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.

to everyone's issues? "You don't plan to ask the Naga Emperor for this pearl, doyou, Yileyna?

was to sneak in and simply search for it,

I frowned.

planning on trying to negotiate with

them to know that we were

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

Theon’s voice came, bringing

He walked towards me.

cheek with

go." I looked into his eyes, unable to hide the

the answer.” I

to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready for him to tell me it was the duty of

cupped my face, forcing me

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 as they stared into mine

didn't want him to kill anyone

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

hope of ever being

me the you that I always wanted to see? “It’s only one

were getting to me? His handsome face, even dirty, was incredibly

few strands of his coppery brown hair flicked in front

from him

killing

Hunter sighed.

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

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

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

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

a place to stay, and although we hadn’t

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

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

had slowly edged away, lucky that they had been

us to stop and we all froze, making sure to keep our heartbeats

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

were barely older

entirely human, save

They wore black shirts.

and the other had

made me think

one starts to think that

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

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

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

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

slept during the day and awakened at night, which meant

keen, their poison fatal, and their strength

path around the denser trees, and we did, slipping through the trees

need to rest and find a place to lay low

far too many things

I create a fog?” I

the

may help a little, but do it

both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but he

gold as he stared far

of gleaming red

focusing on my siren

enough to show him who I

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

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

to glare at

what do you want here?" His dangerous voice

see him, apart from his red eyes, there was nothing

darkness.

fog lifted, I couldn’t

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