Horus shook his head and cleared his throat and shifted on his seat. "I-"

"Wait, what?" Levi asked, interrupting Horus, and the male scowled. He looked at me and then looked at Horus, shocked. "What is she talking about?" He looked at me again while he furrowed his brows. "What are you talking about? What do you mean by killing him?"

I didn't respond and folded my arms across my chest as if I was protecting myself from the world. I shrugged and pressed my lips into a thin line, not knowing what to say.

Horus frowned and shook his head, displeased with our reactions. "It was written that he would die that day," he said softly. "It wasn't written that you would be the one to kill him, but it was said that he was to die."

I didn't respond and set my jaw. My heart pounded hard in my throat, and it took all of my self-control not to lash out at him, even though I knew that it would be futile.

My heart ached and yearned for the male that I had been mated to before Levi, even though I knew that it wasn't possible for us to be together.

However, I yearned for the male beside me even more. I yearned for him like the air that I breathed, wanting him and taking him as well as claiming him as my own.

I wanted him in every shape and form and for him to bear my mark where it showed that he belonged to me.

But I couldn't have him bare my mark just yet, not while he was in control of another.

Horus cocked his head and studied me with his unseeing eyes. Pain filled them when I met his gaze, and we stared at each other, staying silent.

"Do you still want him?" Horus asked, breaking the silence that had fallen on us. His voice was solemn and grave while he looked at me, waiting for an answer that I only had. "Or do you want the male beside you?"

Levi grew tense and looked at me. He didn't say a word while his heart pounded hard in his chest while he waited for me to answer, praying that I would say him and not this man that neither of us knew.

I didn't reply, unfolded my arms from my chest, and placed my hands back onto the table, my hand barely touching Levi's. I kept my gaze on the older man, making sure that my heart pounded steadily in my chest and not to show my emotions.

Levi looked at my hands and then at me while he waited for me to answer Horus, but I didn't; I couldn't.

Hesitantly, he moved his hands closer to mine and brushed his fingers against them, leaving a shot of lightning that went from my hand and throughout my body, and my heart skipped a beat before it started to pound faster.

I took his hand in mine and brought his hand to my lips, leaving a single soft kiss on his hand.

He was the one that I chose. He will always be the one that I chose, no matter who the Moon Goddess set me up with in this lifetime or next.

Levi's whole body sagged with relief when I set that silent kiss on his hand. He understood that I chose him over my first mate and would choose him no matter at what cost in this lifetime or the next.

Horus also understood my silent answer and relief filled the old man's face because I chose him. He slowly nodded and cleared his throat. "Good," he praised the relief evident as if he had been slightly worried.

Again, he looked at only Levi and grew serious while he cleared his throat and sat straighter in his sleep. "And now, sleep."

Thud.

***

Levi stirred again when I pulled into my grandmother's driveway and groaned in pain and annoyance.

I glanced at him from the corner of my eye while I entered the garage and stayed silent while he sat up and looked around, moving a hand across his face.

"Le- Alexandra?" the male beside me asked when he was able to focus his gaze on something rather than nothing. "What happened? Where are we?"

I made sure to keep my jaw relaxed when I heard him use my real name, even though all I wanted to do was set it because it felt weird and unnatural for that name to come out of his mouth. "We're in a car," I replied coldly and turned off the engine, "in my grandmother's garage."

Levi groaned and laid his head on the headrest while he moved a hand across his face again. "Did you kidnap me?" he asked.

"Yes," I replied and closed the garage door while I nodded. "Why else would you be in a car waking up from being unconscious if you weren't?"

"Hmph," was Levi's reply. Again, he moved a hand across his face and sighed before he shook his head and cleared his throat. "Where'd we go?" he asked.

"What do you remember?" I asked, not answering his question. I glanced at the male from the corner of my eye and waited for his response before I said something about where we had gone and what had happened.

Levi wrinkled his nose and dipped his head closer to his chest. He didn't respond while he moved a hand through his hair and "tried" to remember what we had done and where we had gone.

After a while, he sighed and shook his head. "Nothing," he admitted and moved a hand through his hair. "All I remember is that we were supposed to meet someone, I passed out, and then I woke up here."

I slowly nodded and relaxed. "Good," I said, and he raised an eyebrow and looked at me.

"Good?" he asked, and I nodded in confirmation. "Why good?"

"Because you don't need to know what happened," I replied and glanced at him from the corner of my eye. "It's for your own protection."

Levi sighed and moved a hand through his hair while he shook his head. "I do not like not knowing what is going on," he said tiredly and moved a hand across his face before he sighed again. "I can't protect you if you don't tell me this shit."

"Or you can tell whoever is controlling you about it," I said, "and I could die sooner."

"And what about me protecting you?" Levi asked, looking at me.

I shook my head and pressed my lips together. "You can't," I replied and looked out the windshield with a hard look on my face. I grabbed the steering wheel and grew tense while I looked at the wall as if it had information that I needed. "You can't protect me, especially because you are under their control."

Levi slammed his hand on the dashboard and almost put a dent into my grandmother's car. He glared at me, and his eyes flashed a different color. "Stop using the fact that I am being controlled as an excuse," he snapped. "I know that I am being controlled. He knows that we are being controlled, so stop using it."

I blinked and blinked again, and I opened my mouth and looked at him shocked. "First off, don't hit my grandmother's car," I said when I could find my voice again. "If she finds a dent on the glovebox, then you are in deep shit. Controlled or not, you should be afraid of my grandmother."

Levi scoffed and folded his arms across his chest while he rolled his eyes. "And why should I be afraid of her?" he asked bitterly. "She is just an old lady that can't do shit."

The way he became hesitant at the end told me that she was more than "some old lady that can't do shit" in his eyes.

She was dangerous; even he knew that and knew that it'd be best to stay in her good graces.

"You have his memories," I said. "Use them. Remember, you two are becoming one and the same, as much as I hate it."

"Hmph," Levi said and moved a hand through his hair. He sighed and shook his head without saying another word.

"Second off, I am not using the fact that you are controlled as an excuse to withhold information from you." I raised my hand to keep him silent. "I am doing it to protect my pack, the king, and everyone else. There are many outcomes that can happen and should be prepared for in case something goes wrong. What I say, or what I don't say, affects that. All our actions have a reaction, sometimes dictated by "fate" or thrown into life as a fireball with different outcomes.

So yes, I am not going to tell you shit if I think that it is going to cost my pack member's lives for their safety and on top of that, my sanity, Alpha. As long as I know that they are alive and will be alive after all of this, then I will keep on doing what I am doing."

Levi looked at me with an open mouth. Sadness filled his eyes, and I had a feeling that what I had said hit him hard. "You know that there are going to be some deaths, right?" he asked softly.

I grimaced and looked away from him while my heart ached.

I knew that there were going to be deaths. I knew that I couldn't prevent all deaths from happening, but I'd be damned if everything was going to be lost for nothing.

"I know," I said, finally, with a soft sigh and a shake of my head, "but I can at least try to prevent them."