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 work." Theon

and simply

I frowned.

trying to negotiate

that

wish for that? I looked at the body of

voice came, bringing me from

He walked towards me.

his hand, he brushed my cheek with

let's go." I looked into his eyes, unable to hide the pain I

killing isn’t the

the deaths of so many on my hands, even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready for him to tell me

face, forcing me

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

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

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

hope of ever being together was

making it harder? Why are you showing me the you that I always wanted to see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel

that were getting to me?

strands of his coppery brown

forcing myself away from him

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

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

and I knew that he knew far more than I about

clear we were not to travel at night,

a place to stay, and although we hadn’t come across any moreNagas, we had seen two feasting on an

little water that the land contained did not look

afar as they devoured the raw meat

edged away, lucky that they had been far

to stop and we all

peered out through the trees, only

were barely older than

they looked entirely human, save for their green-hued

They wore black shirts.

and the

their laughter that made me think that they

way one starts to think that makes

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

the hatred for werewolves?

as they chased each other unknowingly, the way they chattered and tumbled onto the

Everyone deserved a chance.

left, but they didn’t seem to plan

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

were keen, their poison fatal, and their strength far greater than that of a

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

did need to rest and find a place to lay

far too many

create a fog?”

frowned, glancing through the trees at the darkening

may help a little, but do it gradually."

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

glowing gold as

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

focusing on my siren side, calling upon my

to show him who

change, the shimmery hue

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

I wanted to glare at him but

and what do you want here?"

apart from his red eyes,

darkness.

fog lifted,

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