly distracted. "I forgot about that."

"We'll have to walk a few yards into the forest first, though. You game?" Jacob said, looking at Alexander's knee.

"Sure, sure…" yet still her voice was almost vacant.

"Alexander?" Embry questioned, extending his hand to her. She took it without protest and they all walked into the forest. Alexander still held onto her box of munchkins and her latte. She felt like a little girl being taken into the woods to grandma's house with a picnic basket, except this didn't feel like a picnic. Quil tried to keep things light by making small talk with them but things weren't going as smoothly as he had hoped. There was too much tension. After 15 minutes of walking Jacob stopped and turned around to Embry and Alexander. Who were at the back of the group. Embry had Alexander sit on the trunk of a fallen tree, then stood a few feet away from her.

"Alright, the audience is seated." Alexander smiled playfully. Jacob looked at Quil and he began to talk.

"Okay you recall the conversation we had early last week right?" Quil began and Alexander nodded patiently. "You said you were a freak. Well, before we get to what you are. Let's get to what I am. I'm doing this as I had intended. Everyone else, is just going to follow along. Don't freak out, okay?"

"Promise…" Alexander looked at him and then everyone else curiously. "I didn't get mixed up in any cult shit, did I?"

"A little late to be asking that." Retorted Sam. "Not cult, something else. I get the idea that you already know what it is."

"Right. Switzerland- take it away."

Quil pulled off his shirt and started to unzip his pants. Then Sam began to strip.

"WAIT! NO! NO! My virgin eyes! Please!" Alexander covered her eyes. And they all began to laugh hysterically.

"What the hell are YOU thinking about?" Jacob joked, he was already shirtless.

"I know I go for some kinky shit, but not Sam! PUH_LEASE remained dressed, Sammy-kins I will respect you a WHOLE LOT better!" Alexander stalled.

"Sorry, but what we're about to show you requires us naked." Sam said gruffly.

"Fine. I'll be looking at your eyes the whole time then." Alexander stared at Quil's face when he was completely naked from head to toe, her cheeks turned red.

"Just look at me, Alexander." Quil said to her. She nodded and watched as he began to tremble. He shook violently for about 5 seconds before his snout elongated and fur ripped from his back to the point where he was on all fours. Sam and Jacob followed soon after and then went Seth. Alexander turned to Embry who was looking at her. They all were looking at her. She waved her hand and watched as Embry undressed and then phased.

Alexander took her prescription bottle out of her pocket and held it up.

"Okaaaay… Funny. Its not expired." She paused and mused for a moment, scratching her head. Putting one of the pills in her mouth, Alexander drank from her latte and then made a funny face. She then turned the cup upside down and emptied it.

"I really need to start drinking rum again. This caffeine shit just ain't doing it anymore." A smile broke cross her face and she stared to laugh. Laugh hysterically. She got up and paced back and forth mumbling things to herself. The wolf that was Embry slowly came close to her as she stared at the ground. He moved to nuzzle her hand but she whipped her hand away so quickly that even her body followed as she backed away against a neighboring tree, clutching her hand to her chest.

Told you! Jacob said triumphantly poker face.

Quil was the first to change back.

"Alexander..?" Quil called to her. He quickly pulled his pants on, still watching as she trembled. "Hey, Alex. We're still the same. We're not going to hurt you." The others began to change back.

"I'm not worried about being hurt! I have high tolerance for pain thank you very much but it's the shock!" Alexander growled. Slowly she slumped down to the ground; out of her back pocket she pulled a blunt and silver lighter. She inhaled after lightening it up.

"Since when do you smoke marijuana?" Embry asked quietly.

"Since it is known as a medical herb! There's nothing wrong about it since my mother gave it to me to help with the annoying constant pain in my knee."

"I thought you were fine?" he looked worried again.

"I lied. I lied out my ass! I have so much pain in my knee after that 15-minute walk that my leg was about to give out. I hated that brace so I convinced Carlisle to take it off. Simple." She inhaled again and then exhaled. "I can't believe this shit! Fuck! FUCK! FUUUUUCCCKKK!!! My boyfriend too! Don't you think this was something you were supposed to tell me before we got together?"

