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 shoulders and

stuffing his hands into his pockets,

"Yeah? Try listening to the

silence stretched around us, pressing against my skin like an invisible

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

into the grove, I felt it. A pull. It was faint

The sensation was like a tug inside my chest, a string of energy connecting me

a moment, my fingers brushing against one of the tree

than

Stormi...

mind, urgent yet curious. She felt it

voice was quiet but

I knew we both felt the

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

watching it crumble into dust. "Nothing

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

down, studying something on the ground. His

over him, flicking his fingers. A small flame appeared at his fingertips, casting

is it?" I

finger over the earth.

inhaled sharply as the firelight revealed a pattern-a circle

the entire

trees weren't just cut down. They

pressed down on all of

knelt beside Elijah, my fingers brushing over the

could feel the magic

any spell," Elijah

how I knew,

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me screamed that

I could move past

with concern. We don't know

I met his gaze. "But I have to do

Then, slowly, he

a deep breath-then stepped

The air shifted instantly.

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

The whispers began.

and soft, they slithered through the air, wrapping around us like

flinched. The voices weren't

stream of words. Some were in languages I didn't recognize, and others were fragments of secrets.

never told

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coming. They

hands over my ears, but it didn't help. The voices were

stumbled behind me, their eyes wide with

Isaiah called, his voice barely cutting through the whispers "The spell- what

his head, struggling to focus. "They're speaking in

overwhelming us," Austin