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,

the scent of damp

stirred inside me, restless and

turned to

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

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rolled his shoulders

"Well," he

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

"Yeah? Try listening to the fact that there's no

The eerie silence stretched around us, pressing

once-flowing branches frozen in time. Many had been cut down, their fallen trunks rotting

crunched softly against the dirt.

deeper into the grove, I felt it. A pull. It was faint but

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

faltered for a moment, my fingers

cold-colder than

Stormi...

mind,

"Something wrong?" Elijah's voice

quiet but watchful.

shook my head, though I knew we

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

watching

grinned. "Damn. I was hoping for floating ghosts

suddenly crouched down, studying something on the ground.

appeared

it?" I asked, stepping

a finger over the earth. "A

as the firelight revealed a pattern-a circle etched

surrounding the entire

grim. "The trees weren't just

weight of his words pressed

brushing over the edge of the

I could feel the magic humming beneath my

spell," Elijah muttered. "It's

how I knew, but... I needed

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