Page 66 of Sweetheart

The low growl of Levi’s voice was so fucking sexy. Especially when he was threatening Mason’s father.

Mason pressed against Levi’s shoulder. “We’ll find it one way or another. I’m giving you the chance to do something right for the first time in your life. Give us the book.”

His father snorted. “No.”

“Why not?” Mason asked. “It’s not going to do you any good where you're going.”

His father turned his head away.

Levi growled. “You came into my territory and threatened my mate. You caused harm to my family. Tell us what we want to know or what the hounds do to you won’t even compare to what I do.” He flicked out his hand, showing off his claws.

“Mates,” his father spat. “I know that’s a lie. It’s a trick you monsters play on unsuspecting humans.”

Now they were getting somewhere.

“We are mates,” Mason said. “It’s not a lie.”

His father just shook his head.

“We’ll find the book whether you help us or not,” Mason said.

Mason nearly cringed when his father turned those familiar hate-filled dark eyes on him. He didn’t. Mason stood straight and met that gaze. “You shouldn’t have come after me.”

“We weren’t even looking for you!” his father sneered. “It was just our bad luck that one of the guys spotted you in town.”

That shocked him. “What were you doing here?”

His father didn’t answer.

Levi struck out with his claws, cutting his father’s face.

His father yelled and threw himself back, but Levi was quicker and grabbed the front of his shirt. Levi shook Mason’s father hard. “I’m not even trying to hurt you yet. I will though. What were you doing in town?”

There was finally real fear in his father’s face.

Levi picked his father up and threw him against the wall. Hard. Mason’s father’s head cracked.

“Stop!” his father wailed.

“What were you doing here?” Levi demanded.

“A favor!” his father shouted. “Paying back a favor!”

“What. Were. You. Doing. Here.” Levi flashed his fangs.

“Looking for a mage that ran from his coven. They tracked his magic and knew he was around here somewhere. I didn’t even know my son was around. It’s not like I bothered to look for him. Not after he betrayed everything he was taught and sided with you monsters.”

It shouldn’t hurt. To hear that his father hadn’t cared that Mason and his brother had left. They’d always been more of a burden and their father never let them forget that fact.

“A mage?” Levi asked.

“Yes,” his father hissed. “We owed the coven a favor. The favor was to return this guy to them.”

“Why?” Axel questioned as he stepped forward.

“I didn’t ask. I don’t care. We had to do it because—”

“Because?” Axel demanded.

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