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 his

"Yeah? Try listening to the

eerie silence stretched around us, pressing against my skin like

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

softly against the dirt. As we moved deeper into the

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

moment, my fingers brushing against one of

was cold-colder than

Stormi...

echoed in my mind, urgent yet curious.

wrong?" Elijah's voice was

I knew we

loudly, breaking the tension. "Well, the old man was

kicked at a fallen branch, watching it crumble into

for floating ghosts or

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

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

I

over the earth. "A boundary

firelight revealed a pattern-a

surrounding the

"The trees weren't just cut down.

words pressed

over

but alive. I could feel the magic humming

any spell," Elijah muttered "It's

hard. I didn't know how I knew, but... I

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me screamed that I was supposed

move past the

was firm, his amber eyes dark with concern. We don't know what kind of

met his gaze. "But

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

breath-then stepped over

The air shifted instantly.

branches trembling. A sudden

The whispers began.

slithered through the

flinched. The

overlapping, weaving together an endless stream of words. Some were in languages I didn't recognize, and others were fragments of

never told

00

coming. They

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

stumbled behind me, their eyes wide

called, his voice barely cutting through the whispers

struggling to focus.

us," Austin