Bella was nervous when she woke up the next day. Jake would be there all day without Leah. She didn't even know if Paul would be coming today and she knew Embry wouldn't. That left Seth, Quil and Jared. She trusted them, but she knew that they weren't the strongest fighters.

"It's gonna be ok, baby." Leah reassured her.

"Thank you. Can you…"

"What baby? Anything."

"Can you wall fuck me again? The same way as before?"

Leah growled. "If that's what you really want." She took Bella to a bare wall in the bedroom. She was already kissing her. She spread Bella's legs holding her by the thighs and ass.

She lined up their clits and started grinding. She followed her own pleasure again, this time because it was what Bella requested. She licked Bella's ear, then scraped it gently with her teeth while grinding Bella into the wall. Bella was growling now, a sound Leah had never heard from her mate. She looked into Bella's eyes and saw her own passion reflected there.

She ground forcefully, slamming her pelvis into Bella's. Bella's hands were on Leah's shoulders. She twisted one around Leah's neck and lowered the other to Leah's gently jiggling tit. "Oh, Leah," she moaned and brought Leah's mouth to her own. She pulled Leah's bottom lip into her mouth, sucking on it gently while enjoying the sensations from the bouncing boob in her hands.

After Leah's third climax, she thrusted hard into Bella until she climaxed for a final time. Then she brought Bella back to the bed and wrapped her arms around her.

"Leah, Leah, I love you so much!" Bella cried out, burying her hey face in Leah's neck.

"I love you too, baby." They held each other in silence until Leah asked, "do you ever miss it, baby?"

"Miss what?" Bella asked.

"Having him balls deep in you?"

Bella gasped. "How could you ask that Leah? Do you miss Sam being balls deep in you?"

"I mean, I used to." Leah admitted.

"And when did you stop?"

"I don't know, a month or two after he dumped me. Long before we got together."

"And what makes you think I would miss it? What we have is so much better."

"You haven't answered the question."

"NO! The question is offensive! That you think I want that, or even that I miss it. It's gross to me." Bella was getting mad. Leah sighed but Bella was enraged. "You don't trust me! You don't trust that I love you, that I want you, Leah, with all that we share, with our bond, our connection, why don't you trust me? What have I done that made you mistrust me?"

Leah tried to pull Bella closer but Bella was frozen stiff in place, unrelenting.

"I'm sorry baby, I was just feeling insecure with the letter and the conversation with Jacob yesterday. I'm sorry. It's not you at all. Jacob's just getting to me. I'm sorry." She could feel Bella's resolve soften.

"Leah." Bella reached out and stroked her face. "Why don't you look at our connection when you are feeling insecure? If you had looked to the mark, you would have felt how much I adore you and now all you can feel is my rage."

"Actually, babe, your rage is fading fast and I can feel you adore me again."

"That's not helping," Bella pouted, trying to pretend to still be angry, but she knew that Leah was right. All of her anger was being washed away with compassion and adoration. She brought her face to Leah's and took the affection she needed from her goddess.

"Bella, you're everything to me, everything. I'd leave the pack in a heartbeat if it was the only way to keep you. I'm just scared all the time, scared that you'll get hurt, scared that I'm not enough, scared that you'll want, ahem, something else."

Bella thought about how to comfort her lover. "Honestly, I enjoyed sex with Jacob, but some of the parts with the penis were my least favorite, especially the balls deep part. He was a cervix poker a few times. Some of the gasps and screams that you saw in his memories were pain. We just didn't fit together right, ya know. I liked all of the other stuff and usually liked the sex and his desire for me and enthusiasm was a turn on, but the actual balls deep stuff, eh, no. Deep penetration was my least favorite part of sex with Jacob."

"And with me?" Leah asked, "Do you like it when I penetrate you?"

"God yes, Leah, you've never gotten near my cervix. You use precision and I love it."

"Ya know, all that stuff you said about the deep penetration part of sex, I always felt the same way. Sam poked my cervix sometimes too, but I liked the intimacy and passion of it all."

"I think that's pretty gay, Leah." Bella teased.

"I'll show you something pretty gay."

Bella was almost late for work. She got downstairs at exactly 9:00 am. Everyone was there except Sam and Emily, who were enjoying the cool morning outside for a few more minutes.

Rachel grabbed Bella's hand. "Let's get started on our lesson so I can get back to translating."

