I Kissed My Professor And He Liked It

Third Person POV Xander watched as Alpha Drake's face fell. Eloise had just explained that the strongest Volana, born for good, is to be sacrificed to create a vessel that will becthe strongest Volana, born for evil.

“Selene...” Drake whispered, looking at Sophie who returned the sworried look.

Eloise shook her head.

“No,” she said, gaining their attention. “She looked like Selene... but she was much younger.” Sophie gasped.

“Oh, goddess. It’s obvious. The Volana was born from the product of true love. She was born from Selene and Bastien.” “Ella...” Drake finished Sophie's thought.

“Darkness is going to sacrifice Ella?” Sophie asked, looking at Eloise who remained silent, but she met Sophie’s eyes, and she could see the sorrow behind Elois’s gaze. “We have to warn them.” “I'll get them on the phone,” Drake said, standing to his feet. “We need to protect her.” “No!” Eloise said, jumping to her feet. “If darkness is already conjured, it can’t know our involvement. It will kill everyone you love; it will cto this pack and slaughter everybody.” “What? How could a phone cause that?” Drake asked, furrowing his brows together. “We can't just do nothing.” “Because darkness gets into your head. It reads your thoughts; not to mention it could hear the conversation. It's everywhere. You can’t keep a secret from darkness. We know too much information as it is... if it finds out we are involved, it will kill us. All of us.” “Then how do we send a warning to them? How do we fight it?” “I saw in my vision Ella fighting before she was killed. War breaks loose. | couldn't tell where we were, but | knew it was a battle between light and dark. Ella is there along with her allies. But she puts up a fair fight. She's strong, even without her Volana powers. They dose her with so much wolfbane, that she doesn’t have the strength or abilities of her wolf. But she fights in her human form, and she’s good. But she’s not good enough.

She fights a bit carelessly and it gets her killed. She needs to learn to fight the impossible,” Eloise explained.

“Then | will call Alpha Bastien and Luna Selene and tell them they need to train her better,” Drake said about to walk away, but Eloise grabbed his arm.

“They don’t know what kind of things she needs to train on, and they can’t know. If darkness suspects anything, it will kill them and then it will chere and kill us because we are the ones who warned them,” Eloise explained, shaking her head.

“What if they are able to defeat it before it has that chance?” Sophie asked, staring around at everyone's pale faces.

“We can’t take that chance,” Eloise said, shaking her head. “In my vision, | was in the form of darkness. It was chilling,” Eloise shuddered. “It can see everything that goes on in that region. It seemed frustrating with sparts of it. There is a territory there made up of Volana wolves and it can’t enter their heads. | think those with Volana blood, darkness can’t get into their heads. But | also watched this vessel slaughtering them along with all other Volanas around the world. Including Selene. ” “Okay, then we can warn Selene. She’s a Volana. If it can’t read her thoughts, then there's no harm in her knowing—" “We can’t risk connection. If it's already been conjured, it will hear our conversation and trace it back to us,” Eloise snapped, glaring at him. “Are you really going to risk your entire pack? Your family? Think of your young children, Alpha.” Sophie snapped at look at Eloise. They had three gorgeous kids and Xander knew they wouldn’t do anything to risk their lives.

“We can’t just do nothing,” Drake said, shaking his head in frustration. “Especially when we know this information.” “There's more...” Eloise said, her voice shaky. “There’s going to be a dark curse. A curse that will make everybody, including Volanas, powerless. Darkness and whoever conjured it knows there's going to be a fight to get Ella back, so they created a curse so powerful that it will make everybody powerless. They won't be able to fight it.” “How does it get defeated?” Xander was the one to ask.

Eloise thought about it for a moment, trying to remember every detail of her vision.

“Light,” she said, looking up at Xander. “Its weakness is light. But there needs to be enough of it to get rid of it completely. My vision had split into two. On one hand, Ella defeats it, but it doesn’t showhow. She defeats it and restores the nation. On the other hand, she dies and the nation falls once the vessel rises.” “If we can’t warn them of this danger, what can we do?” Drake asked loudly; Xander could feel his frustration. “It sounds like we are doomed regardless. If that vessel is created, we are all going to die.” “Not necessarily. If the vessel is created, its main target is the other Volana wolves. It'll want to be the only one to exist. Then, it will take control of the nation and rule it alongside darkness,” Eloise explained. “It wants ultimate control.” “That doesn’t sound much better,” Drake growled, shaking his head again.

