Chapter 66: Simon

I parked the car in front of the house, turned and looked at her. Brushed my fingers across her cheek. “I will never let anything bad happen to you. I’m sorry it took so long to get to you.” I could feel the frown on my face deepen.

“Simon.” She breathed. “I was only teasing you. I would have gotten away just fine.” She held my hand against her face and gave me a small smile.

“You don’t know that. I’m already shaping up to be a shitty mate.”

“No really. I promise I would have gotten away. Do you want me to show you?” Her eyes stared at me hopefully.

“Sure. Why not?” I said dropping my hand from her cheek and looking at her. Before my eyes she vanished. I looked around, my stomach dropped. I looked in the backseat, but it was empty.

“Hi!” I heard her yell. But where was she?

I looked around outside the car. I spotted her down by the lake, about fifty feet away waving at me smiling. In the next second, she appeared back in the seat next to me. “What was that?”

She laughed. “Loosely translated, it’s called quick step. It was what I did in the cabin. Not a lot of witches can do that. So, I would have been able to get away. I just learned it, but the more I practice the further I can go.”

“You learned that on your own?”

“Yeah, that’s why the book is so important. It has everything I need to learn, that’s why studying is so important.”

“You need to practice as well. You can use the training grounds when you need space.” I pointed behind the house to an open area just barely visible. “And let me know where I can help.”

She gave me a half smile. “Thank you, Simon.”

When she said my name, it warmed my heart. I only wanted to hear my name on her lips. I smiled back at her. “Let’s get inside and get you unpacked.”

“Sounds good.” She turned but I grabbed her arm. She turned back to me with a question in her eyes. “What…” Was all she could say, because I connected our lips together stifling any other words she could say. I took her face in my hands and lingered there. I felt myself growing with the heat between us. I pulled away, before I got to the point of no return. I knew I had to take it slow with her. I didn’t want to put pressure on her. She wasn’t as experienced as I was. Even if she wouldn’t say it out loud, I could feel it.

“You shouldn’t look so serious all the time. You’re getting wrinkles.” She poked her finger between my eyes. “Like right here.” She laughed, then gave a light kiss to my lips. “Let’s get inside.” She bit her lip and slid from the vehicle.

Her biting her lip constantly was going to be my undoing. Every time she did it, I could only think of me biting her lip in between ravishing her mouth, sucking, and letting my tongue play with hers. These visions made my pants tighter, my dick was begging to break free and go into my mate. The only woman I would let into my bed for the rest of my life. I laid my head against the rest, willing my boner to go down.

Violet popped open the back hatch. “Is my big bad wolf going to help me, or not?”

I laughed. Hard on or no hard on, I had to go help her. “Coming, dear.” I got out and rounded the Jeep and grabbed the Target bags while she carried the duffle bag. Once we were clear she pulled the hatch closed and started to walk into the house.

Before we were able to get to the first step Greta burst from the house screaming. “Oh my god! This is the fucking best!” She ran to Violet and wrapped her in a hug. “I cannot believe you finally know! Now I don’t have to worry about spilling the beans. You know, I almost fucked that up so many times last night. I swear I thought Si was going to kill me.” She shrieked again.

“How do you know that I know? I just found out not an hour ago.”

“Well—I was watching your car from the window and saw you snogging!” On the last word she gave a terrible British accent. “Jared wouldn’t let me come out sooner, he said at least let them come inside. But I just couldn’t wait any more. You’re my Luna! I’m your Beta. This is going to be amazing.”

I looked behind Greta and saw Jared shrug his shoulders and mouthed ‘I’m sorry.’ I shook my head at him. He would never be able to rein in Greta no matter how much he tried.

“Are you going to let us in or are you just going to stand in the way and make your Luna carry that heavy bag.” I said to her with a snap in my voice.

Greta looked down at the duffle bag as if it was the first time, she noticed it. “Oh! I’m sorry. Let me get that for you, Luna.” She pulled the bag off of Violet’s shoulder.

“You don’t have to do that. I have it.” Violet made for the bag, but Greta was too quick and was already up the stairs before she could get it again. “And you of all people don’t need to call me Luna.”

