First Imprint [Book 1] ✔️

22 • So That Happenend

SAM'S POV

I was sprawled out on my couch trying to relax. I couldn't stop thinking of everything that had happened in the past couple of months.

In the time following Harry's funeral, I felt like I had gotten on an emotional roller coaster and couldn't get off. I missed Harry. I missed going to the supply store and seeing him whenever I wanted. I missed his great advice. I picked up the phone to call him one day and realized that I could no longer talk to him. The pain that caused me was unbelievable.

For the first month after he died, Emily had cried herself to sleep almost every night. I tried comforting her as best as I could, but we both mourned him so much. Something that helped ease our grief though was that Emily's sister-in-law had found out she was pregnant again. Emily had volunteered for us to watch Cora and Claire this weekend so that her brother Ronnie and sister-in-law Stacy could go out and celebrate that Stacy's first trimester was over. Funny thing was that last time we watched the girls, Ronnie and Stacy went on a second honeymoon and came back pregnant. I told Emily this and wondered what this weekend would bring. Emily just laughed.

Emily's Aunt Sue was now officially considered an Elder and was kept updated on everything going on with the pack. Although she mourned for Harry, having the other Elders there to support her helped her with her grief. They also helped her understand a lot of what was going on with her children.

As for the pack, while everyone enjoyed having Seth around, having Leah in the pack was more difficult, especially for me. For one thing, Leah hated being a werewolf. For another, Leah was hurting both from the loss of her father and also from the pain I had inflicted on her. She was still hurting over our breakup and she felt constant pain now that she knew how happy I was with Emily. She could feel my contentment every time we patrolled together.

The expression, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, seemed to be a motto that Leah embraced fervently. She was constantly bringing up things that I didn't want to remember, just to make things awkward. The rest of the pack resented it. I tolerated it, because I knew she was hurting, but there were many times when I wished that Leah wasn't part of the pack. She could feel that too which made her hurt even more and made me feel even guiltier. Anytime I had to patrol with Leah, I made sure that Seth was always with us. She tried to refrain from sharing with everyone memories of us having sex when Seth was around.

Another problem the guys were having with Leah was that they felt like they had to watch everything they said when she was around. There were some things a guy just didn't want a woman to know about. For instance, Jared was blissfully in love with Kim. He would sometimes accidentally start replaying memories of an evening he spent with her. Before Leah became a wolf, that would have resulted in the typical locker room trash talk that guys do. Now, none of the guys felt they could do that.

Another issue the guys were having was the nudity problem. We had all just gotten use to being naked around each other. Now, if we phased too quickly and ended up without clothes, we were embarrassed if Leah was around and vice versa. None of the guys wanted to see their 'sister' naked and she sure as hell didn't want to see us.

It was especially awkward for Leah and me when we had these moments. That combined with Leah's constant rehashing of our past took away a lot of the relaxed atmosphere that the pack had before, which helped build the resentment against her.

Emily and Leah, however, were slowly mending their relationship. Leah had even jokingly offered to be a bridesmaid which was an offer Emily had readily accepted. I knew that Leah hadn't been serious though when she made the offer. I knew because Leah cursed me out most of the night after the offer had been accepted. However, after seeing what Emily had gone through during the attack and because Leah was honestly trying to heal her relationship with her cousin, she didn't take back her offer to be a bridesmaid. And she never let on to Emily that she'd rather walk through the pits of hell first than be a bridesmaid at my wedding.