"Rachel, you can take a break from our lessons to help translate. I can do them on my own."

"No way, Bella, this is our bonding time, whether you like it or not."

"Ok everyone," Leah announced when they had sat down. "Thank you all for coming." Sam and Emily stepped in the door just then. "Paul is in charge while I'm gone. He is alpha when I'm not here. I expect you all to treat him with the exact same respect that you treat me with. Ok?"

o.~*~.o

Leah let Embry drive them into Forks. As her future step-brother-in-law, he was family and she trusted him. Even more, she was sick of driving all the time.

"Who was driving Bella's truck?" Charlie asked when Leah walked in.

"That was Embry, Tiff's son."

"And what were you doing with him this morning, Leah Clearwater?" Leah did not like Charlie's accusatory tone, but remembered that he was his future father-in-law and her current boss so she needed to clamp down on her temper.

"He's helping Bella and me with our vehicle hunt. He's going to check out some vehicles while I'm working and if he finds anything good, he'll bring me to see it."

"Well, uh," Charlie looked embarrassed that he had insinuated anything was going on between Leah and Embry. "That's kind of him to help."

"Yeah, he's a great kid. We got the idea from our chat on Sunday, when he was talking about wanting to be a mechanic. We thought he'd be the perfect person to help us."

"Yeah, that makes sense," Charlie stepped away, "ok, I'll let you get to work."

o.~*~.o

Embry went to the used car dealership first. He assumed that the newest car would be in the best shape. The test drive went fine, but there were already gaps in the service record so some routine maintenance would need to be done in the near future.

Next, he visited the Subaru. The older man selling it said that his daughter wouldn't let him drive it anymore because of his eyesight. It was in good shape and the service record was impressive, but there was something about the way it drove that felt off. If it was the best option, he'd put more effort into diagnosis.

Finally, he went to a parsonage to look at the Honda. That gave him a bad feeling. He never liked overly religious people. Still, this was his first choice for the girls, so he had to give it a chance.

He knocked on the door. When it opened, a tall girl with cat eyed glasses was standing before him. His world shifted as his eyes met hers.

"Can I help you?" she asked after a minute of him staring at her.

"Uh, yeah, uh, the Honda, I'm here to look at the Honda."

"Daddy!" She yelled into the house. "The van guy is here!" Embry heard doddery footsteps approaching slowly. "Don't I know you?" the girl says to Embry. "Aren't you one of Bella's friends from the rez?"

"Yeah, I am. I'm Embry, what's your name?"

"Angela, Angela Weber." She held out her hand. He touched her skin for the first time while looking into her eyes and it was like his whole world was complete. There was a warm electricity that accompanied her touch and he didn't want to let her go.

"Hey there, son, are you Embry?"

"That's me," Embry carefully let go of Angela's hand and reached to shake her father's.

"Do you want to go for a test drive?"

"Of course, if that's ok?" Embry said.

"Yeah, Angela, want to grab the keys?"

"They're right here, Daddy." She handed them to Embry.

"Angela, wanna go on the test drive with me? Then you can tell me about any quirks it has."

"Sure!" Angela looked happy about the suggestion and slipped on her shoes. "I won't be too long, Daddy."

When they got to the car Angela said, "So who's your wife?"

"I'm not married! I'm only 17." Embry sputtered.

"That's what I thought, but Daddy said something about you having to ask your wife."

"Oh yeah, I did say that. I'm helping my friend buy a vehicle, Bella and her girlfriend, actually, and I've found that people usually are more cooperative with men so I was pretending to help them get a better deal."

"So that's why you came in Bella's truck."

"So that's why I came in Bella's truck."

They were silent for a minute. Embry pulled into a parking lot and tried all the windows, heat and AC and radio settings. He looked through the service record and it looked really good. "So why are you guys selling?"

"Ugh. The short story is we don't need a second vehicle anymore."

"And the long story?" Embry asked.

"My dad got sick and we can't afford a second vehicle anymore."

"Oh, I'm sorry." He instinctively reached for his imprint's hand to comfort her. She smiled at him for the gesture and happily held his hand.

"Now that you know this is going to be Bella's car, anything you think I should know about it?" He was driving around again.

"It drives great and is low maintenance but one of the heat vents in the back row doesn't seem to work. It's also not great on gas compared to our sedan."

"Anything else?"

