The Alpha's Bride—Jacob + OC

Jacob Black was forced into a position of power when he first started phasing. Now he's been an Alpha to the La Push wolf pack for almost twelve years, and almost everyone on the reservation are hoping that he'll get married and produce an heir to the wolf pack and to the tribe.

Almost everybody on the reservation (at least those "in the know") still believe that having an imprint (or even just a wife) is essential to continuing the legacy of the Quileute heritage. Jacob, on the other hand, is still suffering from having his heart broken by a woman who left him for a vampire. On one night, Jacob and all of the guys from the pack heads to Las Vegas to celebrate a bachelor party for one of his pack brothers. What he didn't expect was that he would end up getting married to a girl that he not only just met the first night...but who is also his imprint.

Sara Carnegie comes from a well-off family from New York, but made a move to Washington to study teaching and hoping to work with children with special needs. She went through a bad break-up, and immediately put her heart and soul into her studies. Her friends, however, wanted to take her to Vegas to get her mind off of everything and to live life. What Sara never expected was to marry a complete stranger, and wake up in bed with him the next morning.

Sara wants an annulment, but Jacob wants more time with his imprint. With reluctance, Sara agrees to take her classes online and move with Jacob to La Push to at least make their marriage work for the next six months of it.

Could Sara love Jacob for who he is, or will she run the moment she discovers the truth?

Chapter 1

Jacob's POV

What did I get myself into? I probably should've read some manual or one of those "Book for Dummies" on becoming an alpha to a growing wolf pack. Well, if there was one, that is. There are high levels of expectations for me, and it's not something that I wanted in the beginning. It may have been my birthright to lead my tribe and the pack, but I didn't initially want to be a leader.

I'll admit, I was a naïve, hormonal teenager who was in love with the first girl that looked my way. I learned from my mistakes, and have taken over the pack after Sam Uley retired a couple of years later. Our packs split for a while, because I wanted to help someone that I knew would never look my way again, but in the end, Sam and I decided to unite the pack after it turned out to be a disaster.

Turns out, the girl I was once in love with got pregnant with her bloodsucker's child. I ended up forcing her and her new family out of Forks forever, breaking the pact that was made by my great-grandfather many years ago. It was a difficult decision to make at the time, but I'm realizing now that it was the right thing to do.

Once the pack was reunited again, Sam retired to be with his imprint Emily Young. They married almost a year after the incident that occurred between the Cullens and my pack, and they soon had a son named Lakota.

Sam wasn't the only one to retire; Paul, Jared, and Leah retired as well. Paul and my sister Rachel had gotten married and were already on their two months long honeymoon, Jared and Kim were already married and are expecting twins, and Leah went to California to study art history and fell in love with her teaching assistant. Pretty much, everybody was moving on.

Now, here I am at twenty-eight-years-old, with no imprint, while I'm in Vegas with my pack brothers celebrating one of my best friends' upcoming nuptial. Embry Call didn't want to get married, and he never thought he would. Turns out that love can happen when you least expect it. Embry fell hard for Heather, the town's newest librarian who came to Forks about three years ago. She isn't his imprint, but she understood the legends, and she accepted Embry through it all. Quil, Seth and I all agreed that she was crazy enough to fall for Embry. Yet, she did.

So, in honor of Embry's upcoming nuptial, Quil and Seth both suggested going to Las Vegas and spending a three-day weekend gambling and drinking all night. Now, as I'm sitting at a bar taking a swig with Embry, Quil was playing some blackjacks while Seth flirted with one of the waitresses, who probably looked like a stripper or pole dancer of some sort. I smiled at Embry, and patted his back. "Well, I guess congratulations are in order for your upcoming marriage. I never thought that I would see you getting married,"

"Well, that makes two of us." Embry admitted, "I thought I would never find love, or even my soul mate. I may have never imprinted on Heather, but I love her. She makes me a better man, and Heather completes me. Y'know?"

"I guess?"

"Hey man, don't worry. One day, you'll find your happy ending."

"Yeah, but when?"

"Let me tell you how I knew Heather was the one, okay?" Embry said, as soon as Seth and Quil came over to join us. "We were dating for about three months when I realized that I loved her enough to want to be with her in spite of what might happen if I imprint on someone else down the road. My mother wanted to meet Heather, and I was honestly both excited and nervous about it. At the time, I didn't know much about Heather's parents until that day. She never really talked much about them. When my mother asked her about it, Heather told her that she didn't have a mother or a father."

"Now, mind you, I didn't ask her about it, because I thought it was too soon to talk about our families and all that. Then again, I wasn't thinking clearly than I should have. Heather broke down her walls in front of my mother and I, and my mother told her that we were her family now. Heather and my mother bonding together was a sign for me. It meant that no matter what happens; whether we're on patrols or if a vampire attacks and I get injured, I knew that Heather would want me to fight...just as much as she wished her parents did before they died."

"So wait, you knew you were going to marry Heather just by her telling you and her mom that she's an orphan?" Quil asked him.

Embry nodded. "You guys are weird,"

"Look Jake, all I'm saying is that maybe instead of waiting for the girl that left you a long time ago, you should take a chance on someone else."

"Embry, nearly everybody in our tribe wants me to get married soon. My sisters are already married with kids, and I know my father would like to see me get married, but I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon."

"Why not?" Seth asked.

"Because there's a lot of stuff going on in my life that I don't have the time to find my future wife anytime soon."

"You could if you try," Quil added.

I wanted to say that's not gonna happen, but then, she entered the room. A pair of beautiful, sun-kissed legs strutted into the room, and as I moved my eyes up, I could see a lacy white dress covering her thighs from the knees. Carrying her pocket purse in her soft hands, I could see her black hair with coppery accents cascading down her back. With one look into a pair of dark brown eyes, and I felt gravity slipping away from me. All of a sudden, I couldn't see the other girls standing with her, nor could I hear my friends laughing at God knows what.

It was her.

She took a seat at a table with two of her friends, never taking her eyes off of me until one of her friends said something to her. My heart was pounding rapidly in my chest, just wanting to be near her. "Yo, Jake?" Quil said, tapping my shoulder. "You okay?"

Once her friends moved away and started dancing, I could see a sad look on her face, as she rested it in the palm of her hand. My chest started to hurt, and I said to the guys, "Yeah, I'll be back in a bit." I then got up, and my legs started to move willingly toward her. The pull between us was strong, and I could feel the wolf inside of me yipping in excitement to finally me her face-to-face. Seth, Quil, and Embry made wolf calls, while I flipped them off before she could hear them. Once I was two feet apart from her, I gently touched her shoulders, and she turned. "Hi, can I help you?" She asked me.

She sounded like an angel. God, it has been too long since I've been with anyone, hasn't it? "Uh, no. I just, I saw you coming in, and I just wanted to say hi."

"Okay? Hi?"

Mentally, I slapped myself in the forehead. God, I'm such an idiot! "Sorry, I guess I'm making you a bit nervous, aren't I?"

"Well a little, but a good kind of nervous; a cute one."

Smiling, I asked to sit down next to her, which she agreed that made my wolf very happy on the inside. "I'm Jake," I said, holding out my hand for her to shake.

Looking down at my hand and then back at me, she placed her small, soft hands in mines and said, "I'm Sara."

To be honest, the rest of the night was a blur, as we drank and laughed all night long. What neither one of us expected the next morning was to not only find ourselves naked in a bed together...but that we were also wearing wedding rings on our fingers. Dare I say that I may have made a mistake? Probably in the heat of the moment.

Do I regret marrying my imprint after just meeting her hours before discovering what really happened? Not a chance...