A/N: Sherry rocks socks.
Chapter 40
Before I knew what was happening, I had completely absorbed my powers back into my body and stuck my hand out towards Jacob, zapping him to the ground. His body wriggled and jolted on the forest floor as continuous lightning bolts shot out of my hand. They only stilled when Edward grabbed my arm and broke my concentration.
I looked down at Jacob, horrified by what I had done.
He was dead.
I shook my head as I forced back tears. "I'm sorry … I didn't mean to."
Edward pulled me into his arms and pinned me to his chest. "It's okay," he repeated to me over and over again. "You're okay."
While Edward was holding me someone must have removed the body, because when I pulled away Jacob was gone.
Edward grabbed my chin and forced me to look at him. "You're okay?" The way he said it was more like a command than a question. He then turned to the crowd and ordered them to go back to their business before he grabbed my hand and dragged me back to our den.
"I'm sorry," I repeated again, now that we were alone, in the safety of our den.
I sat down on the bed as Edward paced back and forth on the floor. "All of this time your powers have been hidden in that necklace?" he asked. He sounded pissed off. I knew he had every right to be.
I nodded.
"And you put that thing around our son's neck?"
"Edward, no one knew-"
"-No, but they could have found out," he snapped. "You put him in danger Bella. It was reckless, careless, irresponsible. How could you?"
"My father doesn't know about him. I knew it was the one place that they would be safe."
"And what if Paul had told him about Edmund!?" Edward yelled.
I shook my head. "I'm sorry, what do you want me to say? I never once thought that one of our own people would betray us?"
"And then you did magic, in front of the whole camp? You've spooked the pack Bella. You know how they feel about Druids."
"But I'm not a Druid now, am I? I'm a hybrid. It's damn well time the pack accept me for who I am. If I had my powers with me in the first place, then maybe I would have been strong enough to fight off my father and save myself from being taken."
Edward looked shocked by what I had just said. I was too. I had no idea where it had come from, but all of it was true. All of my life I had been bending over backwards to accommodate other people, but all of that was about to stop. It was now time that they all started to accept me for who I was. I was no longer willing to bend.