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I stood alone in the middle of a dark, lush forest. Wind and leaves swirled up around my face, brushing over my eyes, disorienting me.
I had never been this deep in the woods before. A chill crept up my spine and fear started to work its way through every inch of my body. I know that monsters exist in this world, creatures that I could never hope to fight off on my own without protection. I forced myself to bite down my rising panic and get my feet moving, one step in front of the other, searching for a way out of the brush. I looked to my right, and then to my left. Nothing looked familiar. The cloud cover and approaching night only allowed me to see a few feet in any direction. I decided to start walking and just keep moving in a straight line. It had to lead me somewhere eventually, right?
A loud snap in distance broke my concentration. I stood like a statue, trying to listen but only able to focus on the rapid sound of my pulse as it drummed inside my ears. Another snap sounded just behind me, like a branch crunch beneath heavy feet. I launched myself forward, sprinting past trees and through sharp bushes, arms flailing, trying desperately to keep my balance in the dark. Was I still running in a straight line? Am I going in circles? I stopped all movement forward, my neck on a swivel, unsure what the hell I was hoping to see.
"You shouldn't be here." A powerful, deep snarl emerged from somewhere in the shadow. "A little girl in heat all alone... don't you know there are wild men in these woods?"
A sob escaped my lips and I started up running again, only gaining a few yards before slamming face first into a tree. A tree that was surprisingly... warm?
All the air in my body was ripped from my lungs as I slowly lifted my head. Piercing yellow eyes shone down at me. As opened my mouth to scream, a strong, scalding hand moved to cover my lips. Another burning hand came to grasp the back of my neck, pushing me down until my knees slammed against the dirty forest floor.
"Don't be frightened." The Alpha soothed as I stared up at him with wide, glassy eyes. "Your body knows why you're here." He ran a flat palm down the front of his pants, sighing at the contact against the bulge trapped beneath. I trembled and gasped as I felt a drop of arousal trail down my thigh, out of my dress and into his view. He reach forward and wiped it off my leg with his middle finger, then brought his finger up to my lips.
"Open." There was no room to argue. My lips parted with a moan and he rubbed the liquid in a small circle on the top of my tongue. I could hear the low rumble in his chest...
"Bella... BELLA!" My eyes fluttered open to a pitch-black room, a heavy weight on my legs and panting breath in my face. Where was I? My head rolled to the right and the blaring green light of my bedroom alarm clock read 12:30am.
I reached and switched my lamp on to its dimmest setting and took in my surroundings. Jake hovered over me, propped up on two bulging arms, his lower body pressing mine into the mattress. His face was contorted in what appeared to be pain and his cheeks were bright red.
"Jake what's going on?!" I begged him to tell me. Was he hurt? "Jake?"
The last bits of cloudiness from sleep started to leave my head and I noticed some things in my room weren't as they should be. Where was my comforter? The heavy blanket we had gone to sleep beneath was no longer on the mattress. I looked down to investigate and saw my nightdress bunched up around my waist, clutched in Jake's white-knuckled grip... I had nothing on underneath. My legs were spread to accommodate his body, the lips of my vagina open wide where he could see.
"Jake, what the hell?!" I panted up at him. He was clad in only the pair of light blue boxer briefs that he often tied to his leg while he was phased. I was so overwhelmed by his emotion last night; I didn't even notice what he was wearing. As I struggled beneath him, the hem of his underwear caught between our thighs and was pulled downward. To no fault of his own, Jake's massively thick and weeping erection pierced through the hole in the middle of his shorts. The force of it causing the head of his penis to fall heavy, swiping against the entire length of my saturated slit, resting at my opening. He thrust his hips slightly forward out of instinct and my body engulfed his a fraction of an inch.
His feral moan permeated the potent air of my bedroom, and I turned my face hard into his wrist, biting down on it to stifle my own. I looked back up at him and noticed he was shaking all over, not quite like he was going to phase, more like he was trying with everything in him to hold back.
"Bella... please..." his voice was breathy and exhausted. "I can't move. I need you to get out from under me... or I'm going to push forward again. I can't stop... please, help me." He sounded so desperate.
I don't know why but the thought of moving away from this heat made me want to sob, but I quickly tucked underneath his arm and rolled away, adjusting my dress back down to my knees. Noticing my comforter bunched at the foot of the bed, I reached for it and pulled it against my body in an effort to cover up my rigid aching nipples.
When I looked back at the man on my bed he hadn't moved... I wondered if he even could. He was still propped up on both arms; his head hung low, facial features strained. His painful erection jutted from his body, barely kissing the flat surface of my mattress. I'd never seen Jacob naked before...
With great difficulty he began to speak. "You were crying out and thrashing in your sleep. You sounded so frightened so I sat up and tried to wake you. You threw the covers off and started pulling me down on top of you. I thought you had woken up already and wanted to be held. I swear I didn't notice until after that you were naked... exposed. I know you have no reason to trust what I'm saying, but I swear it on my life, Bella."
My mouth opened and closed multiple times to speak, but I was so mortified I couldn't find the words.
"Bella... please. I need you to go get a wet washcloth and wipe yourself off between your legs. The wolf... I can barely fight him right now. He can smell that you're... ripe. He wants to breed you. Stretch you. I would leave right now but I'm afraid what will happen if I move." He looked up at me apologetically with his warm brown eyes. At least they weren't black and yellow.
Even though I had just been so exposed, I actually felt bad for him. He was just as exposed as me right now. "Okay, Jake. It's going to be alright. I'll be right back." I tried to my best not to act judgmental; he couldn't help what was happening to his body.
I cleaned myself up down below, splashed some water on my face, and stared at my reflection in the bathroom mirror. "Pull yourself together, he's your best friend, and he needs you right now. You're dating Edward and you love him. Jake is lucky this happened with you, someone who knows him, instead of some stranger on the beach." I whispered to my own face.
I tiptoed back across the hall and into my bedroom. Jake was standing now and I caught his profile as he grabbed his length and pushed it back into his shorts, giving it a firm and final squeeze from the outside. My cheeks warmed up for the thousandth time today. I was really going to have to deal with these hormones one way or another.
Jake caught sight of me in his peripheral vision and turned to face me. He looked remorseful, but somehow unashamed of the rock hard sexual organ in his pants.
"I hate that I keep doing things to you that I need to apologize for, Bells." He walked over to me and grasped my hand, interlocking our fingers. It was obvious that he wanted to embrace me, but didn't trust himself to be that close. "I think we should... take some time." My eyebrows furrowed and he chuckled softly. "I don't want that either, but... my wolf is too drawn to you, in a... dangerous way. I can't risk your safety... or your virginity again." It was Jake who blushed this time. "I will call a meeting with the elders, find out what I can. You'll be the first to know, honey. I promise."
He reached his head over to place a kiss on my hairline, keeping the rest of his body at a distance. I walked with him to the window, our hands still clasped together. He lifted the window with one hand like it was light as a feather.
"Goodnight, baby." It always amazed me the way Jake was so generous with his affection. My fingers resisted as he pulled his away. A hint of a smirk lifted the edge of his mouth as he noticed how my body protested the loss of him.
He landed gracefully in the grass below and jogged toward the tree line. How long would it be until I saw him next? Why does the thought of it fill me with sadness? How can I look at Edwards face after what happened here today?
I dragged my feet back to my bed and hauled the heavy blanket over my now freezing frame and shut off the light.
Sighing heavily into the blackness, I hoped tomorrow would shine a brighter light on the dark cloud hovering over me.