The Alpha's Temptation

Chapter 131 I Remember…

The ethereal river of blue luminescence flowed from her body and wrapped him in its cool ripples. The two laid side by side in a tangle of arms and legs and gift and eather.

When he had started his mating with her, Tania had sucked in a sharp breath as thousands of images flashed across her mind that showed Eltanin in all his naked glory, making love to her in various ways. She knew that was what he had in mind. It was as if his soul was touching hers and coaxing her emotions out, forcing her gift out to meld with his. Her heart squeezed at the yearning she felt from him.

Last time when her gift had come out with him, he seemed to absorb all of it and she felt a slow drain of power from her. She had collapsed on the floor and had slept for a long time. But this time it was different. She had let out every part of her gift and she knew that he was absorbing it. And she wanted to give and give. Every time his body sizzled when a red tendril of eather left him, her essence would reach out and lap up that part of skin and soothe it.

Eltanin had spooned her from behind and his shaft was still wedged in between her thighs. He leaned into her and her head tipped back. His warm breath tickled her cheeks. He kissed her temple and her desire for him was an overture of the remaining night. He caressed her side with his long fingers as if cajoling her to sleep. She closed her eyes, feeling exhausted. The pain of his bite was throbbing. kKnowing what to do, he licked the skin of her neck over his bite. His saliva contained special properties that would heal her. Tania was surprised when the pain subdued considerably.

He continued to thrust in her lazily and had pulled her close to his chest, his arms coiled around her tightly, possessively. She had fallen asleep,  but he still came inside her, moaning her name against her skin.

When she woke up next, she found him staring at her with his head propped up on his arm. The fire in the hearth had reduced to embers and his body was splashed in the colors of burnt sienna and pale orange. Her gaze raked over his shoulders, chest, navel and then below. His erection was proudly jutting from his curls.

A smile crept on her lips as she lifted her droopy eyes and gazed at him. "How did you find me?" she asked. _​

He brought his hand up to a stray strand of her hair. Her hair was tousled up in that sexy way and he loved it. He worried the strand in between his fingers and said, "I was sure that Sirrah would come up with some weird antics. I wanted you to stay with me after you had fallen off to sleep on Wind, but she created a scene in front of all her soldiers that you were the princess of Pegasii, unwed and virgin. It would be terrible on her reputation if rumors spread that you have spent the night with me." He rolled his eyes. "Ironically, she had sent her daughter or rather groomed her daughter to have sex with me before marriage to entice me."

A pang of jealousy stabbed her heart. She flipped on her back and started looking at the ceiling. He shifted next to her and placed his legs over her thighs and his head on her breasts. Curling his arm around her, he continued, "I had to put you in her tent, but believe me I was unable to sleep at all that night, scared that she might kill you." A shudder passed through her body and feeling guilty about her emotions, she started stroking his hair. "It would have been better if she had attempted to kill you. At least I would have been able to catch her red-handed. But I wasn't prepared for the vicious plan she had in mind. In the morning when I woke up, I saw that you were already in the carriage and she wasn't letting me see you. That was a red flag for me. I opened my mind link with my soldiers and gave them a silent order to hunt for any oddities. Some of my spies reported that they saw a messenger going towards the Hydra kingdom."

"Can you reach your soldiers even at that distance?" she asked, bewildered.

He chuckled and settled on her plump left breast. "No, but my spies, who were near them, got the information and then it was relayed to me as fast as possible." He kissed her nipple and started playing with the nipple on the other breast. "My soldiers caught the man she had sent to the Nyxers and brought me the letter. We killed the messenger."

A gasp left her.

"It was necessary Tania," he said as if trying to make her understand the urgency. "Now I had possession of the evidence that she wanted to sell you. After that, I wanted to go after you, frenzied as all hell, but Rigel stopped me. He went after you with a unit of soldiers. He asked me to act innocent about your disappearance because he was sure that if Sirrah suspected that we had discovered  her plans, she would have been extra cautious and who knows if she would have sent more men of hers for you."

"I remember…" she whispered. "I was heavily drugged. They had tied me in a bag and carried me on a horse across Eslam Forest. When I woke up in the tavern, every part of my body was aching."

She had woken up with a start on the cold floor. Her limbs were tied at the back and she felt like puking. Her tongue felt swollen and her head swum. She saw herself in a dingy room that stank of dampness,sweat and dirt. She saw two soldiers from Pegasii who were sitting next to her. "Who are you—" she took a deep breath in. "—and why have you taken me here?" she asked, her voice hoarse. She wanted to pull her magic out and chant a spell, but the drug had affected her cognizance to such an extent that even her breathing was labored.

The soldiers hadn't spoken a word. One of them hissed at her when she tried to make feeble attempts to break free. He grabbed her hair and yanked her head back. "Don't make noises. We have been asked to deliver you to someone and that's all!"

However, it wasn't long that she heard some commotion somewhere outside. It sounded like the place was under attack. A few seconds later the door of the room opened and she saw Rigel come inside. He slayed the two guards before they had a chance to recover from the shock. He cut her ropes and hauled her onto his shoulder and rushed downstairs. There was a horse ready for her downstairs. It was then she realized that Rigel and his men had practically destroyed the little tavern that was on the side of a dirt road.