Chapter 9

My smile seemed contagious in this room as all three of us smiled when I shouted, "YES!"

Jacob kissed me so passionately that I soon ran out of oxygen in my body. As I pulled away from him sucking in a big gasp of air he was laughing. "Well help us pack. I'm kind of gimpy right now."

His eyes settled on my arm again and him smile faltered. "It's not your fault Jacob. If you hadn't been there it would have been a lot worse for her."

Jacob's eyes locked with mine. "Yeah but it still affects my wolf and me pretty hard to see her hurting. To know we could have stopped it if we were stronger."

I put my right hand on Jacob's cheek and said, "Jacob it's like you said at the café, you're at half full, remember?"

He smiled leaning into my hand, "Yeah I remember."

"Ok guys let's pack and save all this mushy gushy stuff for later."

We instantly got to work trying to finish packing and moving everything before dark. Finally I was all packed by 8. Ethan had a few maids and butlers help me move my stuff to the pack house. We pulled up to this gorgeous building made out of brick about a mile from the mansion.

Jacob led me inside, up some stairs and then right down a long hall before we headed up more stairs to a third floor. The first door on our right at the end of the hall is our room. I stopped in the doorway checking out the king poster bed with blue blankets, a cream carpet, and black curtains to keep out the light. The set up was almost like Ethan's room but there's little pieces of Jacob everywhere.

We just stacked all the stuff up and decided to unpack some other time. I did, however unpack my bathroom stuff so that I could brush my teeth and wash my face. Afterwards I got into a t-shirt of Jacob's and a pair of boxers and headed back to our room.

Jacob sat on the bed leaning against the head board looking a mix of nervous and happy. I walked toward him and he threw his legs over the edge of the bed to face me. "What's wrong babe?"

I fiddled with the bottom of his shirt and replied, "Well I'm just not sure how fast or slow we want to go with this. I guess between all the shock and the nerves it's been pretty hard to focus on our relationship aspect of it."

He smiled and pulled me toward him resting his head on my stomach. "We'll go at your pace babe. For tonight just get some sleep. We'll worry about everything else tomorrow."

He scooted over to the other side of the bed and held the blanket up for me to crawl under. When I got under the blankets and settled Jacob pulled me toward him. We were evidently spooning and I felt even more nervous with him touching me sending flames everywhere he touched.

I woke the next morning feeling even more tired then before I went to bed. I spent most of the night thinking about Jacob and his touch. But I crawled out of bed and quickly showered, uncovering my arm of it's bandage so I could wash it. After five days of healing it didn't look too bad but the doc says to still keep it wrapped but I could leave my hand uncovered.

After my shower I dried off and wrapped myself in a towel heading to my bags to get some clothes for today. I'm glad that it's fall. I want to wear something long sleeved so Ethan's girl doesn't see my bandages and get scared. When I got to my bags I noticed that Jacob is looking at me.

He has a satisfied smile on his face which is when I realized that the way I had bent down he can see everything. I stood up quickly and decided to kneel instead of bending down. I grabbed jeans, a bra, underwear, cami and my knitted sweater. Walking back into the bathroom I felt Jacob's eyes on me the entire way.

After I dressed I finished getting ready applying a small amount of makeup and then blow drying my hair. I checked myself out in the mirror one last time before leaving the room. My green eyes are surrounded in light brown eye shadow and black eyeliner. I decided to keep my long brown hair down. Stepping out of the bathroom I was pushed against the wall right beside the door and kissed passionately by Jacob.

He pulled back trailing kisses down my neck and along my jaw. I moaned and tangled my fingers in his brown hair. He pushed himself closer to me and that's when I felt his hard member grind against my thigh. Reasoning came over me. "Jacob…stop."

He pulled back putting his forehead to mine. "Sorry. Just having you in my room in nothing but a towel drove me wild. When you bent over and I saw everything I couldn't help but kept a hard on. You don't understand what you do to me. You drive me crazy."

Not sure how to respond I just held still. Soon he stepped back and headed into the bathroom. I sighed and fell to my knees feeling overwhelmed with everything he makes me feel. I waited until I trusted myself standing and headed to sit on the bed.

Jacob wasn't in the bathroom very long but when he came out he was wrapped in a towel and my face heated up at the sight. He definitely has a nice six pack with a happy trail of hair leading under his towel. I covered my eyes feeling my body warm up at the sight. I heard him chuckle and a door open.