"I can't think of anything else. You should ask my dad."

"I'll do that. So what are your plans for Fall? You graduated with Bella, right?"

"Yeah, I got into Washington State, but my dad has taken a turn for the worst. I'm thinking of enrolling in community college for the fall, but I really need to be there for my dad."

"That's really good of you."

"How about you, what are your plans?" Angela asked.

"Well, I still need to do my senior year, but I'm working on the security team for the rez and I plan to be a mechanic after."

"A mechanic? Cool. I wanted to go for mechanical engineering because that stuff is really interesting to me."

"Really? Did you ever do any work on a car?"

"No, my dad didn't think it was lady-like."

"Huh. And what do you think?"

"I always wanted to get into it but my dad was adamant and it wasn't worth fighting about since I don't really know what I'm doing."

"Well, I could show you." Embry offered.

"Would you, really?" Angela looked so excited.

"Yeah, can we make a day of it on Saturday?"

"I don't have plans on Saturday."

"Ok, I'll have to check with Leah, but I'd like to pick you up at nine. Is that too early?"

"No, nine is fine. Who is Leah?" Angela felt a twinge of jealousy that another woman got to decide.

"She's Bella's girlfriend and my boss."

"So since when does Bella have a girlfriend? I thought she was seeing Jake?"

"Oh, that's a long story and you should probably get it from Bella."

"That's a good idea. I'm not really a gossip."

"Well, it's ok if you are. I am. It's just, Leah's my boss so I don't want to get in trouble."

"Oh, you're a gossip?"

"Sometimes, yes." he grinned at her sheepishly. He felt butterflies in his stomach when he looked into her eyes. "You'll meet Leah later. I like the Odyssey. I'm going to recommend she gets it. Can I bring her back in like an hour or so? Will you guys still be home?"

"Yeah, we'll be home. We're always home." Angela sighed.

Embry pulled into the driveway of the parsonage. "Angela, I don't want to be too forward, but I'm really looking forward to spending Saturday with you, Leah permitting of course."

"I'm looking forward to that too, Leah permitting." Angela didn't know why she was so looking forward to seeing Embry again. It might have been his amazing body that she could see through his stretched black tee, or his drop dead gorgeous face, or how sweet he was, or how he looked at her. She was getting worked up so she decided to take a shower before he came back. She also mentioned to her dad that Embry wasn't married, he was just helping a friend buy a vehicle.

o.~*~.o

Embry checked the time, then went to the station. He wasn't sure he'd have time to shop before Leah was done working so he chose to check and see.

Leah was just finishing up her lunch when Embry came in. Charlie walked him to Leah's desk. This further dissuaded any young officers from hitting on Leah that day. They hadn't hit on her too much, but she had been hearing loads of gross comments about her body. The men on the force didn't want to mess with Embry though: tall, muscular, and dangerous looking.

"Leah, I've looked at all the vehicles but haven't gone shopping yet. How are you doing?"

"I'm just finishing up my lunch and then I'll be ready to go." She took one last big bite, swallowed, then told Charlie that she was on her way out.

When they got into the truck, Embry blurted out, "I imprinted."

"That's fantastic. Who is she?"

"Angela Weber, a friend of Bella and the one selling the Honda Odyssey."

"Oh, so which vehicle do you think we should get?"

"Still the Honda Odyssey. This hasn't affected my objectivity, I promise."

"Ok, well, let's go meet her, then go do the shopping."

"Can she come on Saturday?"

"Don't you think it's a little soon to tell her everything?"

"No. I want to be honest with her and she's already friends with Bella. And I've already invited her."

"Embry! You already invited her?" Embry knew that Leah wasn't mad, just out of her depths. "Well I've never done an imprint initiation, so maybe we should talk to Sam."

"Yeah, and Bella."

"Yes, ok."

"Angela doesn't know about the pack lunch. I just invited her to hang out starting at nine, and then I'll bring her to Sam's for lunch."

"What do I need to know about her? I don't think Bella has ever mentioned her but I don't want to be rude. We just haven't talked about high school much."

"Uh, I don't really know. We didn't talk about Bella, but she recognized her truck. She recognized me as one of Bella's friends so she must have come to the beach with Bella before. And she just graduated, like you and Bella."

"Ok, I can work with that."

