Chapter 53: Simon

I opened the door to my room, thank the moon that Stella had the cleaners come in and clean. I wouldn’t necessarily call myself messy, but I definitely don’t freak out with a little bit of dirt or clothing piles around. “I think eventually he will, it will take time though. So that means you will have to visit more often.”

Violet smirked at me and shook her head. She looked around my room, as if it held some secrets that she would only find out if she looked and touched everything. She walked around the room, gently brushing her hands along the dresser that lay across from the bed. “That’s a big tv.” She looked at the seventy-five-inch tv that was mounted above the dresser.

“I like big TVs.” I shrugged.

“Hmm.” She continued looking at each item that sat on the dresser. It seemed as soon as she obtained its secrets, she moved on to the next. I didn’t put anything on my dresser. I would have preferred it to be empty, but Stella added a few touches while she was in here.

Violet moved her attention to the windows. The heavy drapes hung open, showing the view of the lake. “You can see my cabin from here.” She pointed out the window and across the lake.

“I know.” I joined her at the window and looked at her cabin.

“Do you just stand here and stare at my cabin?”

I turned my head to her abruptly. “What? No.”

“Oh, come on, you must have looked at it sometimes.” She nudged me with her shoulder. She joked.

“I cannot lie to you. I sit here twenty-four hours a day just staring in the hopes that you would emerge from that tiny cabin.” I laughed. “I even have binoculars to see you better.”

Violet let out a small laugh. “Creep.” She turned and looked at the rest of the room. “It’s a really nice room. I like the fact that you have dark walls with dark furniture. It gives it a brooding mood. Just like you.” She glanced over her shoulder at me, a small smile graced her lips. I wish I could take a picture of her right now. She was beautiful. Remus surged forward, he wanted to emerge.

“Stop it.” I said out loud, shaking my head. I tried to shake him into submission.

“What…what did I do?”

“Goddess, not you! Sorry, Remus has been wanting to get out. It’s like he’s clawing at the walls trying to find a way out. It’s rather annoying.”

“Why don’t you let him out?”

“I’m not sure what he would do. He’s never been this forceful. If I were to let him out, I’d want to make sure he wouldn’t hurt you or anyone else.”

“That’s interesting.”

“After you fixed my runes, he has become more vocal and that hasn’t happened in a while.”

“The runes that you had were to limit you. To block you. It definitely worked.” She looked down at my arm, even though the runes were covered it was like she was studying them again. “If you would like, I can always put them back to how they were.”

“No!” I said abruptly. “No, I like how I feel now. Before, I didn’t know how to explain it, but I couldn’t really think. Now I can think clearly, and I can feel things I haven’t felt before.”

“Ok but let me know if you ever want me to put them back. I can.”

“Shut up.” I chuckled. “Come on, let’s get you a change of clothes before Greta bursts in and causes chaos.”

“She definitely would.” Violet smiled at me.

I led her to the walk-in closet. From floor to ceiling were shelves, rods or hanging clothes and drawers. She looked at the walls trying to take it all in.

“What?”

“It’s just you have so many clothes and shoes.”

“A guy has to have choices, right?” A weird look crossed over her face. I am an idiot. “I mean in the clothing department. A guy has to have clothing options.”

“Right.” She nodded slightly, the weird look on her face slowly faded.

“Let’s get you a change of clothes, shall we?” I pulled one of my favorite hoodies from one of the shelves and dug around in a drawer to get a pair of clean boxers. “Boxers are clean, wolf’s honor.” I winked at her as I handed the items to her.

“I sure hope so. I wouldn’t want to wear any of your dirty laundry.” She took the clothes from my hand and stood there. “Don’t be rude, turn around!” She said and laughed.

“Oh right, sorry.” I turned and I could hear movement behind me. I couldn’t resist, I glanced over my shoulder. She had her back to me, she already had the boxers on, but was working on getting the hoodie over her head. I could see scars covering her back. At least a dozen crisscrossed over her back. They looked deep but had already healed. Before I could stop myself, I walked over to her and gripped her shoulders, to get a better look.

“Hey!” Violet yelled, she stepped forward and pulled the hoodie all the way on. It hung off of her dainty body. She was so much smaller than I was. She started to roll up the sleeves so she would be able to use her hands.

“What happened to you?” I was intent on knowing what happened to her back.

“Don’t worry about it.” She lifted up the sweater to roll the boxers to fit her better.

“No seriously, what happened. I’ll kill whoever did this to you.”

“I said, don’t worry about it.” She crossed her arms in front of her.

I just stared at her. Who could have hurt the Luna? I could feel the rage building, Remus was howling in the background. He was already on board to take down the person who could have hurt her. “Tell me.” I said through clenched teeth.

She exhaled. “I told you; the takeover was hard on everyone. Me included.”

“Who?” I demanded.

“A witch called Eli and his fucking lackies.”

“I’ll kill him.” I said, I turned, stormed to the door about to exit but it slammed in front of me. I tried to open it, but it wouldn’t budge. I looked over at Violet, she just stared at me. “Let me out.”

“No.”

“Let me out, or I’ll break down this door.”

“No. This has nothing to do with you. This is my problem, with my coven. I will come up with a plan. But I can’t do that if you go there and get yourself killed.”

I turned to look at her. She took a step toward me, she put her hand out and waited for me to take it. She stood like that for what felt like hours, I reluctantly took it. “If I get the chance, I’ll rip his head off.”

“Ok, big bad wolf. You can rip his head off and those of his followers. But first don’t you want to change?”

I let out a forced breath. “Fine.” I grabbed a pair of joggers and a t-shirt and turned back to her. She was staring at me as I walked around the closet. “Turn.” I twirled my finger around in front of me, motioning her to turn around.

She did so but rolled her eyes. I took off my shirt and pants, leaving me in my boxers. I looked up and saw her taking a glance over her shoulder.

“Hey, no peeking.” I pulled on the joggers and shirt.

“I have a question for you.” Violet said, still staring at the door.

“Shoot.”

“Did you really think you could defeat me and my magic by just busting down the door?”

“I for damn sure would have tried.” I said as I came up behind her, put an arm around her shoulders, and directed her through the door.

“You wouldn’t have won.”

“Oh really, I wouldn’t have won. I’m Alpha, I’m stronger than you think.”

“Yes, but an Alpha against magic, I would have beaten you easily.”

I direct her out of my room, closing the door behind me. “And what would you have done?”

We walked down the hallway to the stairs. “Well, I would probably have tried to keep you in the closet, but if you managed to break out, I would have done a binding spell on you so you couldn’t move. And if that didn’t work for some reason, I would have made you float, so you couldn’t escape.”

“What? No Voodoo doll?”

She laughed and shoved me away from her. “I’m not a Voodoo witch. That’s different. So, no. But I’m sure I could try it.”