My Alpha’s Betrayal: Burning In The Flames Of His Vengeance by Moonlight Muse

Chapter 41

41. The Mage

YILEYNA

Trying to semain indifferent, I grabbed the jug, pouring myself some juice just as Theon lifted the crab, but rather than eating it, he used his knife to push it off his fork, letting it fall rather unceremoniously back onto the platter. Tossing his knife back down onto the table, his irritation was clear in his actions.

“Don’t push my fucking boundaries.” Theon’s icy voice came, and the anger that radiated off of him made the entire table fall silent, but despite the tension that settled around the group, I couldn’t help but feel happy.

I was about to put the jug down, when Theon reached over and took the glass I had just filled up.

“That was mine.” I said, poking my eyes out. “Now it’s mine.” He replied with an ‘I don’t give a fuck’ look, gulping down half of the juice in the glass and placing it down again. “Everything is yours.” I muttered, but despite my mock annoyance, my heart was soaring. “Yeah, it is.” a

Our eyes met and my heart pounded, like always his gaze would consume me. I turned back to my food just as he took the fish I had placed on his plate and bit into it. I couldn’t stop the

smile from crossing my face and turned towards Charlene who was watching with eyes wide open with excitement, and I knew she wanted to squeal with happiness.

I did my best not to look at Barbara, although I did want to see her expression. Oh well, we can’t have everything we want. Feeling far more content, I decided to enjoy the delicious meal before me…

and the poor man looked as if

had settled over us during lunch was now gone, the severity of the reason behind this journey now weighing down upon us. Theon was quiet and Madelia was frowning deeply. “This mage, will he do a spell of some sort?” Charlene asked the two who were

he is in no health to perform any magic. He is a seer. He may not have the sight to see anything of this world but he sees what we cannot. Now Princess… please do not ask such questions out in the open.” “Yeah I-” “As future

into it once more. How had I never noticed that hatred towards Charlene before? “Ok, calm down.” I said, frowning at his

if looks could kill, we would both be dead. The rest of the walk there was quiet, with the steep hills becoming tiring and soon I was beginning to

direction because they were not asking anyone for any help. Help I do think they needed, because at times they seemed to stop and ponder over the small letter in hand. “How much longer?” I asked, when

get relaxed with your training, this would have been a pretty

with no answer. Theon obviously didn’t think I needed an answer, but even Madelia decided to ignore me. I stayed silent after that, deciding to ignore Theon. After another hour we finally reached the home of the mage. It reminded me more of a shrine, the nervousness and seriousness

Master Wenyu’s home.” A young man said,

was obvious, and I knew the man we were to see would not live for much longer. We followed

didn’t take away the worry in her

to see Madelia and Theon had stopped outside a door. The man who was accompanying us had gone into the room, closing the door behind him, telling us to

the hallway. “Yes, before he retired up here, he was my mentor.” She said, “I was raised and taught by him from the day I was found at an orphanage.” Theon simply gave a small nod in reply, before the door opened and the man stood aside. “Come on

was simply calm, he oozed dominance and power. The moment I entered the room, my heart sank at the state of the man on the bed. He was far frailer than I had imagined. His breathing was

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