Alpha Leo and the Heart of Fire

112. A Forgotten Language

LEO.

“That’s the last one.” Li Sheng says tossing the deactivated device onto the

ground. Four had gone off in total before we had managed to find the rest and

disarm them. I had felt thirteen tethers snap, meaning we had lost thirteen lives.

Eric and Emmet’s selfish plan had cost not only me but instead had cost the

lives of many innocent people.

Those who had been trapped, and there had been many, had been accounted

for and we had retrieved the bodies of our dead too.

They ranged from the ages of eleven to ninety-seven. 1

“Continue to comb the pack grounds until every area has been covered just in

case there’s more detonators.” I say coldly.

I need to f***king go after them. I know there is a team out there, but I still need

to do something too.

“Will do Alpha.” He replies, lowering his head before he runs off.

Alejandro and several others were now in one of my meeting rooms, gathered

around a map, trying to find out where Azura and Corrado had vanished to, and

the possible places they may have gone.

“There’s the forest there…” Elijah says, frowning deeply.

He, Damon, and several others are here too, but time is just moving too f**king

slow. With each passing moment, who knows what she’s going through. I’m a

f**king mess inside, but I’m f**king trying to keep my sh*t together. I can’t lose

them, I need them.

I walk over to the table, and look down at the 3D hologram map that covers the

entire table.

“I don’t know… isn’t that too close to your place? Maybe to the west, Dante’s

gone to check that side out…” Alejandro mutters as I stare at the spot that the

blimp of the tracker had last been, before it vanished.

“He’s misleading us.” I say quietly, feeling my anger rise. This is a f**king game

to him … I want blood… I want to f**king kill.

“Meaning?” Alejandro asks.

“This is where Azura’s tracker went off radar … a place that’s got literally three

dense forest areas around it… making it the ideal place for us to f**king

search… I’m certain he went in the opposite f**king direction. Trust me, I know

how f**king b****rds work.” I say menacingly.

“Then where do you think they may be?” Liam asks. His anger is palpable, but I

can see the worry for his sister in his eyes. 1

I look down at the map, zooming out and scrolling fifty miles in the opposite

direction. “The caverns,” I say, tapping the map.

All eyes turn on me, and Alejandro c**ks a brow. “Why do you think that?”

“It’s the last place he’d think we’d look… that place has magic that can cancel

out a lot of sh*t. Azura’s tracker couldn’t have just blipped out unless she’s in a

location that blocks the outside off…” I run my fingers through my hair, only for

the strands of my hair to fall back in front of my forehead.

“How sure are you?” Damon asks, frowning.

“Pretty sure. Raihana wasn’t able to teleport to Azura either. She had something

of hers and Judah doesn’t possess that kind of magic. So why the f**k did the

teleportation not work? Unless ofcourse there is a power strong enough to

counter it. Raihana is meant to be one of the strongest witches alive, so tell me

what can f**king counter her? Trust me, this is the place to search.” I say

confidently, turning away.

They seem to take a second to mull over my words before Alejandro slaps his

hands together, rubbing them. “Right, let’s listen, he has the f**king brains.”

Yeah, I do.

“Remember, he’s f**king fast; from the footage, we can see that he seems to

have a link with the shadows…” Elijah is saying.

I frown. Shadows… I suddenly remember an image from a certain book I had

gone over. A book that contained drawings and symbols that no one was able to

read because of the language.

I need to go over it again.

“So what’s the plan?” Ace asks and I’m brought out of my trance. My eyes flash

as I frown deeply.

Oh, I f**king have a plan…

the table, “We prepare to move out. I’ll

prepare.

There’s something I need to check.

away once more. I

I ask, turning to the

up and nods before hurrying over and we

apartment.

but I had scanned pretty

to look through them with ease. I

that were pretty damaged.

sure why these idiots didn’t have all

might need some

something.” She

reply. I can’t get overly confident until

It’s about half an hour

remains untouched. Everyone else has

what we

of times and I plan to finish this

the pressure rising as time slips by. I

longer they suffer in Judah’s

onto something… but f**k, knowing

may happen to her is rising as I

front of me are full of my

She trails off,

I

you are…

struggles to read my messy scrawl and

pointing to the ones at the top. “Can work

entire page… Shadow.”

frowns before

“Shadows?” She asks.

as Shadow it gave me enough to work with.

I took it as the key to cr**k

has it?”

I say, pushing

I had been

leans down, frowning as she

long forgotten… and although

too damaged to read, or simply not fully

sense overall.

as she scans the

subspecies of the wraith family… What on earth…

sure?” I ask, sitting

back at the page, as I stare at

with smoke and

from a human,

had all tried to find out what we

Wraiths take a host to survive and to

themselves in the

Wraiths are even

Wraiths cannot be killed unless their true

weapon

Nightshade,

She turns to me.

is what

so…” I say, standing up. I have

how did you even figure that out?” She

I

Wraith’s name is discovered, it can be

Wraiths feed on high levels

Delsanra says realisation dawning on

wanting to either simply linger by

on the wraith’s intentions they will devour these beings… This is

he wants Azura…”

coldly. “Can you

how will we find

I had an idea about that… “Leave

looking at

and I

hour later, and I am now near

before getting here.

Dante says, smiling faintly at me. I

sense of smell is obviously far better than

nod as I glance back at Alejandro who is arguing with Skyla. She had

I’m not sure which

been injured in the explosions, but I think

her to sort their sh*t

going to interfere?” I ask Dante.

Dad won’t listen.” He says

a g***amn

f**king are. Now get the f**k

stop me. At my age, you did

eyes blazing a

Take her home.” Alejandro snarls to one

Azura is

She growls.

he only had an issue with his daughter being

time for this. You causing a scene is delaying

hell home.” Alejandro’s command rolls off him, and I see Skyla’s

anger consuming her and she’s trying

shifting.

from her and Skyla clenches her jaw before she

heart thundering.

She says, her voice shaking with anger, before she

and I feel a little bad for

Alejandro’s concern. After all, she is his daughter…

isn’t going to do any of them

is half a mile from here.” I say, “He will

and they are armed with the bullets we created. Do we

men?”

two hundred

how about we go get this d**n

back is ready… and I have everything

bullets to me, I will handle those.” Dante says, frowning

Raihana says, stepping forward, her

as Alejandro walks

as Dad

told them where exactly we are going to

this.” I say, giving them a nod as the Five step up

blaze as we

the only one who stays with me, and even when the rest shift

he doesn’t.

fast and my heart