"I'm sorry I couldn't tell you sooner. We're supposed to keep it a secret." Embry started toward her again but she gave him a warning glance. "Do you not care about me the same way anymore?"

"WHAT?!" Alexander exclaimed. "You're asking that! I wish I could get up and beat you over the head right now! This is the first time I am meeting a pack of werewolves and from my perspective, I am greatly out numbered."

"It wasn't shocking to you when you met Jacob, Quil and I in the forest two weeks ago."

"That's because there was only three. I can out run three, hit nearest civilization you can't cross, take to the sea or sky- you can't follow. Not the issue, here." Alexander said smugly. "How many more are there of you?"

"Jared, Paul, Collin and Brady." Seth answered quickly.

"Figures." She sniffed resting her head on her hand. "Why didn't I catch onto it before? So show of hands, who's waiting for me to bolt?" Seth, Jacob, and Quil raised their hands. "Ha-ha what a major fuckin let down for you."

"What do you mean you can out run us?" Sam asked smugly. "Your knee is still in repair, you're still human."

"Human on what level…" she retorted. "Forgive me. I am not trying to seem like I am changing in my emotions towards you but I will tell you that you guys royally fucked over my plan. I mean I grew up knowing werewolves to be vile, vicious creatures with ill and unpredictable tempers. In the forests of South America they attack villages, act as rebels, kidnap, and kill, whatever. See as you lot are my friends that just totally skewered my view on things. This just screws over my plan unless I can find a loop hole."

"We can help you if you only tell us your secret." Quil answered. Alexander looked up at him. She sighed.

"A deal is a deal." She stretched her neck a little and then smiled. "First let me explain to you something. I wear gloves or I try avoiding skin-to-skin contact with people. It's because I can feels any strong emotions you may have. Which is why I try to leave the room that Sam enters to see Emily, or Kim and Jared, Rachel and Paul, not so much Quil and Claire… ESPECIALLY Jacob after he comes from seeing Lassie-."

"Nessie!" Jacob corrected.

"Whatever. Now here is where things get a little awkward. None of you can keep secrets very well. I've always wondered why I was able to see into your heads easily- so to speak."

"You can read our thoughts?" Seth asked excited.

"Yeah- no. I can only hear your thoughts and see your memories or visions if it's connected to a particularly strong emotion. I then respond by either mimicking your emotions and actions back to you or harboring them and thus waiting until they ware off."

"You some sort of half vampire or something?" Jacob asked.

"Yes and no." Alexander was getting impatient. " I really hate explaining shit can you just listen damn it. My mother is half human and my father is human. So that technically makes me two parts human and one part something else. But getting back to what I was saying before. This also applies to objects and surfaces. Like I know ALL the spots Sam and Emily had a little fun in and I wasn't even trying to find it. Trust me, Sammy-kins I have unintentionally seen you in a loop porno reel." Sam rolled his eyes and growled.

"Is nothing sacred anymore?"

"No! Not while I'm around. I also know who Embry's father is that good for nothing son of a bitch who couldn't own up to his shit." She said and then looked up. "Sorry, stepped out of line a little bit. But in my honest opinion I think you're a better person without him in your life." Embry simply nodded. "The thing I don't get is why I couldn't see that you are werewolves. Sam you seem to take this shit more seriously than the rest. I felt like there was something animalistic but damn. My only theory is that you guys had already come terms with it so it's not on the forefront of your minds but your subconscious. No particular emotion towards it now that it's already ingrained."

"Is that it? Your secret?" Sam sounded frustrated. "I thought there was something else?"

"I said I mimicked, didn't I? There's your first clue. Humans are complex creatures." Alexander's tone was heavier now, darker. "Animals are only a reference."

"What are you trying to say?" Embry tilted his head to the side impatiently. "C'mon Lexi."

"Okay, Seth. X-men enemies! $100 if you can figure out which one I am. I heard someone's birthday is coming up pretty soon; you can buy her something nice. So what do you think I am."

"$100… damn." he rubbed his hands together.

