Old Soul Imprint
by Wizardtho
Chapter 12:
When I dropped down from Levi’s back just inside the treeline of the backyard, he quickly backed away a few paces before phasing in front of me. I gasped slightly, but he offered as he pulled his shorts on, “Forgive me, my firefly. My instincts are wanting to keep you close.”
I shook my head, then smiled as he wrapped his arms around me, “No need. I feel it, too. I just wasn’t expecting you to phase in front of me. Now come on. Let’s go take a hot shower, then curl up in bed together. By the look Sam gave you before he darted off, I’m guessing he offered to keep watch tonight?”
Levi nodded seriously, “He could see my worry and protective instincts taking over on the run back. He was going to phase long enough to let Joshua and Tiffany know what happened, then patrol for the night. He’ll crash in the spare room after patrol, so he’s here for the breakfast meeting.”
I nodded, pulling myself close to him as he started walking us in the direction of the house. He stopped to look down at me with his brows furrowed, so I explained in a whisper, “I just need to feel close to you. I can’t bear to even think of…”
Levi hushed me while pulling me up into his arms, “For the rest of tonight, little firefly, it’s just you and me. My wolf and I are both hoping quite strongly that after our shower, you want to spend the rest of the night in bed, naked with us wrapped around you.”
I couldn’t help but chuckle at that, agreeing, “I don’t suppose you and Mr. Alpha would ever disagree where it comes to being naked and wrapped around me, do you?”
He squinted slightly, as if he were actually thinking about the answer, then smirked and growled while nipping my neck, “Never, Isabella… especially when we can still taste your slick sweetness on our tongue.”
With several nips and sucking kisses along my neck, my mate carried me inside, never stopping until he placed me down in the master bathroom. Even then, it was only long enough to strip us of our clothing, so that his hands and mouth had my bare skin available to them. He used that to his advantage, too, as he carried me into the shower.
Pinning me to the cool shower wall with his scorching chest, Levi slid my hands into his hair, then glided one hand down my spine while coaxing me into a passionate kiss. I gasped when his fingers reached to tease my rosebud, but it turned into a deep groan as they did the same to my entrance and clit.
Levi growled into the kiss, then I felt him press down on my hips as he thrust slowly into me in one smooth motion. My head fell back against the wall with a thud as my hands tightened into fists in his long tresses, but he hummed as he licked the falling water droplets from my throat, “Slowly… I want to remember every single second of being inside you, Bella… from the flush of your chest to the way your legs wrap so perfectly around my hips. From the flexing of your fingers in my hair and the curling of your cute little toes to the desire in your eyes and the needy pleas of my name falling from your kissable lips… I want to remember it all years from now.”
We made love in the shower for a while, but at some point, Levi carried me from the shower straight out to the fluffy rug in front of the living room fireplace. There, he laid on his back, so as not to disconnect us, then groaned while pulling down on my hips as he thrust up, “Fuck, Bella. Don’t do that unless you want me to cum soon.”
I shifted on his lap again like I had a second ago, but he shook his head, pressing his hand slightly right above my core, “When you tighten your muscles, in here… it makes me literally ache to cum deep inside you.”
Now that I knew what he was talking about, I lifted and descended on his length a few times, then did it one more time while purposefully tightening my muscles. His reaction, which was to growl loudly while flipping us, caused my arousal to shoot through the roof. With a rough thrust to the hilt before swirling his hips, I cried out as Levi growled into my neck, “Do you want me to cum, Bella? Do you like it when I cum inside you? I can promise you, my little mate, that both my wolf and I can’t get enough of cumming just as deep inside you as we can get.”
I tightened my muscles again as I groaned, “Yes, Levi. I want to feel the scorching heat of your release inside me, even after you pull out. I love knowing your scent is all over and inside me. After you came inside me so many times earlier, it calmed me to still be able to feel part of you inside me during the meeting.”
Levi’s eyes widened slightly, then instantly he growled while nipping my throat and thrusting deeply, “Do you want me to fill you with my cum, Bella? To fill you to overflowing as I mark you as my lifemate?”
