Chapter 86
Artemis pov
It's been a long three days since I have been locked in here. Over time I have grown close to Michelle. I have to admit she is probably my first and only friend right now. She's sweet and seems to have a good head on her. I have had bouts of feeling sad and lonely even with her here. On the plus side I have been feeling my wolf more and the stronger she gets the more the burn slowly fades away.
I have jolted away with a stabbing pain in my right wrist my left arm glowing where the burn is. As soon as it starts it went away. Looking over my wrist I see nothing so I shrugged it off as more of this magic the witch said I had coming back to me. So I lay back down on my side of the bed. The stupid witch has yet to come back so we are sharing the bed cause I can't make her sleep on the ground and no way is I. to make it easier on myself after my nap a few days ago we stripped the bed and washed the bedding in the huge tub. Thoughts of the alpha with someone else in here had me growling. Michelle had set me straight “you know I don’t think this bathroom is really here. As it only smells of you and me nothing of the alpha or anyone else.” now that my wolf is getting stronger I can smell more than a human again not at full wolf strength but better. I can tell she's telling me the truth.
Seeing Michelle is still asleep I quietly got up and felt the need to be at the window. Staring out the window for so long the sun is starting to rise. And that's when I see Philip shirtless walking this way. His hips swaying shorts just barely hanging on. My eyes follow the deep v coming from below the waist of his shorts up his well-defined heavily tattooed chest. My core getting wet just looking at him. How could I have run from him? The light hits shine off something and catch my eye. Since when does he wear jewelry that I had ever noticed. And I will only admit to myself I have peeked out this window a couple of times in hopes of catching sight of him. After Michelle told me about his mother I can understand his reaction to me. Between Michelle Tyler and that witch, I can't remember his name they have painted Philip as a wolf I would be lucky to mate with him. I just as long as I haven't really screwed things up.
I wish this window also brought sound with it I have been wanting to hear him talk again maybe without the anger I caused him. I have seen him interact with several wolves in this pack through this window. Every wolf I have seen seems genuinely happy to see Philip and enjoys his company and attention. The wolves I have seen have been nothing but smiles well except when I saw that huge bull run in front of the house and several dogs wolves and men chasing it down. From the looks, I can tell they were not yelling anything nice. About an hour later I saw that same group walking slowly back the big guy now on a leash. Is that what you call it? Oh, I don’t know if it works.
Sighing out I head to the bathroom to shower. Looking around the shower I wanted to kick myself for when I got upset thinking that Philip had been with someone in here there is not one bit of male bath stuff anywhere. No male bathroom looks like this I had seen Apollo's once or too many times. Shivering in disgust. Pulling on one of Philips's shirts after my shower I slip a huge pair of sweats on rolling the waist and legs to fit me better. Pulling the string so tight I feared I might break it. Finding thick wool socks in his drawers I do a small happy dance as I have a cold toe issue always. I dropped to the ground pulling the socks on when I hear the creak of a door. Spinning I see a smallish red-haired girl pushing the cart of food in. When she sees me she yelps out in fright.” sorry sorry I didn’t mean to frighten you princess.” smiling at her silliness “frighten me I think it's the other way around. And please I’m not a princess I’m just Artemis now. Hey so if you can come in then I could go out right.” jumping up in excitement my happiness falls when I see her face “ no sorry usually Ambrose pops the cart in but he's busy and asked us just to bring it in. I thought you were asleep I didn’t hear any noises.” waving it off I have grown used to being in here and with Michelle having to be here cause of a curse on her mate I couldn’t leave her alone. Shrugging I take a seat at the small table. “not gonna fight me on it?” she slowly asks looking over her shoulder. “nope no point right if I did get out and that's a big if looking at your warrior women. But okay magically I get past you then what I have no clue where I am. But I manage to get some where what are the chances that I make it more than a minute before your witch or the alpha finds me bringing me right back.” placing my chin in my hand of the arm that's resting on the table. “so what's your name?” looking over me for a moment she tells me her name is Jillian. Inviting her to sit and eat with us she again looks over her shoulder. “oh do you have to be somewhere?” I ask “no but well my brother is kinda sitting out there alone and we are told not to leave the door open the alpha isn't supposed to see it.”