"Uuuummmm…. Female?" Seth asked. Alexander nodded. "Not the scarlet witch… not Astr- wait you said you mimicked. NO WAY!" he pointed at her. "Do it! NOW!"

"The catch is I can only do it with one person. For example, Sam can only think about Emily, so therefore he will only see Emily."

Everyone started to look impatient and confused.

"Hurry up! I got a wife and kid to get back too!" Alexander and Seth locked eyes, Seth nodded.

"You sure you got a wife to go back to?"

"What?!" Sam asked quickly.

Alexander body seemed to blur. Everyone wondered for a moment if there was something wrong with their eyes. When she stood up and looked up at them they all backed away. Sam gazed at her in shock, horror, and anger.

"NO!"

"Sam?" Emily extended her hand to him. "C'mon. We have to get back or else dinner will get cold! I know you guys are really hungry. I baked some pie for desert!" she smiled. The voice, the scars, the height, hair, love in her eyes, warmth, and smell. Everything was Emily. Sam found himself drawn to this apparition. The only thing that kept him firmly grounded in place was the face that she was still wearing Alexander's clothing.

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Alexander was on Embry's back as they all trudged back to Jacobs house. There was silence for the most part as they all had things to think about. Sam had nearly strangled Alexander for playing a dirty trick like that and made her promise him that she would never do that again. It took a lot to compose him after being shaken up like that and he wasn't really sure how he felt about Alexander's abilities. To think that there was an ability like that that existed in the world could certainly cause a lot of trouble and trust issues amongst people.

By the time the group reached back to the garage, the rarely seen sun was beginning to set and the boys were hungry. Alexander buried her face in Embry's hair, unsure of what to do.

"It's okay if you guys don't want to associate yourselves with me anymore." She whispered. "I'll be fine. I'm used to it. I'll just finish what I need to do and leave, quickly. There will be no mess for you to clean up."

Every one of them heard her and stopped. Embry released his arms, and Alexander fell to the ground. With her bangs covering her face she didn't make a sound nor could they see her expression. She was hiding but her voice betrayed her stolid façade. Getting up, Alexander turned her back to them and began to limp back the way they came.

"What is your problem?!" Embry says, a lot more hostile than intended. Alexander stops but she doesn't face him. "You are maddening to deal with, you know! One second you look like you're fine and you act like you're fine but now this."

"I AM Fine!" Alexander retorted. "You think I can only turn into Emily! I've turned into you! Now fancy that! Imagine how much confusion and damage I can do to all the relationships on this reservation- the trouble I can cause. Sam' pretty pissed off, he doesn't know how to respond to me. The rest of you are musing like it's a god forsaken funeral."

"No one is judging you!" Embry shouts. "You're judging yourself! It is almost as if you expect everyone to hate you because you're different. You think I'm going to start having an inferiority complex just because you can change from person to person?! Wake up, Alexander, I can vouch for everyone when I say that no one here hates you because of what you are. We'd be some real hypocrites!"

"Why are NONE of you asking the questions that are sitting on the tip of your tongues? THAT is that bothers me. Love me or Hate me! That's what I think but say what you have to."

"Alright," Sam shoved his way in front of Embry. "Who else have you changed into?"

"No one else. Why should I? I gain nothing from becoming you. And its not a change, its an illusion. I 'changed' into Embry a few times to save his sorry ass from his mother's almighty wraith when he's running with you fools." Alexander stated.

"What do you really look like?"

"Not blue skin with scales and ochre eyes I can tell you that much. I look just as I am now."

"How old are you? Why are you really here?"

Alexander hesitated, her eyes flickering to Embry. "I am 22, same age as you, Sam." She said slowly. "I'm here because my great-grandmother failed to kill her vampire husband- Christopher- of three weeks. She set the house on fire and left with someone else but he survived… and has been plaguing me since he realized who I was. He murdered my good friend in front of me, broke my knee to torture me, and let's just say he still wants to see how much more he can make me suffer…"

They all looked at her in shock. Jacob whistled and Embry passed his hand over his face slowly in disbelief.

