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 ask the Naga Emperor for this pearl, doyou, Yileyna? It won't

the plan was to sneak in and simply search for

I frowned.

was planning on trying to

that we were

the body of the Naga

voice came, bringing me

He walked towards me.

cheek with

go." I looked into his eyes, unable

the answer.” I

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

cupped my face, forcing me to look up

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

I didn't want him to

soar, my

the hope of ever being together

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

was his actions that were getting to me? His handsome

his coppery brown hair flicked in front of his

from him

don't think killing is the

Hunter sighed.

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,

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

and I knew that he knew far

were not to travel at night,

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

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

them from afar as they devoured the

had been

now signalled us to stop and we all

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

waist up they looked entirely human,

They wore black shirts.

and

made me think that they were not entirely

way one starts to think that makes

can still teach love and compassion, Nagas didn't

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

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

but they didn’t seem to plan on going anywhere and instead

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

keen, their poison fatal, and their strength far

narrow path around the denser trees, and we did,

and find a place to

too many things

I create a fog?”

through the

help a little, but

be resting tonight..." Theon added, both Hunter

glowing gold as he

the silent pair of gleaming red eyes that were watching

my siren side, calling upon my

enough to show him

the shimmery hue that my skin took up and

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

at him but I stayed staring

are you and what do you want

see him, apart from his red

darkness.

lifted, I couldn’t

am from Astalion, and I wish for an audience with your Emperor.” I stated,