A/N: You kick ass! To all of you have review and added the story to your favorites thanks. You all inspire me to continue. So without further ado please read and enjoy this next installment.
~Previously~
"Did we imprint?"
Answers?
~Sam~
What the fuck is going on? According to this book, there is no way we could have imprinted on the girls, especially me. Leah's a shifter too and she would have imprinted back but she never did. I'm so fucking confused and to top it all of looking at Paul he is drawing the same conclusions as I am, I gotta fucking ask him.
"Did we fucking imprint?"
"Not on them."
"What do you mean? On who then?"
"Keep reading."
Turning the page, I glance over the part about the purposes of the imprint and look at the section that says shifter/shifter imprinting. As I read the details on shifters imprinting one line stuck out from the rest. Only an imprinted submissive shifter who has mated with his dominant can produce offspring. No other wolves in the pack can produce with humans or non-imprinted shifters.
"Holy shit. We would have known."
I was shaking my head because there was no way this could be accurate information. I mean really after so long why now.
"And say what exactly? Hey I was reading up on imprinting and found out the only reason you had the pups was because we imprinted but didn't know it. Yeah that won't get me a punch in the face."
"Fine asshole what's your suggestion."
"Take care of our marital problems first. Then once we are free and clear of that. Then we come clean about the children and our feelings because I am tired of living a lie. Lastly, we talk to them and see if they want to be with us and we show them the books and if they feel like we do we go from there. We have to be level headed right."
"Sounds fair, I am going to see Leah and talk to her because I want this all done as soon as possible but after that I am going to talk to Seth before we address the pack and the families about the kids being ours. I want to know how he feels about all of this."
"Yeah, that's a good idea. Call me when you're ready to head to Forks because I want to see Jake."
I nod my head and stand up.
"Make sure you keep this book safe. It's the only thing that's gonna prove us right."
"Sure, sure. I won't let it out of my sight."
Thirty minutes later, I stroll inside the house and I hear things banging upstairs and Leah's voice carrying through the house. This can't be good.
"Hello, I'm home. We need to talk can you come down here please."
She emerges at the top of the stairs seething mad and stomps down the steps two at a time.
"What's wrong?"
"What's wrong? My stupid brother's stupid asshole kids are what's wrong. Those little girls get on my nerves every time I see them. My mother spoils them rotten and I don't understand how she is okay with the fact that shit is disgusting. Plus, I still haven't figured out who their father is but I know I am getting closer and he won't keep it from me forever."
"Why must you be so mean? They're nieces and nephews." I try to stay neutral sounding but I can hear the undercurrent of anger slipping through because these are my children she is talking about.
She just glares at me for a few minutes that feel like an eternity and I know this is going to turn into an argument and this is definitely not what I need at this moment.
"Goddamn you sound like my mother. Why should I be nice? I was here when the he and his bastards weren't! I took care of everything and no one ever said anything about the fact that that bastard just strolled in after sixteen years of not being around and brought fucking kids. He is such a fucking hoe probably doesn't even know who the father is. Him and Jake that's probably the real reason they left. The bastards both come back and we have to be nice when they don't even say sorry to any of us! As far as those dirtbags fucking bastards go they are not my nieces and nephews. Let me get through your head once and for all: I DON'T DO FUCKING KIDS!"
"That's fucking it, Leah. I am done. I want out. I wanted to tell you this peacefully and end on a good note but after watching you sit here and talk about our pack mates and family like that, I don't think I can. You are just a bitter old woman and I feel sorry for you. Don't worry you can keep the house and everything here. I will leave. Goodbye."
I couldn't take it anymore because she was talking about the man I love and my babies like they were scum and they are better then she will ever be. However, I need to hurry up and pack and find some place to stay tonight and then call Paul and head to Forks. As I pack my bags and head back down the stairs, Leah has yet to move or say anything. I leave my wedding band on the table along with the house key and pack up the truck with last bit of my things. I wonder how he is making out.
~Paul~
"You finally came to your sense, Paul. Deciding to come home to me, huh?"
