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 for this pearl, doyou, Yileyna? It won't

the plan was to sneak in and

I frowned.

on trying

know that we

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

bringing me from

He walked towards me.

he brushed my cheek with

I looked into his eyes,

isn’t the answer.”

makes meseem 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

that burden, which really isn’t so hard for

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

soar, my chest

hope of ever being together was

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

that were getting to me? His

his coppery brown hair

away from him and looking

don't think killing

Hunter sighed.

more beast than human.” We carried on walking, and I didn’t know how to reply, insteadremaining

but then why did it still feel sowrong? ----- Hours passed and darkness

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

had made it clear we were not to travel at night, no matter

and although we hadn’t come

land contained did not look

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

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

and we all froze, making sure

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

were barely older

they looked entirely human, save for their green-hued

They wore black shirts.

had long hair, and the other

was their laughter that made me think that they were

starts to

and compassion, Nagas didn't need to become the hostile monsters

of the enemy? Was it the hatred for werewolves?

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

for us to move on unless they left, but they didn’t seem to plan on going

during the day and awakened at night, which meant the moment darkness falls,this place would be crawling

their strength

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

find a place to

many things in

create a

through the trees at the darkening

a little, but do it gradually." He replied

think we'll be resting tonight..." Theon added, both Hunter and I looked at

gold as he stared far

pair of gleaming red eyes that were watching us through the

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

show him who I

saw the tips of my hair change, the shimmery hue

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

at him but

you want here?" His dangerous voice

see him, apart from his red

darkness.

lifted, I couldn’t

an audience