Simon POV.
“No… no… let me go… noooo,” I heard her scream, my eyes opened right away, I got a gun that was tapped to the underside of my bed, I held it up, ready to shoot anyone who’d dare to hurt her.
I didn’t see anyone in the room, it was just the two of us and she was shaking with fear, it took me a second to understand what happened, no one was inside our room, but the damage was done to her mentally, she was having a nightmare.
“It’s just a bad dream,” I assure her, putting the gun away, she looked at me with fear filling her eyes, she can’t show anyone that she’s scared, but she can tell me, she can show me her fear and I’ll be here for her.
I placed a hand around her and pulled her toward me, her whole body was shaking with fear, I petted her back, trying to calm her down, she took a minute before she stopped shaking.
“Thank you,” she says with a sigh.
“What were you dreaming of?” I ask her, still petting her back, she only shook her head off, not telling me what’s wrong.
“I need a shower,” she says not making any move to get out of my arms or the bed, we kept on cuddling for a while, I didn’t want to let her go, I was happy to have her here in my arms.
“Come on, let’s go shower,” I say she’s sweaty, and since she slept in my arms I’m sweaty as well.
“Fine,” she says getting out of bed with me, we went to the bathroom and I didn’t mind washing her, she’s still my wife.
“You’re not going to fight me washing you?” I ask, I didn’t expect her to be so agreeable, maybe it’s the nightmare effect.
“I don’t want to be alone,” she says with a sigh, her voice filled with pain, suddenly killing Elijah sounds better than ever, I want to drink from his blood for causing all of this.
“Come on,” I say taking my shirt off her body, seeing her whole body, she went red, she’s still a shy little thing, even after she worked as a stripper, she’s still shy, a shy stripper.
I turned the water on letting it heat up, I took my boxers off and her face went red, it wasn’t a thing she could act up, and if she did she was really good at it. She avoided looking anywhere near my crotch as we both stood up to take a shower, I scrubbed her hair clean and she kept both arms down, I held them up, placing them around my shoulder giving her permission to clean me up and not stand there like a scared cat.
“All clean, come on,” I say wrapping a towel around my waist, as she did the same placing it around her chest, I watched her body, the bruises are mostly gone, and she was ready to meet the rest of the leaders.
“You want your clothes,” I say with an evil smile, I know she’s been through a lot, but this is the price of leaving my home, if she was kidnapped, I would have turned heaven and hell to bring her back, but she walked out on her own.
“Yes, what’s the price? I thought the shower was good enough,” she says with a shrug, she’s feeling better now, the shower helped her.
“A kiss,” I say, although the shower was good, I wanted a bit more, some more of her, and that includes a kiss.
“Okay,” she says walking toward me, landing a kiss on my cheek, but it wasn’t near enough, I placed my arms around her and crushed my mouth with hers, my tongue invading her mouth, kissing her, dominating the kiss, making our tongues dance together. When I let her go, her face was turned into a goofy face, she was completely turned on, which made me smile even more, finally, I got to her.
“Go get dressed,” I say, she only nodded staying quiet as she went to get dressed, she picked a suit that matches mine, added heels and brushed her hair, added some light make-up, and soon she was ready to get going.
“How do I look?” she asks.
“Good, come on, you’re eating some food,” I say in an order, she’s not going to live on coffee and rage, not today we have a long day ahead of us.
Lucas and AJ had breakfast ready as we got down to the kitchen, along with coffee, I fixed both of us a mug and a plate.
“How come she gets the princess treatment?” Lucas whines.
“Marry me and you’ll get the same,” I answer him.
“Are you offering?” Lucas answers me, if I offered, he’d be mine, I love him but not in that way.
“Hey!” Saint says making me laugh, she’s a possessive little vampire.
“I’m hers, sorry,” I say with a chuckle, she’s only been back for a day and she made my whole mood better. After breakfast, we got into two cars, Saint with me, while Lucas kept AJ along with him, although I like doing business in my club, I can’t always do that, instead, we had to go to a restaurant that’s not owned by me.
We were led right to the back, we had a seat and sat down with one of the leaders, we do everything, we’re bad people, and we’re always talking about business, last time Saint was over we were having a big deal of drugs, and our current one happens to be guns.
“The wife is back?” the guy says with a smile, he never met her before, but there were words about her.
“I never left,” Saint assures him, not many people knew she walked out on their boss.
“It’s not what I heard,” he answer her.
“Then you heard wrong,” Saint says her voice void of emotions, giving him her best poker face, I taught her well.