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

prepare.

move out. There’s something I need to

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

for a moment?” I ask, turning

nods before hurrying over and we

apartment.

gone in the fire, but I had

computer to look through them with ease. I had also tried to restore

that were pretty damaged.

have all these books duplicated

might need

onto something.”

get overly confident until I am

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

remains untouched. Everyone else has

needed to know what we are

of times and I plan to finish

as time

longer they suffer in

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

of what may happen to her

the papers in front of

is…” She trails off, as

page I have

you are…

struggles to read my messy scrawl and

I say, pointing to the ones at

entire page… Shadow.”

before glancing at

“Shadows?” She asks.

by translating that word as Shadow it gave me enough

it would work if I took it as the key to

it?”

say, pushing the final sheet, which now contains

had been working on, towards

leans down, frowning as

and although there are

damaged to read, or simply not fully readable,

sense overall.

heart thunders as she scans the page.

the wraith family…

sitting

page, as I stare

and shadows

from a human,

had all tried to find

to survive and to gain a solid

disguising themselves in

speed and strength, Shadow Wraiths are even stronger where

shadows present. Wraiths cannot be killed unless their true

taken, upon driving a weapon made of pure iron

Nightshade,

She

what

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

you even figure that out?” She

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

discovered, it can

feed on high levels

dawning

to either simply linger by

wraith’s intentions they will devour

he wants Azura…”

coldly. “Can you get

away, but… how will we find his real name?”

“Leave that to

looking at her

nods and I hold out

an hour later, and I am now near the caverns. I had made

before getting here.

Her scent lingers.” Dante says, smiling faintly at

sense of smell is obviously far better than

at Alejandro who is arguing

sure which one

who had been injured in the explosions, but I think

to sort their sh*t

to interfere?” I ask Dante. He glances

listen.”

not a g***amn child.”

are. Now get the f**k out

you can’t stop me. At my age, you did a lot more

back, her eyes

Take her home.” Alejandro snarls to one

whilst Azura is out there! You are

She growls.

is, since he only had an issue with his daughter being

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

rolls off him, and I see Skyla’s

her and she’s trying to

shifting.

from her and Skyla clenches her jaw before she looks at me,

heart thundering.

her.” She says, her voice shaking with anger, before she casts one

at her dad, and I feel a little

After all, she is his daughter… but

isn’t going to do any of them

caverns is half a mile from here.” I

bullets we created. Do we

men?”

least two hundred

how about we go get this d**n

ready… and

bullets to me, I will handle those.”

Raihana says, stepping forward, her power c**ckling

Alejandro walks

asks, as Dad and Rayhan step

told them where exactly we are going

giving them a nod

blaze as we all

with me, and even

me, he doesn’t.

and my heart thunders