"This is some weird shit." Seth said. "Its not fair that Embry gets the hot older chick. What the fuck are you still doing in high school?"

"I'm not, honestly. I completed high school but that was under my father's name. I'm honestly in my junior year of college, this is really slowing me down. The younger I am here the easier it is for me to stay longer in order to kill the bastard… or at least until he kills me."

"No one's going to kill you as long as we're here." Embry growled.

"That's just it. I wasn't planning on this. I came to a place where I knew no one and no one knew about me. So if I died- boo hoo- tragic accident. If I succeeded I could make up some excuse to leave. But then came the relationship with you, then came the pack. I can already see the snowball effect happening. This is ridiculous. Forget it!" Alexander through up her hands in defeat.

"Why did your great-grandmother decided to marry him in the first place?" Sam asked.

"It's not like that. Blackfox women come from a strong tribe that traces its lineage through the female. At the age of 16 we get to pick our first husbands but the trick to that is all the males have to agree on it. In this instance my great-grandmother was a cop out because there was vampire who was attacking people. This vampire- Christopher- had been stalking my great-grandmother for whatever reasons. The family offered her to him in order to hopefully- I don't know- make a treaty or something. He was very sadistic, very careful not to change her, careful not inflict too much noticeable damage on her, and lastly careful not to give the werewolf that had imprinted on and that Amrita loved a reason to kill him."

"Oh boy, werewolf, vampire love. Jake's an expert on this one." Seth rolled his eyes.

"Well long and short is Amrita invited two women to the house. While her dear husband was feeding on them, distracted, she set the place alight and made off of the back of her werewolf lover. Christopher has searched many years for my family line. And one stupid mistake from my friend and I on the wrong damn night, wrong damn place and time. The End."

"And you were going to give up to a bastard who like torturing women?" Sam hissed.

"Not yet. I decided to napalm his ass while he was still alive. Make him feel some pain while he incinerates, but in order to do that I would have to play victim and I can't play victim if we have a bunch of werewolves running around making sure the perimeter is safe guarded. I was wondering why he kept trying to lure me off the reservation. I only smelled wolves but not werewolves, jeeze." Alexander huffed. "Now I have to totally rethink my plan."

"You think…" Embry began, shaking. "that after what happened to you last week… that I was going to let you play victim!!!" he spat out the last word.

"See you weren't supposed to know. And that guy last week was just doped up on V. Other than that I would have been able to take him down just fine."

"'V'?" Sam asked.

"Yeah… what are you guys doing? Living under a rock? V, vampire blood. You snort it, drink it, suck it, and slap it to your skin like a patch. Bottom line is you get high. Humans get an increase in libido and increase in strength in all senses and muscles. That guy who attacked me last week may be human but had an insane amount of strength that was enough to knock the wind out of someone as freakish as me. My guess is he got the order to shake me up, hurt me a little, scare me a little because he was forewarned about my abilities." She concluded.

"Now vampire's are peddling their blood?" Sam uttered in disbelief.

"Hell no! It's not as simple as that but whatever. That's another conversation for another time."

"You're not killing yourself to exact revenge on anyone for anyone." Sam snapped.

"I had to watch you damn near bleed to death and that is not a sight I would like to see again." Quil added.

"Girl you got some serious issues and I thought we were fully loaded with that." Jacob grinned. "But it's all good. Say the magic word and we are here to help."

"No! NO!" Alexander stated firmly. "My Kind hold down their own at all costs! When we strike out on our own it's either we're running from trouble or running to it. Everything is strictly business to protect all the others like me from being discovered! That includes you guys, as primitive as your shape-shifting skills may be!"

"We don't care what you say! We're helping you! I will protect you!" Embry concluded firmly for there to be no more argument.

"Do what the man says." Jacob smiled. "He cares about you regardless of you flaws."

"Oh fuck this! You guys don't seem to be getting it!" Alexander growled. She moved swiftly over to Seth, caught him behind the neck and kissed him. A thin almost transparent mauve mist began to leave his body and surround Alexander. Eventually Seth was on his knees, body shivering, arms limp, and eyes blank.

