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…

to

prepare.

I

turning away once more. I needed to check this….

for a moment?” I ask, turning to the white-

and nods before hurrying over and we head

apartment.

book may be gone in the fire, but I had scanned pretty much most

computer to look through them with ease. I had

that were pretty damaged.

sure why these idiots didn’t have all these

when we might need

something.” She

reply. I can’t get overly confident

half an hour later

A place that remains untouched. Everyone else has

me I needed to know what we

a lot of times and I

mind is spinning, the pressure rising as time slips by. I needed to find

the longer they suffer in Judah’s

something… but f**k, knowing they

may happen to her is rising as I keep on making

in front of me are full

is…” She trails off, as she leans

I have up on

you are…

struggles to read my messy

I say, pointing to the ones at the top. “Can work to

entire page… Shadow.”

before glancing at

“Shadows?” She asks.

Shadow it

it would work if I took

it?”

f**king has.” I say, pushing the final sheet, which now

that I had been working on,

down, frowning as she reads the

was a language long forgotten… and although

that are too damaged to read, or simply

sense overall.

Her heart thunders as

wraith family… What on earth… they

ask, sitting

at the page, as I stare at the image depicting

with smoke and shadows surrounding

from a human,

find

take a host to survive and to gain a solid

disguising themselves in the identity of their

Wraiths are even

present. Wraiths cannot be killed unless their true names

a weapon made of

Nightshade,

She

what he

I say, standing up. I have

how… did you… how did you even figure

little f**king late, though.” I say quietly, entering my

the Shadow Wraith’s name is discovered,

Wraiths feed on

realisation dawning on her. “Wraiths sense

to either simply linger by these

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

he wants Azura…”

I say coldly. “Can you get those

Right away, but… how will we

“Leave that to me… Can you call Janaina.”

at

nods and I hold

am now near the caverns.

before getting here.

scent lingers.” Dante says, smiling faintly at me. I

but his sense of smell is obviously far

at Alejandro who is arguing with

long ago, and I’m not sure which one is angrier. Kiara had stayed at

had been injured

to sort their sh*t

interfere?” I ask Dante.

listen.” He says

a g***amn

the

and you can’t stop me. At my age, you did a lot more than this.”

eyes blazing a reddish

home.” Alejandro

by whilst Azura is

She growls.

he only had an issue with

don’t have time for this. You causing a scene is delaying things

command rolls off him, and I

consuming her and she’s trying

shifting.

away from her and Skyla clenches her

heart thundering.

shaking

her dad, and I

understand Alejandro’s concern. After all, she is his

do any

a mile from here.” I

the bullets we created. Do we

men?”

least two hundred out

we go get this d**n

on my back is ready… and

to me, I will handle those.” Dante

me.” Raihana says, stepping forward, her

nod, as Alejandro walks over to

He asks, as Dad and

had already told them where exactly we are going

I say, giving them a nod as the Five step up behind me,

blaze as we all run

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

he doesn’t.

pretty fast and my