When Angela opened the door, Embry was grinning goofily at her. "Hi Angela, this is Leah, Bella's girlfriend and the one looking to buy the van."

Angela was stunned. This girl, Leah, was taller than her but could have been a supermodel, except all of her curves were too juicy. She always thought Bella was pretty, but she wondered how Bella always seemed to date the hottest people available. Except Embry, it looked like Bella was not dating Embry. Angela was pretty sure that Embry was too hot for her, but he seemed interested so she'd go along for the good time for as long as he was into her.

Leah reached out her hand to Angela, "Hi Angela, nice to meet you. I'm just looking for something safer than the truck for my Bella. Embry is convinced that your minivan is the right choice."

"Well, do you want to go for a test drive?" Angela said, holding out the keys.

"Yeah, I would." Leah snatched them and Angela started to close the door.

Embry held out his hand to stop the door from closing. "Wait, Angela. Won't you come with us?"

Angela looked to Leah, already sensing that Leah was the one in charge in this situation. Leah nodded so Angela called into the house, "Daddy, I'm going to go on a test drive with them again."

"Ok," the voice wafted back to her from somewhere in the house.

Angela opened the rear door to let herself into the middle row and she was surprised that Embry was right behind her. "Let's go to the back row so you can show me the bad vent." Embry suggested.

When they were situated on both sides of the back seat, Embry slid into the middle seat and buckled there. "Better view." He said, giving her a wry smile and putting his arm around the top of her seat. Embry said to Leah, "I asked her what was wrong with the van and she said one of these vents isn't working and it's not as good on gas as their smaller car."

"But it's better than the truck?" Leah asked.

"Yeah, and faster too. You're going to love the way it drives after driving the truck, Leah. Can you turn on the AC so I can investigate the vents?"

Leah looked at the dashboard in front of her. It looked familiar but it still took her a minute to read all of the symbols and figure out where the AC buttons were. Ice cold air shot at all of them, except Angela.

"It's this one," Angela said, pointing to the vent above her.

Embry held his hand over it, then over the one on the other side. "How long has it been broken?"

"I don't know, maybe a year. We don't use the back seat much. It's usually folded down."

"It's just clogged. Probably a mouse crawled into it and made a nest. It's a twenty minute fix. We can do that on Saturday, Angela, if you're still up to it?"

"Did Leah say that Saturday was ok?"

"Yeah," Embry answered, "and on Saturdays the security team usually has a big lunch together and I want to bring you to that too. Bella will be there. What do you think?"

"That sounds fun. And Leah's okay with that?"

"That's why I needed to get her permission. She's the head of the security team I work for, my boss."

"Angela," Leah called from the front, "can you show me how the back seats fold down?" Leah was pulling into a parking lot.

"Of course." Angela started to unbuckle and Embry followed suit. Embry went out the other side than how they came in, just to test that door. They met Leah at the trunk.

Angela showed them how to fold the seats flat into the trunk.

"Oh, my mom's van does this."

"Yeah Leah, your mom drives a newer model of this exact van." Embry informed her.

"Really?"

"Leah, how did you not know that?"

"I know her car by sight, not the make and model."

"So what do you think of it?" Embry asked.

"Well it's way better than the truck. I like the way it drives and it is comfortable. So those middle seats can be taken out fairly easily, too, right?"

"Yeah, but they're a little heavy." Angela said.

"That's ok, Embry can help, right?"

"Whatever you need, boss."

"Ok, I'll take it. Should I pay you or your dad? I've never bought a car before."

"Let's go talk to my Dad. He'll know what to do next."

When they got back to the parsonage, Mr Weber was waiting for them. "Ah, so you're the wife? Very pretty, son."

"Dad!" Angela cried, "I told you he just said that to help her not get swindled. She's dating one of my friends from class."

"And why didn't your boyfriend help you?"

"They're working and don't really know anything about vehicles. Embry wants to be a mechanic so he knows quite a bit about vehicle models. We asked him for help."

"Ok, sorry," Mr. Weber said, "I don't need to know your life story. I was just teasing the young fellow here."

They got on with the paperwork. Angela walked them out. Leah said, "Embry, I'll take care of groceries, you head back to the library, ok?"

"Sure, sure." He handed Leah her list and grocery money and she peeled out in her new minivan.

Embry turned to Angela. "So I'll see you Saturday?"

"Yeah."