A minute later he said, "You can open your eyes now babe. I'm dressed."

I open my eyes to see him dressed in a nice black t-shirt with a light jacket and nice jeans and tennis shoes. After checking him out I looked back at his eyes to see an extremely mischievous look in them. He held out his hands and said, "Let's go Ethan said he'll be here by 10."

Taking his hand he pulled me toward the door and down the stairs. We had just opened the front door when Ethan was about to knock so we all just hopped in his car and left. Conversation was nonexistent as we drove. After an hour I couldn't stand it anymore and turned to Ethan, "So where's she at?"

He kept his eyes on the road, "She's about another 40 minutes south of here. Listen I need you and Jacob to stay in the car. It's not exactly normal for a vampire, human and werewolf to be socializing."

Nodding I decided not to push it. Suddenly Ethan growled at Jacob, "Please keep those thoughts to yourself. I don't want those images in my head unless I see them myself."

This time Jacob growled, "You'll never see them for yourself and stay the hell out of my head."

Growing irritable I snapped, "Both of you stop it! Ethan how the hell do you know what Jacob is thinking?"

He sighed still frustrated but explained, "Some vampires have special gifts, I can read minds. That's how I knew about your promise to Jacob and what he saw earlier this morning."

I blushed but turned around and glared at Jacob for thinking about it again. "What do you expect me to do? I finally have you and man my wolf is going crazy thinking about it."

I grumbled and said, "Well for now try to think of something else."

Ethan laughed, "That goes for you too princess. I don't want to know what Jacob looks like shirtless."

Now it was my turn to blush and Jacob and Ethan are both laughing at me. So I turned around, crossed my arms and stared out the window the entire time. When we finally got there I was honestly surprised by how different this place looked than the place I was at.

Jacob looked upset, "This is like where they kept you at?"

I didn't get to answer since Ethan answered before I could, "No the place she was at was child's play compared to this."

There's a black building with ten foot high gates surrounding it. The black building reminded me of a prison. There are tons of guards everywhere. Ethan frowned and turned to me, "We're going to have to conceal your scent and Jacob I need you to follow along with me ok. Just agree with me but try to keep quiet. This isn't what I was expecting."

"How will you conceal my scent?"

Ethan bit my neck and I yelped but then felt the pleasure. I tried to keep quiet so that Jacob wouldn't get jealous. Ethan pulled back but unlike all the other times he didn't lick the bite closed. Jacob growled at him. "Jacob it's ok. We have to do this."

"Doesn't mean that I like it."

I turned around to look at him, "I know. I'm sorry."

He blushed and stared out his window. Ethan pulled up to the gate and the guard asked to see his identification. Another guard walked around the car. He first eyed Jacob and then me. "Who are these two?"

Ethan glanced into the backseat, "This is my slave, a werewolf." He glances over at me, "This is my current host."

The guy smiles at me and reaches into the car to grab my jaw and pull me toward him. I grimace and hear the other two in the car growl at him. "Sir I suggest getting your hands off of her."

The guard makes a sound and shoves me back into the car. Ethan rolls up the windows and continues on. "Are you ok Ana?" I nod not trusting my voice. "We've got to get her out of here. I need you two to come with me. I can't leave you unattended."

I get out of the car after Ethan parks it and Jacob is instantly beside me, "Ana, babe, are you ok? Be honest."

I nod and smile but otherwise I stick to the plan and stand by Ethan who frowns at the both of us but we continue on. We get through the three check points and then we're standing in front of a cell where a very skinny girl lays on a bed. The guards unlock the door and then leave. I try to seem calm as I enter the cell.

She sees us and cringes away making my heart drop. I whisper to her, "We're here to get you out of this disgusting place." She's seems to not trust me so I sit on the bed far enough to not be in personal space and try again, "My name is Anastasia Rayne and these are my friends. This here is Ethan who is the vampire but trust me he's pretty nice, I was his host before I met Jacob and realized that I'm his mate. Oh this is Jacob who is a werewolf and is my mate."

Her eyes get wide as she looks at us. She crawls a little bit out of her corner and asks, "Why didn't the vampire try to keep you?"

I smiled remembering it, "Ethan's not like the other vampires. He's kind and goofy, not at all what you expect a vampire to be. He let me go with Jacob because he knows how much Jacob loves me and he knows that for me to be happy I can't be with him."

