I watched as my angel's eyes narrowed at me. She clenched her jaw and I could hear her delicate teeth grinding.

"I'm going to pretend you said the wrong name," she scowled at me. "Now tell me correctly, who is watching me?"

I could feel my stomach turning in knots at the prospect of pissing off Danni even more…story of my life. "Uhh…it's Sam," I said uneasily.

Danni lay next to me for a moment, just silent. There was no expression on her face, and I began to fear that I might have mentally broken her. She didn't move or even breathe. She would only pierce my body with her eyes, narrowed and stabbing me.

"Danni?"

"What the fuck Paul?" Danni shouted, leaning upwards and throwing the covers off her. "Are you brain damaged or something? You do know that Sam hates me, right?" Yep, that's the Danni I know and love.

I sat up as well and grabbed her shoulder, trying to offer my mate some comfort in her distressed state. The knowledge that she was angry with me seemed to hurt my body even more than usual. I assume it's the fact that we're officially mates now, and not just imprints. Nevertheless, the urge to make Danni feel better consumed my body, and I pulled her into my embrace and nuzzled her neck.

"You know I love you, right?" I asked.

Danni scoffed. "Obviously not, considering you're gonna feed me to your alpha." Her body felt rigid in my hold, tense and uncomfortable.

I laid us down, pulled her on top of me. "Is this more comfy for you?" I asked, making it sound like I was teasing, but I was dead hoping that she'd say yes.

Danni just rolled her eyes, but I could feel the tension in her body disappear as she allowed her frame to mold into mine. "Seriously though. Why Sam? I mean, if you're going to have a pack meeting, shouldn't he be there?"

I sighed. "It's technically not a meeting. I have to go and try to kill some bloodsuckers that are in the area."

"Vampires?" Danni asked and I felt her body tense up again.

I tightened my hold on her and positioned our bodies so that she was now on the mattress, and part of my body was over hers; acting like a shield. "Don't worry," I whispered in her ear. "I'll protect you. From vampires, and from Sam."

"How do you expect to protect me from Sam? Aren't you always ridin' his dick?"

Even I had to laugh at that. "No," I chuckled. "He's my alpha, and whatever he says, goes. No matter what. But I'll make you a deal."

"'What?"

"If Sam bothers you tomorrow, then I'll quit the pack and it'll be just you and me."

"You can do that?" Danni all but shouted out of surprise.

"Yea, Jake did it a while ago," I answered.

She was quiet for a while, deep in thought. "Fine," she finally said.

My body filled with pride and I almost wished for Sam to be mean to Danni, so that I could quit and have it just be us. Just me and Danni. And the best part was: she actually agreed to it! She actually wanted to be with me this time! "I love you," I whispered as I leaned over and pressed my lips to hers, not waiting to ask for entrance. I just shoved my tongue inside, automatically claiming dominance.

I felt completely at peace and the happiest I've ever been in my entire life. It was just me and my mate, together in bed. There was no one else, no responsibilities, and no resentment towards one another (at least not in this moment). Everything was perfect.

DPOV

I woke up in an empty bed, which I have to admit, wasn't as appealing as I used to think it was. Before Paul "made me his mate", I hated the idea of him being in the same room, let alone bed, as me; however, now, I feel so cold and so alone without him here to hold me. Damn it!

I stretched out my limbs and crawled out of bed, both of my legs feeling weighed down. My big-ass cast and that stupid house-arrest sensor. Great…

"You up?" a deep voice asked from the hallway as it entered the room. A ripple of disgust tore its way down my spine as I recognized the familiarity of it.

I turned around to see fucking Sam there, bare-chested with his arms crossed. His hair was dishelved and everywhere, making him look wild and intimidating. Fucker.

"Yea," I grunted as I hopped over to the door to go downstairs and see if I could summon a feeble breakfast.

Sam stepped forward and made a move to pick me up. "Paul made sure I knew that your leg was broken, even though I saw your cast earlier."

I held up my hand to tell him to stop. "I can manage," I growled. "besides, Paul never lets me get any exercise."

