I've been spending the last eight months
Thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end
But on a Wednesday in a cafe I watched it begin again
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I didn't know what to expect from Embry. I had only met him once and that was at the bar when he was being a creep. I didn't know him and only knew his name, I didn't even know how old he was. I shouldn't even make assumptions about him because I didn't know him.
But when he was standing in front of me, staring at me and my daughter, like he was somehow offended by me having a daughter, it was hard not to make assumptions and my assumption so far was that he was a huge dick.
"You have a daughter?" I looked down at Kaelynn who was sitting down in the sand, letting the waves wash over her feet. I didn't want her to see me yelling at Embry and I didn't want to use language. But I was pissed off.
"Yes. I have a daughter. What the hell does that have to do with you? Nothing. Why are you staring at me like me having a daughter somehow offends you? I and my daughter have nothing to do with you and I don't give a fuck who the hell you think you are. But you do NOT stare at my daughter like that." I crossed my arms over my chest and looked Embry up and down.
Embry was attractive, that was to say the least. He had a strong jaw and stubble on his chin and jaw. He had dark brown hair, maybe even black, with deep brown eyes. He was ripped and muscles in all the right places and he looked like a Native American Hercules. But this man, was a dick.
"I'm sorry that's not what I…" Embry's eyes trailed off to Kaelynn again. I turned my head and saw her playing in the sand and smiled to myself.
"You have a daughter." Embry's eyes were guarded, but I did seem some anger there and when I looked over him briefly, he was shaking.
"What the hell is wrong with you? I have a daughter. I have a daughter. So what? Why the hell is that any of your business you ignorant prick?" Embry's eyes met mine and they flashed, but he didn't stop shaking.
"Embry! Dude! Calm down!" I looked over his shoulder and saw more of the same type of men. Native American, dark hair and eyes and ripped. Steroids.
"Why do you have a daughter?" Embry looked pained and his friends were standing behind him grabbing his arms trying to pull him back.
"Embry! Let's go!" I frowned at Embry as his friends were trying to pull him away.
It was none of his damn business why I had a daughter. I have a daughter and I love her and that's that. Embry shouldn't be in my business and shouldn't be pissed off because of something that happened to me. He had no reason to get into anything personal.
"Chelsey…you need to go home." I didn't know the guy's name that talked to me, but he seemed familiar. Maybe I had seen him in a class or two in school, but I wasn't sure.
"Chelsey! You need to go!" I didn't know why I was stuck in my place watching one of them drag Embry to the woods, or why I was suddenly so concerned for him. It wasn't a normal feeling to go from being so angry and pissed off at someone to being overly concerned and worried about them the next minute.
"Embry! Calm down!" I turned and looked at Kaelynn who was playing in the sand and when I had turned back around, the 3 of them were gone. I frowned and walked over to Kaelynn and bent down beside her.
"Hey munchkin. Wanna go get something to eat?" She stopped building her castle and looked up at me, her bright eyes watching me.
"Yes momma. I hungry." I smiled and picked her up and rest her on my hip, brushing off the sand in the process.
"Let's go." I gathered her things and once I had all our things together, I started walking towards the vehicle, ignoring the feeling that I was being watched from the woods.
"Mommy?" I set Kaelynn down and pulled her sweater off of her head. It was starting to get chilly and the last thing I needed was for her to get sick.
"Mommy?" I felt her tug on my hand and I sighed and looked at her. She had the look in her eyes where she wanted to ask about her dad.
"Where's daddy?" I frowned and looked away from her. It was hard to explain to a 3 year old that you didn't know where their dad was. It was hard to tell her that her dad wanted nothing to do with her. How was I supposed to tell her that?
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"She has a daughter! A daughter! You know what that means?!" I could barely hang on to my anger and I had already phased once, tearing my clothes in the process. Now I was borrowing clothes from Brady and I was going to rip those too if I wasn't careful.
"It means she has a daughter." Brady was leaning against the tree across from me, and while he wasn't pacing like me, he was restless and uneasy.
"It means she's had sex. It means that some other…man has touched her and gotten her pregnant!" I growled and paced back and forth. The images of Chelsey and another man were burned into my mind and it was doing nothing but pissing me off.
"Embry you couldn't have expected her to be lonely and single until you met her. That's just stupid. She's a beautiful girl and she seems like she's got a great personality, of course she would have boyfriends." I know Brady was only trying to make me feel better by telling me not to freak out, but it was just pissing me off even more.
"She has a daughter!" I didn't know what I was more pissed off about. The fact that she had a daughter with another man or the fact that she may still be in a relationship with him.
"So what? What's the big deal about her having a daughter? Really Embry. Get your head out of your ass and stop overreacting about the situation. She has a daughter. So what? It's not a big deal and you need to stop treating it like it's a big deal or else you will never get close to her and she will hate you. Do you really want that because that's where you're headed." I growled at Brady and felt my bones starting to crack and snap. I was going to phase soon. I could feel it.
"It's your choice Embry. You either get your big head out of your ass and stop acting like Paul and start acting like the great guy you are, or you lose your imprint over a situation you can't control and have no business being in."
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