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.

the answer to everyone's issues? "You don't plan to ask the Naga Emperor for

plan was to sneak in and

I frowned.

trying

that we were not

so wrong to wish for that? I looked at the body of the Naga

Theon’s voice came, bringing

He walked towards me.

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

I looked into his eyes, unable to hide the pain I

killing isn’t the answer.” I

makes meseem weak." I was

cupped my face, forcing me to look

isn’t so hard for

should argue I didn't want him to

heart soar, my chest

hope of ever being together was

are you showing me the you that I always wanted to see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel bad." He said quietly, staring down at me, his fingers gently caressing my

was his actions that were getting to

brown hair flicked

slowly, forcing myself away from him and looking at the

killing is the answer."

Hunter sighed.

you mean, but Naga are a cursed species, one that is more beast than human.”

I knew that already, but then why did it still feel

clear, and I knew that he knew far more than I about the

we were not to travel at night, no matter

stay, and although we hadn’t come across any moreNagas, we had seen two feasting on

look pleasant,

them from afar as they devoured the raw meat of

away, lucky that they had been far too engrossed to

and we all

of laughter reached me, and I peered out through the trees, only

were barely older than

waist up they looked entirely human, save

They wore black shirts.

long hair, and

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

starts to think that makes one

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

it the hatred for werewolves? Why were they

the way they chattered and tumbled onto the ground, it remindedme of

Everyone deserved a chance.

no way for us to move on unless they left, but they didn’t seem to plan on going anywhere and instead settled down toeat

awakened at night, which meant the moment darkness falls,this place would be

poison fatal, and their strength

the denser trees, and we did, slipping through the trees only to hear soundsfrom the

find a place to

many things in this

create a fog?” I

frowned, glancing through the

little, but do it gradually."

added, both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but he

eyes were glowing gold as he stared far

of gleaming red eyes that were watching us

warned, focusing on my

to show him who I

tips of my hair change, the shimmery hue that my skin took up and the

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

glare at him but I stayed staring

are you and what do you want here?" His dangerous voice

apart from his red eyes,

darkness.

fog lifted, I couldn’t

an audience