Forbidden Imprint [Book 5] ✔️

29 • Finally

Preface

How did I get here? One minute I was ecstatically happy, the next I was terrified of losing my imprint. Jasper's hands tightened around my throat squeezing off my airway, but all I could see was Rebecca's terrified face. I heard Alice and Jake's voices, but they were muffled and didn't make sense. None of what they had to say mattered anyway. If Rebecca died, I'd beg Jasper for death.

EMBRY'S POV

Sheer unadulterated bliss. That's how I felt when I woke up after a night of incredible lovemaking with my imprint. I couldn't even call it a night of hot sex, because it was so much more than that. Rebecca and I had loved each other. And more than once. I'd woken her once in need, another time she had woken me up. The whole night had been utterly fantastic.

I rolled over on the mattress to pull Rebecca to me, but the space next to me was empty. Remembering another time I'd woken up to find Rebecca missing from my bed sent me into a blind panic. I jumped off the bed, quickly grabbing my pants where they laid on the floor. Pulling them on, I headed out of the bedroom and hurried towards the front door. No fucking way was she doing this to me again.

A voice inside my head tried to reason with me. Rebecca said she loved me. She wouldn't have left me again. It's not like there was a note on the pillow this time stating she didn't want me.

But where the fuck was she?

As soon as I put my hand on the door handle, I felt a sharp tug at the back of my spine causing me to freeze. Taking in a deep breath, I finally started to pay attention to my senses. Rebecca was still here. She was in the apartment. I turned around and followed the pull I felt to my imprint. I went into the living room and stopped.

Through the open French doors of my living room, I could see Rebecca standing on my apartment's balcony. She was wearing nothing but my dress shirt from the night before. She had a glass of water in one hand, while the other hand grasped the patio railing. Her head was tilted up as she let the fall morning mist saturate her face. I felt my shoulders relax as I realized that things weren't the same as before. All the demons and uncertainties of the past faded away, and I was filled with an inner peace I had never experienced in my life. Rebecca was here to stay. We were going to be together forever.

Walking over to her, I wrapped my arm around her waist. She jumped in surprise before leaning back against me, setting her water on the table next to her. She angled her head towards mine looking at me with the sweetest expression I'd ever seen. Cupping her cheek in my hand, I bent down and kissed her lips gently.

"What are you doing out here?" I asked as she snuggled in closer to me. She wrapped both arms around me tightly. I rested my cheek against her head and sighed contentedly.

"No offense," Rebecca replied, "but sleeping with you is like being in bed with a space heater. I was beginning to feel really lightheaded so I thought I'd get some air."

"Ah," I said, pulling away so that I could lightly kiss the tip of her nose. "About that. I'm going to stop phasing now. After awhile, my body will return to a normal temperature."

"Stop phasing?" Rebecca questioned. "But doesn't that mean you'll grow old? My dad told me you don't age unless you stop being a wolf."

"Yeah, that's true," I replied before adding, "I want to grow old with you."

"Are you sure?" Rebecca asked, biting her lip uncertainly.

"Becks, you're all I've ever wanted in my life. Trust me. Nothing would make me happier than someday sitting on a porch surrounded by our grandchildren. I'd prefer not to look like a 30-something-year-old when I do."