First Imprint [Book 1] ✔️

19 • Vampire

SAM'S POV

Having Jacob as a wolf brought a whole new dynamic to the pack. We were able to expand our search area and do longer patrols. And in the two weeks since he phased, we were also able to get some leads on the bloodsuckers that kept coming to the area.

About a week ago, we caught a glimpse of them. One was female with hair that seemed to blaze in red warning. Her partner was male with long black hair. We knew from their scents that the female was the one who attacked the camper. The problem was we could never seem to catch them.

What was even worse was that they weren't the only issue we now had to deal with. There was a new element of danger in the forest. The missing camper hadn't gone unnoticed. It was all over the local news: "Missing hiker's campsite found abandoned."

The stories mentioned repeatedly that animal prints were found in the area. Because nothing ever happened in Forks-nothing that regular people knew about anyway-it was a story that kept building instead of dying out. It had created enough of a frenzy that forest rangers were now coming into the woods at regular intervals to set up animal traps. Paul almost stepped on one the other day and the rest of the pack was treated to a 10 minute tirade of profanity.

Aside from having to worry about avoiding traps, it was also an extremely dangerous time for people to be in the forest and we were given the task of having to babysit them. Just the other day, two rangers were in the woods without any clue that they were being hunted. We managed to scare off the redheaded bloodsucker just as she'd been about to pounce on them. Luckily for us, we'd move too quickly and the humans hadn't had a chance to see us.

The only area that I knew was safe from vampires was the town of Forks itself. That probably had a lot to do with the fact that Jacob stationed himself outside of Bella Swan's house every night after he was done patrolling.

True to his word he didn't have any contact with her, although Billy had told me she was calling him practically every half hour of the day. Instead, Jake went to her house every night and just stared up at her window, hoping for a glimpse of her from his vantage point in the woods.

I couldn't blame him for his actions. I used to do the same thing with Leah after I first phased and then again with Emily after I imprinted. He missed her, mourned not being around her, and his pain caused us all to hurt. If he needed to check on her house to relieve some of his depression, I wasn't going to stop him.

Out of all the new wolves, he was having the most trouble adjusting. He didn't want this life. He was becoming increasing bitter over the fact that he had "cursed blood" as he called it. In that regard, Jacob and I were practically the same. I related better to him than I did my other brothers because I also still felt pain over being a werewolf.

The fact that I broke Leah's heart and almost killed Emily was something I struggled with every day, not to mention how I pretty much ruined Emily's relationship with her Clearwater family. If it weren't for Harry, Emily would have been completely excluded from the rest of the Clearwaters. Jacob felt my constant pain every time we shared our thoughts. It gave him more incentive to stay away from Bella.

He didn't want to cause her anymore emotional pain than her leech lover had already given her. She had suffered enough. But it didn't mean that he wasn't thinking about her all the time or missing her like crazy.

If there was one thing that equaled Jacob's depression, it was his hate for the Cullens, and in that regard...again, we were very similar. So many lives had been destroyed by their mere presence. I hated them with a fury that was indescribable. And as Jacob's separation from Bella continued, his hatred for the leeches practically surpassed my own.