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

into his pockets, "it doesn't look that

to the

silence stretched around us, pressing

in time. Many had been cut down, their fallen trunks rotting into the earth. A graveyard

crunched softly against the dirt. As we moved deeper into the grove, I felt it. A

me recognized this place. The sensation was like a tug

a moment, my fingers brushing against one of the tree

was cold-colder than it should

Stormi...

echoed in my mind, urgent yet curious. She felt it

voice was quiet but

though I knew we both felt the same

exhaled loudly, breaking the tension. "Well, the old

fallen branch, watching it crumble into dust. "Nothing

floating ghosts or tree spirits. What

suddenly crouched down, studying something on the ground. His brows furrowed

flicking his fingers. A small flame appeared at his fingertips, casting an orange glow onto the

is it?" I asked,

finger over the earth. "A boundary

inhaled sharply as the firelight revealed

surrounding the

"The trees weren't just

weight of his words pressed down

Elijah, my fingers brushing over the edge of

alive. I could feel

isn't just any spell," Elijah

how I knew, but... I

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part of me screamed

but before I could move past

his amber eyes dark with concern. We don't know what kind of spell

his gaze.

moment, he hesitated. Then, slowly, he

took a deep breath-then stepped over

The air shifted instantly.

trembling. A sudden gust of wind

The whispers began.

through the

flinched. The voices

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

told

00

are coming.

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

others stumbled behind me,

cutting through the

head, struggling to focus.

overwhelming us," Austin gritted