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“I have been trying to give you answers, pup. You have been unavailable.” Slater motions for Eliana to come closer to him.
I narrow my eyes, watching as she gives in to his silent command. I stiffen beside her and hold out my hand, asking her to take mine without saying the words.
She doesn’t.
I shove my hand in my pocket instead, refusing to look at Slater’s smug face. “I have been trying to give you answers too, but you aren’t giving me the time of day, princess. Starrise Island is like another gateway between worlds. It connects Shadow Moon and the human world to the Magelands. This sort of information is overwhelming, but since you have asked, you should know that we are not the only creatures different from humans. There are many, many others, but we try to remain separate. The only ones connected to that world are the council leaders, which helped build Shadow Moon and put our treaties into place. We rarely even see them.”
I’ve only seen the four leaders from a distance. It has been many years, and the last time was when they decided to allow us access to the human world again. We’ve been closed off after Eliana’s grandmother had escaped. I wasn’t alive then, but the stories were always there. We’ve only been bringing humans to Shadow Moon again for maybe a decade, starting when I was just maturing.
Eliana tenses, and the color drains from her face as she processes the information. I knew I shouldn’t have just dropped an information bomb like that, considering she is still learning. I only wanted to prove to her that I will give her answers. All she has to do is ask.
“So what the fuck do they want? I don’t want to go. Why don’t you guys figure that out, and I will stay here?” Eliana shifts on her feet and finally meets my gaze. “That’s what you’re good for, right? You’re my alpha. Protect me.”
This little brat. She’ll claim me when she needs me. I don’t know how that makes me feel, but my wolf loves being needed. And claimed. Damn it, if I don’t get myself together, I’m going to have a raging fucking boner. She’ll love that too. As soon as her attention focuses on me, I won’t be able to resist her body’s call. But I have to. I must suffer that kind of torture for a chance to be with her. I want to fuck her so hard that she never forgets our moment of passion, especially when I knock her up. The idea of impregnating her turns me on even more that I shift on my feet and look toward the ceiling, trying my best to think of something else.
“Did you hear me, Ravi? I want to stay here. You will stand up to the council and tell them that I’m yours. I’m not going anywhere.” Her voice sweetens like sugar, and she closes the space and runs her hand over my shoulder and down my pec, placing it over my rapid heartbeat. She moves even closer until she grazes my hard cock with her body, and I release a soft breath.
“You need to step back unless you want me to pick you up and carry you somewhere private, princess,” I murmur, keeping my voice a whisper.
She shivers at the sensation of my breath against her ear. “I’ll let you do whatever you want if you don’t make me go.”
My cock pulses and my nuts tighten at the thought. Am I willing to risk the wrath of the council for a chance to knot with my naughty, infuriating omega? Damn straight, I am.
I open my mouth to agree, but Slater wraps his hands across Eliana’s torso and pulls her away from me. She kicks her legs, thrashing with her ferocity and cusses at him. It sets off my wolf, and I growl deep in my chest, the noise vibrating through my body.
“I’m sorry, pup. You have to go. It’ll jeopardize everything if you don’t. They will come searching for you otherwise. It’s best to let us handle it and for you to hide in our shadows. I will allow you to bring one mate along. We can each pick a betaborne to join us. I already have mine, but I don’t think Ravi has his yet. Perhaps Chase?”
Not him. A part of me wants to keep the two of them separated. I know he’s already planted his damn seed in her, and it pisses me off that he got the chance first. That he was even able to knot with her in the first place.
“No. It’ll be Adam. He’s the one I’m training as my betaborne and the one I trust most.” I release a whistle, calling him from his spot on the couch. “You will escort Eliana and me. The others will have to wait at the docks in Starrise.” I straighten my shoulders and glance at Chase. “It’s better if you don’t join us. What you have done is...is unnecessary to explain.”
“What about Tristan and Davian?” Eliana asks, wiggling her fingers at them. “Kellan, too. I don’t want to leave any of them here.”
“They can remain at the docks with the others.” Slater claps his hands, stopping anyone else from saying anything. I hate the fucker for answering for me. He knows damn well that it would be best not to take them at all, but he’s purposely giving Eliana what she wants as a way to get to her. His act can’t last forever. She will see we’re not much different.
Slater strides toward the door and howls, alerting his pack that we need to prepare to leave. I turn my attention back to Eliana and proffer my hand to her, suddenly needing her in my arms. I will carry her the entire time if I have to, even if she wants to put up a fight.
She doesn’t though. It’s as if she realizes that regardless of what she wants, she has to do this. I just hope she knows it’s not me who isn’t giving her the choice. It’s the council. And Slater.
Shuffling closer, she places her hand in mine and lets me pull her closer until I pick her up. She wraps her legs around my waist and hooks her ankles tightly across my lower back. Her arms encircle my neck, and she rests her head on my shoulder. The sexy she-wolf sniffs me, burying her nose into my shirt. My cock is never going to let me hear the end of this. Her scent engulfs me even more, her innate nature as a wolf trying to lure me in. I’d fuck her right here if she allowed it. I could carry her while fucking her the entire way.
“Watch your thoughts, Ravi. I can hear what you want to do to me. I’m not getting fucking stuck to your broody jerk ass.” Eliana lifts her head and meets my eyes, leaning in close enough that I can feel her warm breath on my lips. “You have to earn that. I know what will happen, and I’m not letting you try to knock me up.”
I heave a breath, her rejection striking me harder than I expect it to. It’s all I can think about. Fucking her and not letting her go until she is swelling with my offspring. The thought gets to me in a good way, and she reacts, tightening her body around mine. She’d never admit it out loud, but I know the thought of us mating turns her on far more than she realizes. The scent of her body proves it. She smells of everything amazing in this world. Of sugar and fruit. Of something warmer like spice. She smells of fresh rain in an orchard and the musk that comes with sex.
Fuck. I need to run out in the snow.
So I do it. Stomping toward the open door, I rush into the snowy meadow. Eliana squeals as I trudge to a pile shaken from one of the trees, and I gently set her in it, cooling her off too. I’m not the only one going crazy. She’s just better at ignoring it. I think she likes torturing herself as long as she takes me down with her.
“Damn it, Ravi! What the fuck?” Eliana tries to push up from the ground, but the snow is too deep and she sinks lower.
I let her struggle for a minute until her teeth chatter. Bowing forward, I lift her back up and dust off the snow from her clothes.
“Someone needs to cool off. If you continue to allow your wolf to seduce me, I can’t promise not to give in.” I open my jacket and nestle her inside, zipping up the fabric. Maybe this was a mistake. She snuggles closer and presses her cold lips to my throat.
“Tell me how to stop then. It’s as if everything you do pisses me off but also makes me more attracted to you. You have to stop for me to stop. I’m new with this, remember?” Eliana hugs me tighter, breathing against my skin. Voices sound around us, but no one says anything, allowing her to give attention to me even though the packs join together to make the trip to Starrise Island.
I groan and adjust her in my arms. “The only way we can cure this is by—”
