The Alpha's Temptation

The soul stone became warm in his hands. A flicker of light pulsated in it and in a second blasted out. As it blasted, the soul stone became hot in his fist almost as if searing his skin. He dropped it to the ground. It bounced on the floor and rolled for a few times before settling. The light slowly diminished and extinguished.

Menkar picked up the stone and a wicked smile crossed his lips. "This is going to make you remember my existence that you have so conveniently forgotten, Lusitania," he said. "Did you take my silence for granted?" He glared at the soul stone as if he would crush it in his hands, but he wouldn't. He would if he had to. "I worked so hard with Sirrah to keep your mother, Kinshra, at bay, and now you are posing a problem?" He let out an evil laugh. "You wish!"

As Menkar walked out after three hours to sit in his carriage, he couldn't help recalling how Queen Sirrah had approached him to take help to oust Kinshra. That half fae had turned out to be her husband's mate. It jeopardized all her plans.

Sirrah had met Menkar to find a solution to the problem. The main problem was that she couldn't do anything to Kinshra because the fae was too powerful. Moreover, she was always in Biham's company and that made it difficult for her to sabotage Kinshra's ascension as the queen of Pegasii. The subjects of the kingdom were also in her favor. Sirrah had to find a way to kick her out of the kingdom.

In their first meeting, it was clear to Menkar that Kinshra was so powerful that it would help him build up on his plan. She was pregnant when he started to use his dark magic on her, but he was cautious enough to use it when Kinshra wasn't aware of his presence. For that Sirrah would distract her. Kinshra had seen him a few times, but after the spells of black magic on her, she would take time to recover rather than dwell as to who was present around her. Slowly, after too many spells of dark magic on her, she started showing signs of blankness.

However, that wasn't enough for Biham to reject her. He was her mate and was too overprotective.

Sirrah used to 'arrange' small wars for him with Nyxers, so that he would keep busy with them. And when he returned from them, his tension would be at its epitome. He would see Kinshra in a terrible condition which would increase his tension manyfold. Menkar took advantage of it and used to cast dark spells on Biham as well. It was under one of these dark spells that he rejected Kinshra.

The moment he rejected her, he became too depressed. Sirrah forced Kinshra out of the palace. That was when Menkar knew that he needed the fae. But the fae was far too clever. She had contacted her people already. He hunted everywhere to find her, but she had disappeared completely with the help of her maid and her husband.

He wanted to capture the fae because her blood would have made him stronger. He had tasted it when during one of his spells she was so numb that when blood was taken out of her, she didn't even come to know about it.

The fae had left Pegasii forever. He didn't know where she had gone. She had died or she had disappeared. No one knew. Sirrah had come to know that Kinshra had given birth to a child. She went after Cordea and Arthur to get the baby, but she found them after five years. She killed them but the child disappeared again.

Menkar had offered Sirrah a deal that if she found the baby, she would give it to him. This was how she would repay his help. Sirrah found the child with Cordea's grandmother. She passed the information to Menkar.

He visited the drunkard grandmother and offered her fifty silver coins to buy the child from her. The grandmother was too happy to offload the child to someone else. She greedily took those coins and gave the small Tania to him. A few days later, the grandmother was found dead.

Menkar brought Tania to the Cetus Monastery. Using his dark magic, he locked her wings so that she would never come to know of her fae heritage and stole a piece of her soul. He drank her blood regularly whenever she was under his dark spells and had spaced out. He kept her hidden from all as his slave.

It was not until he had heard of the prophecy about King Eltanin that he sent Tania to him as his scribe. Things started falling in place. She had translated Yunabi for Eltanin and he had claimed her. This was the time when Menkar was going to roll the next part of his plan, when all his potion went missing. His plan was in doldrums.

Another jolt occurred when all of a sudden, Eltanin announced Lusitania as the queen of Draka. He wasn't expecting that at all. And the reason was simple: Eltanin knew very well that Menkar held a piece of her soul.

Earlier, everything was being done under shadow, but after he declared her the queen of Draka, it was all out in the open. Did he think that Menkar would back out? Menkar scoffed. "Not really, Eltanin. I have only just started. I will control your beast and your queen and then not only I will rule the lands of Araniea, I will conquer the Jade Sea!"

He heard the crack of the whip and a loud 'hiya' of the coachman. His carriage moved out of the Cetus Monastery. It was followed by a wagon that carried his bathtub. While the servants rode beside his carriage and in the front, the spy rode behind them.

Menkar was going to visit his brother in the Kingdom of Murel. He would make his people stay back in the Bikr Harbor and travel alone.

All at once, pain blasted in his lungs.