"Goodbye?" Kate repeated thickly, as if she were holding back heaving sobs and a bucket of tears.

Bella's chest tightened sharply. "For now. But if I thought… if I had something to come home too, then I would try…"

Kate scoffed and grabbed Bella to her tightly, pressing her face into Bella's neck. "Of course you have me to come home to. Me, and my family."

"But your family don't know about us," Bella murmured into Kate's shoulder, tasting and smelling her skin as she did so.

Kate pulled back softly and then tugged Bella down on to the sofa beside her. "Irina knows. We spoke when I stayed here last night."

Bella flushed, remembering the way Irina had folded her arms and looked Bella up and down not ten minutes ago when she had shown up at the club doors, demanding to see Kate.

"Awkward," Bella muttered.

"I didn't tell her everything," Kate reassured. "They're our secrets, not anybody else's. Nothing supernatural was mentioned, but I did tell her that we had… slept together and that I have feelings for you."

Bella couldn't suppress her smile. "I have feelings for you too."

Kate rolled her eyes. "I know, Bella."

Bella felt shy and hesitant inside, still unsure of whether Kate truly forgave her, or if she would live tonight, or if the Denali's would accept them, or if they would ever work, but her outer body ignored all of these doubts and questions turning her insides into goo. Instead, Bella leaned forward and pressed her lips to Kate's with hot desperation.

The moment their lips touched, Kate pressed herself forward, kissing Bella back and slid into Bella's lap, her hands tangling in Bella's hair and hips moving against Bella's. Before Bella was even aware of it, Kate's hands were sliding out of her hair and down her clothes, greedily trying to tear them off.

They broke apart for just a moment to stare at each other with sparkling eyes, swollen lips and heaving chests before they crashed back into each other, taking away towels and tops, pants and bras and any other piece of material in their way. Kate leaned back naked and wanting, her body open and inviting with her eyes shining as she stared at Bella.

"Now," she demanded.

A little while later and Bella was exhausted. Too exhausted to go and fight to what could be her death. She was just sliding her shoes back on when Kate moved across the sofa and pressed her warm hand to Bella's lower back, gently kneading her spine. Bella's top was around her ribs so she could feel Kate's bare hand and then lips across her hips.

"Promise me you'll come back," Kate whispered into her skin.

Bella paused, enjoying the moment and sighing deeply. "I promise that I'll try."

"I mean it Bella, no matter what happens. You come back." Kate's voice trembled as did her lips against Bella's skin.

Bella turned and looked over her shoulder, staring at the beautiful woman behind her, barely dressed and golden skinned. She thought back to just a few moments ago as she held Kate in her arms, sifting her golden hair through her fingers and talked about their life after this fight. Kate wanted them to have their own home and help Bella learn what she loved.

Bella had reminded her that she only loved her.

"I don't want to make promises I can't keep," Bella finally answered as she stood and pulled her top down, grabbing her coat and putting it on too. "I'll fight until the death to get back to your side, but whatever happens…" Bella paused and looked at Kate seriously. "Never look for me."

Kate's eyes watered, turning their orange hue a deep, stunning color that Bella would love to draw and paint with excruciating detail if she had the ability. Bella opened her mouth, prepared to promise if it meant that Kate would stop crying, no matter how beautiful her eyes looked when she did. But Kate beat her to it and she whispered, "goodbye, Bella."

Bella turned her head, unable to walk away if she continued to look at Kate and practically flung herself out of the door because her body was telling her to stay. When she got to the bottom of the stairs, Irina was leaving her office and smirked at the sight of Bella. "I thought you left. You've been here a while. Surely a chat doesn't take that long?"

Bella stuffed her hands in her jeans. Being teased for sleeping with Kate was such a trivial, ordinary thing and she needed to get to the pack. Anything could have happened by now, and she had promised her life to them. "Yeah, I suppose."

"Hmm," was all Irina replied before she said, "see you later then?"

Bella nodded with a quick smile. "'Course."

She finally exited the doors, nearly running into the security guard who had been annoyed with her earlier. He was in a dark corner, brooding by the looks of it as she puffed on a strong cigarette. Bella smiled at him, because no matter how much of a douche he was, that may have been the last smile she could offer to the world.

As Bella raced back the way she had come, down the alley and past the woodland shop, up the slope and through town, down the dirt path to the Denali's and into the woods, her stomach got tighter. Tonight could be her last night on earth, and she was only nineteen years old. It was big responsibility, to die for others. She was scared, but fearless all at once.