Rachel didn't even glance up from her laptop as I enter the house we used to share. Her cockiness astounds me every single time she assumes things will go her way.
"No. I am here to get the last of my things. Plus drop off some paperwork that needs to be signed."
"Paperwork?"
That got her to look up.
"Yeah."
I hand the divorce papers over to her along with a pen and head upstairs without even so much as a glance back. A few seconds later, Rachel is in the room with me.
"What the fuck is this bullshit? You think you can leave me?"
"Yes. I already did this is just finalizing what we both already knew."
"You can't leave your imprint Paul."
I scoff and laugh mentally as I pack the last bag. I push past her because she refuses to move. Rachel grabs my arm but I shrug her loose. Next thing I know, this is a vase flying past my head along with other projectiles.
"You motherfucking bastard. You think that I will let you leave me? You think this is it? Ha we shall see who has the last laugh you bitch. By the time I'm done I'll have everything."
Doesn't she realize, I'd gladly pay her anything to make her leave if it means I get Jake? Why didn't I see she was crazy before? Now I see why he was worried before. Closing the door on her rant, I pick up my phone and call Sam as I drive back to my house.
"Hey, Sam, how did it go?"
"Pretty good, I got in and out."
"How did Leah take it? Rachel threw shit and threatened my ass."
"Leah didn't say anything. To be honest, I am a little worried she might do something to me later but right now I am focused on finding somewhere away from her that she doesn't know. Sorry bout Rachel dude."
"It's cool. You're staying with me, man. Don't even try and say you aren't."
"Okay. I won't. Thanks. I'll meet you there."
After I get off the phone with Sam, I text Jake to see if he is busy right now and has time to meet up to talk.
I will be finished in 30. What's up? Everything ok?-J
Yeah it's fine. Just have some things I want 2 discuss but not over the phone.-P
Okay. Meet me at the house.-J
K.-P
When I arrived at my house, Sam was pulling up at the same time and it didn't take us that long to unload our cars. Once we finished, Sam informed me he planned to meet up with Seth before dinner as well so we drove separately to Forks and I pulled up to Jake's a little an hour later. He let me in and walked me into the office and told me that that the kids wouldn't be home for another hour or two.
"Our conversation has been on my mind since you left me in your room and I have decided."
He looked nervous.
"Before you go jumping to conclusions and assuming shit like you always do Black, let me talk and explain everything I've found out since I last saw you."
He nods and I pull out the book.
"This belongs to my dad. I always see it at the house what are you doing with it?"
"I went to see him and the other council members a couple days ago to find out whatever I could about imprinting. I learned a lot and it made my decision easier too."
"What do you mean? If you chose her, just tell me and get it over with."
Taking the book back from him, I flipped to the pages I had read earlier with Sam and shoved it into his hand.
"For someone so smart you sure can be stupid sometimes. Just read the damn thing."
I watched him silently read the passage and his facial expressions change as he took in the information. A range of emotions scanned over his face until it landed on something I didn't recognize. I turned the page and pointed to the most important paragraph and watched as his eyes lit up as realization scanned across his features.
"Is this true?" he whispered.
"Yes. It is. I had to go back and think everything through. What I feel with you is all encompassing and I have NEVER felt that with ANYONE else. When I read this, I wanted to run into your arms and bite your neck immediately and let the whole world know that Jacob Ephraim Black belong to me but I wanted to do this right this time."
"Fuck."
Jacob put the book down on his desk and got up and strolled over to my seat and straddled my lap and lifted his neck in submission.
"What's stopping you now?"
Oh my God. The things this man does to me. My dick began to harden and I wanted to take him on the table immediately.
"Don't start anything you can't finish."
Jake glides his tongue across my neck up to my jaw before planting a kiss on my lips.
"Who says I can't or won't?"
"I wanted to finish the conversation first. You told me I had to choose and I wanted to tell you I did. I filed for divorce."
Instead of saying anything his lips attacked mine and all thought escaped me.
We are interrupted by a slam of a door and two people talking. Well, more like one person talking and the other screaming.
~Sam~
After explaining to Seth what we had learned, he began freaking out and yelling at me to get out of his house.
