The Omega Mated To The Four

The Alpha Bond 101

The Omega: Mated To The Four

Chapter Hundred and One

We drove to the outskirts of town, following the directions given to us.

The further we went, the more the landscape changed. The trees grew taller, their trunks thicker, their branches tangled like skeletal fingers reaching toward the sky.

And the sounds-

Or rather, the lack of them.

At first, I barely noticed. The car's engine still hummed, the tires stil crunched

against the dirt road. But as Alex pulled to a stop near an old, weathered sign, I finally realized what was missing.

The world had gone silent.

No birds.

No wind.

Nothing

Isaiah exhaled. "This is it."

We stepped out of the car.

The forest loomed ahead of us, a black mass of twisting branches.

Austin let out a nervous laugh. "Great. A creepy, haunted forest. Exactly what I wanted."

Isaiah smirked. "Scared?"

Austin scoffed. "No. Just... cautious."

Alex rolled his eyes. "Let's go."

We stepped into the forest.

And immediately, the silence wrapped around us like a vice.

It was like stepping into another world.

Every step felt too loud. The snapping of twigs beneath our boots echoed, filling the space where the sounds of nature should have been.

I swallowed hard, trying to steady my breathing. If there was magic here, we needed to move carefully.

The air was dense, thick with the scent of damp earth and decaying wood. My wolt sued inside me, restless and alert. Something wasn't right.

I turned to the others.

Elijah stood beside me, his shoulders tense. Isaiah surveyed the area eyes narrowed as if he could see couldn't. Austin stretched, pretending to be casual, but the way his gers twitched at his sides gave away his nerves. Alex, of something the rest of us

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his shoulders and

he said, stuffing his hands into his pockets, "it doesn't look

to the fact that there's

was right. The eerie silence stretched around us, pressing against my skin

frozen in time. Many had been cut down, their fallen

dirt. As we moved deeper into the grove, I felt it. A pull.

this place. The sensation was like a tug inside my chest, a string of energy

for a moment, my fingers brushing against one

was cold-colder than

Stormi...

wolf's voice echoed in my mind, urgent

voice

my head, though I knew we both felt

"Well, the old man was

kicked at a fallen branch, watching it crumble into dust. "Nothing magical

grinned. "Damn. I' oping for floating ghosts or tree spirits. What

suddenly crouched down, studying something on the ground.

A small flame appeared at his fingertips, casting an orange glow onto

I

over the earth. "A boundary

inhaled sharply as the firelight revealed a pattern-a circle

the entire

"The trees weren't just cut down. They

pressed down

my fingers brushing over the edge

but alive. I could feel the magic humming beneath my

any spell,"

how I knew, but... I

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screamed that I was supposed

I could move past the line, Elijah's hard shot out, grabbing

grip was firm, his amber eyes dark with

met his gaze. "But I have to do

slowly,

took a deep breath-then stepped over the

The air shifted instantly.

trees around me groaned, their branches trembling. A sudden gust of wind rushed

The whispers began.

slithered through the air, wrapping around us like invisible

flinched. The voices

weaving together an endless stream of words. Some were in languages I didn't recognize, and others were fragments

never told them the

00

are coming. They

it didn't help. The voices were inside

others stumbled behind me, their

barely cutting through the whispers "The spell- what is

to focus. "They're

overwhelming us," Austin