Forbidden Imprint [Book 5] ✔️

17 • Single Wolves: Beware

PROLOGUE

EMBRY'S POV

What is it about wolf weddings? When an imprinter and an imprintee are joined in the bonds of holy matrimony, all hell seems to break loose for all other wolves. There needs to be a disclaimer on wolf wedding invitations. You know something along the lines of...

Hey, you're invited to our wedding. Oh and by the way, if you're a wolf, and you just happen to be single, chances are you're going to end up imprinting while you're there.

That's imprint love for you. It's like Cupid suddenly took up the habit of smoking crack and decided to spend his free time randomly shooting poisonous arrows into some poor, unsuspecting wolf's ass!

That's what happened at Jake's wedding. Jake and Ness married. One down...so many more lives to destroy. Ryan imprinted on his Alpha's 3-year-old daughter and I imprinted on Jake's married sister. The imprint magic got two new "couples" out of that wedding. Same freaking thing happened at Quil's wedding. Quil and Claire got married, and bam...more imprints. As I watched all the chaos unfold around me, I came up with a theory.

The imprint magic in our blood had a "take no prisoners" mentality. It knows when it's managed to join one wolf with his mate thereby successfully carrying on the wolf gene, but it's never satisfied. It has to look for other wolves to infect. The doctor in me realized that imprinting was like a virus. It left the happy couple and would spread, infecting some innocent bystander, thus ensuring that the mutant gene would be passed on through yet another pre-engineered couple.

Luckily for me, I had already been infected with the disease. I had been given the cure, and all I had to do was sit back and watch everything unfold. And wow, Quil's wedding didn't disappoint.

First there were the wolves who had already imprinted.

There was Collin, the imprinted but I might still secretly have the hots for my wife's best friend wolf. What killed me was that while I had suffered years of torment anytime I so much as glanced at a female, the imprint magic seemed to approve of Collin's fascination with another woman. I still couldn't figure out how the hell it was possible for Collin to be so affected by Amber...unless Lindsey was into open marriage and had ordered him to make a move on Amber. That was kinky, but Lindsey didn't seem the type.

Then there was Ryan, the imprinted but my imprint hates me cause of my wolf side, so let me force myself on her cause that always a good idea wolf. I had to give Ryan credit. He tried very hard all night to get on Gracie's good side. But sometimes wolves do very stupid things when they're desperate. And Ryan acted very stupid that night.

But then there were the new imprint couples. That's right, I said imprint couples! Nate and Meena were obviously going to imprint. You could read that in the cards even before Meena was born, and Nate would spend time talking to her through the womb. I wished Nate all the best with that one. He was going to need it.

But Nate wasn't the only one to get shot in the ass by Cupid's drug-induced imprint arrow that night. There was another wolf. I had to hand it to him. He hid it well. I was impressed that he kept it quiet considering how freaked out he was.

And then there was me. I didn't come out of the wedding completely unscathed. Just when my life was finally making sense, I was stupid enough to come back to La Push where my life always got fucked up. I was so cocky walking into that wedding. I thought I was untouchable. And then one freaking conversation had me on pins and needles again.

But I digress...I need to start at the beginning...

EMBRY'S POV