"What did you just do to him?" Jacob looked stricken as Alexander lifted her head and she was holding a seemingly unconscious Seth in her arms.

"What I have been neglecting to do." Alexander's lips curled into a mischievous smirk. She licked her lips and rolled her eyes. "If you boys haven't figured it out by now then you are surely idiots. I don't just have one secret. And when I told Quil I was a freak I meant it on several levels." Her eyes were glowing, hypnotizing, there were flecks of amethyst in her eyes.

"You're a succubus." Embry glanced at the ground. He was starting to feel like a fool for not noticing.

"I'm glad you caught on."

"But if you are, why aren't your wounds healing quickly? Better yet why was that guy able to hurt you?" Quil asked quickly.

"Because I like complained to you Quil, I AM NOT GETTING LAID! I need it! We become weak and almost human until we wither away! I've been good. I've been patient. But I am at my limits. I almost didn't stop with Seth. I want more. I feel the adrenalin running through my veins." The way she spoke was almost like an addict now getting their fix. It was the first time any of them had heard her whine almost screeching. "Think about it. I smell good, don't I? Enticing, mouth watering… you think its just hormones, you think when you have frequent wet dreams its just you being horny… Sam's sex with his wife has increased, Jacob is fooling around with Reneese more! Embry's always tired after I slept next to him! Seth screwing to his fill because he knows he's free to do it. You think its all a coincidence! Be real!"

"NESSIE!" Jacob growled.

"Why kiss Seth instead of me?" Embry tried to keep his shaking to a minimum.

"Because he already knew what I was! Edward told him! Why do you think I've been avoiding the little get-togethers you guys like to have. I knew about the vampires but not about you! Edward probably picked up my scent from off of Seth. Seth confronted me about it and so I show him things, help him." Alexander hissed. Seth was now waking up. "You need to rest," she cooed softly in his ear. "I took more than I intended from you."

"Whatever you say or do we are helping you. This is just as much your problem as it is ours." Jacob said taking Seth out of Alexander's arms. He trudged over to the back of Embry's truck and helped the boy in.

"Time for dinner. I'm going home. Come back to me when you have a better plan that doesn't involve getting yourself killed out of desperation. Or slowly killing yourself at all." Sam trudged away, hands in his pockets. They all dispersed. Embry then threw a reluctant Alexander over his shoulder to the car.

The short ride how was in silence. Alexander kept her mouth shut and Embry made no move to change that. She was pretty sure he was pissed. Reassessing everything she had ever told him. He dropped Seth home giving him direct orders to sleep his fill and then left. When they got back to the house Embry did everything more out of habit than thought. He opened her jeep door, lifted her out and kicked it shut. Alexander unlocked the door and he rested her down in the hallway. She stood silently by the door watching him as he kicked off his shoes, and went into the kitchen. Listening silently as the fridge opened and shut then the cupboard opened and closed the clinking of a glass and sound of liquid being poured into it. He made his was back into the hall and crossed into the living room. Alexander looked around and realized that Jack wasn't there; apparently Aunty took him out today. It felt lonely all of a sudden, there was a moment where she felt relieved that they all knew about her but now her world felt lonely.

Alexander unconsciously gripped the roots of her hair. Slowly she slid down the door to the floor. No- not again. Why did it always happen like this? She wanted to cry, to hold herself but she had to hold herself together before Embry noticed her falling apart. Squeezing her eyes shut, Alexander focused on her breathing and then opened her eyes. Her heart pounded rapidly as her eyes landed on Embry leaning against the opening wall to the living room. How long had he been standing there? How much did he see?

Alexander's sharp stolid mask slipped back into place.

"What's your favorite color?" Embry asked simply. That baffled Alexander and she just blinked at him for a moment.

"Umm… black."

"No it isn't." Embry said to her, sipping from his glass. "I realize why I like you Alexander. Nothing about you is handed to me on a platter. You're like a complicated puzzle that frustrates me, saddens me and makes me happy and then proud all at once." He looked at her in the eyes.

"What does this have to do with my favorite color? Who are you to tell me what my favorite color is?" She said sliding her eyes away.