He punctuated his words with deep thrusts and nips to my neck, causing me to cry out as my orgasm rushed towards me, “Please, Levi! Yessss!”
With a loud, pleased growl, Levi’s head shot back, his eyes glowing the deep caramel of his wolf as his teeth seemed to grow sharper in his mouth. I gasped and writhed in bliss as, impossibly, his length seemed to grow thicker with each press against that secret pleasure center inside me. Then, suddenly, I felt myself soaking his length as my nails raked down his back with an ecstatic cry.
Those smoldering caramel eyes locked on mine as he thrust deeply, “Give in to it, Isabella. Glow for me, my firefly,” then he snarled as he bit down on the spot at the juncture of my neck and left shoulder. His sharp wolf fangs pierced my skin easily, but the initial sting morphed quickly into the most intense and all-consuming euphoria I’d ever imagined, while his hot seed filled me.
Sometime during that, I could taste something warm and earthy, a rush of satisfaction mixing with the euphoric high inside me. At the same time, I could hear a wolf’s joyous howl in my mind.
Levi was tenderly sucking and licking at his mark as I came back to my senses sometime later. I hummed, feeling completely boneless and sated, which caused my mate to hum in reply, “Rest, Sweetheart. Give me just another minute to finish the healing, then I’ll flip us so you can lay on my chest.”
I nodded, all my energy spent, then laid reveling in the care my mate was taking to finish my mating mark. I caressed his back, ran my fingers through his silky hair, and kissed his shoulder several times before he nuzzled from my mark to my lips. With a sensual kiss, he carefully flipped us without removing himself from me.
When I opened my eyes as I settled on his chest, I noticed a new mark at the join of his left shoulder and neck. It was a freshly healed set of teeth marks, a small blood smear left behind as proof to its recentness. On instinct, I leaned in to lick it, satisfaction rushing through me at realizing my teeth marks were on my mate’s neck. Levi hummed in response before whispering, “I didn’t know if you would realize what you had done.”
I shook my head as I captured his eyes, “I remember the taste of your blood… warm and earthy… and a feeling of satisfaction. I don’t remember actually biting you, though. How…?”
He grinned as his fingers touched the mark, then said, “I don’t know what it means, Sweetheart, that you were able to mark me. By all counts, it should have healed with no trace. I’m happy it’s there, though.”
I touched Levi’s mark on my neck with a small smile of my own, “So am I.”
I rested my head against his chest again, allowing his strong, steady heartbeat to fill my ears. My right hand moved up to Levi’s neck; finding my mark, my fingers traced the evidence of our mating tenderly. His chest rumbled with a pleased sound, which lulled me to sleep within minutes.
Dreams of the forest filled my sleep… of Levi’s magnificent wolf and red-eyed vampires. Only this time, they were different.
Instead of Levi being alone against 3 vampires, he had 6 wolves at his back, all with different color combinations. Instead of the vampires being on the offensive this time, it was my mate’s pack on the offensive, and the vampires tried to flee when their plan failed. Instead of Levi dying, I watched from a high hilltop as Levi and the pack worked flawlessly to tear the enemy to shreds below me.
This time, I felt Levi in my dreams with me, holding me from behind as we watched the gruesome scene below with pride.
I woke to the smell of brewing coffee, feeling like I’d slept far longer than I actually did. Levi must have moved us from the living room to our bedroom sometime in the night. The steady heartbeat under my ear told me that he was still asleep, so I carefully pried myself from his grasp.
After quickly using the bathroom, then dressing in a tank and lounge shorts, I slipped from the bedroom. Sam smiled at me sleepily from the kitchen, “I didn’t wake you, did I?”
I shook my head, “Coffee woke me, with it smelling so good. I needed to get going anyway since it’s nearly 8 already. Will you do me a favor and call your dad? We need the elders here for the meeting. Have him tell Tiff to bring extra eggs and skillet fixings, if she has any she can spare, please.”
