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 momentarily forgetting those fiery canaries that were flying around Levy’s head like a solar system or maybe he was confident enough to think that she wouldn’t make a move against him just because he was hiding behind Logan.
Did he not know that she hated Logan just as much?
Her crush leading to infatuation and later heartbreak has long been extinguished, in place of it was nothing but hate. She wanted to move on and forget but the pain she went through was something that left a forever mark on her skin, not one to be seen but it was there and every time she looked at Logan that mark would twitch and scald like she has been burnt.
“It's your responsibility!” elder Hopkins nasally voice as he jumped up and down in indignation causing his pants to slide down only to be pulled back again. “ You are the reason why my daughter is like that, it's your black magic that has caused my daughter to become what she has today! Don’t you feel ashamed of yourself? First, you murdered my elder daughter and then you cursed my youngest one. What do you have against my family?——”
It happened before anyone could stop it, the fiery canaries that were flying over Levy’s head like a golden ring …paused before they all turned to face Elder Hopkins who stopped moving as soon as the fiery canaries did.
Logan frowned as he stepped forward. “ Don’t you dare, Levy.”
Too late.
The canaries shot at Elder Hopkins like fiery cannon balls with shrieks that could have woken up the devil. Elder Hopkins screeched in terror as he turned around to run but the canaries were faster and wilder before he could even take a few steps away from them, they reached him.
Making sure to peck at spots that would hurt the most.
“ Get them off! Get them off me, I said!” Elder Hopkins flailed his hands as he tried to get off the canaries that were pecking him. “ I said get them off me! I am the Elder of the pack how dare you to treat me with such disrespect?”
Levy shrugged as she casually rolled back her shoulders and watched the show without batting an eye. Seven years… she was sent to prison for seven years because of this man who blamed her for something that she has never done.
Getting him pecked by a bunch of fire canaries wasn’t even worth the agony that her toenail got when it banged into something. To think that he will have the audacity to blame her after he has made her suffer so much. “ The only reason that you are standing out here jumping and hopping is that you are the Elder of the pack if you were someone else I wouldn’t have bothered setting fiery canaries at you, I would have set you on fire.”
“ Levy Taylor Harlow! That’s enough!” Logan’s voice which was brimming with anger and laced with authority snapped at her like a crack of a whip. His icy blue eyes stared at her as if he was wishing to eat her alive. “ You might want to deny my authority as your Alpha but nothing can change the fact that I am indeed your Alpha. You cannot defy my orders unless I take my protection of you.”
His protection?
Levy downright sneered then and there but then her wolf felt a pressure that couldn’t be denied making her spine stiffen. She raised her eyes to look at Logan who was bearing down his Alpha vibes at her and snorted before snapping her fingers.
The fiery canaries exploded in a puff of heat and black ash, causing Elder Hopkins's face to turn black because of the smoky smudges.
“ Levy!”
“ What I did what you asked me right?” said Levy with an expression of picture-perfect innocence as she looked at Logan. He asked her to pull the canaries back and she did what he asked what was with him. Snapping at her like that.
Logan felt a temple throb in his head upon seeing Levy acting as if she hadn’t just attacked someone in front of him. He expected her to go even more timid than she was seven years ago but his expectations seemed to have been turned into smoke—— that girl who lowered her eyes when he looked at her was gone.
Now she was staring at him with a challenge in her eyes that caused his brows to furrow. Not because he was annoyed but for the first time in his life, his wolf that has always turned a blind eye to a woman raised his head and looked at Levy with a slightly interested glance. What the hell? What was his beast even doing?
This woman was the one who took Mavis away from them!
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
Levy was angry enough to laugh out loud, staring at Logan she threw the notebook back at him and of course, he caught it with ease. She arched one brow and pointed to her curls that haven’t been washed since last week and said, “ I am not making a move until I take shower, you want me to slave myself away for you, the second I step into the house? Not happening. Tell me where is the shower and we will talk after I am done washing myself up.” He didn’t say anything while she was speaking instead after he was done listening he pushed himself off the counter and strolled towards her, his pace easy and slow as if he wasn’t in a hurry at all. Once he came to a stop in front of her, he shot her a fake smile and calmly said, “ You aren’t here to have a nice day out, Harlow… I brought you here to work so get on in and if you can’t do that then——” he unsheathed his claws and placed them against her abdomen and added, “ We can make things work out differently, now will you get on with what you