Sam shrugged and walked downstairs, leaving me to make it there myself. I had thought that he'd attack me the second he saw me. Or that he'd burst out into some speech on how Emily is beautiful even with her nasty scars. Yea, she's pretty, but I think she's lucky Sam has to love her. There'd be no way she's a man on her looking like the Joker.

"Good morning Danni," I heard a feminine voice that sure as shit did not belong to Sam. I turned to look in the kitchen and, speak of the devil, Emily was there…making breakfast.

Hmmm, okay so maybe I can deal with her.

"Morning," I repeated, making sure I didn't sound mean. I mean, after all, the bitch is making me some food.

"Danni, this is Kim," Emily said as she motioned to a quiet girl who was in the corner of the kitchen.

I waved at her, and her cheeks turned a deep red. Shy much?

"So who do you belong to?" I asked as I sat on the couch, turning my head to keep conversation.

"Jared," Kim barely said, making it more of a whisper.

I nodded. "He's cool. Paul is my dog."

"Correction," Sam said as he plopped down on the other side of the couch. "You are Paul's."

I whipped my head to face him. "no, I don't think so. I wear the pants, I make the decisions, I own Paul."

'Then why do you have that ankle sensor on?" Sam smirked.

"Because," I said, wondering how I was going to argue this, "uhh…Paul likes bulky jewelry. So I went out and got this anklet."

Sam cocked his head to the side, still smirking. "Oh yea? Then how about you go out to the mailbox and bring in the newspaper? I want to read it."

"Or, you could be like normal people and get your news from the TV. The remote is on the coffee table." I smiled and relaxed into the cushions.

"But channel 2 doesn't have comics. I need my Garfield fix," Sam countered.

I sighed and got up. "Grown ass man reading comics. Fucking freak,' I muttered under my breath.

"Heard that!" Sam called from his spot.

I hopped over to the door and swung it open. The outside was in the nice high sixties, keeping the air lukewarm. The ground was dry and the mailbox was across the lawn at the street. Okay, I can do this. Like, the sensor tells when I wander away from the house, so as long as I stay on Paul's property, I should be fine. Right?

I broke out into a face hopping motion, my form of sprinting now. I made it halfway across the lawn when I began to realize that Paul's front lawn was frickin' huge! Like it just seemed to stretch on and on, the road and mailbox appearing miles away. I made it two-thirds of the way there when I heard a little beep, followed by more.

Son of a bitch! I stopped hopping and looked down at the sensor to see a red light flashing on top of it. The beeps began to get faster and louder, making the electronic noise echo out into the open. Shit, at this rate, one of those vampires Paul was talking about will be able to hear it…or worse: Paul!

I spun around on my heel and hopped/raced back to the house, dashing inside and slamming my body down on the couch. Sam burst into hysterics and held his sides.

"Yea, I totally see it Danni," he smiled. "You are so in charge of Paul."

I just growled in his direction, not giving him the satisfaction of making him laugh more at my expense. Fucking douche.

There was a little beep that sounded out from the kitchen. Now I know that can't be me.

Emily walked into the living room, handing the source of the noise over to Sam. "Here ya go Babe," she said.

"Thanks," Sam said as he pulled her down to kiss her cheek, and then her scars. When he was done doing that, he pressed a button on the phone and put it to his ear. "Yes?"

There was a faint hum coming from the phone, but due to its gruffness and hysteria, I could tell it was Paul on the other line. Fuck!

"And I wanna know how if you're supposed to be killing bloodsuckers, how did you manage to reach a phone?" Sam said to Paul.

That was a pretty good question.

"Oh really?-Well that's great. And what about the male?-I see. Well, then we're going to have to do more patrol because you know he'll want to avenge her. So he should still be in the area. Keep on your toes.-Yes Paul she's still here at the house.-Yea." Sam leaned forward and tossed me the phone.

It plopped in my lap and I picked it up. "Hello?" I asked, trying to make my voice sound as innocent as possible.

"What the hell were you doing outside?" Paul yelled.

"Bitch, relax! I was just getting the mail, like what Sam ordered me to do," I said.

"There's bloodsuckers outside Danni! Don't go out by yourself again, ever! Do you understand me?"

"No, I don't speak Crazy. Paul seriously, what's the worst that could happen? I catch a cold?"

