A Cullen Loves A Hale Book 3

Chapter 4 The Long Road to Forgiveness

It had been several weeks and Emmett had still not gotten up the courage to talk to Ambrus about Alexis. Though Ambrus had a pretty good idea that Emmett wanted to talk to him. He had seen several time Emmett approach him only to veer off at the last second and go somewhere else, normally about the time that Alexis would show up. So instead of Ambrus waiting for Emmett to come talk to him, Ambrus confronted Emmett.

"You want to talk with me Day Walker?" Ambrus asks as he steps up next to Emmett the minute he comes out of class. Emmett is startled, not having heard Ambrus approach him in the first place.

"What makes you think that, Ambrus?"

"I have seen you several times approach me but then leave when you notice the Pup is with me. We are alone now, so speak your mind, Emmett."

Emmett stops him and looks into Ambrus' blue eyes, "You swear this won't get back to Lexie?"

"I swear that this conversation goes no further than the two of us."

"I need your help getting Lexie back." Emmett tells Ambrus.

Ambrus throws his head back and laughs, "What makes you think that I'll help you get the Pup back? I told you, you are unworthy of her."

"I know I'm not worthy, Ambrus, but I love her with all of my heart and soul, and I need her. And I know she loves me, I felt it when she was in her Lycan form. But I also felt her mistrust, she doesn't trust me as far as she can throw me."

"That's right, she doesn't, she has no reason to. You threw her trust away, and trust  is a big thing to a Lycan, especially among mates."

"I didn't know." Emmett said.

"I know you didn't, Day Walker. There are things you must understand, Emmett, Lycans are not like Werewolves, you know this, but what you do not know is that we share a mental bond with our pack mates. We do not communicate like the shapeshifters do, what we share is our own past, our memories with each other so that we have a deeper understanding and trust in each other. This is why trust is so important to us."

"When Lycans mate you share your most intimate thoughts and memories with each other and the trust and understanding only grows. The only person who will ever know you that well is your pack leader for he receives all of your memories."

"But as I was saying, with those intimate thoughts and memories your trust and emotional bonds build. You two had not mated yet somehow you were able to make an emotional connection with her in her Lycan form. Which leads me to think that she had  great deal of trust in you to let you in, and by what you and she have told me, you still have that bond. Meaning, Emmett, whether she admits it or not, somewhere buried deep inside, she still trusts you. That she loves you is a given, we both know that. It is the trust you must get back, that is the most important thing."

Emmett nods, "Okay her trust how do I get her trust back?"

"You need to earn her friendship back, you need to be completely honest with her but do not push her. And above all you must protect her pack, namely Bella and Charlie. If she sees that you will lay down your life for her pack, She will definitely start trusting you again and maybe, maybe take you back." Ambrus explains

"Alright, Ambrus, I can do that. I'll do whatever it takes to get my baby back." Emmett tells him.

"Good man."

Meanwhile:

It is once again lunch time at Forks High School and Everyone is talking about Jessica's Valedictorian speech.

"It has to be better than last year's speech. I mean last year, everyone cried." Jessica says.

"Well, yeah, my cousin gave it, but don't worry, Jess, your speech is going to rock." Bella tells her.

"Rock? It'll change lives." Jessica says in a smug tone, Bella just rolls her eyes.

Weeks had passed and Bella had yet to say two words to Edward yet he followed her around like a lost puppy at school. The good thing was he was no longer being all creepy and spying on her at night, mostly because Bella locks her bedroom window and partly because Edward finally realized how creepy that looked through the mind of someone else when Alice followed him one night.

As they all sat around the lunch table Alice suddenly announces that she has decided to throw a graduation party, Edward groans.

"Another party, Alice?"

"Yes, it'll be fun and just like last time Alexis and Emmett will be there so there won't be any problems."

Bella sighs at the thought of her cousin being there, "I think it's a great idea, I'm in."

"Yeah me too," Angela adds.

"I've never seen your house." Jessica says.

"No one has, Jess."

Just then, Alice grows quiet and she get this vacant look on her face. Bella immediately starts talking to Angela about helping her with her invitations so no one will notice.

After school, Alice calls Emmett and Rosalie and tells them that they need to come home that weekend because of Victoria. While Edward is going to try to convince Bella to use the plane tickets that Carlisle and Esme got her to go to Jacksonville.

"So he's going to try trick her into leaving, that's a bad idea." Emmett tells Alice.

"Well what do you suggest?"

At that moment Emmett sees Ambrus and Alexis walking by and gets an idea.

"I'll call you right back."

Emmett hangs up and jogs over to Alexis, "Lexie!"

Alexis turns around and her heart rate increases at the sight of Emmett jogging towards them. She scolds herself for her reaction and calms her heart, but it was too late, Emmett had already heard. He didn't say anything though.

"Is there something you needed, Emmett?" Alexis says coldly.

"Not me, Bella. I just got a call from Alice, she said that Victoria is going to be in the area this weekend and that we were going to try to catch her and kill her."

Ambrus and Alexis looked at each other, "We're in."

"Well, that's not what I was thinking, Edward is going to try to get Bella to go to Jacksonville to see her mom, and he's going to try to weasel his way into going."

"And you thought it would be better for me to go instead, that's a great idea, Emmett. I'll tell Bella the truth, we'll go visit my aunt and have a wonderful time." Alexis says.

"Then I will help hunt down this female." Ambrus says.

"Well that won't be necessary, why don't you go with the girls, and we'll handle it." Emmett suggests.

Ambrus and Alexis look at each other, "I think that's a great idea Bella you, me in Florida for the weekend, why not?" Alexis tells Ambrus, "The Vamps and the shapeshifters can supposedly handle this."

"Gee, thanks a lot" Emmett says sarcastically.

"You're welcome." Alexis responds unconsciously.

It had been weeks and very slowly, with tiny baby steps, Emmett was trying to become friends with Alexis again. And it was working, she didn't trust him but she was at least civil to him. That was the first time she responded playfully to him.
He smiles at her, but Alexis only looks away and clears her throat.

"I'll, uh, I'll talk to Bella and my uncle myself and make arrangements to take Bella to Florida and have my uncle stay on the Reservation."

"Okay, I'll tell the others." Emmett says.

Very quickly Emmett's eyes shift to Ambrus, who slightly smiles and gives Emmett a little nod. Emmett was making some progress.