Early Imprint [Book 3] ✔️

7 • Soap Opera

QUIL'S POV

"...Will you have this woman to be your wedded wife, to love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, and forsaking all others, for so long as you both shall live?"

I turned to look at Claire, my heart warming as she smiled brightly at me. I was so lucky...so honored to have her in my life. I turned back to look at the minister.

"I will," Jacob responded. The minister nodded, before looking at the bride.

"Renesmee, will you have this man to be your wedded husband, to love him, comfort him, honor and keep him, and forsaking all others, so long as you both shall live?"

"I will," Ness answered, smiling from ear to ear.

I couldn't believe how quickly Jake and Ness's relationship had changed. When I thought about last year when we had gone to Seattle for Seth's birthday, Jake and Nessie's relationship had just left the friendship stage. And now here they were getting married.

When Jacob had told me last month that he and Ness were going to get married within a month, I didn't think they would pull it off at first. Then I remembered that Ness's aunt was Alice Cullen. She had put together Sam and Emily's wedding within a week. Now here we all were standing next to the river that was in the Cullen's backyard, witnessing Jacob marrying his imprint.

I turned back to look at Claire again to make sure she was alright as she sat between Sam and Emily. She waved back at me and I felt a smile come across my face as I turned again to face forward. I had been so excited when Emily had told me that Claire was coming down for a visit this weekend. Cora was going to a birthday slumber party at her friend's house and Ronnie and Stacy were taking Nicolas to soccer camp this weekend, so Emily had volunteered to watch Claire. This was the first wedding that Claire had ever been invited to, so she was very excited.

Emily had taken Claire out shopping the day before and had bought her a blue dress with white daisies all over it. Emily had also put Claire's long brown hair into a braid. Claire looked so cute that it made me want to burst with pride just looking at her.

I watched as Jake touched Ness's slightly rounded belly as the ceremony continued. I don't think I'll ever forget the day that Jake told me that Ness was pregnant, hence the rush job on the wedding.

Embry and I had been hanging out when we heard a wolf howl. Knowing it was Jacob, we had quickly phased and met him a short distance away from the Cullen property. Seth had also joined us.

"What's up?" Seth had asked. Jacob had looked shocked and excited all at the same time.

"Ness is pregnant," he'd told us in an awed voice.

Before we could even react, a loud "WHAT!!" came from the area where the Cullen house was. Seconds later, Edward came running into the clearing we were in, followed shortly by Bella. I was actually surprised to see that Bella had been able to keep up with Edward as he was supposed to be the fastest vampire in the family. The fierce anger in Edward's face as he spied Jacob had caused the pack to start trembling.

"Its ok, guys," Jacob had assured us. Edward had been about to lunge, but Bella tackled him to the ground before he could do anything. Seconds later the rest of the Cullen clan came to the area. Jasper had run over and put a squirming Edward in a headlock.