"There are vampires outside! I already told you that!" I looked and saw that Sam, Emily, and even Kim were dead silent, eavesdropping on our call.

"Yea he did tell you that," Sam interrupted. "I saw it."

I tensed up and glared at him. "You were spying on us?" I screamed. "Ugh! You sick pervert!"

"Danni, please try to calm down!" Paul pleaded. "Sam wasn't spying on us. When I phased this morning, Sam was in his wolf form too and he saw it."

"You're not making any sense at all!" I yelled.

Paul sighed. "Wolf packs can hear one each others' thoughts and memories. I just happened to be thinking about last night when I phased. So since Sam was in his wolf form too at the time, then he saw it."

"I also saw you two have sex. Danni, you go a little cross-eyed when you orgasm," Sam added, biting into a muffin that Emily handed him.

I turned bright red and I could hear Paul smack his forehead on the other line for Sam revealing that. I threw the phone to the ground, watching it smash into dozens of plastic pieces.

"Bitch that was my phone!" Sam whined.

"Shut up!" I shouted, giving him the death stare. "I've had it with all this werewolf shit! Fucking imprinting, then biting, then vampires, and now you see me having sex! What the fuck!" I felt so fucking embarrassed and exposed. The whole fucking werewolf pack saw me and Paul having sex. Then they saw me high off my mind, crying when I took shrooms. They saw me drunk off my ass, coming onto Paul! They saw me attack a fucking hippie with a pooper-scooper!

Was nothing sacred anymore?

There was a knock on the door and I rolled my eyes. I wonder who that could be… "Go fuck yourself Paul!" I yelled.

"Daniela Marie! What you're tone and open this door this instant!" came a scary-as-fuck voice from outside.

"Mom?" I gasped as I threw open the door. And sure enough, there was my mom, and Liam (ew!), standing there.

"Daniela, we were so worried! You weren't at the house and the front door was left wide open! I raccoon got inside and trashed the living room! And we didn't know where you were!"

I wondered why my mom decided to complain to me about the raccoon before my disappearance. "Mom, I'm being kept here against my will!" I pleaded. I shoved my leg forward to show her the ankle bracelet.

Her eyes dropped and she put her hand up to her mouth. "I guess you were right," she gasped. "Paul really is obsessed with you."

"Why a guy likes Daniela, let's chalk that up as a miracle," Liam muttered.

I ignored him but turned to my mom instead. "You have to get me out of here! It's a fucking animal porno! Where they see everything! EVERYTHING!"

"What the fuck have you been smoking?" Liam interjected.

"Whatever it is, I'm sure she got it from that Paul-guy," my mom said as she grabbed for my arm. "C'mon Daniela, you're coming home."

"And you're never seeing that Officer Meraz again," Liam added, trying to sound all parental.

I know I should be happy about leaving this place, but the idea of never seeing Paul again sent a hurting sensation deep into my core. My insides twisted and burned and I longed to be in his arms again…just not with him being a werewolf.

I grabbed onto the doorframe to prevent my mom from dragging me to the car. "No Mom, I still want to see Paul, I just need to set some ground rules with him is all."

"What?" my mom asked, sounding confused as hell. She shook her head. "Liam put her in the car." She walked off over to the car and got in the passenger seat, waiting for us.

Liam sighed. "Come on Dan, let's go." He reached over for my arm, getting a good grip on it.

Sam, Emily, and Kim were all sitting on the couch watching the whole thing go down. Emily, who was in the middle, just brought the pan in from the kitchen, it being filled with eggs and bacon; and the three of them ate out of that, like it was giant popcorn bowl. Well at least they think I'm entertaining.

Liam yanked on my arm, making me lose my grip on the doorframe and fall into the lawn. He didn't even try to catch me! Like I fell, literally, onto the lawn, right in front of him and he just let me do it!

He knelt down close to me, grabbing the back of my neck. "Get. Up. Daniela!"

"Her name is Danni!" I heard a pissed off voice yell out. "And get the fuck away from her!"

Both Liam and I looked up to see Paul, looking mad as fuck, stomping out of the forest. I smirked up at Liam. "You're in trouble," I sang.