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 the table, “We prepare to

prepare.

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

more. I needed to

for a moment?” I

before hurrying over and we head

apartment.

be gone in the fire, but I had

with ease. I had also tried

that were pretty damaged.

sure why these idiots didn’t have all these books

might

something.” She

can’t get overly

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

that remains untouched.

me I needed to know what we are up against to win.

a lot of times and I plan to

as time

I’m here, the longer they suffer

I’m onto something… but f**k, knowing they are

me. Fear of what may happen to her is rising as

front of me are

trails off,

back at the page I have up on the screen. So

you are…

my messy scrawl and I

say, pointing to the ones at the

entire page… Shadow.”

before

“Shadows?” She asks.

word as Shadow it

would work if I took it as the key to cr**k the

it?”

pushing the final sheet, which now contains

had been working on, towards

frowning as she reads

long forgotten… and although there are

read, or simply not fully

sense overall.

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

wraith family… What on earth… they don’t

I ask, sitting back and looking up

the page, as I

smoke and shadows

the picture was so far from a human, we hadn’t paid

all tried to find out what we

survive and to gain

themselves in the

Shadow Wraiths are

cannot be killed unless their true names

taken, upon driving a weapon made of pure iron coated

Nightshade,

into their necks.” She turns

is what

so…” I say, standing up. I have a sword which is fully

you

I say quietly, entering my weapon

discovered,

help is very limited. Wraiths feed on high levels of energies to

says realisation dawning on

to either simply linger by these beings

will devour these

he wants Azura…”

say coldly. “Can you get those

how will we find

frown, I had an idea about that… “Leave that to me… Can you

looking at her

nods and I

now near the caverns. I had made one last

before getting here.

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

of smell

at Alejandro who is arguing with Skyla.

and I’m not sure which one is angrier. Kiara

injured in

needed her to sort their sh*t

to interfere?” I ask Dante. He glances back at them

won’t listen.”

g***amn child.” Skyla

Now get the f**k out

my age, you did

her eyes blazing

Take her home.” Alejandro snarls

to sit by whilst Azura is out there!

She growls.

since he only had

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

command rolls off him, and I see Skyla’s

and anger consuming her and she’s trying

shifting.

Skyla clenches her

heart thundering.

her.” She says, her voice shaking with anger, before

her dad, and I feel a

all, she is his

to do any of them any

a mile from

armed with the bullets we created.

men?”

least two hundred out

go get this d**n wraith.” Jax

is ready… and

I will handle those.” Dante says,

forward, her power c**ckling

Alejandro walks over

as Dad and Rayhan step

them where exactly we are going to

them a nod as

as we all run

the only one who stays with me,

me, he doesn’t.

fast and my heart thunders when I