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 Naga Emperor for this pearl, doyou,

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

I frowned.

planning on trying

know that

at the body of the Naga on

voice came, bringing me from my

He walked towards me.

brushed my cheek with his forearm, removing

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

isn’t the

to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready

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

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

had made my heart soar, my chest pounding

the hope of ever being together

making it harder? Why are 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 fingers gently caressing my

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

coppery brown hair flicked

myself away from him and looking at the

killing is the answer." I

Hunter sighed.

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

that already, but then why did it still

knew far more than I

were not to travel at night, no matter what

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

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

as they devoured the raw meat of the alligator

had been far too engrossed

all froze, making

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

barely

they looked entirely human, save for their green-hued

They wore black shirts.

hair, and the other

it was their laughter that made me think that they

to think that makes one

Nagas didn't need to become the hostile monsters

werewolves? Why were they

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.

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

during the day and awakened at night, which meant the moment darkness falls,this

their poison fatal, and their strength far greater

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

to rest and find a place to lay low for

too many things

create a fog?” I

the trees at

a little, but do it gradually." He

Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but he wasn't looking at

glowing gold as he stared far

spotting the silent pair of gleaming red eyes that were watching

warned, focusing on my siren side, calling

enough to show him

the shimmery hue

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

glare at him but

you want

from his red eyes, there was nothing more,

darkness.

with my fog lifted, I couldn’t

for an audience with your Emperor.” I stated, holding