Fated To The Alpha (Ezra, Katya)

Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 153

Sage POV

Lunch was nice with Kat and her family and I found myself not wanting to leave, liking having another female around, someone I can kind of relate to. Derrick Andrei’s father said he would be over tomorrow sometime to help Andrei with whatever Andrei asked of him and eventually we left.

Walking back to the car I climb in the passenger seat and Andrei gets in the driver’s seat and starts up the car.

“Seat belt” Andrei growls, making me realize I hadn’t put it on. I roll my eyes but clip it place and he reverses before turning the car around and driving down the long driveway. When we reach the end instead of turning toward the highway he turns heading into town and I look at him

questionably wondering where we are going now. As much as I didn’t want to leave Kat’s, I kind of missed home. The town was small as we drove through it and I could tell it consisted of only werewolves.

A few people on the streets nodded to Andrei as he drove past despite him not being their Alpha and I knew it was out of respect for Kat. Andrei drove towards the edge of town before pulling up at what I first thought was a park with its picnic areas and bench seats and giant trees creating shade along the edges of the white fence that surrounded the place. The lawns were well maintained and I realized we were at a cemetery. Andrei parks the car under a tree and stares out at the gravestones letting out a shaky breath.

“You ok?” I ask him before reaching over and grabbing his hand.

“Yeah, I just haven’t been here since her funeral” He says, staring out at the cemetery. I could see a man in the distance tending to some of the graves and cleaning them and figured he must be the graveyard keeper.

Andrei squeezes my fingers before opening his door and getting out. He walks around the back of the car to the trunk and pops it open and I climb out of the car to see what he is doing. He places a cardboard box on the ground before shutting the trunk. He picks it up with one hand before

reaching in his pocket and pulling out a piece of paper and opens it and reads it.

I noticed each row of graves was marked with a number and Andrei grabbed my hand and tugs me along the rows, careful not to step on anyone’s

grave before stopping next to a black headstone with silver writing on it. I looked down at it and read the name expecting it to be his mate Angie but instead it read. Lyle Wesson and his date of birth along with the picture I had in the car.

” Andrei says, looking

nods before kneeling. He rummages in the box before handing me a cloth to clean the dust from the headstone and I wipe it over while he continues pulling things out. I wipe the headstone over which was pretty clean before sitting next to Andrei on the grass and he hands me a small

I look over my shoulder to see the keeper. He was in

box to Angie’s grave please, I will be over there in a second” Andrei tells him and I could tell they knew each other.

man tells him and he nods. I turned back to

like but they looked pretty” He said and I nodded before carefully removing them from the pot and dropping them in the small hole. I push the dirt back over it before patting the dirt around it. Andrei then opens up a water bottle and pours some on the soil watering it. We sat there staring at the grave. Andrei was a man of few words yet I didn’t feel uncomfortable and he didn’t seem mad that he was

go already?” Andrei

for the man with the box but I couldn’t see him. I offer Andrei my hand and he takes it letting me help pull him up before tucks me under his

one was all white marble and covered in flowers and pictures, teddies and even a necklace hung on top of the grave. I find his mate was only 18 when she passed away

beloved daughter, sister and Mate written on it. Looking at Andrei his eyes darken and I sit next to her grave before opening the box and rummaging around

at Andrei he was no longer looking at the grave but watching me with a strange look on his face before his eyes lost focus

he wasn’t exactly present either and was reliving some memory he didn’t like. I reach up tugging his hand and his eyes refocus and he shakes his head. Through the

ask him, ignoring the feeling I was getting through the bond. When he doesn’t answer I start digging a small hole next to her grave. I didn’t want to disturb the other things on her

says kneeling beside me and pulling a bit more dirt out. I hand him the pot of lavender and he takes

He said and I nod seeing another one on the other side of the grave that someone planted. I unscrewed the lid of the water bottle and hand it to him before carefully wiping her

was all from

aunt but I never met her” Andrei says and I nod sitting beside

hated those flowers always made her sneeze, ” He says pointing to some gardenia’s on the grave next

pink roses” he

rearranging some of the things on her grave that

call it a weed” I chuckle and

is it then?” He