Simon POV.
After our poker day, we spent most of the day playing Saint was really enjoying the game and she didn’t want to stop and neither did I, wanting to keep on playing, having fun teasing her, looking at her, and seeing her smile.
“I’m out, I can’t see numbers any longer,” AJ groans, getting off the table and going somewhere else.
“I’m hungry,” Lucas whined.
“What about you, Saint, you hungry?” I ask her, I haven’t fed her the whole day, she only had her coffee and some cookies from the table and that’s it.
“I’m okay,” Saint says with a shrug, was she not hungry for food? Or was she starved for too long and she stopped feeling any hunger?
“Lucas order pizza, we’ll be back, come on, Saint,” I say, holding her hand and dragging her off to the kitchen, getting one of the blood bags out of the freezer, it’s not the weirdest thing we keep in there, you never know when you’ll need a blood transfer or to feed a hungry vampire.
“Microwave it?” I ask her holding the bag and showing it to her.
“Yes, please,” she says her eyes glued to the bag as I’m draining it into a mug and placing it in the microwave, I heated it and handed it over to the princess, she started to drink it with her eyes closed enjoying every sip of it.
“They didn’t feed you?” I ask her, her eyes opened wide and looked at me with a look filled with so many emotions, I was unable to read her.
“Keep on drinking, it’ll help you feel better,” I say deciding to drop the whole topic, we’ll talk more later, maybe she’ll share what happened back at Elijah’s place, and why she ran away from me.
“I’m done, thank you,” she says finishing her mug, placing it in the sink washing the mug and putting it away, I made sure to keep the mug only for her.
“You want some pizza or go lay down?” I ask her, wanting her to heal as soon as possible, I need her to be presentable before we start going to the meetings.
“I’ll go lay down,” she answers me, her eyes starting to close on their own, the blood has done its work.
“Go to bed, you can wear one of my shirts,” I say, allowing her off, I’m trusting her, but not too much, there’s nothing in my room that she can use to run away, and all the doors are locked, along with cameras on them, she can’t get away not this time.
“She’s different,” Lucas says getting the pizza and sitting in the kitchen with me, we started to eat our food.
“I know,” I say taking another bite of the pizza.
“You want her, don’t you?” Lucas says and I glared at him.
“Shut up, don’t say anything like that in front of her,” I warn him.
“She’s asleep, Aj told me a bit about what happened,” Lucas says.
“And what happened?” I ask him, I’m curious about what happened to her, who broke her, and why she’s this different.
“After she got away from here, which by the way wasn’t her thought alone, Elijah wanted her back, if she didn’t walk out on her own he would have kidnapped her,” Lucas starts.
“And then?” I ask him, so Elijah is the one I should take my revenge on?
“They tortured her, they tortured both of them and then she came back like this,” Lucas says with a shrug.
“What are we supposed to do now?” I ask him, what does he think we should do? Attack Elijah but that won’t be smart, not after he became my partner.
“Let things play out on their own,” Lucas says with a shrug and I agree with him, we have to let this play out.
“I’m going to sleep, tomorrow, we’ll get back to our meetings,” I say with a sigh, tomorrow we’ll be back to our old life.
“You’re going to introduce her as your wife? But now it’s different, she’ll have a saying in what happens?” Lucas asks.
“She’ll have a saying, just like before, but we’ll both have to be careful what we tell Elijah and what kind of information get back to him,” I say, he won’t be my partner, not after what he did to her.
“You’re not going to let him get in easily?” Lucas says with a laugh.
“When pigs fly,” I say with a laugh heading toward our bedroom, I opened the door and walked in slowly, making sure not to make any sound, I want to check if she’s really asleep. She was in the middle of the bed, laying on her stomach, one hand under her head and the other one holding the cover, she also had one foot raised up, her mouth open with snores leaving her mouth.
She couldn’t be making this up, she was actually asleep, I walked into the room and went to the bathroom to wash up before bed, I took off all of my clothes leaving only my boxers on and got inside the bed, I laid one hand over her back, and she got closer to me, she looked to be in peace. Did she know I’m the one who’s holding her, is she happy that I’m here for her, or was she just happy that she’s away from Elijah.
I have made up my mind, I’m getting her back, I’m taking revenge on Elijah, and then, I will kill her for cheating on me, I thought to myself with a smile, I’m a sick psychopath, but I would never allow anyone to touch the people that I love.