Page 66 of Forbidden Wolf

“I’ll deal with that problem if it decides to reappear,” Levi replied smoothly.

“What is it you want?” Dean demanded.

The heat of Levi’s stare bored into the side of my head. “I already have what I want. However, that threat out there affects every single one of us. The only way we can defeat it is together. I am the alpha of my base and have been given permission to negotiate a truce for us to combat our common enemy.”

“That’s not in my power to do,” Dean finally replied, his hands clasped in front of him on the table.

The vampire beside him whispered in his ear and Dean quickly drank his whiskey, his eyes darting to Levi.

“Apparently, according to my legal representation, it is in my power to do as highest-ranking vampire present in the coven.”

Radar lifted the whiskey bottle and topped up all our glasses. “Then let’s get a treaty signed before all those wolves and vamps out there start baying for each other’s blood.”

Several hours later, documents had been drawn up. Levi and Dean stood over them, each signing them in their blood. Watching them, I couldn’t help but notice the difference between the two men. Levi was a good head taller than Dean, his shoulders significantly wider, but his presence was what set him apart. His alpha power radiated off him in waves, commanding the attention of everyone in the room.

Had he really come here for me? What if I hadn’t been here?

His wolf’s presence bumped against me as if he sensed my question and was reassuring me. There was nothing special about me, yet Levi always seemed to act like there was.

“Are we done?” Levi asked, folding his arms over his broad chest, biceps bunching.

Radar lifted the documents and scanned them, and then handed them to Dean’s second in command when he was finished. It was only in times like this that I realised how isolated I’d become. I didn’t know the names of vampires in my coven. In fact, I didn’t even recognise some of the vampires in my coven. They were merely strangers of the same species.

An odd sense of completeness had settled over me since Levi’s arrival. It felt as if he soothed my soul and eliminated the constant empty ache.

The light started to fade outside, and the darkness tugged at me to let me know that it was safe for vampires to emerge. Even Dean and the other high-ranking officers started to relax. After all, we were sealed in a castle with our enemy and no means of escape since it was daytime.

Dean ordered the other vampires to gather what remained of our troops for a conference to discuss the treaty. Levi instructed Radar to speak to their wolves that were still pacing the corridors.

A new world began to unfold around us, one in which we were no longer mortal enemies, but uneasy partners. The new threat were creatures that none of us knew anything about, including their origins.

Dean shot me an anxious look as he left the room. “The vampires are gathering in the banquet hall soon. I don’t know which side you belong on anymore.”

“There are no sides,” I replied. “To survive the hellspawn, we need to be united.”

“Tasha’s right,” Levi said. “We should address the wolves and vamps together as a united front. That way, our people will start to see us as one army.”

Dean studied Levi for several seconds, his hands bunched at his sides before his shoulders relaxed. He nodded once. “Fine, thirty minutes.”

All the tension melted from Levi’s body when Dean left.

“You okay?” he asked me in a low tone.

“Not really. When Castus views the CCTV, he’ll go mad and kill anyone I’ve ever known.” I sank into a chair and covered my face with my hands.

Levi crouched in front of me and gently removed my hands. He pressed the communication device at his ear.

“Radar, we have a situation. I need all the video footage in this castle wiped.” He fell silent and his eyes bored into mine. “Where is the control centre?”

“Castus has cameras in his room, or there is one just down the corridor from here,” I replied.

His strength was too much of a temptation and I rested my head on his shoulder and inhaled his spicy aroma. My fangs ached in my gums and the hunger that had been lacking for months reappeared.

“I told you I would find you,” Levi said into my ear, his lips skimming the shell in a delicate kiss.

“I’ve missed you.” It was a simple statement but exposed my vulnerability to him. Something he’d never shown me.

“I didn’t want to leave, Tasha, but if we were going to be safe then I needed to change the world we existed in. Our kind would always be enemies and that would remain the same ten years from now in Paris. We would have been killed for even talking to each other.”

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