Love, Lust and Lycanthropy

Jacob went to his own bed once Karen fell asleep, it was far too early for him to sleep but Karen could sleep to heal her wound, sleep speeds up the healing process. A bite from another wereanimal heals much slower than a normal wound, if a werewolf was cut with a normal knife they would heal in minutes, silver and gold had a different effect if a werewolf is cut with either they heal as slowly as a human does. With sleep, Karen would be lucky if it was fully healed by tomorrow night.

There is a soft knocking at the door, Jacob answers it, standing in the hall is Marcus, another werewolf,

“Hey Jacob, have you heard the news?” Jacob looks at him puzzled,

“What news?” he asks stepping out of the way to let Marcus in, Marcus closes the door behind him,

“Have you even watched the news today?” Jacob shakes his head,

“Oh wow, there\'s talk of a bill that would give us Human rights, all of the packs in the area are buzzing about it how the hell did you manage to not hear about it?” Jacob shrugs,

“Guess not many wolves want to talk to one who’s dating a human,”

“Yeah but once we get human rights that will be a thing of the past I mean we can do anything we damn well want, no hiding what we are from people.”

“They haven\'t passed it yet Marcus I wouldn’t get my hopes up,” Marcus shakes his head,

“You have got to think more positive Jacob; anyway what’s up you look a little down?” Jacob trusted Marcus just not enough to tell him he just broke one of the laws they have set up to keep their kind safe,

Jacob shakes his head, “Relationship problems,” that\'s all the Marcus needs to know,

“Ah, I see she cut you off?” Jacob shakes his head again,

“I don\'t feel like talking about it okay?” Marcus puts up his hands,

“Fine, fine,” Marcus sniffs the air, “Karen all right? I can smell her blood, it’s faint but its there,”

“She fine, she just needed to be reminded that I am dominant to her,” that\'s where he left it at and Marcus respected that, Jacob was dominant over him as well as almost the rest of the pack, there were only five that were dominant to him,

“Mind if I have a little chat with her?” Jacob shakes his head again,

“No, she’s sleeping, I\'ll tell her to call you when she wakes up.” Marcus smiles,

“Great, thanks,” Marcus lets himself out, and Jacob turns the news on.

Sandra has a long hot candle-lit bath trying to clear her mind of everything; she moistens a washcloth and places it over her eyes, the warmth penetrates her head soothing her jangled nerves. For the second time since it happened, Sandra recalls the previous night when Jacob and Karen were fighting, ‘why did he kiss her? She said she loved him’ ‘he didn’t sleep with me because he was afraid he’d hurt me but Karen would be just fine, was that kiss something more?’ “No,” she says aloud to herself, “he wouldn’t do that,” she tries to convince herself, “He loves me,” she can feel tears begining to fill her eyes, she sits up slowly. She holds herself in the bathtub, and allows herself to cry.

‘I love him; I know I do, so why can’t I trust him?’ ‘it’s not him I worry about so much as Karen, I\'m sure that she was the one who he slept with that made him what he is,’ “Bitch” she mutters wiping the tears away with the washcloth, she wants to be mad at Jacob not just Karen but her heat refuses to let her. Her mind and her heart are in conflict she has been through it all before with another guy, he said he loved her but he was constantly fucking his Ex on the side, she knew about it but she couldn’t bring herself to confront him about it. Finally, she just broke up with him and gave him other reasons why. ‘Why am I such a fuck up when it comes to relationships?’ her bath has cooled significantly, instead of adding more hot water she decides to just get out,

Sandra dries herself off and lies on her bed staring at the ceiling only a towel to cover her. ‘I should tell him that it bothers me, the way he acts with her,’ ‘I should tell him I saw him kiss her,’ “No, I\'m going to tell him,” she sits up throwing the towel aside, she scrambles for an outfit she wants him to choose her over Karen, she puts on a black pushup bra even though she doesn’t have much to work with, matching thong panties, a black tight form fitting midriff long sleeve shirt, a matching short skirt and black nylon stockings. She doesn’t bother with makeup he had told her on more than one occasion he didn’t like the way makeup smelled, she puts on lip gloss though to make her lips look oh so kissable she didn’t really need lipstick anyway her lips were naturally full and red.

Sandra lets herself into Jacobs building and she passes a guy in the hallway, that looks her over, he speaks to her,

“Hey you know Jacob don\'t you?” she is startled by the question and hesitates for a moment,

“Uhm yes, how do you know him?” he smiles at her,

“Me and Jacob go way back, I\'m Marcus by the way,” he extends his hand to her, she shakes it,

“Sandra.” She says, shying away,

“That’s a pretty name,” Sandra blushes her pale complexion shows it easily.

“Thank you,”

“Well I wont keep you from him but he’s a really a great guy if you just give him a chance,” Marcus continues down the hall leaving her standing alone.