When Bella entered the camp, the rocks were broken through the middle in order to hold a hand crafted torch that was blazing with hot, orange light. In the very center of the green, lighting up the night was what looked to be the whole of pack holding up their own hand made torches towards the sky and standing in silence.

Confused, Bella etched her way towards the group and hunted with her eyes for Cali in the group of people. When she spotted her, she moved to stand beside her silently. Cali smiled at her arrival but spoke to the group when she said, "tonight, my pack, we remember our dead, our past, and honor what we have to do, to secure our future."

Bella took a deep breath and let her eyes fall closed. She remembered her dead: her parents, many friends, her bully and beloved pets that had died around her. She remembered her past: her abusive adoptive parents, the loving sister she thought she had in Lisa and what little she remembered of her small, loving home on a quiet street.

Then she honored what she would have to do tonight, who she would have to kill tonight, in order to secure her future and keep her promise to Kate. She thought of the Denali's and their large, extravagant home. She thought of Kate: golden, beautiful, laughing Kate in bed and smiling up at her.

Her mind took her back to the Denali's. She thought of Irina's teasing, of Tanya's love for books, of Carmen's motherly love for anyone, and everyone, of Eleazer's dark eyes, wise beyond their years. She thought of the library, covered in Tanya's beloved books, of the kitchen, brimming with Carmen's cooking, of the discarded shirts found all over the house from Irina's lovers.

When she opened her eyes, Cali looked hard at her and searched for something in Bella's eyes. Perhaps fear, perhaps bravery. Bella was just a bit of both, a bit of everything. She had a life worth living. She had people she loved, people she wanted to love for many years. She had a home and friends, family and foes. She was a person, a life, a soul. She was Bella.

Cali smiled wide, and nodded as if in confirmation of what she found in the depths of Bella's brown eyes. When she spoke again, it seemed to hold stronger validation and meaning, her voice vibrated with truth and confidence. It made Bella's heart speed up and her skin quiver. The wolf recognized it's Alpha and understood that it's Alpha would lead them to victory.

"We know our enemy, and why they have to go away forever. Our children's children will not be safe! We ourselves, will not be safe. Tonight may be the end for some, but it will be the end of our decade long war. Tonight, we celebrate victory!"

The moment the last word passed Cali's scarred lips, there was a loud, inhumane roar from the pack. Clapping and hooting, hollering and celebrations, as if the fight was already won. But that was the beauty of Cali, and believing in your Alpha; trusting them. To the wolves, the fight was already over.

"Who's with me!?" Cali demanded.

Another round of shouting and hollering soared over the pack as they shoved their torches in the air. A great gust of wind took residence over them and swiped out all the lights at once. To Bella it seemed foreboding but no one else seemed to feel that way because they continued to shout their confidence while discarding their now burnt out torches.

Cali turned to Bella in the darkness, now barely illuminated and asked, "are you ready?"

"As I'll ever be," Bella replied confidently.

Cali patted her on the shoulder. "Good. Now stick with me." To everyone else she shouted: "positions!"

Bella's emotions seemed to slide and flip, unable to decide which one to settle on as her skin tingled and her heart raced with fear and adrenaline. Cali stripped, as did everyone else in the pack and the sea of willing bodies allowed Bella to let heat wash over her, and let her wolf out of her skin.

It seemed to take an age to reach their destination under the cover of darkness and in multiple, small groups. Bella was slightly annoyed with herself for not asking where they would be fighting, or what their plan of action was, since she couldn't remember half of what Cali had said in the de – briefing. It seemed stupid that if she died, she wouldn't even know the location.

Bella knew when they finally did reach their desired place, because every wolf stopped and forced themselves to be dead silent, although Bella thought their snuffling and panting was a large give away to their hiding spot behind bushes and trees. Cali sniffed the ground a few times before lifting her white head that seemed to glow in the darkness.

No wolves. Five guards. Three lights. Two warning horns. We must do this silently.

Bella heard the orders and assumed the other did too because there seemed to be a shuffling of agreement.

Split up. Two, two and three. Circle, then strike. Johnstone and Mimi, get the bows. Take out the two on the tower. Then take out the rest on the ground.

Two grey wolves followed this order and disappeared from the group, slinking off into the shadows silently.

Bows? Bella repeated. As in, bow and arrows?

