Chapter 45- Whispers In The Wind

She would have liked a real date. Not a prison break so her words came out harsh putting her disappointment on display.
“Are we not getting along?” he asked her.
“Well, I suppose we are,” she gave him a small smile. Still, she couldn’t help feeling let down. She had looked forward to seeing him all morning since she received his message. To be asked to help him break someone out of prison and then say she was going on a date with him.
How naïve was she? She asked herself. Was she not pretty enough? Of course, she wasn’t she was plain. With her blond hair and slim build, the only striking feature she held was her vibrant green eyes.
She had thought their time in Athens together had brought them closer that they were friends. Only she had jumped to conclusions and thought he wanted to be more than friends.
But did she really want that. To fall for the man her mother had chosen. She glanced up from her food at Levi and gulped as her stomach erupted in butterflies. She was afraid she already had.
Did he feel the same? She asked herself, he looked up and caught her staring at him, he gave her a smile and she felt like her insides had melted.
She was in trouble.
***
Levi was a bundle of nerves as he dressed in a suit and headed to his father’s study. He gently knocked on the door and waited for his father’s rough voice.
“Come in,” he called.
Looking up from his laptop his father raised his eyebrows. It wasn’t every day that Levi wore a suite and when he did it was when his mother had begged him too.
“What is the meaning of this?” he asked Levi sceptically waving his hand at the suit he wore.
“I am taking Crystal on a date,” Seth clapped his hands and gave him a low whistle.
“Good, good my boy. Play the charming man I know you are, and we will soon be home where we belong,” Seth got up and walked around his desk. He patted Levi on the back.
“You my son will set things right,”
“After all fathers. I was the one that got us sent here,”
“Indeed son,”
Levi let out a deep breath as he left his father’s study. Athens was no longer his home, and he had no desire to go back there.
The world in which he lived now had more luxuries and was more comfortable than Athens would ever be. He may have been a prince in Athens, but the life he lived now was much better than the one he had before.
He would help Crystal close the vortex.
Levi droves slowly to Crystal’s home. He wasn’t sure how he was going to pull off getting Beth’s mother out of prison. If he was caught…. He couldn’t think of what would happen. He feared the outcome. He had to succeed without any problem.
Less than half hour later he arrived outside the large iron gates and rolled down his window. A voice came over the com and Levi requested for entry to pick up Crystal. The gates opened up in a snail’s pace which only added to his nerves. His foot shook on the clutch as he waited.
He had to take deep calming breaths before knocking on the door. He composed himself and straightened out his suit.
Within seconds Jeanette opened the door with a wide smile.
“Come in Levi. How wonderful it is to see you,” she said in an overly cheery voice which Levi could tell was fake. His first impression of Jeanette was that she was a woman that would scheme and manipulate to get what she wanted.
He was just a means to an end to her, just like his own father. Crystal and himself were nothing but pawns in their game. He should have felt resentment, anger or unwanted. Yet he didn’t feel anything. He had come to terms with the way in which his people worked a long time ago.
“Crystal!” She called sweetly up the stairs and Crystal began descending seconds later. She wore a black dress that clung to her body and Levi couldn’t take his eyes off her curves as she made her way down elegantly, like the high sociality young lady that she was. He could feel the corners of his lips twitch, until he couldn’t hold back the smile any longer.
The way Crystal acted her entire personality was that of a street kid. In reality she was the daughter of a leader, and she knew how to pull off the part.
She smiled as she reached the bottom and Levi placed a soft kiss upon her hand. He knew how to play the perfect gentleman well and when he saw the smirk on Jeanette’s face, he knew she would tell his father he was the perfect man.
“Ready?” he asked Crystal who looked at her mother.
“Have fun,” Jeanette said in her fake sweet voice. Her tone was different to his mothers. Mary held that tone all mothers had when talking to their children. Even when angry and giving them a good telling off, their motherly love shined through. Jeanette didn’t have that.
Once outside Crystal dug in the hedges and pulled out a rucksack. She tossed it into his jeep.
“What the…”
“Shhh, I can’t possibly wear this to a suicide mission,”
“It will be fine,” he reassured her, yet inside he didn’t think so. He was risking everything and was dragging Crystal down with him.
The prison where his father kept the members of his coven that had broken the rules was well guarded.
Anything and everything could go wrong.
***
Levi was nervous and he was making Crystal agitated. She shuffled in her seat and tapped her feet.
“Can you stop doing that?” Levi asked and Crystal sighed.
“Loosen up. If you hold that wheel any tighter it may shatter in your hands,” she leaned back and crossed her arms.
Why did she agree to do such a thing?
Because she was Crystal, and she didn’t need to go looking for trouble it always found her. Like an idiot she could never turn it down. Was it the thrill? The fear of being caught. Whatever the reason was trouble was a part of who she was.
They pulled up into a dark country road.
“Change,” Levi said and left the car.
What the hell was his problem? Here she was ready to help him out at a great cost and all she got was a one-word order. He had to be kidding her.
Crystal changed in the backseat of the car. She had packed black leggings and a black jumper with a woolly hat to hide her blond hair.
“Done,” she called out as she shuffled into the front seat of the car.
Levi returned wearing all black and a hooded jumper that concealed his face.
“We look like criminals,” Crystal huffed as he started the car and turned onto the road that led to Levi’s coven.
It was the first time that Crystal had entered the community of the moon coven and felt a jitter of excitement flutter in her stomach.
Much to her dismay it was just like that of the starlight coven.
She didn’t know what she was expecting but something posher and more outstanding. Instead, the houses were similar to that of her own coven. Small three-bedroom houses with single driveways that all sat neatly in a row. None had front yards.