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 Naga Emperor for this pearl,

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

I frowned.

on trying to

them to know that

for that? I looked at the body

came, bringing me from my

He walked towards me.

hand, he brushed my cheek with

I looked into his eyes, unable to hide the pain

isn’t the answer.”

even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready for him to tell me it was the duty

me to look up

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 as

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

words had made my heart soar, my chest pounding as I leaned

the hope of ever being together

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

realise it was his actions that were getting to me? His

his coppery brown hair flicked in front of his

slowly, forcing myself away from him and

don't think killing is the answer."

Hunter sighed.

you mean, 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, insteadremaining

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

and I knew that he knew far more than I about

we were not to travel at

to stay, and although we hadn’t come across

that the land contained did not look pleasant, and

they devoured the raw meat

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

us to stop and we all froze, making sure

trees, only to spot two young

barely

entirely human, save

They wore black shirts.

hair, and the other had short

that made me think that they were not

is the way one starts to think

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

Was it the hatred for werewolves?

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

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

the day and awakened at night,

keen, their poison fatal, and their strength far

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

need to rest and find a place to lay low for the

too many things

create a fog?” I

frowned, glancing through the trees at the

may help a little, but do it gradually." He

added, both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but

eyes were glowing gold as he stared far

red eyes that

focusing on my siren side, calling upon

enough to show him who

shimmery hue that

go away, or not try

at

and what do you want here?"

apart from his red eyes, there was nothing more,

darkness.

lifted, I couldn’t see

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