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.

plan to ask the Naga Emperor for this pearl, doyou, Yileyna? It won't

plan was to sneak in and simply

I frowned.

was planning on trying to negotiate with

know that we were not all

for that? I looked at the body of the Naga on the floor,

bringing me from my

He walked towards me.

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

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

the answer.” I

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

forcing me to look

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

I should argue I didn't want him to kill

my chest pounding as I leaned

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

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

his coppery brown hair flicked in front of his

myself away from him and

still don't think killing

Hunter sighed.

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

that when I knew that already, but then why did it still feel sowrong? ----- Hours passed and darkness

was clear, and I knew that he knew far more than I about the

it clear we were not to travel at

looking for a place to stay, and although we hadn’t come across any moreNagas, we had seen two feasting on an

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

from afar as they devoured the raw meat

lucky that they had been far

now signalled us to stop and we all

only to spot

were barely older

up they looked entirely human, save

They wore black shirts.

hair, and the

was their laughter that made me think that they were

the way one starts to think

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

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

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

they left, but they didn’t seem to plan on

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

and their strength

around the denser trees, and

to rest and find a place to lay low for

were far too many things in this forest

I create a fog?”

the

little, but do it

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

eyes were glowing gold as he

of gleaming red eyes that were watching us through

on my siren

show him who

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

to get him to go away, or not try to kill us.”

to glare at him but I stayed

and what do you want

apart from his red

darkness.

fog lifted,

I wish for an audience