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

said, stuffing his hands into his pockets,

to the

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

their once-flowing branches frozen in time. Many had been

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

deep within me recognized this place. The sensation was like a tug inside my chest, a

a moment, my fingers brushing against

was cold-colder than

Stormi...

mind, urgent yet curious.

Elijah's voice

though I knew we both felt the

"Well, the old man was

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

grinned. "Damn. I' oping for floating ghosts or

crouched down, studying something on the

appeared at his fingertips, casting an orange glow

is it?" I asked,

over

firelight revealed a pattern-a circle etched into

the

voice was grim. "The trees weren't

words pressed

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

I could feel the magic humming beneath

just any spell," Elijah

didn't know how I knew,

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screamed that I was supposed

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

his amber eyes dark with concern.

know." I met his gaze. "But

moment, he hesitated. Then, slowly, he released my

deep breath-then

The air shifted instantly.

sudden gust of wind

The whispers began.

soft, they slithered through the

flinched. The voices

overlapping, 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 them

00

coming.

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

behind me, their eyes

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

shook his head, struggling to focus.

us," Austin