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 this pearl, doyou, Yileyna? It won't

in and

I frowned.

trying to negotiate with

that we were not

the body of the Naga on the

bringing me from

He walked towards me.

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

eyes, unable to hide the pain I

killing isn’t the

so many on my 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 burden,

me to look

won't have to, I'm here to do the killing and carry that burden, which really isn’t so hard for me.” His voice was

want him to

heart soar, my chest pounding as

the hope of ever being together

were 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." He said quietly, staring down

was his actions that were getting to me? His handsome face, even

his coppery brown hair flicked in front of his

nodded slowly, forcing myself away from him and looking at

still don't think killing is the

Hunter sighed.

Naga are a cursed species, one that is more beast than human.” We carried on walking, and

already, but then why did it still feel sowrong? ----- Hours passed

tension was clear, and I knew that he knew far more than I

clear we were not to travel

were currently looking for a place to stay, and although we hadn’t come across any moreNagas, we had seen

land contained did not look pleasant, and I wondered how theland

as they devoured the raw meat of the

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

signalled us to stop and we all froze, making sure to

the trees, only to spot two young Naga females, giggling and

were barely older

looked entirely

They wore black shirts.

long hair, and the other had

that made me think

starts to

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

fear of the enemy? Was it the hatred for werewolves? Why were

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

on unless they left, but they didn’t seem

was right, often Naga slept during the day and awakened at night, which meant the moment

poison fatal, and their

motioned us to follow, spotting a narrow path around the denser trees, and we did, slipping through the trees only to

a place to lay low

too many things in this

I create a

the trees at the darkening

but do it gradually."

both Hunter and I looked at himsharply,

glowing gold as he stared far

red eyes that were watching us through the trees metres

on my siren

show

tips of my hair change, the shimmery hue

to go away, or

to glare at

and what do you want here?" His dangerous

apart from his red eyes, there was nothing more,

darkness.

my fog lifted, I couldn’t see

from Astalion, and I wish for an audience with your Emperor.” I stated,