"I'll be here at nine. Can I just…" he lowered his head and kissed her on the cheek. Her touch was intense against his lips. When he pulled away, she was smiling so big! He thought she was so beautiful, especially when she smiled.

o.~*~.o

Embry got back to the library only fifteen minutes before Leah because the truck was so slow. He said nothing as he sat next to Quil and seamlessly started transcribing his translation for him.

When Leah arrived, all the men stood to offer her help with the groceries. "Paul, Sam, can you give me a hand. The rest of you can keep working. Thank you!"

When they brought everything upstairs, Leah started putting stuff away. "Paul, how did it go?"

"It was seamless. Jared has been sitting with Jake all day. He even brought him home for lunch with Kim. I brought lunch for Bella to give Seth a break and the four of us ate at the picnic table outside. Your girl needs more sun, Leah."

"She's white, Paul. Sun isn't going to change that. But thank you for feeding her. That's really great." Leah turned to Sam, "Sam, I'm gonna need your help. Embry imprinted."

"Did you have him show you in the pack mind?"

"No, Sam, it's Embry. He knows. I met her, she's a friend of Bella's. She's coming on Saturday. They're honestly adorable together."

"So what do you need my help for?"

"I've never done an imprint initiation, except Bella, but that was a little different."

"They're all a little different." Sam said.

"Embry, can you come up here?" She called down the stairs, "and bring Bella."

Embry knew that Bella didn't hear that so he guided Bella up the stairs with him.

"Bella, Embry imprinted on Angela Weber." Leah told her.

Suddenly, Bella was jumping like a maniac. She hugged Embry first, then Leah, then she was so excited, she hugged Sam and Paul too. "Yay." She said quietly after she got all that out of her system.

"You're so fucking cute!" Leah said, squeezing Bella's body to her own in another hug. "Angela's coming on Saturday."

Bella's mouth opened wide, then she grinned and whispered, "imprint gossip."

"Oh God," Sam cringed. "That's going to be more overwhelming than the wolf shit."

Bella smacked him in the chest. "Rude. It's the best part."

"I literally ran away last time." He reminded her.

"That's because you're a prude, Sam Uley. Angela's not."

"But her dad is a pastor or something." Embry countered.

"But she's not a pastor. My dad's a cop but I still roll through stop signs."

"You better not!" Leah glared.

"Embry, does she like you?" Bella asked, changing the subject.

"I think so. I held her hand and gave her a kiss on the cheek and she seemed to like that."

Bella turned to Leah. "Oh she definitely likes him." Leah said confidently. "They were adorable in the back seat together." Embry looked so happy.

"Oh, getting it on in the back seat? Nice." Paul teased.

"What do you think, Embry? How will she take the whole wolf thing?"

"I think she'll be fine, as long as I stay near her and Bella does too."

"Do we want to tell her on Saturday or have a bonfire next Friday? How do you want to handle it, Embry?"

"Uh, I was thinking Saturday. I just want to be honest with her, have no deception between us. That just seems like a terrible way to start things."

"And you think she'll take it ok?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, I think it'll be fine." Embry insisted.

"I trust Embry on this." Bella spoke up. "Angela's my best friend from school. She's honestly so great, very understanding of different people and different ways of life."

"Different ways of life?" Sam chuckled.

"Ok, let's head downstairs." In the library, Leah continued, "listen up real quick. I'm sure that most of you heard. Embry imprinted today. We've invited her to the pack lunch Saturday since she is now pack. I'm asking you all for your discretion until Embry thinks the time is right to tell her, ok?" Everybody nodded, even Jake. He still loved Embry like a brother and didn't want to mess this up for him. "Ok, you can resume your work."

The rest of the day went by in a daze for Embry. He kept transcribing for Quil but was having a hard time following what was being transcribed.

Bella was translating with Seth. From Seth's journals, Bella learned of a boy named Buck. Unlike Seth, Buck was one of the oldest in his pack. He was wise and kind and people trusted his judgment. He was the first in the pack to phase. However, even though he was first, he was wise enough to reject the mantle of alpha. He knew that he was not to be the leader of the pack. Instead, he insisted on a democracy among the pack, where everyone voiced their opinions and they made decisions as a group.

Leah was so content, working with Kim while keeping an eye on her imprint. She felt content when she took her girl up for supper, snuggled her during a movie and gave her another wall fuck before bed.