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

there was magic here, we needed to

thick with the scent of damp earth and decaying wood.

stirred inside me, restless and

turned to

the rest of us couldn't. Austin stretched, pretending to

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rolled his

"Well," he

into his pockets, "it doesn't

Try listening to the fact

was right. The eerie silence stretched around us, pressing against my skin like

dry, their once-flowing branches frozen in time. Many had

crunched softly against

deeper into the grove, I felt it. A

me recognized this place. The sensation was like a tug inside

moment, my fingers brushing against one of the tree

was cold-colder than it

Stormi...

wolf's voice echoed in my mind,

"Something wrong?" Elijah's voice

quiet but watchful.

my head, though I knew we

tension. "Well, the

fallen branch, watching it crumble into dust.

I was hoping for floating ghosts or

something on the ground. His brows

appeared at

I

a finger over the earth. "A boundary

revealed a pattern-a circle etched

the entire

grim. "The trees weren't just

weight of his words pressed down on

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

could feel the magic humming beneath my

any spell," Elijah muttered.

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

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