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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rolled his

said, stuffing his hands into

scoffed. "Yeah? Try listening to the fact that there's

The eerie silence stretched around us, pressing against my

whispering willows loomed ahead, twisted and dry, their once-flowing branches frozen in time. Many

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

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

a moment, my fingers brushing

cold-colder than it should

Stormi...

wolf's voice echoed in my mind, urgent

voice was quiet

knew we both

exhaled loudly, breaking the tension. "Well, the old man was right. This place

branch, watching it

oping for floating ghosts

studying something on

flame appeared at his fingertips, casting an orange glow onto

I asked,

over the

sharply as the firelight revealed a pattern-a circle

the entire

"The trees weren't just

words pressed

knelt beside Elijah, my fingers brushing over the edge of the boundary. It

alive. I could feel the

any spell," Elijah

didn't know how I knew,

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me screamed that I

I could move past

wait.” His grip was firm, his amber eyes dark with concern. We don't know what

met his gaze. "But I have to do

hesitated. Then, slowly, he released my wrist, nodding

breath-then stepped over

The air shifted instantly.

their branches trembling. A sudden gust of

The whispers began.

they slithered through the air, wrapping

flinched. The voices weren't

in languages I didn't recognize, and others were fragments of secrets. -He betrayed his own

never told them the

00

coming. They are

but it didn't help.

me, their eyes wide

cutting through the whispers "The spell- what

to focus. "They're speaking

us," Austin