Chapter Fifty Four

*Ariya*


I breathed a sigh of relief. Ivan might not be completely out of the woods but if he could accept that he was Justin and a part of him was that way then maybe his personality wouldn’t split. He would still be different when he had his memories vs when he didn’t. But it wouldn’t be forever that he would lose his memories. We had a while to go but it wasn’t going to be forever. We could make it through it. I had to keep faith that we would.
“Oh! I found out about the saran wrap!” I laughed.
“Did you now?” Ivan laughed with me.
“Yeah, so Caleb is worried about your hair.”
“My hair?” Ivan raised an eyebrow at me.
“Yeah, I don’t remember for sure, but I think you were the one that was holding Keo before I passed out. If that’s true then your hair was different. I don’t fully remember it yet but I think your hair was like your wolf’s. Black with white tips.”
Ivan’s eyebrows pushed together, “I think you’re right but I don’t really remember yet either. I haven’t had a memory where I saw my own reflection.”
I laughed, “That’s fair. You’ve always been in wolf form when I’ve seen you in my memories. Except for the one time with Keo but I didn’t get a clear look at you. I passed out shortly after.”
“I remember, I was trying to get you to wake up right after. I shifted so I could check to see if Keo was still alive. I was going to check Derek too but you came around the corner and passed out. It scared the hell out of me.”
“Well if your hair does have white tips that is different from what your hair looks like now. If you shift and your hair changes it could cause problems.”
“That still doesn’t explain saran wrap.”
I laughed, “Caleb was worried you wouldn’t have your memory still and they would have to stalk you. If your hair changed color his idea was to kidnap you and saran wrap you to a chair so they could dye your hair.”
Ivan laughed so hard that tears fell down his face, “Is that even possible? Can you really saran wrap someone to a chair? I mean if my hair changed wouldn’t that mean I would be able to shift? How did they expect me to stay in the chair for them to saran wrap me enough to hold me down?”
I laughed with Ivan, “No idea. We should try it one day if we have time.”
“Maybe we can saran wrap Boss to a chair.”
“Keo asked why not use duct tape and apparently it was because Caleb was worried about causing problems by getting dye on your skin and clothes. Caleb’s not wrong though. What if your hair changes? If it does, that could cause a lot of problems if we don’t have a plan for it.”
“You’re not wrong on that. I’m not sure what we could do. We could always try the dye but if it doesn’t come out right then we’re in the same problem. At least Caleb won’t have to get too much saran wrap now. But he’s right on using it to prevent the dye from getting on my skin and clothes.”
“I talked to them earlier. There’s a lot of obstacles that we have that are going to come up. Ones that Caleb and I didn’t plan for because we didn’t know what we were missing. We need to figure out what to do and fast. These problems could become very real very soon.”
“I know, Ari. Don’t stress about it. We will figure it out.” Ivan reassured me.
“What should we do about your hair?” I asked.
“We could try dye. I don’t know if we can make it to where they get a bit of my hair. If they do, they can see about trying the dye and see if it matches color wise.”
“The other thing Drake mentioned is that when your wolf was repressed that was when your hair changed color. You didn’t remember being a wolf. What if he does it again. You can remember everything else but your wolf side?”
“No. Absolutely not. If I don’t remember I’m a wolf then I’m not going to be able to feed you if you need it. I also won’t be able to prove that it’s me when we’re just talking. That’s going to cause more problems.”
“But Boss gives me some blood to make sure I don’t go crazy. We could find a different way to have you prove it’s you.”
Ivan shifted uncomfortably, “I don’t like it. It’s too risky.”
“True, but so was Plan B. That’s what’s going on now. We transitioned to Plan B and that’s why I’m caught right now.”
Ivan growled, “That should have never been an option.”
“It was the only way to find out information and get you back. Besides, I’ve learned a lot so far. It also buys us time for me to get in control of myself and get my memories back.”
“Ari, you’ve lost control maybe one time so far. When you were trying to get away. Outside of that, you’ve been in control the entire time.”
“That’s not true. I lost control right after I turned.”
“Really, Ari? You just turned. You’re not supposed to have control at that point.”
“Then when you were Justin and you fixed my broken bones.”
“You were in pain, even if you were out there that type of thing would have happened. But you didn’t fully lose control. You regained control pretty quickly.”
“Because of you. Because I scared you.” I whispered.
Ivan growled, “You scared me as Justin. But I’m not scared of you, Ari.”
“It happened again when you mentioned me being hungry and again when we kissed.”
“That was my fault for the first one. You haven’t in a bit though and it’s time to. But when we kissed…” Ivan blushed, “That umm…that’s going to happen from time to time.”
“What?”
Ivan got even redder, “It’s a good thing, Ari. It just means you like me…a lot…”
“You’re going to explain it to me one day, right?”
“Before we bond, I promise to explain it to you.”
“You better. Going back to your hair though, Drake said your hair might not change because when you are around others you won’t remember being a wolf. But when you’re around only me or them then you will remember.”
Ivan’s eyes lit up, “Drake might be onto something. I have an idea of how we can test it. But they’re going to have to kidnap a couple people.”