A few minutes later, his vocal cord was healed and he could speak again. "I don't know," was all Ralph's reply and it etched Darren so much. Seeing the Alpha's darkened face he quickly rephrased his words, "I can't, I want to but I can't."
Frowns could be seen on their faces after hearing what he said. What did he mean that he couldn't even when he wanted to? They could see that he was indeed trying to speak but no words were coming out of his mouth no matter how many times he opened and closed his mouth. The more he tried to speak, the more he looked in pain as if something was hurting him inwardly, and realized that he was not lying and was telling the truth all along. Something was stopping him from speaking and it did not take much thinking to know that spell casters were involved.
["We would need the help of Lucy and Lucinda for this."] Levi spoke into the heart of both Darren and Mateo.