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.

answer to everyone's issues? "You don't plan to ask the Naga Emperor for this pearl, doyou, Yileyna? It won't work." Theon

was to sneak in and

I frowned.

on trying to negotiate

them to know that we were

looked at the body of the Naga on

Theon’s voice came, bringing

He walked towards me.

cheek with his forearm, removing some

looked into his eyes,

killing isn’t the answer.” I

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,

me to

have 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

argue I didn't want him to kill anyone

my heart soar, my chest pounding as I leaned

hope of ever being

see? “It’s only one Naga,don't feel bad." He said quietly, staring down at me, his

it was his actions that were getting to me? His

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

forcing myself away from him and looking

still don't think killing is the

Hunter sighed.

more beast than human.” We carried on walking, and I didn’t know how to

argue with that when I knew that already, but then

he knew far more than I about the

not to travel at night, no matter

to stay, and although we hadn’t

contained did not look pleasant, and I wondered

them from afar as they devoured the raw meat of the alligator

had been far

we all froze, making

of laughter reached me, and I peered out through the trees, only to spot two young

were barely older

entirely human, save for their green-hued

They wore black shirts.

had long hair, and the

me think that they were not entirely monsters,

is the way one starts to think that makes

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

it fear of the enemy? Was it the hatred for werewolves? Why were they as they are? I couldn’t help

innocence of the girls as they chased each other unknowingly, the way they chattered

Everyone deserved a chance.

but they didn’t seem to plan on going anywhere and instead

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

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

narrow path around the denser trees, and

did need to rest and find a place to lay low for

far too many things

a fog?” I

through the trees at the

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

don't think we'll be resting tonight..." Theon added, both Hunter and I

glowing gold as he

red eyes that were watching

on my siren side, calling

to show him

the shimmery hue that my skin took up and the air felt

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

wanted to glare at him but I stayed

are you and what do you want here?"

couldn't see him, apart from his red eyes,

darkness.

my fog lifted, I

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