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.

to everyone's issues? "You don't plan to ask the Naga Emperor for this pearl, doyou, Yileyna? It won't work." Theon asked

the plan was to sneak in and

I frowned.

on trying to negotiate

know that we were not

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

bringing

He walked towards me.

hand, he brushed my cheek with his forearm,

on, let's go." I looked into his eyes,

killing isn’t the

many on my hands, even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready

face, forcing me to look

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,

made my heart soar, my chest pounding as

of ever

you that I always wanted to see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel bad." He said quietly, staring down at

were getting to me? His handsome face, even dirty, was

his coppery brown hair flicked in

forcing myself away from him and looking at the

still don't think killing is

Hunter sighed.

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

I knew that already, but then why

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

clear we were not to

although we hadn’t come across any moreNagas,

not look pleasant, and I wondered how theland and its

afar as they devoured the raw meat of

had been far too engrossed to

now signalled us to stop and we all froze, making sure to keep our heartbeats

trees, only to spot two young Naga females, giggling and chattering as they

barely

looked entirely

They wore black shirts.

long hair, and the other

made me think

the way one starts to think that makes one a

love and compassion, Nagas didn't need to become the hostile

Was it the hatred for werewolves? Why

they chattered and tumbled onto the ground, it remindedme of Charlene and me

Everyone deserved a chance.

move on unless they left, but they didn’t seem to plan on going anywhere and

during the day and awakened at night, which meant the moment darkness falls,this place

their strength far greater than that of

follow, spotting a narrow path around the denser trees, and we did, slipping through the trees

and find a

too many things

I create a fog?”

frowned, glancing through the trees

but do it gradually." He

Theon added, both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but he wasn't

eyes were glowing gold

red eyes that

on my siren side,

to show him who

my hair change, the shimmery hue that my skin took

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

wanted to glare at him

and what do you want here?" His dangerous

see him, apart from his red eyes, there was nothing more,

darkness.

my fog lifted, I couldn’t see

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