Chapter 7 A Dog, a Leech, and a Heart to Heart

The door nearly being ripped off its hinges wasn’t a shock since his tumultuous thoughts preceded him – loudly. I’d have been able to clearly hear him thinking about turning me into minced dog food from miles and miles away.

I waited for him calmly though calm was far from what I was feeling. This boy…animal was Bella’s boyfriend. She’d slept with him. No, calm was not a word I’d used to describe me at the moment. The mental image of his hands exploring every perfect inch of Bella’s body was like acid burning its way through my stomach.

“You have some nerve showing up here, leech,” he growled, his whole body trembling from the mental exertion of fighting off his transformation. New werewolves were notoriously unpredictable and lacked all sense of control, so I was surprised, that in his rage, he could keep his human form, especially near one of his mortal enemies.

“I have as much right to be here as you do, Jacob Black. More, even, as I am family and you are merely…the family pet?”

The smile he shot me was a thing of pure hate. And the cause of that sinister smile was nearly enough to knock me on my ass. As plain as day, I could see Jake and Bella together in the throes of passion.

“I think it’s safe to say I’m very important to Bella.” He wasn’t censoring anything which was incredibly uncomfortable since I’d never seen Bella in such a state of undress. I was torn. The gentleman in me abhorred this violation to her privacy while the man in me wanted to linger over every curve of her soft, pale flesh while imaging my hands in place of the tanned hands bringing her such pleasure.

“Haven’t you hurt her enough, you prick?”

“Bella has asked me to stay.” I held up my head cutting him off before his words caught up with his thoughts. “Temporarily. She just wants to talk. And then…well, that will be for her to decide. I know you do not want to hear this, but I am not strong enough to leave her again. Not on my own. If she asks me to go then I will, but until she utters those words I’m going to stay right here.”