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.

don't plan to ask the Naga

to sneak in and simply

I frowned.

on trying to

to know that

at the body of

bringing me from my

He walked towards me.

brushed my cheek with his forearm, removing

eyes, unable to hide the pain I was

the answer.”

weak." I was ready for him to tell me

cupped my 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 into mine

I didn't want

made my heart soar, my

hope of ever being

are you 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 caressing

not realise it was his actions that were getting to me? His handsome face, even

few strands of his coppery brown hair flicked in front of his

slowly, forcing myself away from him and

don't think killing is the answer." I

Hunter sighed.

understand 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

but then why did it still feel sowrong? ----- Hours

knew far more than I about the dangers that

were not to travel at

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

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

from afar as they devoured the raw meat

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

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

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

were barely

entirely human,

They wore black shirts.

long hair, and the

think

starts to think that makes one

love and compassion, Nagas didn't need

Was it the hatred for werewolves?

innocence of the girls as they chased each other unknowingly, the way they chattered and tumbled onto the ground, it remindedme of Charlene

Everyone deserved a chance.

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

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

keen, their poison fatal, and their strength far greater than that

and we did, slipping through the trees only to hear

need to rest and find a

far too many things in this forest

I create a fog?” I

the trees at

a little, but do it gradually."

Theon added, both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but he wasn't

gold as he stared far

red eyes that were

focusing on my siren side, calling

enough to show him who I

of my hair change, the shimmery hue that my skin

going to get him to go away, or not try to kill us.” Theon murmured, making Hunter snicker

at him but I

are you and what do you want here?" His dangerous voice

apart from his red eyes, there was

darkness.

with my fog lifted, I couldn’t see

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