(EPOV)

"Hey Bella. Edward. Thanks for bringing her," Jacob said as soon as our small group walked up to him. Even without hearing his thoughts I could read the emotions in his face plain as day while he looked at the sole subject of his thoughts. Surprisingly, I felt slightly protective and was worried that Jacob's thoughts would stray to less appropriate day dreams. Thankfully, he was only thinking about how he was going to tell Bella.

"No problem Jacob." My voice had enough of an edge to it that I knew even Bella would be able to sense it.

"I'll let you know when we're ready," he said before putting his arm casually around Bella's shoulders.

"Don't be too long," I said before turning to Alice. She grinned and grabbed Adia's hand. Adia gave her a smile and the three of us headed down the street. It was fairly crowded for a Saturday afternoon and I was slightly worried about Adia's self control around this many humans, but she was too busy trying to keep up with Alice's steady flow of monologue. It was shocking how quickly Adia had molded herself into our family.

Over the course of three days she had picked up more details than Bella had in three months. Esme had taken her in like her own flesh and blood. To anybody on the outside looking in, Adia, Esme and Carlisle were a perfect little family. Already Carlisle was acting like a proud father showing Adia how to hunt properly, telling her stories from his past. Esme spent time playing with Adia's hair and talking about "girl stuff". The rest of the family adored her as well. Emmett enjoyed racing Adia and telling her every joke he could think of. Adia liked watching Rosalie work on the cars. Alice was anxious to take Adia shopping and spent hours playing makeover while Jasper had found somebody to tell his war stories to. It had surprised us all when Adia seemed to take a liking to his anecdotes. Jasper had told me she felt a connection to them, which left us all curious. As for me, Adia hardly left me sight, preferring to sit across from me and think about everything, hoping I would pick up on something she missed.

As we continued walking I thought of how much time she had been spending with her eyes closed, indulging herself in this stranger's mind. Her most recent excursion had proved my theory that he was a vampire and was definitely living in Seattle. I had been trying to come up with theories as to why Adia had that connection with the mysterious vampire, but still hadn't managed to find one.

Here goes.

Jacob's thoughts quickly found their way to the front of my mind. Without saying anything, I turned around and walked back to the car. Soundlessly, I climbed in, cracked the window open, opened the book I had brought and listened. Thankfully the store's owner had decided that it was hot enough to keep the door and windows open.

"So what's the big deal Jake? What did you need to tell me in public?" Bella's voice floated to me. She could have been sitting in the backseat. I flipped the page.

"You can't wait long enough to eat your lunch?"

I could picture Bella frowning, getting impatient.

"Fine. You remember how I was telling you about the old legends of imprinting?"

"Vividly."

"Good, that saves me some time."

If I hadn't been waiting for them I doubt I would have noticed Adia and Alice climbing into the car with me.

"Are you telling me you brought me all the way here to tell me you've imprinted? On who Jake? Do I know her?" I could hear the excitement mingled with suspense in Bella's voice.

"Yes you know her Bella. But you have to understand something first. When we imprint, nothing else matters. She's the only thing in the world that makes life worth living; everything gravitates around her. Not only is it physically painful to be away from her, it's almost impossible for her to reject this kind of devotion. There's also a law among our pack; nobody can harm the subject of somebody's imprint," Jacob explained after taking a deep breath.

"Where's this going Jake?" Bella's voice was starting to tremble with worry.

"Eventually, I don't know how soon, I'm going to have to leave the pack or else a lot of people we love are going to get hurt."

I tried not to growl. We love. He only loved her. He didn't care about the rest of us.

"Jake … who is it?"

"Because when you marry Edward, things are going to start to get complicated on both parts of the treaty."

"Jacob, who it is?" Bella's voice was more demanding now, shaking with fear. I glanced at Alice, who merely gave me a small smile. It was going better than we had expected. It was only the next part of Jacob's plan that I was worried about.

You can bring her in now Edward.

I sighed with resignation before getting out of the car and walking to the door, knowing that she was behind me, completely oblivious to what was going to happen.

"Just remember Bella, I couldn't control it."

I managed to make my entrance at the perfect time, with the subject of Jacob's imprinting right behind me. Bella turned and looked confused until Jacob made it a little easier to understand. A passionate expression formed on his face as he explained.

"I love her."

(APOV)

Why is everybody looking at me?