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

away, my ear ringing from how high-pitched her voice

what’s up?

Kyan’s Jonah. Promise me you will stay away from him,” Marabella rushes out,

me turn

I curse, trying to jump 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 could hear Marabella’s frantic voice screaming out

coming down on my shoulder, and I groan before punching him between the legs as he stood over me. He growls, but his knee gives way

smashing on top of me. His kick to my stomach winds

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

I roll off the dresser. Marabella screams m name through the phone, which only angers him more as

mirror was embedded in my shoulder blade, and I yank it out with a pained groan. Kaif, hearing it slaps at his back as the line slices through him,

Jonah,” Marabella cries into the 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 g*d d**n

run,” Lucas

out a war cry, and Kaif pivots on his heel, grabbing it mid-swing and prying it from his hands before launching

and I feel my bones start snapping when Kaif freezes when Marabella calls out his name. He spins around, snarling, and smacks his head on the door frame forgetting to duck. He groans, his giant hand raking down his face as he rubs the

barges me out of

voice stammers out shakily, and

Why does it not work?” Kaif growls; his claws scratching my phone screen that

Marabella heard him. The phone signally she was trying to change the call to a

Marabella tells him, and Kaif growls, spinning to look at

Kaif says, gripping my arm and thrusting

from me. His hands stroking the screen and cutting off the picture, and I take it from

him, offering it

screen,” Kaif

hands up as he moves along the wall. The movement does not go unnoticed by the

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

you there?” Marabella calls out, and Kaif looks down

he tells Lucas, who nods, reaching out and taking the phone from Kaif’s grip. He fiddles with the phone, and the phone must go back to

where are

in control,” Lucas stutters out as Kaif growls at him, reaching for the

cut the phone out again,” 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 to come face to face with his Lycan form. Marabella gasps, and her eyes dart to the side. I hear Ezra’s voice in the background

f**k

Kaif,” Marabella

Here now. You are

and her mouth opens and closes

Kaif, he

do we get her here? You come when Kyan rings you

live down the road from you Kaif, Marabella went home. She isn’t in the City,” I

“Jonah, are you ok?”

Mar-” Kaif’s growl cuts me off, and he reaches for the phone, and Lucas jumps,

Kaif, you can’t hold the phone. You

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

will hurt Jonah,”

he put his peasant lips on you,” Kaif tells her. I roll my eyes

tries to reason, and Kaif huffs, baring his teeth at

she would tell him

me up off the ground, and Marabella shrieks as

snarls, his grip tight as his claws slipped into my collarbone before I hear it crack. Kaif groans and

will come to you on Rose’s birthday, but you need to shift back, or I

“Lycan,” Lucas offers.

thought they didn’t exist,” Marabella mutters, looking

you explain that,” I hear Ezra’s

She asks her father, becoming distracted, and Kaif growls low