"You're looking for an easy way out, Sam. That's not fair to me or my sister. For once in your life make a decision based on your own wants and needs not what some feelings are telling you. There is no way I am your imprint! Why would you come here and torture me this way!"
"I am not. I have proof. Just come with me to Jake's, please."
If there is no way I can convince to come to Jake's house then I won't be able to show the book and what the proof is.
"If you have proof, why do I need to go over there? Show it to me now."
He pushes me and I get frustrated.
"Okay, I have enough."
I pick Seth up and carry him out of his house and into Jacob's.
"Put me down, you bastard! It doesn't matter what Paul says to get in Jake's pants, I won't listen or consider it proof!"
"Before you judge or decide things, how about you calm down and listen to what we all have to say."
"CALM DOWN! JACOB EPHRAIM BLACK! Where the fuck are you?! Show me this so called proof so I can kick Sam out my house and get on with more important things."
Placing him on the ground, Seth storms off in search of Paul and Jacob. When we get to the office he storms in and starts demanding answers from Jacob completely ignoring me and Paul.
Jacob grabs Seth and pulls him over to the desk and forces him to sit down.
"Relax, Seth, and read this please."
"Only an imprinted submissive shifter who has mated with his dominant can produce offspring. No other wolves in the pack can produce with humans or non-imprinted shifters."
Hearing the words again doesn't change the fact that I still have questions for the council who to my knowledge have read this book which means they know more then they let on. I am going to have to seem them.
"Jake did you read this?"
"Yes."
"Is it true?"
"Yes."
"Can you guys give me and Sam some time alone please?"
"Come help me start dinner. The kids will be home soon." Jacob pulls on Paul's arm and points him towards the door.
Paul and Jacob walk out and Seth looks at me for the first time since reading the book. I see it in his eyes that he is working things out and I sit back and let him sort through his thoughts and then he will come to me.
"How?"
"Paul and I have been searching for ways to break the imprint bound between your sisters and us."
"Why?"
"I didn't want to be with her. I wanted to be the man I love and who I thought loved me."
His head popped up and he looked into my eyes and I saw that he was crying.
"I do love you but it's not that easy. I have spent that last 16 years getting over you. Telling myself it was for the best to let you go because the imprint bond was for the best. There were nights Jake had to hold me as I cried myself to sleep because I couldn't let go of you. Then when I finally find some semblance of normality you come in here telling me that the imprint bond was fake and that we are a bonded pair and that's how we were able to have the kids. Don't get me wrong I love the fact that you were trying to find a way to leave the wretched ho bag, but did you do it for me or for us?"
I listened at his ranted and raved for over an hour or two, eventually I lost sense of time. He started mumbling how life couldn't be that easy. Eventually, he allowed me my chance to respond.
"I choose you, Seth. I had to figure out how to break that bond for myself and then find my way back to you so that you would never question my love. This was just an added bonus."
"So you planned to leave my sister regardless of what you read in that book about us?"
"Yes, because of some things that happened between her and I. She finally showed her true colors."
"I am not running away from you but I just need some time to sort my head out. Please give me that."
I nod my head and turn to leave.
"No matter what it has and always will be you."
Nothing else was said about the book or what we read instead we enjoyed another routine dinner with the family and then Paul and I headed back to his new house.
"Hey, I need your help finding my own place."
"They're selling the house down the street, man."
He clapped me over the back.
"Don't worry things will work themselves out, Sam."
His words were full of hope and I couldn't help but believe in him but then again I know it won't be easy for any of us. The thing I do know is that my family is worth it in the end.
~Unknown POV~
"Hey boss."
"Hey, I have a new job for you in Forks, Washington. It's a two part job and the second part depends on the results of the first."
Boss hands me a folder full of the information I need. I look at it and it seems like a simple gather and kill job but the payment is hefty. I turn the page and see why.
"This is a two man job."
"I know that's why I am sending someone else with you. Leave nothing behind. They have one request though."
"What's that?"
"Make them suffer."
Landing in Seattle, we drive to our destination and commence with the first step in our plan.