He looked at me closely, then smiled brightly at seeing Levi’s mark. “Congratulations. Is everything okay?”
I nodded as I started pulling out food from the fridge, “Thanks. Yeah, everything’s great... but I kinda marked Levi, too. We need the elders to make sense of it.”
His eyes nearly bugged out of his head as he looked at me, then he shook his head before saying, “Wait. So you’re telling me you bit Levi… and it actually left a set of teeth marks behind after it was healed? Bella, that’s unheard of. Do you think it has to do with the whole Old Soul legend, or with the protection thing?”
I shook my head, “I have no clue, Sam, which is why I need you to pick up your phone. Please and thank you.”
He blushed before hurrying to call Joshua, then I heard him talking quickly as I pulled out more ingredients from the fridge. Nearly 4 lbs of ham, 2 flats of eggs, 2 gigantic bags of shredded cheese, 8 lbs of potatoes, 5 lbs of onions, 12 green peppers, 6 larger containers of whole mushrooms, and 4 lbs of marinated steak strips all got laid out on the counter.
As I was getting out the cutting board and finding a good chopping knife, Sam fixed me a cup of coffee, asking, “What else can I do? Put me to work.”
I chuckled, grabbed a smaller cutting board, then placed it at the bar with another knife. “Here. You can start with the mushrooms.”
I placed a few damp paper towels on the cutting board for him, but he looked at me in question. I rolled my eyes playfully, then explained, “Mushrooms soak up liquid, hence the reason you don’t ‘wash’ mushrooms the traditional way. If you use a damp paper towel and wipe them, you still get the dirt off, but don’t end up with soggy or bloated mushrooms.”
A chuckle sounded behind me, then I felt a kiss to my mark as Levi whispered, “Morning, Beautiful. Why didn’t you wake me?”
I turned to peck his lips, gently gliding my fingers along his neck, then offered, “Because you needed the rest. I haven’t even been up a full ten minutes myself. Sam called the elders for us, so they’ll be here anytime now.”
He kissed my neck, smiled a sleepy good morning to Sam, then headed straight for the coffee pot. No sooner did he take his first sip, than a knock could be heard at the front door. I smiled as I pointed him to the stool at the bar, then wiped my hands on the dishrag on my way to the door.
As expected, all of the tribe elders were waiting on the doorstep. I smiled and hugged each of them as I ushered them in, offering, “Morning, everyone. Come in and make yourselves comfortable. Oh, Tiffany, you’re a lifesaver. I have enough to start with, but you know how hungry these boys are going to be.”
It was Sue who noticed first, smacking Joy’s hip playfully with a gasp, “I knew it! Joy, Tiff, look!”
Tiffany held me at arm’s length, then grinned as she spotted Levi’s mark. Her eyes teared up as she choked out in an emotion-filled tone, “Oh, Bella. Congratulations, Sweetheart.”
I grinned and touched the mark reverently, but said, “Thanks… that’s not the reason you’re here, though.”
I walked over to Levi, then kissed my mark on his neck in a purposeful motion. All of their eyes widened slightly, then Old Quil chuckled, “Congratulations are definitely in order. This is good news, indeed.”
I let out a breath, asking, “So there’s nothing wrong? He didn’t only gain the proof of my bite because of him being sick or something? Or me being a freak of nature?”
The women all scowled, but it was Joy who came to grab me by the shoulders, saying seriously, “Firstly, Levi can’t get sick, which you damn well know. Secondly, you are our future, Isabella, not a freak of nature. You’re the backbone and nurturer of this tribe’s protectors; your ability will keep them safe. You were fated for Levi all those years ago, for who you would naturally be inside and out. Never think you should be anyone but who you are, because you’re perfect for him -and this tribe- as you are naturally.”
Billy nodded, adding, “Your marking of Levi was fated, Bella. It wasn’t a mistake or an accident. It was meant to be. Without you claiming him as your life mate, I don’t believe the pack would be protected. Levi might have been since he marked you, but I doubt it would have extended to the pack. Now, as it is written, the entire pack will be safe from the coming threat.”
