(Hey you guys! Happy late Fourth of July! Hope you guys like it)

Natasha's POV:

Natasha looked at Sam carefully. What could he want? "Well, I won't agree until you tell me what the favor is" she told him with her arms crossed across her chest. "Well, I have this problem" Sam started as he backed away from her and started to pace around the room. "My brother thinks that I can't get a girlfriend. So, I need you to be my fake girlfriend for a while" Sam told her with a shrug. "Why is it such a big deal" Natasha asked him, raising an eyebrow. She really didn't see why it was such a problem. "When you're an alpha with no girlfriend or mate, then you aren't exactly all that" Sam said trying to explain. "Awww! It's so cute that you want to fit in and all but why can't you just leave me out of this" Natasha asked him.

Sam looked over at her, his expression angry for a moment. "It's not just that I need to fit in but as an alpha you are stronger if you have a mate. So, I want you to be my mate in a sense. "I don't know if I could do that to be honest. I don't see why I would go from being kidnapped and a guy wanting me to be his actual wife and mate to going into the hands of a man that I don't even know and be his fake mate" she told him. "I know that it is hard to trust me but if you don't at least try, then you'll be stuck here to marry him" he said off handedly.

"Okay, so let's say that I go with this crazy plan. How would I get away from Jake and get Emen out" Natasha asked him with a raised eyebrow. "Well, there's this masquerade ball coming up this weekend and you'll be there I guarantee. Around the middle of the whole ball I'll ask you to dance. Then we'll sneak out. While the ball is going on I'll have your vampire boyfriend rescued and we'll take off to my mansion" Sam told her with a shrug. He was no leaning against a wall. "I still don't think that this is going to work. I mean, he'll probably keep me in arms reach at all times you know? Plus, he'd be able to smell you with is werewolf senses and all" she tried to reason with him.

"Well, I can get someone else to dance with you and take you away while I get your friend out then" Sam smiled at her. She sighed as she rolled her eyes. She could see some resemblance that Sam and Jake had. They were both so stubborn! "Fine I give in. I'll do it, but if we get caught then I'll say that you kidnapped me" she told him, narrowing her eyes at him. "Sure. Whatever. Anyways I was supposed to come here to show you to the meeting" Sam smirked at her. He had a glint in his eyes that she didn't really like.

She walked over to the door when he stuck out his arm for her to put her hand in the crook of his elbow. She rolled her eyes and put her hand there. He was so weird sometimes. Everyone around here seemed to be off their rocker now-a-days. They both walked downstairs and down a couple hallways until they reached huge oak doors. Sam opened it with ease with just one hand. As they walked in, everything got real quiet and all eyes immediately turned to them. There were a lot of people in the room. There had to be at least fifty people along the huge table in the room.

Her heart sped up and her face flushed. She really wasn't sure what to do at the moment with so many eyes staring at her. She heard a low growl from not too far away and looked in the direction. Jake was sitting at the head of the table and was glaring at her hand looped in Sams arm. She quickly took her hand out from his arm and played with her fingers, suddenly finding the carpet much more interesting then the room full of people. Then it dawned on her. This was the pack. These were all werewolves. She gulped and slowly started to back away and out of the room again. "What'd you go and do that for? You're scaring her" a short woman not too far from Jake, near the head of the table said.

The woman turned towards Natasha and smiled. "I'm Ema. It's so nice to meet you" she said and stood up, sticking her hand out for Natasha to shake. She slowly did so while telling her name. "Mother this is my meeting" Jake huffed and stood up, grabbing Natasha by the arm, and dragged her to the chair next to him. That was his mother? How did he turn out so much different? "I don't want to hear you speak to me like that again" Ema's eyes narrowed when she looked at him. He ignored her. "This is Natasha. She is the girl that I wish to marry and will be turned into a werewolf shortly after. By then, she'll be your alpha female. So I expect everyone to respect her like you would me or else there will be punishment" he said harshly.

Everyone quickly nodded except Sam, which Natasha noticed but no one else seemed to. She hoped that nobody else had noticed. He had better be more careful if they were going to go through with this and not have someone figure it out before they can make it to freedom. "This meeting is just so she could meet you guys and you her. She needs to start learning everyone and their positions in the pack" he told them. For the rest of the time that she was in the huge hall, she was talking to someone or another.

It was just person after person, telling her their name and position in the pack, and every now and then they would tell her a little about themselves. She only remembered the things that Ema told her about herself and she remembered her husband's name, Tom. Tom was pretty much the same as Jake. Hard and short tempered. Now she knew where he got most of his personality at least. She rolled her eyes and smiled at Ema when she told her that they had to go home but they'd see her at the ball. She nodded politely and sighed in relief when she left. "Time to go bed" Jake told her suddenly as he appeared behind her. She smiled in happiness.

She was so tired from staying up so long. She stood up and followed him as he guided her to her room. She walked in and she heard him close the door. She thought he may have followed her but he just left. She sighed in relief and stripped down for bed before getting onto the mattress, under the covers, and resting her head on the pillow. As she looked out the window she saw a shooting star. She wished for the one thing that she wanted most, freedom.

(Hope you guys liked it and not promising anything but may be able to post another chapter or two in the next couple of days )