She looked Ethan up and down before saying, "He isn't mean looking like the other vampires I've seen."

"He isn't mean at all. He owns horses and has an extra house on his property for the maids and butlers to live and he recently let the werewolves move into the other house on his land."

She looked at me in complete shock before saying, "Can I truly be happy there?"

I looked at her with as much honesty and hope I could muster into my face and said, "Yes. I think you truly can be happy there."

She smiled and held out her hand to me, "My name's Arella Rainderson. Nice to meet you Ana, Ethan and Jacob."

They all smiled to her but Ethan held out his hand, "Let's get you out of here Arella and go home."

She tried to stand but couldn't so Ethan picked me up bridal style and she hesitantly put her arms around his neck. Ethan turned to Jacob and motioned for him to do the same. So Jacob picked me up bridal style and I snuggled into his chest.

I kept my eyes closed until we reached the last gate and Jacob stopped short. I heard the growl rumble through his chest and that's when I looked up to see we're surrounded by 15 vampires. The one in front steps forward toward Ethan, "Now something just ain't right for you to enslave a werewolf and get matched with 2 girls. Unless this one has something wrong with her we don't see why you need 2."

Arella is shaking in Ethan's arms and he's having issues keeping his cool. So I speak up, "Sir I am having issues becoming pregnant with Ethan's child, therefore, he requested a new host to partake in that while I continue to feed him."

Jacob's grip on me tightened but I ignored it as to not let anything show to these vampires. They were quiet for a second but the next thing that happened shook me to my core. I'm ripped out of Jacob's hands and thrown onto the ground, Ethan having his hands full with Arella can't aid me.

After I'm away from Jacob they start kicking and punching him. I felt the tears well up and quickly ran to him but Ethan and Arella caught me. Ethan whispered in my ear, "Don't show them how much it affects you otherwise they'll kill him."

I stand there trying to be impassive but not able to take my eyes off of Jacob. He doesn't fight back knowing he'll only be killed. These vamps are fucking bullies. Arella holds my hand as she watches the scene unfold with me. Ethan pulls up the car and then shouts out, "That's enough. He has done nothing wrong and even if he did he is my slave to punish not yours."

The men stop but some of them spit on him before walking away. The leader stays for an extra minute looking between all of us. Then he grins this uber creepy smile, "I will have you Anastasia Rayne. I will make you scream out in pain while I pound into you."

Ethan growls at the vampire in front of us but he just takes a big wiff of air before walking off into the prison. I walk to Jacob trying to maintain my cool. We all slowly move him off the ground and into the car. Ethan takes off not bothering to watch the speed limit. As he's driving I'm attempting to hold it together as I try to take care of Jacob's wounds.

He mostly has a lot of bruises but he has a black eye and busted lip. It's when he looks at me and smiles that I fall apart. At first my crying was silent but then it got louder as it all came flying at me. I laid against Jacob's chest as he holds onto me tightly. Arella and Ethan are quiet the rest of the way. By the time we get to the house I'm a hiccupping gross mess, Jacob looks a little bit better due to werewolf super healing and Ethan looks like he's about to punch something.

We all go into Ethan's mansion and go straight for the kitchen. I grab a bag and fill it with some ice and hand it to Jacob to put on his eye. "So Arella do you have anything you want to ask?"

She blushed and asked, "Is it true you couldn't get pregnant?"

Ethan smiled and said, "No it's not true. Ana and me never even tried to conceive."

Arella really blushed now, "Oh. Umm…..Well What's expected of me? I can cook and clean and do dishes or even muck horse stalls."

Jacob laughed, "Ethan's not like that."

Ethan smiled at Jacob before telling Arella, "I don't expect you to do anything except to make this place you're home. You're not required to cook, unless you want to, clean, unless your bored. Mucking stalls isn't required either."

She looked confused, "So what exactly do I do all day?"

This time it was my turn to respond, "Don't do what I did and go fall in love with a werewolf after hunting down the pack when Ethan wasn't here."

She laughed, "Definitely won't catch me doing that."

"I basically just spent my days with Ethan or finding something to keep me occupied."

Jacob laced his fingers through mine and I saw that he is mostly healed, "Let's go home Ana. Let them have some time to get to know each other."

I nodded and turned to Arella, "If you need me my number is saved on Ethan's phone as well as Jacob's number. We'll be back tomorrow."