Chapter 57- The Usurper
SIMON~
The car came to a halt and the engine died as I turned the key and removed it from its slot, I looked through the tinted windows of the car and just a few steps away was the entrance of what used to be a Silver hollow base, the moment I had entered this car I had stopped being John but the moment I stepped out of it I would have to be Simon. I let out an exhausted sigh and looked at the rearview mirror allowing my face to revert to its original form.
"Simon Reverend, the alpha," I said calmly, looking into my reflection as I held onto the handle and pushed open the door, I stepped out of the car and walked to the entrance but something felt off, The steps I took felt heavy, burdened by the weight of all the wolves who put their faith in me. The life I had chosen to live left no space for weakness or mistakes, I wasn’t just an alpha anymore, I was the Alpha.
I walked through the open door of my office and took a seat behind my desk, everything remained exactly how I had left it, every pen, note, and file untouched and unmoved. I opened the second drawer on the desk and picked out an old silver necklace, cheap, the paint had begun to wash away and it reeked off the metallic stench of iron, as I looked at the faded piece of jewelry I remembered her.
"Take this, and let it be a part of you." She had said as she locked the necklace around my neck, I could no longer remember her face, so many memories yet I couldn’t picture her, and what she looked like was lost on me, She was everything to me and now I only saw her in my dreams, fragments of what was and what used to be, my jaw tightened as I remembered the night I lost her, I gripped the necklace harder.
"I’m almost there, I’m almost there mot—" Before I could finish speaking Leo entered the office.
"You’re back." He said with faint excitement, I nodded as I kept the necklace back in its place and turned to him.
"I am."
"Good." He said with a smile as he walked to my desk and handed me two files.
"Is there a problem?"
"No, those are just the records of holdings that are now in our name," Leo answered with a bubbling smile.