Levy pushed herself off Logan’s face and then turned around to leave, she was in no mood to care about anything that Logan has to say to her, he was seven years too late and from the looks of it..he wasn’t even here to apologise to her. Her wolf whined in a low voice, telling her to give Logan another chance but she didn’t, instead, she walked away without looking back, not once did she look at Logan who was left behind, and maybe she wouldn’t have ever if he didn’t stop her. Again.
“ Levy Harlow, you can say whatever you want but you are still alive aren’t you? And I hate to repeat this but I have never renounced my claim on you nor have I permitted to leave the pack, if you leave now then you will be branded as a traitor along with being a murderer is that what you want?”Logan called out pausing Levy mid-track as she turned her head and cursed him inwardly in her head for not letting her go even after torturing her for so long.
She knew she couldn’t leave, no matter what —- not when he was threatening her that he will brand her as a traitor.
A traitor—— was a shifter who was banished from the pack for a crime that was simply unforgivable, if they were to leave the pack then they will never be able to reclaim their life in another pack. Even loners would think twice before letting a traitor in their group and even if they do, they will always be suspicious of the one wolf with the brand of a traitor. If Levy left now then she would have to give up all her plans of restarting her life from the scratch, she would not be accepted by any pack and no one will claim her as their mate either.
And if there was anything that Levy was afraid of after spending seven years in prison it was loneliness.
It seemed to bite her every time she was left alone—- the silence was never ending and honestly, she was tired of it after being locked up for seven years in a block of bricks.
“ What do you want?” Knowing that she would not be able to leave here without Logan making things difficult for her, Levy asked as she finally turned around and faced Logan before crossing her hands in front of her chest. “ If there is something that you want then spit it out.”
She watched as Logan’s eyes narrowed with annoyance brimming in those electric blue eyes, if this happened seven years ago, she would have definitely tried to please her but not now, she stayed where she was and glared at Logan right back as she quirked a brow up. “ So? What is it, that brought you here?”
“Lily.” was all Logan said
Lily? She frowned and looked at Logan. “ What about her?”
“ She has been cursed,” He finally gave a little detail about why he was here looking for her, so it was the sister of his beloved that was cursed.
“ And what does that have to do with me?”
“ Levy—-”
“ It has everything to do with you,” before Logan could say anything, Elder Hopkins exploded as he waddled forward dressed in his black robe with golden embroidery—- the uniform of an Elder. His portly belly juggled as he rushed out from Logan’s behind because he was so small and seemed to have been hiding behind Logan and Jake for a great deal of time, she didn’t take notice of him before. “ If you hadn’t cursed my daughter with god knows what awful mumbo jumbo of yours then we wouldn’t be here! Its you who caused her to be like this and you will put her right this instant, or I will make you—-”
The rest of his words drowned in his throat when Levy flicked her fingers and several fiery canaries started to circle her head. “ You were saying, Elder Hopkins?” She asked innocently like there weren’t birds made of fire revolving around her all prepared to attack on just one order from her.
“ Levy you will stop that right now,” ordered Logan but not only did Levy not listen to him, she even doubled the number of the burning canaries. “ Levy! As your alpha, I command you to stop this moment!”
Only then did she turn to look at him with a mocking smile. “ Maybe you need to get yourself a hearing aide, Alpha… I just told you, I do not take command from you … I am not the same Levy, who used to kneel at your feet upon seeing your slightest frown, so you better give up the idea of controlling me. Now instead of trying to get my reins under control, why not tell me why you are here with that thing?” She added as she pointed to Elder Hopkins.
Logan growled, he wanted to kill Levy this very instant but at the same time he couldn’t bring himself to do so… if he hurt her now then she will never break the curse that has been cast on Lily and then with what face will he ever show up in front of Mavis?
Thus, he calmed down and tried his best to ignore the flaming canaries that she has summoned around her head and said, “It's Lily—- she has been sleeping for the last seven years, we have tried everything to wake her up but we couldn’t do so, that's why I need you to break that curse and wake her up.” This was his biggest regret, it has been seven years, and yet he couldn’t find a single witch or mage who was strong enough to break the curse that has been cast on Lily.
That little girl.. she was Mavis's beloved sister and if he couldn’t even wake her up then with what rights can he say that he loved Mavis?
When everything was going wrong it was Elder Abbot who suggested that maybe they needed to bring Levy back since she was a much stronger witch. So, the only reason he was here was to take Levy back was Lily —- not him, nor his wolf.