Her 'question' was ignored as Cali demanded: get behind me, Bella. The rest of you: to the left and right. Don't get caught.

Bella did as she was instructed, staying positioned behind Cali as they tried to spy through the bush they were hidden behind for cover. Bella noticed two men, armed with knives and guns standing atop a small bridge that looked over the forest underneath where all the wolves were hiding. Under them were three more men, all with their backs to each other.

One.

Bella sank back, preparing to spring.

Two.

She snarled, baring her teeth and releasing her claws.

Three!

Bella and Cali rocketed from their positioned and three arrows sailed through the air, skewering the two men on top of the bridge. One of them received an arrow in the heart, ending him straight away but the other received one in the thigh before another pierced his eye ball, sending him tumbling off the bridge.

Cali and the others disposed of the three men on the ground. They were such easy pickings that Bella didn't get a look in, and instead had to pace and snarl with adrenaline. When they were dead, Cali rounded on Bella.

Focus! We won't win this fight with you standing and watching. Keep up.

Bella was equally annoyed and guilty so she snarled her displeasure and acceptance. She instead used her hind legs to propel herself after the other racing wolves. Up ahead was another group of wolves: nine of them sitting and waiting. The leader nodded to Cali.

Lookouts?

Cali nodded back. Yes, what do we know?

The wolf talking with Cali looked past her and through the trees behind them. Bella could smell something rotten but kept her attention on the wolfs next set of words: plenty of them in there. They have wolf lookouts. There's no way we're getting in there undetected.

Cali thought this over, not even disturbed by the loud and agonizing wail that came from up ahead followed with snarling. She finally settled on: we knew it was a fight, so let's fight. Move out!

In a tightly knit group Cali and her wolves moved into the camp, storming through and thirsting for blood. The camp was small, but filled to the brim with wolves. More wolves that what Cali had. They were all split and ready to fight. The fighting happened immediately, and so fast that Bella couldn't determine who had made the first move.

Bella followed everyone else's example. The sooner this was over, the better and she only really had one target anyway: Lisa. A silver wolf tried to attack her and managed to evade and dodge all of her counter attacks. It managed to get its claws in Bella's skin a few times but she pushed past the pain and threw her weight against the beast.

The wolf lost his or her footing and Bella sank her sharp claws into it viciously. She used them to tear muscle and destroy veins so that the wolf was a bleeding mess of meat by the time that she was finished with it. As the light drained from the wolfs eyes and it began to transform back into a human, Bella caught sight of Cali being chased by a black wolf.

As Bella got close enough to help she saw it was the very wolf who had threated her before. The wolf inside remembered the threat and before conscious decision told her to, Bella was taking a large brown wolf between her teeth and using it with a powerful head swing to chuck it into the black wolf, taking it down.

Cali noticed this and howled her approval to the sky before viciously attacking the now fallen wolf. Bella kept running, her paws flying faster the more she ran and didn't stop. She ended up knocking down a tent reeking of blood and passing through the forest, circling a roaring fire before finding herself in another area full of bodies and bleached bones.

Bella.

Bella came to a crashing stop and whipped around to face her.

Lisa.

Bella didn't know how Lisa's voice had been allowed in her head without her bowing her own head to accept the connection, but it was a trivial thought. This could all end now. They seemed to run at each other simultaneously with teeth and claws already prepared. They both rose on their hind legs and sunk their claws into each other's muscles with howls of agony and anger.

Their teeth rubbed together as they both tried to bite into the other, and tore at each other's muscles to try and release their claws and get another blow in. Lisa got her claws free first, using them, now covered in Bella's blood to tear into Bella's side and pull so that Bella's skin split.

Bella made a sound that would have been a gasp of surprise had she been human, because it wasn't pain that she felt in that moment. It was anger. Lisa was reminding her. She was tearing her sides open because she was reminding Bella of the pain she had suffered that night in the forest where she had hurt herself so much she needed stitches.

Lisa was taunting her. The thought made something in Bella explode. She hated Lisa. Hated her so much that her vision swam and tinted red with the need to eradicate her. Bella removed her claws before digging them into Lisa's left eye. Her sister let out an awful sound, falling back in agony and trying to keep her balance with blood pouring from her eye socket.

Bella howled in triumph and turned her head to the sky before bending it again to ram it into Lisa's wobbling frame. As Lisa crashed to the floor, Bella dug her teeth and claws into her sides and shoulder, using all her power and hate and anger to tear Lisa apart. It was nearly over, Bella could tell. Lisa was dying.

