Chapter 1: You Got Your Wish

Bella POV

His hand tightened on my arm making me wince and hopefully unnoticed, but looking at Sam I knew he noticed. He always noticed. His brown eyes darkened a little and shined with worry. I gave him a small smile and looked back at the hand that held my arm hostage.

"Did you make the dessert honey?" While he sounded like the perfect man, I knew that tone. He was threatening me. "Yes I did. You're favorite Jacob." One year ago, Jacob got his wish. He imprinted on me. I was overjoyed and knew that he couldn't abandon me but now I wished he did.

We had a deep connection, but after a while that spark started to fade and Jacob became different.

It was unheard of, for a wolf to disrespect or hurt his imprint but that wasn't the case with me. Jacob never got to the point where he physically hit me but he bruised me. In every way he could.

No one really noticed except Sam and surprisingly Paul. Even after Jacobs imprint, Paul and I never really gotten along until he walked in on one of Jacob's and I's many arguments. We were arguing about Florida again. Renee was pregnant and I wanted to go see her, but Jacob refused to let me out of his sight.

"No! No way! She can come here to see you! You never know if that red headed bitch is still out there Bella!" I screamed in frustration at the same old excuse. "She's dead! She's been dead! Sam killed her remember?! Or are you just trying to keep me here?! I'm going to see my mom dammit!" I started to make my way toward the door when Jacob yanked my arm backward eliciting a painful yell out of me as a loud 'pop'

Tears sprung to my eyes as my worst fear came to light. Edward was right. I looked to see Jacob looking just as shocked. This was the first time he's touched me. It was just crude remarks and words strewn here and there. But this...this was different. This was bad.

"You hurt me.." Before I could say anything else, a deep voice reaches our ears. "Everything okay in here?" I looked up to see Paul looking back and forth between me and Jacob. His eyes narrowed. "We're fine." Jacob bit out and I cringed. He sounded so awful. "Bella?" I looked up at Paul pleading with my eyes to show him something was not right anymore. Jacob growled and stomped towards Paul and the front door. "I said we're fine. What did you want?" He snapped. Paul bared his teeth and glanced back at me briefly. He gave me a curt nod. "Sam wants a meeting."

That was all he said before he was gone. Ever since then He's always around. Watching out for me. He and Sam.

"Go get it sweetheart." A swift pat to my butt and I walked into the kitchen grabbing the vanilla pudding from the fridge. I walked back to the table and sat the dish down and before I could sit, Jacob grabbed my hand. "Hold on Bells, Sam needs a glass of water." I sighed and before I could move Sam stood and shook his head. "Sit Bella. I can grab water. Eat." I sat down gratefully and started to dig into my dinner. I didn't have to look to see the glare on Jacobs face.

The rest of the night passes smoothly as we sat in our dining room with our pack. Cracking jokes and telling old stories. But one could still feel the tension. Sam and Paul couldn't keep their eyes always and Jacob kept his eyes trained on them.

I slipped outside once it got really crowded and stared at the sky. "Hey. You okay?" I looked over as Paul slipped next to me. I shook my head no. "I thought imprinting was supposed to be good. I thought things were all rainbows and good times. First vampires and an imprint that I can't stand to be in. He changed after Billy died.." Paul nodded and sat patting the spot next to him.

"Billy was everything to him. But he let himself go. Bella you can't stay. If you need to, stay with me. We'll figure out a way to break the imprint." I shook my head no once again. The pain was unbearable in my chest if I ever went too far. "It hurts to go too far. Can an imprint even be broken?" Paul shrugged. "If it's possible it's in the archives of the tribe." I sighed once again. What if there was nothing? Would I be stuck forever?

"You know, there's so much irony to my life. Just 2 years ago, forever was a choice to me..now though...forever isn't a choice this time.."