With their secret love affair now well and truly out in the open in Home And Away, Levi and Mackenzie are in a battle to save their relationship.
For weeks, Levi desperately juggled the women in his life but with the doctor’s divorce from Imogen (Georgia Blizzard) in place, is he harbouring regrets?
Levi’s friends are choosing sides in his divorce from Imogen, with his work colleagues even giving him the cold shoulder, while Mac (Emily Weir) heads back to work only to be met by the hostile Felicity (Jacqui Purvis), who’s making her feel like a home-wrecker.
Feeling more isolated now than ever, the pair feel as though it’s Summer Bay versus them, and are left staring at a pretty bleak future together.
But despite their predicament, they still have each other. Mac has never felt more sure about a man before, so when Levi sits her down after a particularly gruelling day at work and offers her an out, she’s floored.
Is Levi having second thoughts about leaving his marriage with Imogen? Is he bored now after the excitement of the affair has died down? Did he really love her all along?
These are questions that Mac has to grapple with by herself as the consequences of her actions finally begin to settle in and the strength of what she believed was the love of her life, is called into question.
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After news of their affair filters out, Levi knew it wouldn’t be long before his wife Imogen hears of it, so he had to do the right thing and tell her first. But it wasn’t easy.
“Levi is well aware he has been living in a fantasy land with Mac [Emily Weir] in Summer Bay,” Tristan Gorey, 28, who plays Levi, told TV WEEK. “But as all good things come to an end, Levi knows he has to deal with the consequences of his actions… the truth always comes out, sooner or later.”
Doctor Levi (Tristan Gorey) insists this is different – his marriage to Imogen was all but over long before he arrived in Summer Bay. And with Mac, he’s found someone he could fall in love with again.
But he knew what he’s done could push away Eden (Stephanie Panozzo) forever: how could her brother do the very thing their father did that wrecked their family when they were young?
Meeting Imogen, Levi soon finds she suspects something is wrong, but thinks it’s an old argument over whether they want to have kids.
No, he confessed – he’s been having an affair and their time together is at an end. It’s a painful moment that crushed them both, Tristan said.
“Though Levi has broken her heart, he has broken his own too, considering this is exactly how his own father shattered the family unit,” he said.
The only good to come out of it all is he’s free to explore his feelings for Mac and see if it is the love he’s always wanted.
“Levi holds Mac close now that the truth is out,” he said. “But only time will tell how true their love really is.”