Until she wasn't. Unexpectedly Lisa heaved her large body, throwing Bella's weight from her and crashing into a tree trunk. Before Bella could try and stand, Lisa was biting onto her leg and ravaging it to the bone. Another reminder. Of the night Bella had let Kate's bullet fly and embed into Lisa's forehead.

As Bella tore her hind leg free from Lisa's muzzle, Lisa's teeth dragged down through the fur and muscle, cutting into Bella's paw and splitting her toes. Bella howled and pounded her front paws on the ground in agony, trying to keep her vision from swimming and hold onto the anger instead of the pain.

Still lay on the floor, trying to wait out her healing, Bella prepared herself for Lisa's killing blow. But it didn't come. Instead she watched Lisa race off to join another wolf, one that she bumped wet noses with covered in blood. Her mate. Coward. She couldn't even finish Bella off. It was with this thought that another wolf pounced on her back.

The move was so unexpected that Bella's whole frame collapsed, the wind knocked out of her. The wolf wasted no time. It wasn't a coward like Lisa, it wanted Bella dead. It's large muzzle bit into Bella's spinal cord, determined to sever it to the point that Bella's head fell off, or her neck snapped. Whichever came first.

Bella had no fight, no power, no strength and no help. She would die here. She thought of Kate, waiting in the club for her to come home. She thought of the bouncer she had smiled at, because she thought it was her last smile. She was wrong. Her last smile would be the one happening right now, gracing her blood soaked mullet as she thought of Kate.

What a beautiful way to die, Bella thought, thinking of the one person who has made your life into something you thought it could never be. Darkness was coming in now and the wolf on top of Bella was becoming more frenzied. Her head was nearly off, she could tell. She was completely numb, which meant she was successfully paralyzed.

Blackness hung over Bella's eyes and she let them slide closed. Until it eased. Bella's eyes opened in surprise, her body still paralyzed as her spinal cord fought to heal itself. She could just see from the corner of her eye, Lisa tearing the wolf apart, using her claws to slice its head straight from its shoulders.

Am I already dead? Or hallucinating? Bella thought to herself, dazed. Still unable to move, Bella watched as Lisa not only killed the wolf who had tried to kill Bella, or had, for all Bella knew, but moved to help Cali who had moved over to Bella as she kept fighting. Lisa took down the dark brown wolf fighting with Cali within seconds.

Finally, Bella could feel movement and she was trying with all her might to get up before Lisa tried to kill Cali. As Bella stumbled to her feet, another wolf pummeled into Lisa, snarling with what seemed to be disapproval move than anger. Bella recognized it to be Lisa's mate, the one she had rubbed noses with earlier.

Then it was obvious. Lisa was a coward, or she was too into her mind games. She wouldn't kill Bella tonight, and she wouldn't let anyone else do it. Bella thought that tonight would be the night she died, but in reality, she was the most protected wolf here. Because Lisa wanted her to feel pain, enough to break her. Enough to turn her into the sister Bella wanted.

So that left one thing. While Lisa and her mate snarled at each other, Bella signaled Cali, who was catching her breath. Cali nodded her large head and they both ran at the snarling couple. Cali took down Lisa's mate while Bella pounced on Lisa, keeping her alive. She pressed her paw onto Lisa's large head, forcing her to watch as Cali took her mates head off.

Lisa went still beneath Bella the moment that her mate was gone and suddenly there was a human beneath Bella's body. A human screaming and sobbing, howling with an anguish so strong that Bella's heart hurt. She removed herself from Lisa who stared at her now human mate where his body lay just a few inches behind his head.

Bella found herself transforming too, until she stood in her naked human form before Lisa. Cali's hand touched Bella's shoulder and her lips touched Bella's ear as she whispered: "now."

Bella looked down upon Lisa who now seemed to have shriveled in her own skin with the loss of her mate. Her skin was white, her head lank and her body curled from the agony she was enduring. Her eyes were flowing with tears, her chin wobbling and her nose streaming with snot as she sobbed her anguish.

Bella's heart hurt, heavy and hard. This would be the worst thing she would ever have to do, and the worst thing she had ever done to a person. She couldn't imagine what it would be like, held helpless and hopeless and she watched someone tear Kate's head from her shoulders. As she watched she woman she loved die.

