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╰┈˚ · ° .   THE CALL ARRIVED EXACTLY THREE DAYS LATER. Carlisle Cullen had agreed to our terms and was willing to sign another treaty alongside his family.

We had prepared the papers and infused them with so much magic that it was a miracle that it wasn't visible to human eyes, and a drop of our blood was also added to link the treaty to our DNA and to make sure that it will be passed down to the next generations.

The Cullens had all signed, and a week past the fight, they would move away. The subject of Bella was also brought up. In simple terms, we had no right to deny the girl to be turned but that could happen only once they moved away from Forks. And so, the Swan sisters had spent days fighting until the decision stuck and it became known that Bella would move away for college, but in reality, she would be turned into a vampire before the end of the summer. That, of course, wasn't any of our business. Jacob didn't think of it like that, and was angrier than we had all seen him before. He was sure that he could make the girl change her mind, and when we had tried to make him see the truth, he would phase, too trapped in his anger.

With still a few days from the fateful day where the army would arrive, we found more moments to spend together. No one would know how this fight would turn out, and there was fear brooming underneath our skin.

A message that I hadn't expected arrived to Sam that morning. It came from Jasper, telling us to meet at the coordinates that he sent. And importantly, he added specifically to bring us girls with him.

Jasper was the type of person that saw and knew more than he let out, so it didn't come as a surprise that he asked for us.

We met in a field, a clearing that expanded in a circle. Jasper, Bella and Edward were already there when Sam, Paul, Jared, Embry and Leah with all four of us witches—none of the wolves wanted to leave their imprint near the cold ones without their presence, even Leah—plus Jacob, finally arrived.

"Why are we here?" Sam asked directly to the blond vampire, who stood with the perfect posture of a soldier that he once had probably been.

"This field will give us an advantage in battle." Jasper began to explain, "We need to lure the newborns with Bella's scent, but it needs to end here, and of course, she can't be here since she is the target. And we need to make sure that they will catch it as soon as they arrive so that they will not go to her house, for example, where it is the strongest since she lives there." His hazel eyes were the tell-tale sign of his animal blood drinking diet setted on me.

I honestly still wasn't sure how I felt being the spokeswoman for our coven. It felt weird.

When Paul noticed where the vampire's sight landed and lingered, a growl formed in his throat as he shifted his body to shield mine from his view.

I pressed my hand on his lower back feeling the warmth of his body on my palm that was quickly becoming higher with his rising protective instinct, and soothed the anger with my touch. "Why do you think that we could do something about it?" I asked, moving just slightly so I could have a peak at him from the side of Paul's broad shoulders.

"I met a few women in my life before joining the Cullen's clan that had a gift for magic." His hazel eyes twinkled with reminiscing memories of a lifetime ago, "Witches are not as rare as one would think."

"Witches?" Edward questioned his brother, "That's what they are?"

"What we are and what we are not is none of your concern." Kim waved a nonchalant hand to dismiss the vampire, "What matters is that we can help with that."

Sam sighed a breath looking around at the clearing before nodding to Leah and Jared to get a more in depth look at it to formulate later on the perfect plan of attack.

"Yes." Layla started to look around her, "A pretty simple spell if we have her blood.

"We will do it now, so I hope you can stand the smell of it." Amelia told the two vampires, probably not even caring if they couldn't, before materializing a knife and glass jar for Bella to bleed in.

Edward quickly froze, holding his girlfriend closer. "Is that necessary?" He asked.

"Do you want this plan to work or not?" Amelia snarked, propping her hand atop her hip.

"Where will Bella be?" Jacob spoke, glaring at the intertwined hands of the vampire-human couple, "If they catch her scent, hers, then this will be for nothing."

"Edward and I are going to a campsite up the mountain." Bella started, "but if he carries me, they'll still pick up on my scents."

"Your stench, however, is revolting." Edwards scorned, face pulling in disgust.

"Dude, you really don't wanna start comparing stinks." Jacob said, scoffs of agreement echoed by the other wolves.

"What he means-" Bella interrupted, "is that the scent of a wolf will mask mine if you carry me."

"Done." Jacob was quick to agree, not needing any other motivation then honestly just be for a minute with her, alone.

"This is not a good idea." Edward denied, looking at Jasper for confirmation.

"It's a good idea actually." Sam agreed with a sharp nod.

Paul's lips curled into a sly smirk as he spoke, "And you know it too, so suck it up bloodsucker if you want your girlfriend to survive and for the plan to work."

Edward clenched his jaw and sneered, "Look who's talking. Didn't you start growling when Jasper just talked with her before, mutt?"

"This is really unnecessary." I rolled my eyes with a heavy sigh, "Jacob will carry Bella."

"Edward," Jasper called his adoptive brother's name, "they won't want

to get anywhere near his odor."

"Let's just try it." Amelia said, "Right after you give us your blood so that we can do the spell."

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╰┈˚ · ° .   Desperation clanged to my skin as I kissed Paul with such fervor that I was sure my lips would bruise. My hands traveled all over his body, he was so warm. He always was. Worry was making my heart ache, tomorrow an incognita.

"I need you." I whispered against his lips, "I need you now, please."

"I'm here." His eyes bored into mine as he helped me off my shirt that was discarded somewhere around my room now.

We were a tangle of limbs as we fell on my bed, face to face, our naked body pressed tightly against the other. When I felt him breach my opening, my eyes rolled at the back of my skull. Inch by inch he entered me with such patience that I had no idea he possessed it, and when he was seethed completely inside of me, I could finally breathe.

"Beatrice." Like prayer on his lips my name felt to my ears. "Look at me."

I did. I looked at them with such love and so much fear that tomorrow all this could be gone. That we could be gone. He trusted inside of me, a whimper lodging in my throat. Another time, and his forehead fell against mine.

"I love you." He whispered, "You are my heart. You are my soul."

My fingers were entangled in his hair, clung to the short strand at the nape of his neck. I could see it in his eyes. The fear lingering there as he slowed down his movements to press soft kisses against my face.

Paul and I were too hotheaded, we burned so fiercely that when we collided and our clothes were gone, there was too much energy to be gentle. This, what we were doing now, this was no fucking. He was making love to me.

I met his thrust with my hips, squeezing against his cock that was buried deep inside of me that I was left breathless. My orgasm rolled over me at the same time his own did, leaving me with traces of cum to drip from the sides. "I wanna stay here." He said. "Inside of you so that I know you are still here with me."

He gently turned us around until I was on his body, trapped by his cock, still half hard inside of me.

I was afraid. Afraid that I could lose everything in the morning. Because he was my everything and there wasn't me if he wasn't there.

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Hello everyone!If you feel like the last part has a different vibe is because It's been months since I wrote this story, and I had such a writer block and I couldn't write the end of this chapter. I don't know why! I kinda hate the half smut in this but I had procrastinated writing it for too long. So I might not be happy with the end of chapter overall but I'm still so proud of this story, and how far it has come. 

There is only one last chapter after this one, (Plus epilogue) I'm going to miss this story so much 😭

We are almost at 200k reads, I love you guys so much.

Thank you for reading this chapter, I'll see you on Thursday!

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