The Definition of Strength

Havermouth, Present time

The man had been wearing a cuff.

Meguitte sat staring at the notepad on her lap without seeing the list of spell components that she had been compiling. Think, Meguitte, she told herself firmly. Think about this carefully. Could it have been the second cuff? She closed her eyes. She would be lying to herself if she believed that, she admitted.

She understood, now, why Logan had insisted on a second cuff for a sister who had died long before they had met. He had kept one cuff for himself, to control the lycan within him, and had given Lark, Dove, and Robin the other cuff, along with the footage from the camera button which Lark had told her Logan had been wearing, and Logan’s trio of witches had managed to reproduce Meguitte’s spell.

He had watched Meguitte cast it, and like a fool she had even glibly listed the ingredients for him as she had done it.

Her heart ached at the betrayal so much that the pain eclipsed the important fact of why. Why had Logan done th