"To everyone else its black. That's what you expect them to say. That's what you expect me to say because you figured I would infer that your favorite color is black. It's the reputation you keep up. But I realize with you, it's the tiny things that seem insignificant that matter. It's actually yellow."

Alexander's jaw lock, she crossed her arms and shot him an annoyed look.

"And that usually means that you're annoyed by the potential vulnerability. It almost gets under your skin that I can figure out little things like that. You hide because you have to, just like we hide because we have to. Yet the more places you go you can't get out of the fact that you're afraid to be lonely. Not afraid to be alone."

"Yeah? And what the fuck makes you so sure, wolf boy? You think because you know my favorite color suddenly you know everything?"

"Not everything. You got sad when you thought that we were going to think you untrustworthy, your whole make up a lie. How long have you been 22?"

"22 years."

Embry nodded.

"Look, if you're going to break up with me say it already so we can get past this brooding bullshit. I know what you're getting at, you know me, alright, I get it. I don't need the lecture."

Embry smiled, "Why would I do that? I know you're not playing games with me because just now you nearly crumbled thinking that I didn't trust you anymore or that my feelings for you changed on top of your most obvious lack of strength because you haven't 'fed'."

"You are getting mighty full of yourself, little boy. It's getting on my nerves." Alexander growled as she got up to walk away.

"And then your condescending demeanor arises when I'm telling you the god honest truth about yourself." Embry took her wrist delicately before she could walk away completely. "You wouldn't be able to respond this way if you were faking it. Because what would be the purpose o faking it if your secrets are already out?"

Alexander looked everywhere but at him. Secretly she was glad that someone bothered to pay attention to her but damn it could get annoying.

"Don't you think this a little strange?" she began, still not looking at him. "I'm a 22 year old succubus, dating a 17 year old wolf boy. I don't know. I just feel like some sort of Nanny." Alexander laughed. "I'd have to say in the past few months it's been the other way around though."

"More or less… but do you see what I'm getting at?" Embry said. "I can't believe it took me this long to realize you had a weakness complex. Acting like you need no one but afraid to be lonely."

Alexander yanked her wrist from his hand. "That's doesn't mean I am staying! If I do recall that you still need to Imprint. Even if we do continue this how long do you think its really going to last? I refuse to get locked into Binding to get hurt."

"Binding? Is that like Imprinting?"

"Yes, it is. Except we choose the mate and we bind kind of like a magical contract." Alexander thought for a moment. "Just forget it, Embry. Don't fight for it."

"I refuse to let you walk away from this!" Embry was shaking now. "After all that you don't want to try? You were the one who kept talking about all the things we haven't said to each other now they've been said you don't want to fight for this!?" His voice was rising. "Stop only thinking of yourself god damn it! Don't be so selfish."

"Maybe you're right, but I really like you and I'm walking away before I get hurt because of that." Alexander moved to walk away but Embry caught her again. He kissed her, placing one hand on he back of her head and the other around her waist. The kiss was hard; all his emotion of frustration, passion, love, pleading, and fear went into it. Alexander found herself melting into it; she grasped the front of his shirt tighter than she wanted too. They broke off and Embry pressed his forehead against hers.

"Don't Alexander. Please. You're the only think that makes me feel that just maybe I'm not bound here because of a pack. You're the only thing that makes me feel like there is more to my life than the wolf inside of me. I see your free spirit and the things that you do on your own without a glance backward. It makes me think that you are in the distance I am stuck in one spot." He whispered to her.

"How can a be the rock for you when I'm the one once secretly pathetically clinging to you for emotional support… I will move on from here and so will you. You just have to believe that. You are your own wolf, your own person." She whispered back. "In truth I used to think of relationships as a ball and chain and then I would run in the opposite direction. But I don't see you as that. Never have but don't pin your hopes on me."

Embry kissed her again.

"You're a lot stronger than I gave you credit for. Now stop putting up with my shit." Alexander smiled wryly at him.

"Sooooo can I make out with you now? Since I know how you really feel about me." Embry grinned childishly. She tapped him playfully on the head.

"Idiot. I'll eat you alive."