When I dropped down from Levi’s back just inside the treeline of the backyard, he quickly backed away a few paces before phasing in front of me. I gasped slightly, but he offered as he pulled his shorts on, “Forgive me, my firefly. My instincts are wanting to keep you close.”
I shook my head, then smiled as he wrapped his arms around me, “No need. I feel it, too. I just wasn’t expecting you to phase in front of me. Now come on. Let’s go take a hot shower, then curl up in bed together. By the look Sam gave you before he darted off, I’m guessing he offered to keep watch tonight?”
Levi nodded seriously, “He could see my worry and protective instincts taking over on the run back. He was going to phase long enough to let Joshua and Tiffany know what happened, then patrol for the night. He’ll crash in the spare room after patrol, so he’s here for the breakfast meeting.”
I nodded, pulling myself close to him as he started walking us in the direction of the house. He stopped to look down at me with his brows furrowed, so I explained in a whisper, “I just need to feel close to you. I can’t bear to even think of…”
Levi hushed me while pulling me up into his arms, “For the rest of tonight, little firefly, it’s just you and me. My wolf and I are both hoping quite strongly that after our shower, you want to spend the rest of the night in bed, naked with us wrapped around you.”
I couldn’t help but chuckle at that, agreeing, “I don’t suppose you and Mr. Alpha would ever disagree where it comes to being naked and wrapped around me, do you?”
He squinted slightly, as if he were actually thinking about the answer, then smirked and growled while nipping my neck, “Never, Isabella… especially when we can still taste your slick sweetness on our tongue.”
With several nips and sucking kisses along my neck, my mate carried me inside, never stopping until he placed me down in the master bathroom. Even then, it was only long enough to strip us of our clothing, so that his hands and mouth had my bare skin available to them. He used that to his advantage, too, as he carried me into the shower.
Pinning me to the cool shower wall with his scorching chest, Levi slid my hands into his hair, then glided one hand down my spine while coaxing me into a passionate kiss. I gasped when his fingers reached to tease my rosebud, but it turned into a deep groan as they did the same to my entrance and clit.
Levi growled into the kiss, then I felt him press down on my hips as he thrust slowly into me in one smooth motion. My head fell back against the wall with a thud as my hands tightened into fists in his long tresses, but he hummed as he licked the falling water droplets from my throat, “Slowly… I want to remember every single second of being inside you, Bella… from the flush of your chest to the way your legs wrap so perfectly around my hips. From the flexing of your fingers in my hair and the curling of your cute little toes to the desire in your eyes and the needy pleas of my name falling from your kissable lips… I want to remember it all years from now.”
We made love in the shower for a while, but at some point, Levi carried me from the shower straight out to the fluffy rug in front of the living room fireplace. There, he laid on his back, so as not to disconnect us, then groaned while pulling down on my hips as he thrust up, “Fuck, Bella. Don’t do that unless you want me to cum soon.”
I shifted on his lap again like I had a second ago, but he shook his head, pressing his hand slightly right above my core, “When you tighten your muscles, in here… it makes me literally ache to cum deep inside you.”
Now that I knew what he was talking about, I lifted and descended on his length a few times, then did it one more time while purposefully tightening my muscles. His reaction, which was to growl loudly while flipping us, caused my arousal to shoot through the roof. With a rough thrust to the hilt before swirling his hips, I cried out as Levi growled into my neck, “Do you want me to cum, Bella? Do you like it when I cum inside you? I can promise you, my little mate, that both my wolf and I can’t get enough of cumming just as deep inside you as we can get.”
I tightened my muscles again as I groaned, “Yes, Levi. I want to feel the scorching heat of your release inside me, even after you pull out. I love knowing your scent is all over and inside me. After you came inside me so many times earlier, it calmed me to still be able to feel part of you inside me during the meeting.”
Levi’s eyes widened slightly, then instantly he growled while nipping my throat and thrusting deeply, “Do you want me to fill you with my cum, Bella? To fill you to overflowing as I mark you as my lifemate?”
