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

plan was to sneak in and simply search

I frowned.

planning on trying to negotiate with

to know that we were

the body

Theon’s voice came, bringing me from my

He walked towards me.

he brushed my cheek with his forearm, removing some

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

killing isn’t the answer.” I

don't want the deaths of so many on my hands, even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready for him to tell me it was the duty of an Alpha to bear the burden, but it didn't

face, forcing me to

I'm here to do the killing and carry that burden, which really isn’t so hard for me.” His voice was quiet, his eyesemotionless as they

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

my heart soar, my chest pounding

of ever being

the you that I always wanted to see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel bad." He said quietly,

were getting to me? His handsome face, even

coppery brown hair flicked in front of his

slowly, forcing myself away from

think killing is

Hunter sighed.

more beast than human.” We

I knew that already, but then why

was clear, and I knew that he knew far more than I about the dangers that

we were not to travel

currently looking for a place to stay, and although we hadn’t

not look pleasant, and I wondered how theland and

afar as they devoured the raw

had been far too engrossed

stop and we all froze, making sure

the trees, only to spot two young Naga females, giggling and

were barely older

waist up they looked entirely human, save for

They wore black shirts.

had long hair, and the

think that they were not entirely monsters, not

the way one starts to think that

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

hatred for werewolves? Why were they as they

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

Everyone deserved a chance.

was no way for us to move on unless they left, but they didn’t

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

keen, their poison fatal, and their strength far greater

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

to rest and find a place to

many things in this forest

I create a fog?” I

the trees at the

little, but do it gradually."

resting tonight..." Theon added, both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but he wasn't looking

were glowing gold as he stared far

spotting the silent pair of gleaming red eyes

I warned, focusing on my siren

enough to show him who

of my hair change, the shimmery hue that my skin took up and the air felt suddenly

or not try to kill us.” Theon murmured, making Hunter

glare at him

are you and what do you want here?" His

his

darkness.

lifted, I couldn’t see

an audience with your Emperor.” I stated, holding his