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

in and simply

I frowned.

trying to negotiate

that

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.

he brushed my cheek with his

into his eyes, unable to hide the pain

isn’t the

my hands, even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready for him to

forcing me to

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

should argue I didn't want him to kill anyone

soar, my chest pounding as I leaned into his

hope of ever being together was

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

was his actions that were getting to me? His handsome

coppery brown hair flicked in front of his

myself away from

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 I didn’t know how to reply,

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

tension was clear, and I knew that he knew far more

not to travel at night, no matter what

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

contained did not look

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

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

us to stop and we all

I peered out through the trees, only to spot two young

barely

up they looked entirely human, save

They wore black shirts.

hair, and

that made me think that

the way one starts to think that

Nagas didn't

it the hatred for werewolves? Why were they as they are?

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

was no way for us to move on unless they left, but they didn’t seem to plan on going anywhere and instead settled down

right, often Naga slept during the day and awakened at night, which meant the moment darkness falls,this place would be crawling with

fatal, and their strength

path around the denser trees, and we did, slipping through the trees only to hear

find a place to lay low for the

were far too many things in

a fog?” I

through the trees at the

a little, but do it

both Hunter and I

eyes were glowing gold as

turned, spotting the silent pair of gleaming red eyes that were watching us through

I warned, focusing on my siren

to show

of my hair change, the shimmery hue

looking prettier isn't going to get him to go away, or not try to kill us.”

I wanted to glare at him

what do you want

from his

darkness.

my fog lifted, I

wish for an audience with your Emperor.” I