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

said, stuffing his hands into

"Yeah? Try listening to the fact

us, pressing against my skin like an

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 pull. It was faint but

tug inside my chest, a string of energy connecting me to the

fingers brushing against one of the tree

cold-colder than it

Stormi...

in my mind, urgent yet curious. She felt

Elijah's voice was quiet

head, though I knew we both

tension. "Well, the old man was right.

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

oping for floating ghosts or tree spirits. What a

studying something on the ground. His brows furrowed

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

I asked,

over the earth. "A

sharply as the firelight revealed a

surrounding the

trees weren't just

words pressed down on all of

Elijah, my fingers brushing over

feel the magic humming beneath

just any spell," Elijah

didn't know how I

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me screamed that

move past the line,

was firm, his amber eyes dark with concern. We don't

met his gaze. "But I have to

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

deep breath-then

The air shifted instantly.

their branches trembling. A sudden gust of wind

The whispers began.

the air,

flinched. The

languages I didn't recognize, and others were

told them

00

are coming.

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

behind me, their

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

his head, struggling to focus.

us," Austin gritted