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…

table, “We prepare to move out. I’ll fill everyone in

prepare.

and move out. There’s something I need to check.

once more. I needed to check this…. “Delsanra,

me for a moment?” I

nods before hurrying over and we

apartment.

fire, but I

ease. I

that were pretty damaged.

sure why these idiots didn’t have all these

might need some

something.”

get overly confident until I am

it, Leo?” Delsanra asks. It’s about half an hour

untouched. Everyone else

to know what

and I plan to finish this once

mind is spinning, the pressure rising as

the longer they suffer

something… but f**k, knowing

Fear of what may happen to her is rising as I keep on making

front of me are full

off,

reply, looking back at the page I have up on the screen.

you are…

to read my messy scrawl and I sit

ones at

entire page… Shadow.”

before glancing

“Shadows?” She asks.

by translating that word as Shadow it gave me enough

if I took it as the key to

it?” She

say, pushing the final

I had been working on,

as she reads

forgotten… and

damaged to read, or simply not fully readable,

sense overall.

Wraiths…” Her heart thunders as she scans the page.

are subspecies of the wraith family… What

sitting

page, as I stare at the image

with smoke and shadows surrounding

so far from a human, we hadn’t paid

find out what we were

Wraiths take a host to survive and

them disguising themselves in the identity

strength, Shadow Wraiths are

be killed unless their true names

weapon made

Nightshade,

necks.” She turns to me.

is what he

I have

you… how did you even figure that

though.” I say quietly,

discovered, it can be called on for

limited. Wraiths feed on

realisation dawning

to either simply

the wraith’s intentions they will

he wants Azura…”

I say coldly. “Can you

but… how will we find his

“Leave that to me…

at her

I hold out my

now near the caverns. I had

before getting here.

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

smell is obviously far

glance back at Alejandro

long ago, and I’m not sure which one is

those who had been injured in the explosions, but

needed her to

Dante. He glances back

listen.” He

not a g***amn

get the f**k out of here.” Alejandro

age, you

her eyes blazing a

her home.” Alejandro

not just going to sit by whilst Azura is out there!

She growls.

since he only had an issue with

this. You causing

command rolls off him,

consuming her and she’s trying

shifting.

and Skyla clenches her jaw before she looks at me,

heart thundering.

voice shaking with anger, before

at her dad, and I feel a little bad for

concern. After all,

going to do any of them

the caverns is half a mile

are armed with the bullets

men?”

least two hundred

we go get this d**n

sword on my back is ready… and I have everything

me, I will handle those.”

stepping forward, her

nod, as Alejandro walks over

He asks, as Dad and Rayhan step

told them where exactly

I say, giving them a nod as the Five step

blaze as we

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

me, he

reach the caverns pretty fast and my