Chapter 39

"I was in a dark room, a really cold place where there was no one who could come get me out of there. Alex had tricked me into coming by at his place," Logan stopped talking and heaved a long sigh as his eyes met with Ashley who had a sympathetic look as I narrated.



"Logan..." Ashley tried to stop him from speaking, realizing that his going further might be traumatic for him.



"No, I want to talk about this, baby," he said whilst placing his hands on her lap to stop her from speaking.



"He put me in that room and no one knew where I was. Alex told me I was going to be all alone in that cold room. I was tortured, he did horribly unspeakable things to me that even till now, I could not recover from." Logan soon noticed there was sorrow underneath his tone.



Ashley had also noticed and although she was curious to know what Alex had done to him in that room, she wanted him to stop but she needed to know what he has been hiding from her, even if it meant bringing back the trauma he had experienced from his maker...



"Are you sure you want to talk about this?" Ashley tried convincing him. "No one would have been able to recover from all he did to me..." He said Ashley took that as a 'yes' to her question.



"Don't try to imagine, but I became a lab rat, even worse," he continued. "I was in that dark room all I ever wanted was to do as he pleased, anything to get out of the room, not like I had much of options." A dry chuckle left his mouth, his eyes narrowed like he was trying hard not to see what he spoke.



"I was tied to poles with chains stronger than my werewolf strength. I was younger, I did not have much strength at the time. He tortured, trained, and drained me, Ashley," he called her name with many emotions; like he needed her to say something to calm him down.



Ashley held his hands, looking into his eyes. "I'm sorry you went through all that."



"No, you shouldn't be, Alex should, he just can't be," he said.



"I have a question, should I?" Ashley asked, a nod giving her the go-ahead.



"Do all hybrids go through this phase?"



"The creation of werewolf-vampire hybrids can be by birth between a werewolf and a vampire which is usually forbidden, or can be turned into one by a vampires blood, this method is more stressful, it's through an access point or a conduit allowing the blood of an original hybrid flow into the subject's body. This method was what Alex used on me."



"Wow."



"I died in this process." Logan dropped another bomb which threw Ashley off balance as she stood up immediately from the bed, holding her right palm to her chest, her mouth ajar.



"Come here, baby," Logan stretched his hands to her inviting her to his lap.



"So you mean I might not have met you?" Ashley asked.



"I was brought back to life, and you did meet me," he said his hand caressing her cheeks. "Or do you need a rundown of our first meeting?"



The car incident and subsequent meetings running through her head, she smiled, "Oh please!"



"You kept all these away from me," she said her eyes searching and connecting with every part of Logan's face but his eyes.



"Sorry, Mama." Each letter of 'mama' dripped sensually from his lips.



"No more secrets?" Ashley asked whilst looking into his eyes in adoration.



"No more secrets." Logan knew he just lied to her, again but he'd rather see her happy than live a sad life. He held her head in his palms before locking his lips with hers.



If only she knew...









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"Ashley!" Her alone time got cut short by the sound of her best friend, Jessica, yelling her name. She barely had time to exit her extravagant conceit before she burst into the room without a knock. "I've been calling you for the past five minutes," Jessica sighed, leaning against the door frame, "Were you daydreaming again or you were just turning out my voice?"



If she was being honest, seems like both. Just that, she did not intentionally tune out her voice. "Sorry, I wasn't trying to tune you out, Jess," Ashley said. "What's up?"



Jessica's piercing grey eyes narrowed but she seemed to accept the apology.

"Tyler told me Logan has been waiting for you in the suffix room, and that has been since he left you forty-five minutes ago," she told her.



"Right, I was trying to change my dress to that," Ashley pointed to the short blue floral-patterned gown on the bed.



"And you still haven't changed it?" Jessica's questioning eyes laid on her, doubt-filled."What have you been up to?" She asked.



"Just thinking about what Logan just told me," she said."Unzip me, let me change," she added quickly.



Ashley walks into the suffix room; there was nothing much to take in in the room, it was just a lone-looking room with a sofa and a table. Right on the sofa was Logan, his eyes distant and definitely, his head will was filled.

His eyes lit on sighting Ashley in the room. He stood up and met her by the door.



"I waited too long."



"Sorry," was all Ashley could say.



They both go down to the ritual hall which wasn't filled with many people; Many people have returned and left for their various houses.

Logan heard a faint sound of argument coming from a corner of the hall, it did not take a nanosecond to figure out that the parties of the argument were Tyler and Jessica.



"Tyler is taking too long," Logan said, his eyes still gazing toward their direction.



Ashley, who was unaware of the scenario between her best friend and Tyler, did not understand what Logan meant by his words.

Logan sensed her confusion and directed her attention toward their argument corner.



"Oh!" she said upon realization. "I will be here when they grow past this."

With a sudden swift turn; Ashley now directly facing Logan, asked, "Do you think they can grow past this?"



"This dress looks really beautiful on you," he ignored her question, closed the space between them, and put his hands on her hand. His hands left trails on her lap sending tingles all over her as he raised the short flower-patterned gown; his hands stopped the trails as soon as they came in contact with her panties.



Ashley wanted more, she did not want him to stop, definitely not like that. "It may seem as though you are a step closer to being a nympho, Ashley." She said to herself.



She looked at Logan with low sexy eyes which to him, was an ignition; he suddenly made a pave, his two fingers locating her folds causing her to whimper.

Ashley leaned on his shoulders and closed her eyes in pleasure, enjoying the feel of his fingers in her; his thumb and third finger curling and twisting her clit in circles.



She was gone until...



"Hey, Katherine." Her senses and eyes flung open when she heard Logan's voice.



Ashley adjusted herself quickly, she tried to turn to face Katherine who turned but Logan held her more tightly in his arms making her bury her head in his neck sniffing his masculine cologne.



"Karin, has been in a frenzy searching for you, I should have known you would be in her arms, brother," Katherine said, even Ashley whose back was to her could pick up the undertone in her voice.



When she realized Logan was not going to fall for her clickbait, she added "You should create time for your real family, brother, life does not revolve around one person."



"Katherine..." Logan started, his voice filled with anger but Ashley cut him short.



"Let me go look for, Karin," she released herself from his tight hold.



She maintained a long stare with Katherine before saying. "Good evening, Katherine." She did not even wait for her reply before strutting out of her presence.