The Sacred Coven

Chapter Four -

Elijah’s POV

We lay next to each other panting to catch our breaths. Holy hell she is addictive I want her again. She tastes delicious, I feel like I could never get enough of her. The way she screamed her orgasm has me feeling hard all over again. I pull her closer and kiss her temple, “what are you thinking my love” I look at her questioningly. She lifts her face to look me in the eyes and once again I am mesmerised by her beauty, “I thought afterwards, maybe, I would have gotten you out of my system” she replies. I sigh “You are my mate, my other half, it would only take rejection to get rid of the bond we have, and I will not accept that” “I don’t want to reject you Elijah” she whispers and I can hear the sorrow in her voice. “But this won’t be easy if we are to fully accept each other, I don’t know how our fathers will react.” I cuddle her in and say “We will deal with each obstacle as it comes, but right now, I want to know more about you” I reply. She gets up and walks out, I am sitting wondering if I said something wrong when I hear water running into a bath, so I follow her.

“What exactly do you want to know?” She says and I see she’s already placed herself in the bath whilst it runs. “Well I want to know your likes and dislikes, your life from your eyes, I want to know everything” I reply as I walk over to her, I look around and take in the grey bathroom, with black, white and deep forest green accents, it’s beautiful.

I hear her chuckle “I take it to you like the bathroom. There isn’t much to tell about me, I like to fight, I’m the heir to the kingdom and most the rest about me has already spread like wildfire..” she swishes the water before dunking her head, as she sits back up she says lightly “and yes the rumour about me ripping out the heart of an admirer is true, he wouldn’t take no for an answer.” “Well I’m glad you’ve already ripped his heart out because I would’ve done a lot worse” I say sincerely.

“Thanks, but I think it’s high time you get back to your room to freshen up, the first meeting will be held at breakfast and we don’t want to be tardy” she replies.

As I head downstairs after my shower I hear hushed voices coming from the bottom of the spiral stairs. “Send Marius and his team to the western border, to help with safe passage, once they are here show them to their chambers and have them rest, we will inform the king. He won’t be best pleased about this.” The other voice chimes in “I know but, you also know what Amelie is like, she has to shove her nose in everywhere” Then footsteps are heard receding, Amelie is the future queen of Scotland and by all accounts is hoping that she can cement her allegiance to England by marrying Adaline’s younger brother, whom I’ve not seen as of yet, I wonder where he’s hiding. I continue down the stairs towards the smell of food, hoping it’s leading me in the right direction, Adaline telepathically told me she would come to get me when we had to leave but when I went back to her chambers no one was there, I can’t speak in her mind yet as we haven’t marked each other, so I don’t know where she’s got to. I turn the corner into another corridor and see my father arriving from the other end, I nod my head to him and mind link him *Father, I hope you slept well, I have just heard Amelie is arriving soon, she is currently not invited to our meeting.* My father nods in acknowledgement.

Inside the large office is a huge meeting table, currently filled with food, Alexander stands as we enter, “forgive us, my king, if we are late” I say respectfully. “Nonsense Elijah, you are early if anything, and do not make me tell you again to call me Alexander” he replies. “Sorry Alexander” my father comes and they shake hands, whilst conversing through their minds. Considering Alexander is thousands of years old you would not think it to look at him, he wears a dark navy suit with a shirt and matching tie and looks every bit like a wealthy 50-odd-year-old businessman. A handsome businessman at that. He directs us to our seats as the door opens again, I smell her before I see her, Erebus purring in my mind at her scent. “Apologies if I have kept you all waiting, Prince, I did inform one of the staff to bring you when I became unavailable to show you down here but he said you had already left your room when he arrived.” She says “Amos, a pleasure to see you this morning, I trust your rooms were to your liking?” She says with a slight edge to her voice, I wonder what that is about. Erebus replies to that thought *your father was a pompous ass last time he met with her, Ardolf told me so* Ardolf being my father's wolf, he must have been an ass if his wolf says, normally my father is much nicer than Ardolf. “The rooms were beautiful, thank you princess” my father replies, as he takes a pan au chocolat from one of the platters and begins to eat.

“So with the pleasantries out of the way, how shall we organise troops for this allegiance, and are there any conditions you want to put in place?” Alexander asks. “I have no issues with how the troops are organised but would I suggest a half and half, we have two castles to protect, and your vampires will sense give us an advantage just as my wolves will give you an advantage” my father replies, “as for conditions, I would like either the lovely Princess Adaline or Prince Eros to accompany me back to my kingdom as the main warrior. Speaking of where is the Prince?” “The Prince has just returned from France, he arrived about 15 minutes ago, so he should be here any minute.” Replies Alexander. Just as he finishes the sentence a voice carries over as the door opens “I feel my ears burning Father” It’s a deep and almost gravelly voice. “Eros, you’ve finally arrived” Alexander claps. “King Amos, a pleasure, and Prince Elijah nice to see you... Adaaaaa” he says as he comes over and hugs her. “We were just deciding on who should go where Eros, would you prefer to go to the werewolf kingdom or would you like me to?” Adaline says. “I think I’ll allow you to take that honour Ada” he replies with a smirk at me. Does he know Erebus? Do you think he knows? *He has a suspicion* Erebus replies. s**t. I hope he doesn’t tell anyone before we can confirm it. “Then it’s all settled then, I’ll grab my team and Father can arrange for whomever else shall come, we need to figure out where they are coming from and where they are hiding, so we can defeat them,” Adaline says. “Very well then, Ada go grab your team, I’ll sort the list for who else is going and me and Amos will finish the meeting,” Alexander commands. This means I get Ada to myself as she will be staying in our castle, oh I am excited now...