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

sneak in and simply search for it,

I frowned.

on trying

wanted them to know that

the body of the Naga on the floor, wondering

voice came, bringing me

He walked towards me.

cheek with his

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

the

so many on my hands, even if refusing to kill makes meseem weak." I was ready for him to tell me

my face, forcing me

have to, I'm here to do the killing and carry that burden, which really isn’t so hard

argue I didn't want him to kill anyone either, I couldn’t

my heart soar, my chest pounding as I leaned into his

hope of ever being together

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 down at me, his fingers gently caressing

actions that were getting to me? His

few strands of his coppery brown hair

forcing myself away from him and

still don't think killing is the answer." I

Hunter sighed.

but Naga are a cursed species, one that is more beast than human.”

I knew that already, but then why

clear, and I knew that he knew far more

clear we were not to travel at night, no

and although we hadn’t come across any moreNagas, we had seen two

land contained did not look pleasant, and I wondered how theland and its inhabitants

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

had been far too engrossed to

signalled us to stop and we all

the trees, only to

barely

looked entirely human, save for their

They wore black shirts.

hair, and

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

the way one starts to think that makes

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

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

unknowingly, the way they chattered and tumbled onto the ground, it remindedme of Charlene and me from long

Everyone deserved a chance.

unless they left, but they didn’t

was right, often Naga slept during the day and awakened at night, which

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

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

did need to rest and find a place

too many things

create a

glancing through the trees at the darkening

little, but do it gradually." He

both Hunter and I looked at himsharply, but

gold as he

spotting the silent pair of gleaming red eyes that were watching us through the trees metres

on my siren side,

show him who I

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

away, or

wanted to glare at him but

you want here?"

see him, apart from his red

darkness.

with my fog lifted, I couldn’t see

wish for an audience