The Alpha's Temptation

"Do you think Murel will even know where she is or would be bothered about her?" Lord Krail remarked.

"Then I have to find ways to extract him from his hiding place!" Biham spat.

Lord Krail pursed his lips tightly. He gulped more whiskey and then with a loud thud placed the bottle on the table. He looked Eltanin and then with a grunt he got up rather shakily on his feet. The damn werewolf was bloody strong. Krail turned his neck left and right as the servants watched their master in horror. It had been long since their master had gotten into such a raunchy fight. None of them dared to come to him seeing his demeanor. It was Jiada who came to help him.

"My old relic still has some juices left," she teased him as she giggled quietly.

Lord Krail grunted even more as she picked up his arm and then placed it on her shoulder. She could have flicked the wrist and sent him directly to their bedchamber, but she wanted him to feel all the pain by climbing the stairs. After seeing Kinshra, she was also on a vengeance mode. As for Lord Krail, he was too numb to do any magic. The servants hurried up to prepare a bath for him.

Biham watched him leave. He gulped his wine and then with Eltanin's hlp he too walked back to his room. The servants had already prepared his bath.

"We shouldn't have divulged all those details to Lord Krail," Eltanin said as he helped Biham to go to the bathroom.

"Why not?" Biham snapped. "Because of him my daughter and my mate suffered! He should know everything!"

Eltanin snapped his mouth shut. He left Biham in the bathroom and left.

Back in the tower, Kinshra was adjusting Tania's posture. "Don't you open your eyes this time," she warned her.

"I feel like a horse ready for a show, mother," Tania drawled.

"Then stay like one. A horse would be a better student than you!" Kinshra chided her. She took her arms up. "Clasp them together."

"Why do I need to be in this pose?" Tania complained like a petulant child. "Now I feel like a dancer."

Ignoring her words, Kinshra added, "And don't open your eyes, if you close them."

A sigh escaped her lips. "Mother, how long will it take?" she asked, feeling irritated. Her mother had asked the maid to leave her in panties and a tight lace across her breast. She wanted her skin to be exposed this time.

"As long as you can absorb." Kinshra flipped the Yunabi to reach the page where they had left. "If you think you can't keep your eyes closed, tell me. I will cast a spell over them. But any external spell cast on them would slow the process of Yunabi. That's why I want you to willingly stay in that position."

"Okay…" Tania drawled again. They both were not talking about the fight that had broken between Biham and Lord Krail. It's not that Tania didn't want to discuss it was just that she could feel that her mother wasn't in the mood.

Kinshra located the page and opened it. The page opened with a loud sigh as if tired, as if yawning from its sleep. She chanted a spell and the text started wiggling as if awoken from its deep slumber. "Now start reading it from here."

"But you asked me to close my eyes!" Tania whined.

Kinshra lightly slapped the back of her head. "Pay attention to what I said. I said, if you close your eyes, don't open them! And one more thing—don't stop reading it whatever happens."

Tania sucked in a sharp breath. She could feel her wings moving from their places. Maybe out of agitation. She looked at the text with her hands clasped above her and started reading it. As she read it, the letters started to lift from the book. They wriggled a little in the air and then traveled slowly towards her. They crawled over her waist and lazily started circling her, mimicking her emotions. Tania could feel a ticklish sensation upon her skin. As and as they climbed, the ticklish sensation was replaced by warm feeling.

She read more and all the text started making its way towards her. Soon her eyes felt droopy. She was having trouble keeping them open. Her voice became slurry and then she could no longer hold her eyes open. She thought that the text would stop, but to her surprise, she heard Yunabi flipping its own page. Tania had unlocked the text from the pages and now they were flowing readily towards her. She didn't have to read it either. Soon she was covered in all the symbols and text from head to toe.

Kinshra started chanting incantations. She opened her hands and suddenly clapped them together. Tania felt her body being covered in heat and then moments later it vanished.

When Kinshra chanted the incantations, the text glowed a red hot. Tania's body felt heated up. The text disintegrated in a bright red light that surrounded her like a halo and then it got absorbed in Tania's body. Her breath became labored.

They stood like this for a long time until it was lunch. They were able to cover most of the Yunabi arcana and only very few pages were left. Tania was tired but this time she didn't open her eyes like an obedient child. She did feel like she was levitating in the air or curled up in a fetal position or sprawled on the floor, but she remained calm.

"Come, let's have lunch," said Kinshra.

When Tania opened her eyes, she saw that her wings had flared. Shocked, she rasped, "Calaman's horns!" And immediately her wings came down. "Ahhhh!" she cried in pain.

Kinshra laughed. "Those were spread open from a long time. Didn't you realize?"

"No!" Tania was surprised as hell.

Kinshra laughed more as she covered her with a blanket. "Let's have lunch and continue."

When they reached the main room, they found Eltanin waiting for them.