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

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

I frowned.

trying to negotiate

them to know that we were not all

I looked at the body of the Naga on

bringing me

He walked towards me.

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

his eyes, unable to hide the

killing isn’t the

don't want the deaths of so many on my hands, even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready for him to

face, forcing me

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 quiet, his eyesemotionless

knew I should argue I didn't want him to kill anyone either, I

soar, my chest pounding as I leaned

the hope of ever

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

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

coppery brown hair flicked in

nodded slowly, forcing myself away from him and looking at the

think killing is the

Hunter sighed.

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

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

knew far

clear we were not to travel at night, no

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

did not look pleasant,

afar as they devoured the

had slowly edged away, lucky that they had

now signalled us to stop and we all

sound of laughter reached me, and I peered out through the trees, only to spot two young Naga females, giggling and

barely

entirely human, save for

They wore black shirts.

long hair, and the

made me think that they were not entirely monsters,

is the way one starts to think that

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

Was it the hatred for werewolves? Why were they as they are? I couldn’t help

innocence of the girls as they chased each other unknowingly, the way they chattered and tumbled onto the ground, it remindedme of Charlene

Everyone deserved a chance.

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

was right, often Naga slept during the day and awakened at night, which meant the moment darkness falls,this place would be

fatal, and their strength far greater than that of a

narrow path around the denser trees, and

need to rest and find a place to lay low for

were far too many

a fog?”

glancing through the trees at

help a little, but do

be resting tonight..." Theon added, both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but

were glowing gold as

turned, spotting the silent pair of gleaming red eyes that were watching us through the

my

show him who I

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

away, or not try to

to glare at him but I stayed

what do you want here?"

from his red eyes,

darkness.

my fog lifted, I couldn’t

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