Chapter 7 – Missing You

Olivia continued on with her evening as she made dinner, she fed Jr and made sure he got his bath. Jr had asked her a couple of times why she looks sad. She just shook her head and smiled weakly and let him know she was just having a bad day. She didn't want him to ever know if she was sad or mad or anything negative. For four years old he was highly intelligent and when she would have a bad day he noticed it; though most days she kept a fake smile on her face for him so he wouldn't notice. She watched as he climbed into his race car bed and she tucked him in as she placed a million father kisses all over his face as she enjoyed his giggles.

Before she left his room she turned the nightlight on in his room and the one in the bathroom across from his bedroom in case he had to get up in the middle of the night, which he didn't do very often. She pulled his door nearly closed; leaving it open about an inch.

Olivia went back to her room and stood looking at her bedroom window. She heard the front door open and close a few minutes later and a pair of feet race through the hardwood floors of the house and up the stairs and her bedroom door was opened.

"Livy?"

The familiar voice saying her name put a genuine smile on her face. Olivia turned around as her smile faltered a little. "You know…" She was making a statement but it sounded like a question.

Seth nodded slowly. "Leah called me. Are you okay?" Seth closed the distance between himself and Olivia; his hands gripped her hips as he leaned his 6'9" frame down and kissed her forehead softly. He'd been gone for the last week patrolling the Canadian border with Collin.

Olivia felt the warmth enter her body when he kissed her forehead. She nodded. "I guess so."

Seth pulled back so he could look in her eyes. "What were you thinking grabbing Paul's fur like that? When he snapped back at you; you could've gotten bitten or worse he could've taken your face off. Olivia, you have to promise me you won't go anywhere near him when he's in wolf form again. He's not the same guy who left here four years ago, he lost touch with the pack so he's considered wild until he reconnects and him and Jared fighting in our front yard doesn't reconnect him either."

Olivia nodded she knew Seth could potentially find out about what had happened, especially since she knew Leah would call Seth to tell him Paul had come back and that She'd had words with him in Emily's front yard.

Seth sighed heavily. "I'm really glad you're okay. I was worried about you." He stepped back from Olivia and moved around the room quietly. "Do you need me to move out?"

"What? Why would I need you to move out?" Olivia's voice sounded panicked.

Seth immediately felt panic enter her entire body from head to toe. "Well for starters you're not my imprint. You're just my girlfriend. It seems he's decided to come back and try to pick up where he left off."

Olivia frowned and could feel the tears pricking the back of her eyes. "What do you mean just your girlfriend?" Her eyes turned towards Seth, but he kept his eyes away from her.

"That came out wrong – I just meant you're Paul's imprint. You were his first and if you guys are going to try and work things out for Jr's sake then you can't really do that with your boyfriend living with you." Seth pointed out and he really hadn't meant that to sound as hard as it did, but he was scared of losing the best thing he'd had going in his life.

Olivia wasn't sure if she should feel sad or offended. "I'm not some kind of property that Paul can just lay his claim to whenever he feels like it. He chose to walk away from me and the pack and everyone that was in his life. No phone calls, no letters; nothing. We didn't hear anything from that selfish bastard for four years. And you just seem to think I'm going to roll over and just let him back into my life. Why, because he imprinted on me? For the first six months of the imprint he ignored me and was an absolute dick; and yea we had six wonderful months after that but yet again he disappointed me by leaving."

Olivia walked over and sat on the foot of the bed. "I realize we have only been together a year, but I thought we meant more to each other than that."

Seth's heart sank he by no means meant for this conversation to get twisted sideways. When he heard her voice crack, he finally turned to see her sitting on the end of the bed. The same bed they'd been sharing for the last nine months. Seth walked over and squatted down in front of her as his hands softly touched the tops of her jean covered legs. "I'm so sorry Livy. I didn't mean for that to sound that terrible. I was trying to get my thoughts out, but for some reason it came out harsh. I've just enjoyed us being together for the last twelve months, but I always knew in the back of my mind Paul could come back at any given point and you could just chose him and you'd have that right to because of the imprint."

"I don't want him because of Jr or the imprint or anything. I don't want him period." Olivia confessed.

Seth sighed heavily. "It's not my place to come between a wolf and his imprint. I wouldn't want it to happen to me or any of my other pack brothers or even Leah. I don't want to lose you to someone who just didn't care enough to stick around to be here for you; whether he knew you were pregnant or not. The first few days after the attack you had terrible nightmares. You still have them but they aren't nearly as bad as they were then and he wasn't even around to help you through it."

Olivia's blue eyes met Seth's soft dark brown eyes; she always told him they looked like pools of chocolate. She felt his warm hands as they both squeezed her thighs slightly. "Seth I'm not going back to a guy who broke my heart. I'm staying with the one who never asked me for anything more than friendship and it turned into more. It turned into so much more over the last twelve months. I know Sam and the rest of the pack seem to think I'm some kind of broken China doll and I'm pining away for Paul."

Seth chuckled a bit. "Yea and they pity me because they don't understand what we have. The only ones who understand us are Leah, Embry, Jake, Marina, Jared and Kim. And that's only because they've been around us enough to see the way we are with each other."

They hadn't expressed any feelings of love to one another, but they both knew it would be a while before that happened. Their feelings were growing stronger and stronger for each other on a daily basis. It didn't just peak at a six month mark and fade away; it kept growing and every day they were both surprised they could feel a certain way for each other.

Olivia caressed Seth's cheek as she smiled softly. "Do you know how much I've missed you?"

Seth shook his head negatively. "Nope." He popped the 'p'.

Olivia giggled as she leaned over and pressed her lips to his in a soft kiss.

Seth smiled against her lips as he couldn't help kissing her back sweetly. Seth stood up slowly as he gently lifted Olivia into his arms; her arms went around his neck – never breaking the kiss.

Seth carefully laid Olivia on their bed as he followed her onto the bed; the kiss still going deep and strong. Seth's lips finally pulling away from Olivia's as they travelled to her neck as his overly warm hands roamed her still clothed body while pressing her closer to his body. "God I missed you baby."

Olivia's body lit on fire when he called her baby. She was never one for terms of endearment, but with Seth they always woke up her body from head to toe. "I missed you too Seth. I missed you so much."

Clothing began to disappear and much like any time they'd made love in the last few months as soon as Seth entered her body is was just as exhilarating as the first time. It never got old or boring and it was incredible and earth shattering for the both of them. Both of them fell asleep with sweet dreams of each other on their minds.