Bella almost felt guilty and only managed to hold on to her resolve as she remembered the dead children, the dead people, the families missing their parents and children, aunts and uncles, sisters and brothers because of Lisa, and her pack. She thought of her own parents, of the people that had died at Lisa's hands and she knew that Lisa had to die.

Lisa looked up as Bella crouched before her and took a great, hiccupping sob. "I'm proud of you. Do it."

"I still love you, even after how much I hate you. In the next life, maybe," Bella whispered.

Bella's hand curled into a fist and then she punched it through Lisa's chest. Lisa gasped, her skin turning ashen as Bella's hand opened inside her body, taking Lisa's thumping heart in her hand. Lisa closed her eyes, her face wet and miserable but a smile still curling her lips and forever staying there as Bella pulled her heart from its strings and through her chest.

It was light by the time Bella got back to the village. She helped clean up the battle field and burn the dead with the pack, including Lisa. When Bella put Lisa on the fire heap, she noticed something melting into her sister's neck and it took her a moment to realize that it was the metal from the bullet on a chain.

Bella did cry, because she had meant what she said: she still loved Lisa, even with all the hurt and death she had caused. That was why she could kill her. Because the love for her over powered the hate and it wasn't from anger that Lisa had died but instead enough love inside Bella to understand the threat that needed to be removed.

Later, Cali asked her to speak with her in her dining room and Bella agreed, because she was tired and needed to sit down for two minutes. As soon as they were in there, Cali hugged her and let Bella cry some more. They were great heaving sobs for a girl she wished was still real and not the lie she burnt.

Cali sat her down and got her a hot mug of chocolate before saying, "thank you so much, Bella. Without you, none of this would be over."

Bella smiled, sipping her chocolate. "I just have some questions," she told her mug, though she meant them for Cali.

"Ask away," Cali invited.

Bella looked up at her, cradling the hot cup between her cold hands. "I heal, whether in wolf or human form. Why? I feel so raw and new every time I turn, like I'm two different beings trying to merge into one. Do others feel like that?"

Cali smiled and sipped her tea before quite simply saying, "you're an Alpha, Bella."

Bella nearly dropped her mug and managed to catch it before it clattered to the table and spilled everywhere. "What?" She demanded.

"Only Alpha's can heal when in human form, and in wolf form."

Bella glanced at Cali's scars blatantly because she didn't want to say it out loud. "I am the leader, but not the Alpha, Bella. You see, to become an Alpha, you must fight. I did notheal. As you can tell by the scar under my eye. However, the person I fought did not heal either, and due to the injures, died."

Bella didn't know what to say and was glad when Cali continued to speak. "It must happen under the half moon. Bella, it is your destiny to become the Alpha of this pack."

The brunette shook her head quickly. "No, no! I'm only nineteen. I'm a child, I'm not wise like you. I can't protect them, and lead them and be their Alpha, Cali."

Cali chuckled under her breath. "Think about it. Go home and rest. Come back tomorrow with your decision."

"Why the morning? I think I need a week's sleep," Bella half joked, drinking the rest of her hot chocolate.

Cali smiled. "Because there will be a half moon in the clear morning sky."

Bella wanted to argue her point again, but her Alpha wouldn't listen. Instead she ordered Bella to go home and sleep. Bella didn't argue, because she wanted it more than anything. At nearly eight in the morning, Bella entered the Denali home, dressed in ill-fitting clothes and snuck up the stairs into her room.

Bella stumbled to a halt at the sight of Kate curled up on Bella's bed, clinging one of Bella's hoodies to her chest. As Bella got closer, she noticed the skin under Kate's eyes were red raw as if she had been crying for hours. Bella's heart tightened and guilt plagued her but she slid into her and curled herself around Kate's body before falling to sleep.

When she awoke, it was to a sharp rapping on her door. Startled, Bella looked to her clock, surprised to see it was half six in the evening but still feeling tired and weak. When Bella yawned, the door opened and a smiling Kate walked in carrying a tray piled with food and drink. Bella's stomach grumbled and she accepted it hungrily.

She barely managed a thank you as she dug in and stuffed her face with the multiple selections of food. She paused just for a moment as Kate touched her fingers to Bella's cheek, her face lit up as she whispered, "I'm so glad you're okay. Waking up you this morning was amazing."

Bella flushed, still stuffing her face but she knew Kate wouldn't want her to say anything. There was nothing more to be said. She was okay now, Lisa was gone and Kate wanted her in her life. Kate kept touching Bella's knee as she asked, "guess what?"

