Chapter 16

I could have beaten everyone home by a half hour but I decided to take a detour and run towards the mountains to find a bear to eat. I tried to think of what I would do with all my free time now. I had always slept with Jacob at night but since I no longer needed to sleep it seemed like it would be a hollow gesture now. After taking down a feisty brown bear I decided to go home.

When I got through the front door Rosalie was yelling at Jacob for eating like a pig and making a mess in the kitchen while he cooked. "Rose I will clean his mess if stop yelling." "Emmett that's not the point!" I ignored the bickering and went to find my kids.

Mom was sitting in the rocking chair holding Caleb who she had wrapped up in a quilt. "Hey honey, how was your run?" I sat down with Marie who was playing with toys in the floor, "I caught a bear and went to the mountains. Mostly I tried to think about what I'm gonna do while my husband and kids are asleep." Alice came into the room, "Um, Bella, I need to tell you something. Alone." Mom handed me Caleb and left.

Jacob came up and got Caleb to sleep while I worked on Marie. Every time I would try to lay her down she would move the bed. Jacob had been asleep for and hour by the time she went down and I went to find something to do. I settled on watching Emmett and Jasper play the Wii. This was the only way we could play baseball without thunder.

After Jasper beat Emmett six times Alice came in followed by Edward who looked terrified. "Dad what's wrong?" He ignored me and went to drag Emmett and Jasper outside. I had had enough of the secrets around here and it was going to end. I ran out the back door and cut them off. "Nessie go back inside!" Even though I could here anger in my dad's voice I didn't flinch. "No! I'm tired of being out of the loop and it is clearly something bad so what is going on?" Alice came out of the woods, "Edward we should tell her before Sam tells Jacob."

My mom came out of the woods with Rosalie and she sobbed when she saw me standing there. "Someone had better fucking tell me what is going on!" "SON OF A BITCH! NESSIE!" The sound of Jacob yelling caught me off guard but my body reacted without hesitation. I could smell the blood before I even got to the stairs and I began to panic. Jacob was the bathroom with Caleb in his arms wiping him down with a towel.

My son had a very distinguished crescent shape mark at his wrist. It only took me half a second to put two and two together. I saw the fury in Jacob's eyes and ran to my daughter but Jacob blocked the door when I turned around. "Jacob move!" I used the sternest voice I could muster under the situation but he didn't move out of my way. I was no longer his but a lioness trying to protect her cub from a very dangerous predator. "That thing almost killed our son!" I could actually see him shaking getting ready to phase if he needed to. I held my daughter as close to me as possible. You would think I, a vampire, would be afraid of an outraged werewolf, but I wasn't. "This THING is our daughter, Jacob!" He didn't move out of the door way and began shaking even more.