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.

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

the plan was to sneak in and simply search for it, right?” Hunter

I frowned.

was planning on trying to negotiate with

that we

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

Theon’s voice came, bringing me from

He walked towards me.

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

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

isn’t the answer.”

I was ready

my face, forcing me to look up at

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

knew I should argue I didn't want him

soar, my chest pounding as I leaned into

hope of ever

wanted to see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel bad."

not realise it was his actions that were getting to

few strands of his coppery brown hair flicked in

away from him and looking at the

still don't think killing is the answer."

Hunter sighed.

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

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

knew that he knew far more than I about the dangers

were not

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

did not look pleasant, and I wondered how theland and

from afar as they devoured the raw meat of the alligator made

that they had been far too engrossed to even notice

stop and we all froze,

me, and I peered out through the trees, only to spot two young Naga females, giggling and chattering

barely older than

waist up they looked entirely human,

They wore black shirts.

long hair, and the other

laughter that made me think that they were not entirely

starts to think that makes one a

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

for werewolves? Why were they as they are?

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

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

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

keen, their poison fatal, and their strength far greater than that

us to follow, spotting a narrow path around the denser trees, and we did,

and find a place to

too many things in this forest

I create a

frowned, glancing through the

help a little, but do

Theon added, both Hunter

gold as he stared

the silent pair of gleaming red eyes that were

on my siren side, calling upon

show him who I

the shimmery hue that my skin took up and the air felt

away, or

at him but I

you want here?"

from his red eyes, there was

darkness.

fog lifted,

I wish for an audience