“Nonsense.” Greta yelled already halfway up the stairs.

She looked over at me. “Isn’t it a little weird for your pack to call me Luna? I’m not a werewolf.”

I shook my head. “It doesn’t matter what species you are, if you are mated to the Alpha, you are the Luna.”

We climbed the steps into her new home. I would do everything in my power to make her feel welcome. If she wanted to redecorate, then we would. If she wanted to hang fucking pink ribbons all around the house, I would let her. This was no longer just my home. This was ours. I was no longer a bachelor. I watched her climb the stairs in front of me.

“Hey, Simon?” She looked over her shoulder as she climbed the stairs.

“Yes, my Luna.”

“If I’m going to be your Luna, do you think it would be a good idea to give me pack lessons? Or werewolf lessons? I don’t want to make an ass of myself.”

I could almost picture her biting her lip which made my dick throb. “If that’s something you would like, I can arrange that.”

“Ok.” She said as she made it to the hall where our room was. “And can you make sure Greta doesn’t teach me?”

Greta was her friend, and she didn’t want her help. “Why?”

She exhaled. “Because I can just see her telling me something completely wrong and I make a fool of myself in front of your pack. And then I would die of embarrassment.”

I let out a loud laugh. I could see Greta telling her something completely wrong just to mess with her. “First of all, it’s our pack. And second, she will not be heading your lessons. Ideally it will be me, but if I’m too busy with work I can get Jared to help.”

“Right, our pack.” She turned into the room that she occupied with me not three hours ago. Greta already had the duffle bag on the bed open.

“Do you know that you have a fuck ton of money in here?” Greta stared at the cash.

“Yeah. It was kind of a departing gift from a friend when I escaped.”

Greta whistled. “Some friend.” She continued to rifle through the bag. “There has to be like fifty thousand dollars in there.”

“It’s more like one hundred.” Violet responded, sitting next to the bag. “But all the cash in there, doesn’t compare to this.” She pulled out the book she had in her house.

“What is that?” Greta sat on the other side of the bag with handfuls of cash in her lap. I took the bags I was holding and put them into the closet. We can organize everything later.

“This is my spell book, specifically geared toward witches with familiars.” She opened it and the pages with writing I couldn’t read spilled before her.

“Why would an empty book be worth anything?” Greta said grabbing the book from Violet, she flipped through the pages.

Violet’s eyes darted to me. “You can’t see the writing?”

Greta turned a few pages, “No. It’s just empty pages.” She looked at Violet.

She was working through something in her head. I wished I could hear.

“What’s wrong?” I asked her.

She looked up at me with focused eyes. “I’m trying to work out on how you can read it and not Greta?”

I shrugged my shoulders. The only thing I could think of was because Remus was her familiar. “Could it be because Remus is your familiar?”

“That has to be it. That’s the only thing that could explain it.”

“Wait-- Remus is your familiar?” Greta chimed in and pointed to Violet.

“Yes. When I found out that Simon was my mate, I had an idea that it could be possible. It was really strange that my familiar didn’t show up after my turning. My friend Myrtle’s familiar showed up within a few hours after her turning and had been with her ever since. It’s said that if you have the familiar marking, once you have your turning the creature that shares your power is drawn to you within three days. I thought mine wasn’t going to show.” She looked at me. “It turned out that it was Remus, and this town was calling to me.”

“Good job Si for making her wait.” Greta barked at me.

Violet giggled. “It’s not his fault. But you should get something nice for Dot. She was the one that brought us together.” She pulled a finger to her chin in thought. “Perhaps a gift basket?”

Greta howled, laying down in the bed holding her sides from laughter.

“Should I anticipate more ribbing from you?” I sat down next to her putting my arm around her waist.

“How else am I going to keep you in place?” She turned her head toward me and smiled. I leaned down and kissed her. Just a brush of the lips before pulling away.

“Okay, okay. I get the hint. I’ll leave you two love birds to it.” Greta stood and walked to the door. “It’s really great that you are my Luna. I couldn’t be more excited for you, Simon, that you found your mate. See ya!” She walked out the door.