Fated To The Alpha (Ezra, Katya)

Read Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 225 – Marabella POV

We were about ten-fifteen minutes from home. My stomach twisted with Kyan’s last text message, and it was all I had thought about the entire way home. Yet, I believed he would go through with it. I believed he would drag me there himself if I didn’t show up to Rose’s birthday when another thought occurred to me. Jonah.

When he said I would regret it, did he mean by hurting him? That was the only way to get even, my family was untouchable, but Jonah wasn’t.

“Well, ring him,” Kora hisses at me, and I fumble with my phone; I start typing when Kora starts to worry, insisting I ring him to be sure. Her worry made my already heightened anxiety so much worse.

“You ok?” my father asks, and I nod, dialing his number.

“Yeah, just want to check on Jonah,”

“But you just saw him. He will be fine,”

“But if he goes to Kyan’s?” I chew my lip nervously.

“Did he threaten Jonah?”‘ My father growls, and I shake my head because he hasn’t. Still, the worry ate at me.

“Marabella?”

“No, but he wasn’t happy. What if he does something to Jonah?”

“Not likely. Those two seem close, always have been, but if it makes you calm down, just ring Jonah,” My father says before yawning. He covers his mouth with the back of his hand, and I suddenly felt guilty for making him pick me up.

“Jonah?” Kora mutters, and I shake my thoughts away, hitting the call button. The phone rings as my father pulls into the service station just outside of town. The first time it goes straight to voicemail.

“I need coffee, want one?” my father asks, and I nod to him before redialling Jonah’s number. My heart rate increases the longer it rings, and Jonah finally picks up, and I let out a breath of relief.

“Told you he is fine,” My father says before getting out of the car.

“Jonah?”‘ I yelp, relieved to hear his voice.

“Hey, what’s up? I am-“

“Don’t go to Kyan’s Jonah. Promise me you will stay away from him,” I shriek in panic. I didn’t know if Kora or I spoke. Our thoughts felt like they were muddling into one.

“Huh, I am with…” I hear a growl that is more like a roar as Jonah’s words are cut off.

“Oh f*ck,” Jonah says before I hear a crashing sound and snarls booming through the phone.

“Mine,” Comes a deep gravelly voice that raised goosebumps on my arms. Whose voice was that? I wondered when more crashing sounded in the background.

“Jonah?” my voice trembled, I could more bangs and crashing sounds.

“Kaif, stop,” I hear Jonah’s voice stammer out before the sound of glass breaking reaches my ears.

“Jonah!” I shriek, ripping the phone away from my ear. Kora pushes against my skin, and my claws slip into my father’s car seat, and the phone slips through my fingers as my gloves tear off my hands. “Kora,” I grit out, trying to stop her from shifting.

Snatching my phone from where it fell in my lap, more crashing can be heard before I hear a long, harsh wheeze come through the phone before hearing another voice, not Jonah’s or Kaif’s

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Jonah POV

Marabella shrieks through the phone, and I pull it away, my ear ringing from how high-pitched

up? I

to Kyan’s Jonah. Promise me you will stay away from him,” Marabella rushes out, not letting me

and makes me turn to look at Kyan,

up off the bed just as Kaif lunges at me, his claws slashing down my chest as I roll off the bed and smash against the floor. The phone slid across the floor,

and I only just move my head to the side before his foot crushes my skull, his heel coming down on my shoulder, and I groan before

Kaif kicks me, sending me flying into the wall and books topple down off the shelf smashing on top of me. His kick to my stomach winds me, and I

at him when he grabs me by my shorts, his claws on his other hand sinking into my

off the dresser. Marabella screams m name through the phone, which

me a moment’s reprieve as I prepared to shift. A large chunk of the mirror was embedded in my shoulder blade, and I yank it out with a

phone, and Kaif growls, upturning the bed as he looks for the phone when the door bursts open. Lucas rushes in with a bat, a

run,” Lucas yells at

the bat at Kaif, letting out a war cry, and Kaif pivots on his heel, grabbing it mid-swing and prying it from his hands before launching him back out the door in which he came in. Kaif stalks after him,

feet unsteadily, urging Jax to shift, and I feel my bones start snapping when Kaif freezes when Marabella calls out his name. He spins around, snarling,

have heard him because she started calling Kaif’s name, his eyes scanning the floor before he barges me out of

hear me?” Marabella asks. Her voice stammers out shakily, and Kaif prods the phone, his claws getting

his claws scratching my phone screen that had a crack

him. The phone signally she was trying to change the

it to Jonah. Jonah can do it,” Marabella tells him, and Kaif growls, spinning to look at

no good,” Kaif says, gripping my arm and thrusting the phone

the phone from me. His hands stroking the screen and cutting off the

screen; it will hang up,” I tell him, offering it back to him before collapsing

screen,” Kaif

my eyes when Lucas hesitantly steps in the room, hands up as he moves along the wall. The movement does not go unnoticed by the eight-foot

says while holding his hand out for the phone. My heart beats faster

out, and Kaif

out and taking the phone from Kaif’s grip. He fiddles with the phone, and the phone must go back to the video call because

are Jonah and

Lucas stutters out as Kaif growls at him, reaching for

I tell Kaif, Lucas holds the phone, turning it to face Kaif, who leans down, squinting at the screen, and I see Marabella’s startled expression. She must have been expecting Kyan’s appearance with Kaif in control. By the look on her face, I know she wasn’t expecting

f**k is

think it’s Kaif,” Marabella answers

You are mine, not Jonah’s,”

her, and her mouth opens and closes as she glances away

while like that. But you… you are?” Mara doesn’t finish, and I watch her on the screen as she stares at Kaif, he stands upright, and she gasps again. Lucas’s hand holding the phone shakes, and Kaif’s chest takes up the image of

you this way,” Kaif says,

isn’t in the City,” I could hear Marabella whispering

“Jonah, are you ok?”

the phone, and Lucas jumps, pulling it away from him and pressing further into

hold the phone. You need to shift back,” Lucas blurts

can’t, he won’t. He f**k things up again. I won’t let him;

You will hurt Jonah,” Marabella says, and I see her look away for a second

mine, he put his peasant lips on you,” Kaif tells her.

reason, and Kaif huffs,

her head, and I was pretty sure she would tell him anything right now to ensure I was

me up off the ground, and Marabella

as his claws slipped into my collarbone before I hear it crack. Kaif groans and drops me, clutching his

you on Rose’s birthday, but you need to shift back, or I won’t visit,

“Lycan,” Lucas offers.

they didn’t exist,” Marabella mutters, looking

else you explain that,” I hear

She asks her father, becoming distracted, and Kaif growls low in the back of