"Hmm?" Bella mumbled through some chicken.

"I have exciting news."

Bella nodded to indicate Kate to keep talking as she moved on to some soup. "Your case is officially closed."

Bella raised an eyebrow and cocked her head. Kate explained gently: "the rest of my team was called to a fire this morning. They found your sisters remains and once they traced her fake cards and ID's to a hotel room she was staying in, they found her diary… she spoke about you a lot, and… all the things she had done."

Bella nearly choked on some warm, seedy bread and her eyes flew open. "What?" She gasped through her food.

"Calm down, she didn't mention anything about actually being a wolf. She spoke about her transformation and her kills, and the power in her new form, but she didn't use any supernatural words, so the police don't know anything and they just assume she meant her transformation into a killer or persona or something."

Bella took a deep breath and gulped down some orange juice. But she nearly choked again when Kate said: "they've offered us the chance to adopt you."

"No," Bella said immediately as she removed the glass from her lips.

Kate's face fell but she tried to cover it with a smile. Bella smoothed her hand down Kate's cheek, stealing her attention. "No, Kate. I don't want to be part of the family that way. I want to be yours. I want to be part of the family through marriage… one day," she whispered shyly.

Kate's smile picked back up and she leaned forward for a quick, intense kiss before pulling away. "So, anything you want to tell me?"

For the rest of the night, after a shower, some time with the Denali's and dinner, Kate and Bella found themselves in Kate's bed because it was bigger and more personal that Bella's guest room. Bella told her about the night before, right up to the point where she had killed Lisa. She finished with the offer from Cali to be Alpha.

After much discussion about the opportunity and what they would tell the Denali's, what Bella's daily job would be and places they could live, followed with some intense kissing and hugging, the two of them fell asleep together. By the next morning Bella had made her mind up and she felt more in control and excited for her life than she ever had before.

When she arrived at the village, there was an upbeat atmosphere and the smells of breakfast in the air. When Cali saw Bella striding in with a large smile and confident posture, she asked her immediately, "you're ready, aren't you?" and then, when Bella nodded her agreement: "follow me."

Bella followed after Cali until they stopped at what looked like a pit to Bella. There was a large fence around it and an excited crowd. Bella wondered when they had gotten there, as she hadn't seen or heard any of the pack following her. Cali gestured her into the pit and informed her: "first you fight me, and if you succeed, you fight another."

Bella's heart summersaulted. She didn't want to fight, she was too tired and she didn't want to hurt anyone, especially not Cali. But she was excited for the prospect being offered to her. She could be Alpha very soon. For the rest of her life Bella would barely remember the fighting. Only key points.

Her transformation, fighting Cali for a solid hour before Cali finally collapsed and Bella won at Cali's bowed head of submission. Proud and tired, Bella had lifted her head and roared. She was congratulated by many before she had to fight another to prove her strength and healing abilities.

She won that fight too and it was a lot shorter than the previous one with Cali. That was when Kate turned up, and Cali informed her of the mating ritual that would now have to take place due to her before Alpha. The pack had to accept Kate as the Alpha's made and learn to respect her like they would respect Bella.

Bella remembered every moment of the mating ritual. First, Cali introduced herself to Kate and then introduced Kate to the pack. Then she pulled Bella and Kate side by side and performed the ritual, using an old dialogue that had been used in every mating ritual within the pack.

"Bella, our Alpha and her mate: Kate Denali, sheriff and protector of our town and pack, you stand before us and receive our blessing, and congratulations as you bond yourselves as mates for life. You are both welcome to this pack, and held within the strength of this pack. We wish you our best, and pledge our lives to your safety."

Bella had been overcome with emotion, perhaps because her wolf recognized the ceremony and the title that she had just one, and so she couldn't repress the passionate kiss she had shared with Kate who pulled away shortly after, flushed and breathless. With an almost giddy air to her, Kate asked, "did we just get married?"

"Not a chance," Bella grinned. "We haven't even been on a date yet."

They laughed together before Kate pressed her lips to Bella's again and whispered, "we'll have to change that."

"Of course, but let's not rush; we've got plenty of time."

AN: So this wasn't my best story and no doubt a lot of people haven't enjoyed it but I thought it was fun to write. Thanks to everyone for your support I look forward to starting my new story and hope to see you there thanks again.

Massive thank you to my wonderful beta LeighJ11 she has been amazing through this story and the others!