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I held Skylar tightly in my arms, I was too afraid to let her go; I had said too much about the imprint and now she was going to leave me like every other person in my life.
"Paul, Please tell me what you were talking about, I can't stand being left out of the loop." I bit my lips almost painfully as I barred my face in her hair.
'I want to tell you Sky, I'm just so scared to freak you out."
"I found out you change into a giant dog, what could be stranger then finding out the man you like has a thing for chancing his own tail and licking his own balls on occasion." I couldn't' help but smirk at that, being a wolf made me want to do many things I had never done before but licking my balls defiantly wasn't one of them.
'I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that last part." I smiled as she pulled away still staring me down, I knew she wasn't going to let up until she found out what exactly I was talking about.
"You can pretend all you want Paul, but I still want answers." I took a deep breath looking at the determination in her beautiful eyes.
"An imprint is when a wolf finds their soul mate, the one woman who is our everything. We can be whatever our imprint needs us to be a friend, a brother, a protector or a mate." I looked away from her not wanting to see the rejection in her eyes. I had just found her; I wanted to spend more time with her before I had to tell her about all of this. Now I was going to lose her because I am a freak and there is nothing I can do about it.
"Look at me." I couldn't resist looking into her eyes, even if doing so I would see she no longer had interest in me. It wouldn't be the first time someone thought I wasn't worth there time.
"Are you telling me that you are stuck with me for the rest of your life?" Stuck with her hell I would be one lucky basterd if I had her by my side for the rest of my life.
"You are the only woman whom will ever mean anything to me, well besides my daughter."
"You get no choice in this; you have to be with me no matter what?" I see were this is going now, she thought I didn't have a choice like I was being held to her like a man a gun point.
"I'm happy about it, you are beautiful and smart. I love hearing your laughter your quick comebacks, I love how gentle you were with my daughter today I know you would be wonderful to her."
"But what if I was the world biggest bitch, then you would still have to be with me."
"The imprinter and imprinte does not need lovers or anything like that, but I'm lucky the spirits seemed to have chosen right for me."
'You don't even know me, how can you say I'm right for you or will be good to your daughter."
"Skylar the first thing I saw when we first met was the beauty radiating from you very soul. Someone as pure as you couldn't be bad. Me on the other hand I feel sorry for you are stuck with me, but I'll be whatever you need me to be."
"Wait back that crazy train up, what do you mean you feel sorry for me being stuck with you?"
"I'm not a good guy sky; I have no idea how to be in a healthy relationship. My parents were drunks that liked to party all night. I learned firsthand from them that I would never be worth anything. Now look at me, I can't even tell C.P.S who the mother of my child is." I groaned as I closed my eyes, she had the right to know all this. But I knew watching her walk out of my life would slowly destroy me. I couldn't keep the shocked look off my face as Skylar pushed me into the door of the shed.
"You better hear me loud and clear when I say this Paul Lahote, you are not a bad guy that much I can see and it does not take a rocket scientist to prove it. You are good, the way I saw snuggling your daughter today proves my point. A bad man wouldn't care that much to hold her, to make she's safe and has everything under the sun she could ever want. Yes you may have gone through hell with your parents but that does not prove by any means what type of man you are or what type of father you are going to be. When I look at you I see a man who tries his with all his heart to be good, a man that his pack brothers could count on in a pinch. The man I want as my boyfriend."
"Boyfriend really, I've never been anyone's boyfriend. Scrumping buddy yes, but I've never been in a real relationship. I have no idea how to be a good boyfriend to you"
"Well I will teach you, even though boyfriend doesn't really cover how I see you."
"That's because of the imprint love; our souls knew each other from the moment we first met."
"I'm glad to know I am not losing my mind then."
"If you are baby girl then I am right behind you."
I groaned with relief as she leaned into me wrapping her arms around my waist.
"You make me never want to leave you." I smiled at her words they made me feel wonderful, wrapping my arms around her tightly I held her to my chest finely feeling content for once in my life.
"I never want you to leave, I want you to stay and let me make you happy." She smiled at me then, I groaned with pleasure as she leaned in kissing me gently on the lips.
"I want to stay with you too, I feel crazy telling a man after one day that I want to be with him. But you are not just some man. You are my hansom wolf the man whom the spirits chose to be my perfect everything." Her words made me smile; I closed my eyes as I leaned back against the shed.
"I hope I don't disappoint you." I knew I had be the man she needed me to be, I couldn't be anything like my parents. Just the thought alone made my heart ache.
"Stay with me tonight, I can't be away from you, my wolf will never let me sleep if we are worried about not only about the baby but also our imprint."
"As long as I can snuggle with you." Her response made me smile; no one had ever made me feel so special, like I could be worth something.
Over the next few hours I learned just how wonderful my imprint really was, she stayed up with me till every last baby item was put away.
"Come on, let's get to bed. You can sleep in my room I'll take the sofa." If I hadn't been her imprint I would have missed the small feeling of hurt that spared threw her.
"I thought we were going to spend the night together, if I wanted to sleep alone I would just go back to Sam and Emily's." I couldn't help the stupid smile the spared cross my face. She wanted to stay with me that was more than awesome.
"I just didn't want to push you."
