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.

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

and simply

I frowned.

trying

to know that we were not all

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

Theon’s voice came, bringing me from my

He walked towards me.

brushed my cheek with his forearm, removing

I looked into his eyes,

the answer.” I

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

my face, forcing me to look

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

I didn't want him to

soar, my chest pounding as I leaned

the hope of ever being together was

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 down at me, his fingers

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

brown hair flicked in front

nodded slowly, forcing myself away from him and looking at

still don't think killing is the answer."

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

that already, but then why did it

he knew far more than I about the dangers that lingered

made it clear we were not to travel at night,

looking for a place to stay, and although we hadn’t come across any moreNagas,

contained did not look

afar as they devoured the raw meat of the

edged away, lucky that they had been far

we all froze, making sure to

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

were barely older than

waist up they looked entirely human, save for their green-hued

They wore black shirts.

and

me think

to think

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

it fear of the enemy? Was it the hatred for werewolves? Why were

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.

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

at night, which meant the moment darkness falls,this place would be crawling with

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

and we did, slipping through the trees only to hear

find a place

far too many things in this

I create a fog?” I

glancing through the trees at the

but do it gradually."

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

gold as he stared

the silent pair of gleaming red eyes that

me." I warned, focusing on my siren side, calling upon my

show

change, the shimmery hue that my skin took up and the air

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

to glare at him but I stayed

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

from his red eyes, there was

darkness.

my fog lifted, I couldn’t see

an audience with your Emperor.” I stated, holding