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, Yileyna? It won't

the plan was to sneak in and

I frowned.

on trying

to know that we were

I so wrong to wish for that? I looked at the body of the Naga on the floor, wondering if

voice came, bringing me from

He walked towards me.

my cheek with his forearm, removing some

eyes, unable to

isn’t the answer.” I

weak." I was ready for him to tell me it was the duty of an Alpha to bear the burden, but it

my face, forcing me to look up at

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

knew I should argue I didn't want him to

had made my heart soar, my chest pounding as I leaned into his

ever being together

see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel bad." He said quietly,

were getting to me? His handsome face, even

few strands of his coppery brown hair flicked in front of

nodded slowly, forcing myself away from him and looking at

killing is the

Hunter sighed.

what you mean, but Naga are a cursed species, one that is more beast than human.” We carried on walking, and

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

knew that he knew

not to travel at night, no

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

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

afar as they devoured the raw meat of the alligator made me

edged away, lucky that they had

stop and we all froze, making sure

through the trees, only to spot two young Naga females, giggling and chattering

barely older

the waist up they looked entirely human, save for their

They wore black shirts.

had long hair, and the

that made me think that they were not

the way one starts to

Nagas didn't need to become the hostile monsters

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

the way they chattered and tumbled onto the ground,

Everyone deserved a chance.

no way for us to move on unless they left, but they didn’t seem to plan

slept during the day and awakened at night, which meant the

poison fatal, and their strength far greater

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

need to rest and find a place to lay low

far too many things in

I create a fog?”

through the trees

but do it gradually."

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

eyes were glowing gold as

silent pair of gleaming red eyes that were

me." I warned, focusing on my siren side, calling upon my

show him

shimmery hue that my skin took up and the air felt suddenly

to go away, or not try to kill

to glare at him but I stayed

and what do you want

from his red eyes,

darkness.

fog lifted, I couldn’t

wish for an