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

35. A Futile Attempt YILEYNA My eyes flashed and it was almost as if we moved as one. Both Theon and I raised our hands,Theon's glow swirling around his sword as I raised a wall of ice.

The Naga slammed into it, before the ice was cracked by Theon’s sword slamming through and into the Naga’s stomach.

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My heart thumped.

His move shocking me.

Sure, the barrier was not the same ice that I encased the castle with, but for him to breakit so easily...

He was strong, and it confirmed that he held back during our training too…

I shook my head, looking for a way to get closer.

If I could encase his body in ice…

"Yileyna!" Hunter shouted just as the Naga's tail slammed into me.

I went flying as Theon sliced its tail off and I flipped in the air, landingon my feet.

I touched the sludgy water with my hand, sending ice through it and letting it wrap around the Naga’s tail, he hissed shoving Theon off him.

He was injured but it wasn’t fatal.

"Stop." I commanded, raising my hand and creating a shield of ice.

"We are not here to kill." I wasn't sure it'd work, Hunter and Theon were both holding their swords ready, their eyes flaming and theirauras blazing around them.

"You do not venture into the lands of Naran, where you are not welcome.” The Naga hissed.

It was the first time I had heard one speak.

His voice was deep and raspy, and his cold, sinister glare was trained upon me as he struggled against the ice that encased the tip ofhis tail and spread upwards.

"We would not have if we had any other choice." I replied firmly.

His lips curled maliciously.

"Then you will die here!" "They hold no compassion; they are more monster than human.” Hunter warned coldly.

The Naga smiled and turned his attention to him.

"We like the kill..." His voice was darker and more sinister, and then he suddenly lunged at me.

"Don't!" I said to the men, raising a barrier that the Naga smashed into.

“You will die!” He hissed, slithering around the barrier.

I stepped back as he stretched to his limits, his lower body frozen in the ice as he thrashedaround.

He roared, venom dripping from his fangs as he lunged at me once more, not caring about the damage to his tail.

I was ready for him.

He ripped free from the ice, his body bloodied, but before he even reached me, Hunterand Theon attacked, decapitating his head and piercing his heart.

I closed my eyes as his deep greenish blood splashed across my face.

"Do you men think killing is the only option? I was trying to talk to him!” I said as the Naga’s body dropped into the sludgewith a thick splash.

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“He isn’t one we could have talked to.

Look at the mark on his neck? He has been deemed a criminal by the empire itself.”Hunter said quietly.

I sighed, wiping my face and staring at the green blood.

I was trying…

I exhaled but said nothing.

everyone's issues? "You don't plan to ask the Naga Emperor for this pearl, doyou,

sneak in and simply search for it, right?”

I frowned.

trying to negotiate with

to know that

wish for that? I looked at the body of the Naga on

came, bringing

He walked towards me.

his hand, he brushed my cheek with his forearm, removing

eyes,

the

hands, even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready for him to tell me it was the duty of an Alpha to bear the

cupped my face, forcing me to

do the killing and carry that burden, which really isn’t so hard for me.” His voice was quiet, his eyesemotionless as they stared

didn't want him to kill anyone either,

words had made my heart soar, my

the hope of ever being together

you making it harder? Why are you showing me the you that I always wanted to see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel bad."

not realise it was his actions that were getting to me? His handsome

his coppery brown hair flicked in

away from him and looking at the dead

think killing

Hunter sighed.

mean, but Naga are a cursed species, one that is more beast than human.” We carried on walking, and I didn’t know how to

argue with that when I knew that already, but then why did it still feel sowrong? ----- Hours passed and darkness was

he knew far more than I about the dangers that

we were not to travel at night, no matter what

to stay, and although we hadn’t come across

look pleasant, and I wondered how theland and

them from afar as they devoured the raw meat of the

slowly edged away, lucky that they had been far too engrossed to

signalled us to stop and we all froze, making sure

I peered out through the trees, only to spot two young

barely older

up they looked entirely human, save for their green-hued

They wore black shirts.

had long hair, and the other

was their laughter that made me think that they were not entirely monsters, not

is the way one starts to think that makes one a

still teach love and compassion, Nagas didn't need to

Was it the hatred for werewolves? Why

the girls as they chased each other unknowingly, the way they chattered and

Everyone deserved a chance.

for us to move on unless they left, but they didn’t seem to plan on going

the day and awakened at night, which meant the moment

and their strength far greater

path around the denser trees, and we did, slipping

find a

too many things in this forest

I create a fog?”

through the trees at the darkening

may help a little, but do it gradually." He

both Hunter and I

eyes were glowing gold as

red eyes that were watching us through the trees

warned, focusing on my siren side, calling

to show him

shimmery hue that my skin took up and the

isn't going to get him to go away, or not try to kill us.” Theon

glare at him

you and what do you want

his red eyes, there was nothing

darkness.

with my fog lifted,

wish for an audience with your Emperor.” I stated, holding