Fated To The Alpha (Ezra, Katya)

Read Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 243 – The manor was vast and surrounded by forest. I briefly felt bad for the mower man who maintained the well-manicured lawns and the gardens. We walked to the tree line to a path that led into the trees. The beaten track was narrow, and I paused at the edge of it. The forest looked dark and gloomy. The energy radiating out of it felt like it pulsed and made goosebumps rise on my arms. Jonah also stopped while Kyan disappeared into the trees, yet a shiver ran up my spine, and I found myself frozen. Something telling me not to go in there, I couldn’t explain it.

Jonah holds his hand out to me, nodding toward Kyan, who had disappeared entirely. I take his hand, knowing I am probably being silly and had spooked myself. Jonah tugs me at him and drapes his arm across my shoulders before kissing my forehead, but I move, tilting my face up and pecking his lips instead.

“Keep up, if you get lost; I am not gonna spend all night looking for you both,” Kyan calls back to us. His voice bounced off the trees making an odd echo. Jonah chuckles before tugging me down the path, The path went forever, and Kyan had slowed his pace a bit, waiting for us to catch up.

“Doesn’t this place give you the creeps?” I ask him, The deeper we went, the darker it got, yet Kyan never faltered down a different path like he knew exactly where he was going.

“No, I used to play out here when I was a kid, just don’t stray from the path. I did when I was younger and got lost out for two days before dad found me,” Kyan tells me, and I step closer to Jonah. I s*****w. Who the heck would play in a haunted forest.

“What, are you scared, Ella?” Kyan asks, and I glare at him before shaking off Jonah’s arm.

“No,” I tell him, even though my heart rate would be a d**d giveaway. It beat frantically, and I lost count of the twists and turns, so I knew there was no way to get back if I got lost.

“I would be if I were you,” Kyan says, and I raise an eyebrow at him.

“You are just trying to scare me,” I tell him, and he shrugs while walking along the path. I watch the muscles of his back move and ripple. This was the most casual I had seen him. He only had on a tank top and jeans looking very unkyan-like.

“Maybe, maybe not. Do you have any idea what you are standing on?” Kyan asked, glancing over his shoulder at me. He smirks, and I had a funny feeling I didn’t want to know what was out here. I knew we were going to a gravesite of Kaif’s first mate Luna.

“It’s a witch b****l ground,” Jonah whispers.

“Well, I figured we were going to a graveyard,”

“The entire place is a graveyard Ella; look amongst the trees,” Kyan says. I look up at Jonah before looking past him.

How had I not noticed before? I thought it odd that amongst the trees were pole logs. Yet I never questioned it, I look in the other direction and I suddenly see the forest in a new light. Thousands of wooden poles were erected amongst the trees and the bases? What I assumed were just weird placed rocks became clearer.

“Are all these gravestones?” I gasp and my feet become rooted to the ground just as strongly at the trees around me. I stared out at the forest, locked in fear. When fingers suddenly jam into the side of my ribs and Kaif’s demonic rough voices was behind my ear.

“Boo,” He growled out at the same time he jammed his fingers in my ribs and I am pretty sure that wasn’t sweat I felt as I lurched forward with a blood-curdling scream.

“You idiot,” I cried out. Kyan and Jonah were in fits of laughter while I was pretty sure I peed a little.

“I’m not scared,” Kyan mocked.

“Don’t do that or I will go back, I am creeped out enough without worrying about you scaring me,” I snap at him.

Jonah chuckles, “Okay, we won’t but it was still funny,”

“To you maybe,” I growl at him.

“I vote to go home, just putting it out there,” Kora whines, her hackles raised in my head. She was just as spooked by this place.

“So they were all burned to d***h?” I ask Kyan.

“Only the charred ones you can see,”

“The rest?”‘ I ask as we start down the track again.

“You really want to know or is just a morbid curiosity,”

answer honestly. Not sure

show you,” He says, holding out his hand to me. I stare

you again,” He smiles. I roll my eyes taking his hand when Jonah nudges me toward him. Kyan led me

the same?” I nod. They kind of

if you come over here,” he says, tugging me through some more trees and further from

“Why isn’t Jonah coming?”

he can’t move from the track until we get to

attached to the broken headstone. It looked old. The inscription worn, it was nearly

and pointing to another, but it was evident

“So humans k****d them?”

sacrifices would have been

would they sacrifice their own

and break

Celeste’s trapped soul,” Dominic’s voice says in my head. I swallowed, it was weird answering him back with Kyan in

wrong?” I

I lied, but he saw

why do you feel

came. Jonah I could see ahead, standing there waiting on the track. He hadn’t moved from the spot he was in when Kyan pulled me

feel something is off since I spoke of Kaif’s curse,” He says. He was right. I felt terrible that I had a link to his father and could

brows pinch together and I noticed his

will upset me, so say

may,” I

Kaif feel guilty, I would feel better

you have to tell me something,” I

do you want to

bond when you haven’t marked me yet?” Kyan sighs and glances

in the river near your uncle and

fell in,” Kyan

he also started drowning. So I shifted, and

“I died?” Kyan nods.

making Jonah Kaif’s guardian. Every time Kaif hurts Jonah, it weakens Kaif, If Kaif kills Jonah, it will k**l

“How am I different,”

it was how you had my family’s magic running through you until I visited the shadows myself and realized not only were you bound to Kaifs,

all that time, and you still didn’t want me?”‘ I ask, suddenly angry, tears burned the back of my eyes, and they stung as I fought

I just didn’t think I could

“And now?”

I hear Jonah curse under his breath. I

answer mine. Why do you feel guilty,”

and you can’t,” I

I sigh, wiping a stray tear that

can speak directly to him. He said when they were also sacrificed to . break the curse on Celeste’s trapped soul,” I answer. Kyan tilts

dad?” I nodded my head

he hear

always watching, listening, you just need to listen harder,” Dominic says to

it that time. Yet when I did, to me felt like I had always called him that which made me wonder if I had only

upset him,” I tell

you,” Jonah answers, and I nod. “And he is not upset. He just always assumed his

he think

supposed to be, my bloodline doesn’t get a happy ending, Ella, we all end up the same, trapped by Kaif’s curse to wander the

could actually talk to him. I thought it may have been an involuntary urge or flashes of memory he

upset I can talk to him?”

with huge giant rocks in a circle. I stop feeling the charged energy ripple around them. I knew this had to be the place he spoke of. Four headstones in perfect condition sat in the middle, making a diamond shape as

I ask, and Kyan stops between the

like the others, these seemed preserved. Kyan reaches for Jonah’s