“Eloise...” Sophie said calmly, stepping toward the prophet. “What do you propose we do?” Eloise thought about it for a moment and then her eyes widened.

“Ella needs to learn to fight the impossible,” she said again. “She needs to stay alive; | believe she must carry a light inside of her that is strong enough to defeat this darkness. If she didn’t, then the prophet wouldn't be accurate. She wouldn't be the uprise of our nation. Ella needs to stay alive.” “And how can we be sure she stays alive if we can’t warn her?” “I might have an idea, but | don’t know how well it'll work and I'm afraid it’s a risk,” Eloise said hesitantly. “But | propose someone goes there and trains her.” “Darkness will be able to get into our heads if we do that; you said so yourself,” Sophie said, furrowing her brows together.

“I know of a spell that can help. It’s a mind-bound spell,” Eloise explained. “A mind-bound spell will lock away a person’s mind so it can’t easily be read. If darkness truly tried, it could certainly get into their mind. It's a powerful force and even my magic isn’t strong enough to hold it back. But the spell will at least make it so it would have no reason to dig any deeper than the surface. With the mind-bound spell, it won't pick up on anything sketchy, so we'd be able to train her without it being suspicious.” “That's perfect,” Drake said, stepping closer like he was about to volunteer his services.

“However, darkness can still be heard so if anything is spoken about out loud while darkness is present, it will hear it,” Eloise continued.“Then cast the spell on me; I'll go,” Drake said urgently. “We can’t waste any more time. I'll cup with an excuse as to why | need to train with Ella. I'm a friend, they trust me. I'll make sure darkness isn’t suspicious of my presence.” “My magic doesn’t work on you, Alpha,” she said, shaking her head. “You know it’s limited. It doesn’t work on Alpha’s.” Drake opened his mouth to speak, but Xander cut in.

“Then, I'll go,” he said, much to Camilla’s dismay.

She gasped at his words and grabbed his arm.

“Xander, no! It's too dangerous.” “If I don’t go, we are all doomed. Including you and | can’t let anything happen to you,” Xander told her gently, touching the side of her face.

“Xander...” Sophie breathed, surprised by this.

“I am the best fighter that you have, Alpha,” Xander said, looking at Drake. “Allowto do this for our pack. | will find an excuse to train with her and | will get her ready for the fight of her life. My main priority is to make sure she stays alive so that vessel is never created.” “You cannot tell her what pack you are from and who sent you,” Eloise told him firmly. “You cannot give them any reason to search deep into your mind. Or give darkness a trail to this pack.” “I would never put this pack in danger,” Xander said firmly.

“Xander... please don’t do this,” Camilla sobbed. “I can’t lose you...” Xander wrapped his arms around his mate and held her close.

“You will never lose me,” he breathed. “I'm doing this to protect you. If | don’t... then we are all in danger and | couldn't live with myself if | let that happen.” She cried into his broad chest.

“Are you sure about this, Xander?” Drake asked, stepping toward him. “They don’t know you, so trusting you will be hard.” “They don’t need to trust me,” Xander said, glaring at his Alpha. “I need to make sure Ella is prepared and stays alive. That's my only job.” “Ella goes to the Higala school for shifters,” Sophie said softly. “She's in the shifting and combat class with Alpha Colton. You might be able to co-teach that class. That will give you probable cause to train her.” “I'll speak with the headmaster when | get to that region,” Xander said nodding. “I might know a couple of them on the board, so getting a job will be easy.” “I will go over everything you need to train her on,” Eloise said, peering up at him. “I will inform you of the entire battle as | remember it and all the mistakes she’s made that caused her death. That way you can train her properly and truly prepare her for this battle that will soon happen.” Drake placed a hand on Xander’s shoulder.

“You're a good Gamma, Xander,” he said, nodding his head.

“I have faith that you can do this with ease and return to us safely. Return to your mate safely,” Sophie said gently.

Camilla sobbed again.

Xander turned to Eloise.

“Cast the spell on me... I'll do it.”