"Well all we are going to do is sleep right?"
"If that's all you want to do, then sure."
"Paul when I know you better I would love to be with you more intimately, I'm just not the type of girl to jump into bed with a man I just met." I smiled as I leaned over kissing her softly on the head as I led her to my room.
"Waiting for you is worth it baby girl?" I couldn't help but feel content as I handed her a pair of gym shorts and a t-shirt she could sleep in. Dressed in similar shorts I crawled into bed as she disappeared into the bathroom.
I was glad my wolf had settled down now enough to let me sleep, I hated some nights when he was so riled up it took me forever to be able to fall asleep. Sometimes the only way to help him relax was to run myself to exestuation and there was no way I would leave my imprint alone. Not when she wanted to be with me. Damn how the hell did I end up becoming one of those guys that is a complete push over for the woman he loved? I just prayed to the spirits that the guys wouldn't relies what had happened next time I phased, there was no way I would ever live this down.
I opened my eyes as I felt Skylar snuggle in next to me.
'Are you nervous about tomorrow, about the D.N.A test?" Skylar asked as she propped herself on her arm looking down at me.
"No, I already know how the test is going to come out, from the moment my wolf saw that little girl we both knew she was ours."
"Your wolf can tell that, just by looking at her?" She asked with an amazed look on her face.
"She's his pup and a wolf always knows its own pup."
"Just like he knew I was your imprint when you saw me today."
'Yes, kind of like that. No one really knows how the mind of the wolf works. The wolf is smarter than most people would think especially mine."
'You know Paul One thing I think we are going to have to work on his together is your self-image. I hate the way you talk about yourself sometimes. You talk about how worthless you are and I hate that." I took deep breath and Syed; she had no idea how hard that was going to be. Her and my daughter had been the first really good things to ever come into my life.
"I know you are just telling me that to be nice love, I know what I am worthless, too many people have told me over the years just what my worth is."
'Well then I will have to tell you every day just the opposite. I know we don't know each other very well yet but from my experience a man that was worthless wouldn't be worrying about how he could better his daughters life, or how he could make she has a better childhood then what you had." Could she really see all that from the little time we had spent together.
"Thanks love" I could help but pull her in my arms as we lay there together. I knew then I could never let her go, it would kill me to lose her.
"You don't need to thank me Paul it's just what I see." I have no idea what she could see, nor if I could handle someone treating me the way was, but it felt good.
"Still thanks." We lay there together till slowly we both fell out, I wasn't too worried about how things were going to play out with my daughter tomorrow I knew she was mine. What I was worried about was the C.P.S worker making my life a living hell because of other people.
I woke to the sun shining in my face normally it was enough to make to growl. I had never been a morning person what's so ever. But then I felt this small little bit of a woman snuggled up to my side I suddenly felt better. Having her next to me in the mornings and Knowing she was there with me was enough to change my attitude. I didn't want to get out of bed or give up any time with my imprint but I had too. My daughter needed me and I wasn't going to leave her alone with those people longer then I had too. That was something my parents would have done.
"Sky wake up." She smiled at me as she opened her eyes just for a second. I groaned as she snuggled into my side again. She looked so cute with her face buried against my chest.
"Come on sweet heart you not making it any easier for me, my wolf and I both never to want to get out of bed or give up any moments with you in our bed. You have no idea how much I want to just stay here with you but I have things I have to do today."
"What time are you going up to the hospital?" My imprint asked as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes. Damn she was so cute, it felt weird saying someone was cute. Before I had only ever thought if about whether or not a woman would be a good lay.
"I don't know yet, I have to call Sam first. I was sub post to patrol at noon but I'm not going to be able to until I get this stuff with my daughter figured out."
"That's understandable Sam seems like a good guys I can't see him having a problem with you needing to take some time off. I mean it's not like you are off screwing around or anything."
"Yeah Sam's a good guy I don't see him pitching to big a fit." She smiled at me as she got out of bed throwing on her clothes from the previous day. I would be a big fat lier if I said I didn't try to sneak a peak. My imprint was beautiful and I am a very horny guy whom can seem to help himself when it came to his woman.
Sam was on patrol right now, I ran outside striping off my shorts. I phased as soon as I hit the tree line it would be so much quicker to ask him in person then to wait around for him to phase out.
"I wasn't expecting you to patrol today Paul, I thought you would be busy at the hospital." Sam's voice filled my head as soon as I phased.
"Yeah I am going to be busy with that; I just wanted to make sure you were not expecting me."
"Nope Embry's covering for you today."
"Good, tell him I'll pay him back when things calm down."
"That's fine go check on that baby; Emily wanted to ask you when Skylar's coming back to the house."
"Hopefully never, but more than likely latter today."
"I'll let Em know then, be care with her."
I didn't even reply to that as I head back towards the house, how could he even think I wouldn't be careful with my own imprint.
"Because I know how easy it is to hurt your imprint even though you don't mean too." Damn mind link, I growled softly as came to the edge of my yard. I stopped as my imprints scent hit my noise.
I took a few steps to the right and saw my beautiful imprint standing just inside the tree line. She looked over at me as I stepped closer to her.
"Paul" She asked timidly as she took a step back. I sank down on my belly as our eyes met.