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.

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

to sneak in and simply

I frowned.

planning on trying to negotiate

that we were

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

bringing me from

He walked towards me.

my cheek with his forearm, removing

go." I looked into his eyes, unable to hide the pain I

killing isn’t the answer.”

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 tell me it was the duty of an Alpha to bear the burden, but

forcing me to look

really isn’t so hard for me.” His voice was quiet, his eyesemotionless as they stared into mine

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

had made my heart soar, my chest pounding as

of ever being together was

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

were getting

few strands of his coppery brown hair flicked in front

slowly, forcing myself away from him and looking at

still don't think killing is the answer."

Hunter sighed.

that is more beast than human.” We

argue with that when I knew that already, but then why did it

and I knew that he knew far more than I about the dangers

it clear we were not to

hadn’t come across any moreNagas, we had seen two feasting

land contained did not look

devoured the raw meat

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

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

sound of laughter reached me, and I peered out through the trees, only to spot

barely

looked entirely

They wore black shirts.

and

me think that they

one starts to think that makes one

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

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

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

they didn’t seem to plan on going anywhere and instead settled down

the day and awakened at night, which meant the moment darkness

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

and we did, slipping through the trees only to

a place to lay low for the

were far too many things in

a

frowned, glancing through the trees at the darkening

but

don't think we'll be resting tonight..." Theon added, both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but

glowing gold as he stared

red eyes that were

me." I warned, focusing on my

enough to show

the shimmery hue that my skin took up and the

or not try to kill us.” Theon murmured, making

wanted to glare at him but

what do you want

him, apart from his red eyes, there was

darkness.

fog lifted,

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