He punctuated his words with deep thrusts and nips to my neck, causing me to cry out as my orgasm rushed towards me, “Please, Levi! Yessss!”
With a loud, pleased growl, Levi’s head shot back, his eyes glowing the deep caramel of his wolf as his teeth seemed to grow sharper in his mouth. I gasped and writhed in bliss as, impossibly, his length seemed to grow thicker with each press against that secret pleasure center inside me. Then, suddenly, I felt myself soaking his length as my nails raked down his back with an ecstatic cry.
Those smoldering caramel eyes locked on mine as he thrust deeply, “Give in to it, Isabella. Glow for me, my firefly,” then he snarled as he bit down on the spot at the juncture of my neck and left shoulder. His sharp wolf fangs pierced my skin easily, but the initial sting morphed quickly into the most intense and all-consuming euphoria I’d ever imagined, while his hot seed filled me.
Sometime during that, I could taste something warm and earthy, a rush of satisfaction mixing with the euphoric high inside me. At the same time, I could hear a wolf’s joyous howl in my mind.
Levi was tenderly sucking and licking at his mark as I came back to my senses sometime later. I hummed, feeling completely boneless and sated, which caused my mate to hum in reply, “Rest, Sweetheart. Give me just another minute to finish the healing, then I’ll flip us so you can lay on my chest.”
I nodded, all my energy spent, then laid reveling in the care my mate was taking to finish my mating mark. I caressed his back, ran my fingers through his silky hair, and kissed his shoulder several times before he nuzzled from my mark to my lips. With a sensual kiss, he carefully flipped us without removing himself from me.
When I opened my eyes as I settled on his chest, I noticed a new mark at the join of his left shoulder and neck. It was a freshly healed set of teeth marks, a small blood smear left behind as proof to its recentness. On instinct, I leaned in to lick it, satisfaction rushing through me at realizing my teeth marks were on my mate’s neck. Levi hummed in response before whispering, “I didn’t know if you would realize what you had done.”
I shook my head as I captured his eyes, “I remember the taste of your blood… warm and earthy… and a feeling of satisfaction. I don’t remember actually biting you, though. How…?”
He grinned as his fingers touched the mark, then said, “I don’t know what it means, Sweetheart, that you were able to mark me. By all counts, it should have healed with no trace. I’m happy it’s there, though.”
I touched Levi’s mark on my neck with a small smile of my own, “So am I.”
I rested my head against his chest again, allowing his strong, steady heartbeat to fill my ears. My right hand moved up to Levi’s neck; finding my mark, my fingers traced the evidence of our mating tenderly. His chest rumbled with a pleased sound, which lulled me to sleep within minutes.
Dreams of the forest filled my sleep… of Levi’s magnificent wolf and red-eyed vampires. Only this time, they were different.
Instead of Levi being alone against 3 vampires, he had 6 wolves at his back, all with different color combinations. Instead of the vampires being on the offensive this time, it was my mate’s pack on the offensive, and the vampires tried to flee when their plan failed. Instead of Levi dying, I watched from a high hilltop as Levi and the pack worked flawlessly to tear the enemy to shreds below me.
This time, I felt Levi in my dreams with me, holding me from behind as we watched the gruesome scene below with pride.
I woke to the smell of brewing coffee, feeling like I’d slept far longer than I actually did. Levi must have moved us from the living room to our bedroom sometime in the night. The steady heartbeat under my ear told me that he was still asleep, so I carefully pried myself from his grasp.
After quickly using the bathroom, then dressing in a tank and lounge shorts, I slipped from the bedroom. Sam smiled at me sleepily from the kitchen, “I didn’t wake you, did I?”
I shook my head, “Coffee woke me, with it smelling so good. I needed to get going anyway since it’s nearly 8 already. Will you do me a favor and call your dad? We need the elders here for the meeting. Have him tell Tiff to bring extra eggs and skillet fixings, if she has any she can spare, please.”
He looked at me closely, then smiled brightly at seeing Levi’s mark. “Congratulations. Is everything okay?”
