The Deal

Benny was extra cautious. He was keeping a keen eye on him. What if the Lykae decided to run? This was their last chance to have a better life. Alyssa was planning on leaving Wizard Kingdom, Yezia forever after this, and he was going to be with her, and so would his mother, Coira. 

So close to her and not touching was like a torture. Her body’s heat seemed to touch him, burning his skin, searing it. Her wild blossomy scent maddened him and his wolf clamored him again. His claws increased in length and he concealed them behind his back. The girl had changed into a blue drape skirt and a white cotton shirt with strings tied over her breasts… loosely. Her huge breasts were bouncing with step and he feared, no, hoped that they spilled out of the dress. He bit a groan in his throat. Never had a woman ever affected him to this level. In order to distract himself he said, “Tell me about your plans with me.” He sounded arrogant to himself too. 

Alyssa crossed her hands beneath her breasts and they moved up a little. Seduction was important at the moment. “I am a healer," she said. 

Right now she was a seductress, a siren. “Ah!” Tova breathed out. That explained some of it. But he wanted to know more. 

She continued, “You are an assistant tae the most renowned healer of the Lore—Tova Lermont. I need yer help with teaching me whatever ye can with what ye have learned from Tova.” She hesitated a little. “I am no’ going tae deny the fact that when Tova was seeking for an assistant healer, I was one o’ the applicants. However, I was rejected in the first round because the man who was overlooking it said “Yer no’ having any recommendations, and that yer skills are weak.” She lowered her head feeling bad. Just because she didn’t have a recommendation didn’t mean that she wasn’t a qualified one. She was self-taught. She exhaled heavily and looked up at him with puppy eyes. “Can ye help me?” 

He jerked his head back. New plan: he was going to kill the bastard who rejected her in the first round. If he had known her earlier, he would have hired her. 

So the girl had kidnapped him to teach her herbology? Interesting. But what was it that pushed her to the edge? “Why are you in so much of an urgency to be taught by me?” 

“Because I know that ye are closest to Tova!” she exclaimed clasping both her hands over her bountiful breasts.  

She got to be doing that on purpose. He clenched his jaws and his shaft hardened. He brought his hands to the front to conceal his erection. Those luscious curves were made for him, for his hands to cup them and for his mouth to suckle them. Such torment. This girl would be his death soon. 

“O’er the last few months I am sure ye have learnt a lot from Tova. Please, please teach me something. I was dying to be his assistant, but as luck would have it, ye are his assistant.” 

Tova coughed in his fist. 

“I know that yer men would come here soon. Then I’ll ne’er get a chance this good! Once I learn the art of healing, I will leave this place and disappear in the Lore. Our secret will remain a secret… forever.” She sounded… hopeful and helpless. How could she tell him that Izhal might take another attempt to kill her? Last time she was saved by her mother’s timely intervention. But now… now her mother hadn’t seen her for months. The sword of death was hanging on her neck and it was just a matter of time that her stepbrother swung it. According to the latest reports from Benny, her brother had killed a young witch in rage because she praised her healing skills. Alyssa shuddered on the inside. 

Tova sensed fear in her and panic crept in his heart. What was she afraid of? Why did she have to leave? If her plan was to leave, then he had to find a way to keep her with him… forever. What was she afraid of? What was she running away from? 

He frowned. “Disappear?” he asked. “Why?” 

She looked away not wanting to reveal her true self. She was scared that if she did so, he might use it against her to his advantage or worse—he could go and inform Izhal who was dying to kill her already. He would simply speed up his efforts to do so. “I can’t tell my problems,” she muttered. “But the truth is that I need your help… urgently.” She looked at him again with hope in her eyes. “Will you help me?” 

The man didn’t answer. 

The moment stretched endlessly between them. Her entire future hung in his accepting her proposition. She was hoping against hope that he would make the wrong choice, which was to stay here. Which man in his right mind would agree to her proposition? She just didn’t have anything to give him. “If you like—”

“I am a man with needs, Alyssa. Since you want all this for free, you have to give me something in return,” he said and she shut her mouth and stared at him as if he had grown two heads. 

“What?” she asked as her eyes flew wide open and her mind froze. This man was a louche! 

Shoving breasts at him was something else, but losing her virginity to him—

Fluttering her eyelashes to look attractive was something else, but her virginity— 

Hell no! She was about to go all feral when he spoke. 

“For every trick I teach you, you got to give me a kiss,” he laid his conditions very straightforwardly, without inhibition. 

Alyssa’s lips parted and an eyebrow shot up. She had an acute sense of self-preservation. This was the most atrocious thing she had ever heard of. She narrowed her eyes and then gave him a cute grin. “I agree,” she said. 

“On my lips,” he added. 

The man was indeed a louche. 

He picked up her hand and placed a light kiss on her soft satiny skin. 

Alyssa’s body shivered under the impact and she immediately pulled her hand back. “Why, look at you, Fenris?” she said in a surprised tone. “You are perfect in the art of seduction?” She sounded like a jealous little lover who was extremely unhappy that he might have kissed other girls like that. 

“I take it you are getting seduced,” he gave a half smile to her and her breath hitched. 

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