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.

plan to ask the Naga Emperor for this pearl,

plan was to sneak in and

I frowned.

on trying

that we were

the body of the Naga on the floor, wondering if he

Theon’s voice came, bringing me from my

He walked towards me.

his hand, he brushed my cheek with his forearm,

his eyes, unable to hide

killing isn’t the answer.”

hands, even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready

my face, forcing me to

and carry that burden, which really isn’t so hard for me.”

I should argue I didn't want him to

made my heart soar, my

of ever being together

were you making it harder? Why 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

realise it was his actions that were getting to me? His handsome face, even dirty, was incredibly

of his coppery brown hair flicked

nodded slowly, forcing myself away from him and looking at the

think killing is

Hunter sighed.

more beast than human.” We

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

knew that he knew far more than I about

made it clear we were not to

although we hadn’t come across any moreNagas, we had

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 me

edged away, lucky that they had been far too engrossed

we all froze, making sure

and I peered out through the trees, only

were barely older

waist up they looked entirely human, save for

They wore black shirts.

and the

it was their laughter that made me think that they were not entirely monsters, not

is the way one starts to think that

can still teach love and compassion, Nagas didn't need to become the

enemy? Was it the hatred for werewolves? Why were they as they

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

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

slept during the day and awakened at night,

were keen, their poison fatal, and their strength far greater

path around the denser trees, and we did, slipping through the trees only to hear soundsfrom

need to rest and find a

too many

I create a fog?”

the

help a little, but do it gradually." He replied

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

gold as he stared

of gleaming red eyes

warned, focusing on my siren side,

show

the shimmery hue that

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

wanted to glare at him but I stayed staring

you and what do you want here?"

his red eyes, there was

darkness.

lifted, I

am from Astalion, and I wish for an audience with