The Omega Mated To The Four

The Alpha Bond 138

We drove to the outskirts of town, following the directions given to

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 sti 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 vi

It was like stepping into another world.

Every step felt too loud. The snapping of twigs beneath our boots effoed, filling the space where the sounds of nature should have been.

I swallowed hard, trying to steady my

magic here, we needed

the scent of damp earth and

me, restless and alert. Something

turned to

could see something the rest of us couldn't. Austin stretched, pretending to be casual, but the way his fingers twitched at

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rolled his shoulders and

"Well," he

stuffing his hands into his pockets, "it doesn't look

"Yeah? Try listening to the fact

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

Many had been cut down, their fallen trunks rotting into the

crunched softly against the dirt.

deeper into the grove, I felt it. A

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

a moment, my fingers brushing against one of the

was cold-colder than it should have

Stormi...

in my mind, urgent yet curious. She

"Something wrong?" Elijah's voice

quiet but watchful.

knew we both felt the same

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

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

"Damn. I was hoping for floating ghosts

on

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

I asked, stepping

traced a finger over the earth. "A

revealed a pattern-a circle etched

surrounding the

voice was grim. "The trees weren't just cut down. They

weight of his words pressed down on all of

beside Elijah, my fingers brushing over the

but alive. I could feel the magic

any spell," Elijah

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

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