I nodded as I started pulling out food from the fridge, “Thanks. Yeah, everything’s great... but I kinda marked Levi, too. We need the elders to make sense of it.”
His eyes nearly bugged out of his head as he looked at me, then he shook his head before saying, “Wait. So you’re telling me you bit Levi… and it actually left a set of teeth marks behind after it was healed? Bella, that’s unheard of. Do you think it has to do with the whole Old Soul legend, or with the protection thing?”
I shook my head, “I have no clue, Sam, which is why I need you to pick up your phone. Please and thank you.”
He blushed before hurrying to call Joshua, then I heard him talking quickly as I pulled out more ingredients from the fridge. Nearly 4 lbs of ham, 2 flats of eggs, 2 gigantic bags of shredded cheese, 8 lbs of potatoes, 5 lbs of onions, 12 green peppers, 6 larger containers of whole mushrooms, and 4 lbs of marinated steak strips all got laid out on the counter.
As I was getting out the cutting board and finding a good chopping knife, Sam fixed me a cup of coffee, asking, “What else can I do? Put me to work.”
I chuckled, grabbed a smaller cutting board, then placed it at the bar with another knife. “Here. You can start with the mushrooms.”
I placed a few damp paper towels on the cutting board for him, but he looked at me in question. I rolled my eyes playfully, then explained, “Mushrooms soak up liquid, hence the reason you don’t ‘wash’ mushrooms the traditional way. If you use a damp paper towel and wipe them, you still get the dirt off, but don’t end up with soggy or bloated mushrooms.”
A chuckle sounded behind me, then I felt a kiss to my mark as Levi whispered, “Morning, Beautiful. Why didn’t you wake me?”
I turned to peck his lips, gently gliding my fingers along his neck, then offered, “Because you needed the rest. I haven’t even been up a full ten minutes myself. Sam called the elders for us, so they’ll be here anytime now.”
He kissed my neck, smiled a sleepy good morning to Sam, then headed straight for the coffee pot. No sooner did he take his first sip, than a knock could be heard at the front door. I smiled as I pointed him to the stool at the bar, then wiped my hands on the dishrag on my way to the door.
As expected, all of the tribe elders were waiting on the doorstep. I smiled and hugged each of them as I ushered them in, offering, “Morning, everyone. Come in and make yourselves comfortable. Oh, Tiffany, you’re a lifesaver. I have enough to start with, but you know how hungry these boys are going to be.”
It was Sue who noticed first, smacking Joy’s hip playfully with a gasp, “I knew it! Joy, Tiff, look!”
Tiffany held me at arm’s length, then grinned as she spotted Levi’s mark. Her eyes teared up as she choked out in an emotion-filled tone, “Oh, Bella. Congratulations, Sweetheart.”
I grinned and touched the mark reverently, but said, “Thanks… that’s not the reason you’re here, though.”
I walked over to Levi, then kissed my mark on his neck in a purposeful motion. All of their eyes widened slightly, then Old Quil chuckled, “Congratulations are definitely in order. This is good news, indeed.”
I let out a breath, asking, “So there’s nothing wrong? He didn’t only gain the proof of my bite because of him being sick or something? Or me being a freak of nature?”
The women all scowled, but it was Joy who came to grab me by the shoulders, saying seriously, “Firstly, Levi can’t get sick, which you damn well know. Secondly, you are our future, Isabella, not a freak of nature. You’re the backbone and nurturer of this tribe’s protectors; your ability will keep them safe. You were fated for Levi all those years ago, for who you would naturally be inside and out. Never think you should be anyone but who you are, because you’re perfect for him -and this tribe- as you are naturally.”
Billy nodded, adding, “Your marking of Levi was fated, Bella. It wasn’t a mistake or an accident. It was meant to be. Without you claiming him as your life mate, I don’t believe the pack would be protected. Levi might have been since he marked you, but I doubt it would have extended to the pack. Now, as it is written, the entire pack will be safe from the coming threat.”