The Alpha's Temptation

Chapter 254 What Are Your Plans

Eltanin shifted into his human form just before he touched the surface of water. He dove deep to the surface and emerged up with powerful strokes. Water sluiced down his body as he shook his hair out in that wolfy way. He swam to the shore and got out of it, naked. Ileus came out as well, naked.

"Where is Tania?" Eltanin growled, his fists clenched tight. All his thoughts seemed to come to coherence but his protective instinct for his mate had flared up.

Ileus removed water from his face, his chest heaving up and down. "She is with Ana," he replied, narrowing his eyes, assessing Eltanin whether he wanted to attack him or not.

"And where is Anastasia?" Eltanin bared his fangs, peeling his lips back. He was growing restless. "Tania is not in her right mood. She needs me!" He took a step closer to Ileus as if about to get into a fight if necessary to retrieve his mate.

Ileus continued to stand on his ground as Eltanin walked up to him. They were merely an arm's length away from each other. "We all know that she is not in her right mood. She wants to be claimed. But understand that it is not she who is pushing her. It is her magic."

"You think I don't know that?" he said and gave a push to Ileus on his shoulders. "I need her. Now!"

A low growl emanated from Ileus's chest. "Don't you dare do that Eltanin!" he warned him as his golden eyes glowed. "Else--"

"Else what?" Eltanin snarled. A muscle in his jaw feathered as anger blasted in his chest.

"Else he will convert you into a bloody frog!" A female voice from the side made him snap his head.

Anastasia was standing with her arms crossed across her chest, leaning against a tree.

"Ana!" Ileus forgot everything about the fight between him and Eltanin and rushed to cover her eyes with his big palm and her with his naked body. "You could have given me a warning that you are coming here." How dare she see a naked man other than him?

"Oh gods!" Anastasia gritted. "Stop it Ileus!"

Ileus glanced over his shoulder and flicked his wrist. Shadows emerged from him and traveled to Eltanin. They covered him across his groin. "Get out of here, Eltanin!" he shouted.

With a grunt Eltanin started to go away from there.

"Get Tania to the Virgine Falls," Anastasia said loudly. "She is sitting over a stump in the nearby thicket.

"Which side?"

"Sniff her, wolf!" Ileus said irritatedly, hoping he would disappear from there. If only his abilities were not so limited in Sgiáth Bio.

Eltanin dashed out of there and Ileus removed his hand from Anastasia's eyes. She let out a rough exhale as she placed her hands on his chest. "What was that for?"

He wedged his thigh between hers and said, "How about we continue where we left?"

"You louche!" she giggled.

Ileus tipped her face up curling his fingers beneath her chin and crashed his lips on hers. His woman never left him feeling wild around her. "I love your smell." She cocooned him in her wings and opened her mouth.

Tania was sitting on a stump feeling miserable. Eltanin found her with her face covered in her hands. She was crying loudly and her shoulders shuddered with each cry. "Tania!" he rushed to her and knelt right before her. "Baby!" he rasped as he removed her hands from her face. "Please don't cry!"

As soon as Tania saw him, she threw her hands on him and wrapped them around his neck. "I am so sorry!" she said with trembling lips. "I am so sorry!" She buried her face in his neck, her body shuddering. "I shouldn't have done that. But I wasn't in control."

Eltanin felt better now that she was in his arms. He rubbed her back beneath her wings to calm her down. "I know..." He pulled her in his lap and continued to caress her till her cries reduced to dry heaves. He felt pity for his little mate. She was undergoing so much. "This journey will come to an end soon, Tania," he said in a soft voice to smooth her state of mind. "And then I will claim you fully. I can't wait to have you, mark you and--" he pursed his lips. "Just be patient." He knew that the magic that was in her body wanted to spill out and she was in a very vulnerable situation. He lifted her up and took her where Ileus and Anastasia were.

Ileus had created a make-shift tent for them using logs and vines for all of them. Eltanin placed Tania inside it and sat beside her. She put her head in his lap and closed her eyes. Soon she was in deep slumber, feeling extremely exhausted mentally and physically.

"I apologize," Eltanin said in a low voice when Ileus came inside after Tania was sleeping.

"It's fine..."

"Did you people know that we will be traveling through the valley of passion flowers?"

"No, it was a mere coincidence."

It was almost morning when the rest of the group arrived. As soon as Biham saw that his son-in-law was without clothes, he wrinkled his. And then he saw that even Ileus was naked. "Where is Anastasia?"

"She'll be back soon," he replied nonchalantly, crossing his leg over the other one. She had gone to take a bath in the falls.

Biham gritted his teeth, stomped out of the tent and stopped Kinshra from coming inside. He went to his saddle and that of Lord Krail's, took out two pairs of tunics and trousers and walked inside. "Wear these before the ladies come in!" he growled.

Ileus was resting his back against the wall of the tent. He caught the clothes in the air and flicked his wrist. The next moment they were on his body. Eltanin had to get up and wear them.

"We will be reaching the borders of Draka by afternoon," said Biham. "What are your plans, Prince Ileus?"