Wow! That was the only thing that came to Levy’s mind after she was done listening to Logan. Her wolf let out a rumbling snarl at his audacity for asking help after what he has done to them, but Levy was certain that most of her wolf’s anger was due to him mentioning another woman. “ And what makes you think that I will just do as you are asking me to do?” she said ignoring the way her gut twisted when he looked at her. Those grey metallic eyes pierced right through her and Levy almost felt her knees give up before she drew in a breath and calmed herself down. No, she cannot afford to make the same mistake as she did before by trying to get closer to him, not when she knew that the guy only cared about Mavis, so it was better to draw a line before she messes up the situation because of the pull of the mating bond. Narrowing her eyes, she tilted her head. “ I mean what does this deal have for me?” “ What do you mean by deal?” Before Logan could reply, Elder Hopkins jumped up again
Logan shifted his attention by taking a calming breath most probably he was feeling like that because of the mating bond, or maybe it was his wolf that was feeling a bit intrigued by the woman who defied him for the first time in his life. There was no interest, not like the one he had for Mavis especially not for a woman who took her away from him, his eyes cooled down and he raised his head to look at Levy, their eyes clashing causing the air between them to crackle. “I will not repeat what I have said, its an order for you to treat Lily and put her right,” he said looking away from those cobalt blues, that were so dark they almost looked black, ignoring the way her corkscrew curls fluttered in the air like blazing flames. “ This is not a two-way option for you.” If he thought that he can just put her in her place by smacking her with ‘grrr, I am your Alpha..grrr you will have to listen to me,’ then he was hella wrong because that’s not how things were going to work. Jutting out h
“ So, do we have a deal?” Turning her attention away from Elder Hopkins as she shot a questioning glance at Logan, she wasn’t going to get anywhere near his car without getting the confirmation that she needed. Logan stared at her long enough to make the hair on the back of her neck stand and when she was sure he was going to refuse her, he watched her nod his head. “ We do, if you can break Lily’s curse, I will set you free.” “ You swear?” said Levy as she crossed her arms in front. “ I do not trust your word, don’t blame me for that but I do know just how sweet you were to Mavis, I don’t trust you. What if I wake Lily up by breaking her curse and you come ambling down at me saying that I haven’t suffered enough? I cannot risk that, I was a fool once but I won’t repeat the same mistake twice.” “ You dare——” started Elder Hopkins but Levy didn’t give a chance to aggravate her even further than she already was, this was supposed to be her long-awaited freedom and now she was once ag
“ What in the blazes you are doing?” she cursed pulling down the jacket that was thrown at top of her head out of nowhere. “ What in the hell does this means?” “Not as sweet as you were seven years ago, eh?” He commented before turning around to look at her, his huge build towering over her. “ I do remember that you didn’t like using curse words the last time I saw you.” “Why don’t I kick you where your sun shines and show you how sweet I am? Don’t worry I won’t kick you hard enough to break your nuts.” She smiled at him sweetly before throwing his jacket back at him, wasn’t as sweet as she was? Maybe if he hadn’t thrown her in a shit hole for seven years, she would still be the same. Naive, sweet and so in love with him. Levy brushed past him but Logan stopped her, as he threw his jacket back at her. “ Put that on, I do not wish to smell the grimy scent of your body while sitting in the same space as you.” “Yeah because you smell like a god damn bath bomb do you?” She snapped b
“What do you mean by I can’t go home? Where else do you want me to go?” Levy couldn’t believe him, he was stopping her from going back to her home, so where did he want her to go? Was he expecting her to live on the territory like a rogue? Knowing him, there was a good possibility that he might as well ask her to live on the territory under the shelter of the trees. Eyes narrowed she immediately pulled the hood of the jacket from his hand. “ I am not going to live in a tent if that’s what you have prepared for me.” Logan arched a brow and then smiled at her ‘not the genuine’ kind but instead, he smiled at her like he was seriously considering the idea of letting her live in a tent on the pack’s grounds. “ It’s not a bad suggestion but fortunately for you, I can’t let you live in a tent.” “ Then where will I live if not my house?” She asked looking at him in incredulity. “ With me.” After he spat those two words, Levy waited for him to say ‘hah, did you think that I will let you l
Logan ignored the low whine of his wolf along with the smallest of the hurt that flashed in his heart. There was no way he was going to feel sorry for this woman, the murderer of his beloved Mavis—— she might say anything she wanted in her defence, deny that she was the one who killed Mavis but to him, she was indeed Mavis’s murderer. It mattered not whether she killed Mavis with her own hands or someone else did. He lost Mavis because Levy wasn’t careful enough, the woman he kept in the palm of his hands was taken away from him all because Levy didn’t protect her well enough and he will never forgive her for that!As soon as he thought about the grievances that he has suffered after Mavis’s death, the slightest bit of pity that rose in his heart vanished until it returned to its usual frozen state. After all, his heart died the day Mavis was taken away from him. Now, the only reason he was alive was Lily. He needed to take care of that little girl and get her to wake up, only then
“ She is really back?” “ I thought they were joking when they said that they were going to bring her back.” “ How can he bring that thing back?” Contemptuous gazes, jeering words filled with ridicule—— Even though seven years have passed, Levy felt like she was dragged back to her past once again. Just like the last time, everyone was looking at her as if she was a criminal despite having no evidence in hands but this time those gazes didn’t hurt as much as they once did before this time she had no expectations from these people surrounding her and acting as if they were at the crime scene to witness what she did to Mavis. “ What is she doing here?” A high-pitched shriek echoed somewhere and then someone rushed towards Levy with a pace that could only be defined as wanting to trample on someone until they were nothing but a bloody pulp. “ Why is she here?” Levy raised her head and looked at the petite girl in front of her, with black as the midnight sky and eyes that were a vibr
“ That’s enough,” Logan caught her arm and pulled her back, his touch harsh and uncalled. Levy ignored the way her stomach fumbled and snatched her arm out of his grip and snarled, “ Don’t you ever touch me got it?” “ I have no intention of touching you either,” sneered Logan wiping his hands on his pants. “ I just wanted to let you know that you cannot talk to your alpha’s sister like that, the next time you are disrespectful as you were right now, I will have you locked in the dungeons where we keep the criminals.” He turned to look at Levy until she was looking at his front profile and raised a finger. “ For a week that is.” Levy’s wolf curled up her upper lips wanting to have a go at this ridiculous male in front of them. Did he seriously think that he can just go up and about while ordering them? If they were not in the predicament, she would have snapped his spine off his back and had him choke on it until he gagged. Levy, on the other hand, was much more inclined to rip his