Fated To The Alpha (Ezra, Katya)

Read Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 245 – Getting back to the manor, we were soaking wet; I was completely drenched, and Jax shook out his fur as Kaif placed me back on my feet, wetting me even more. Looking up at Kaif, he was huge yet also drenched, and he ducked down through the doorway, going inside without shifting back; I followed.

“You can use my shower, Jonah, and I will use the communal ones,” Kaif says.

“You have a communal shower?”

“Yes, the floor above, Kyan’s grandmother started her own coven, witches prefer covens and for a time they lived here, in a way they still do,” Kaif says, walking up the steps just as Lucas comes out with a huge grin plastered on his face before his smile drops and his eyes go wide when he sees Kaif beside me.

“Cookie?” Lucas stutters, but I was now wary of Lucas’s baked goods.

“No, thank you,” I tell him looking down at my drenched clothes, the tray he was holding trembled when Kaif spoke.

“Have any more scones,” Kaif asked, and Lucas shook his head.

“I’ll make some,” Lucas stuttered before rushing off back toward the kitchen before returning.

“Ah Marabella, sweety, your parents called, by the way, they have been trying to reach you all day,” Lucas says, keeping his eyes on me.

“Thank you, Lucas,” I tell him and his eyes dart nervously back to Kaif before he disappears back into the kitchen. I noticed Jonah watching us at the top of the stairs. He now had on a pair of shorts. He offers a set to Kaif, who shakes his head.

“Kaif?” Jonah asks, looking wary of him.

“Kyan is still here; I won’t hurt her,” Kaif answers trudging up the steps to him. I had to run to keep up, Kaif easily taking three stairs at a time, and gracefully, it didn’t even look out of place because of how big he was. When we reached Jonah, Jonah wrapped his arms around my waist, steering me toward Kyan’s room while Kaif continued up the next set of steps, and I stopped.

“That room up there, it-?”‘ I asked Kaif, and he stopped. He glances at the door, the one I always got a strange feeling about.

“It’s where the coven did their magic,” Kaif answers, and his eyes flicker for a second as he pauses. “Kyan said I can show you,” Kaif says, and I look up at Jonah who kisses my cheek below my eye.

“You don’t need my permission,” Jonah says.

“She wants you to come, idiot,” Kaif says, and I look over at him. His eyes were on Jonah’s arms wrapped around my waist.

“You know you can be rude, right,” Jonah says to him, steering me toward the stairs.

“And you are oblivious,” Kaif says, turning back to the stairs. Jonah and I followed Kaif, and I climbed the next set of stairs. Kaif waited out the front of the door, the energy coming off it made chills run up my spine.

Kaif’s entire body suddenly shivers and the same inky ghostly sphere that Kyan showed me, which I thought were tattoos, appeared in Kaifs hand after he mummured something in a foreign tongue he chucked the globe at the door. The ghostly black stuff spread across the door covering it bleeding into the wood and then I heard a lock click. Kaif gripped the door handle and pushed it open.

“Magic opens it?” I ask.

“Only dark magic,” Kaif answered. I noticed Kaif had trouble with words, like pronouncing them, yet his voice was clearer than the last time I spoke to him. Yet when he spoke in that foreign tongue, he was clear as a bell. I thought it odd. Kaif walked in, and I followed after him. The room was dark, so dark I could see nothing, and it was freezing inside.

Kaif whispered something I couldn’t understand when suddenly thousands of candles lit the room, the flames going to the high ceiling before d***g down and creating flickering light that cast shadows on the walls. A huge black pentagram was burnt into the middle of the floor, and there as three stairs that led to some sort of stage that looked out the bay windows. It had a huge table covered in strange mementos. Kaif let me look around, and I wandered up to the table.

“You said Kyan’s grandmother had a coven?” I ask Kaif. He hums in agreement.

“I thought all Octavian woman died?” I ask before finding a strange knife. It was smaller than a sword but bigger than a dagger it had strange carvings up the hilt. A huge hole sat in the center of the handle.

“Yes, they do. Usually, in childbirth, she was the exception. They thought she actually broke the curse until Dominic’s wife died and Kyan was born covered in the shadows.”

“How did she d*e,”

“I k****d her,” Kaif says matter of factly, and I look over at him. He stood in the center of the pentagram. Jonah touches my shoulder, making me jump, not seeing him sneak up on me.

“So why didn’t she d*e?”

They were both witches. They thought it was the key to breaking the curse.

wasn’t she

of him, she slit his throat,” Kaif answers. My mind went to Dominic,

wasn’t a nice

I

had no ability to love, growing up in a loveless home, I would wish on nobody, I merely existed for her to use my magic, try and take it for

when

he was always drawn to it, and he was forbidden to enter,” Kaif walks

you

she ever touched his son. He loved his mother despite never receiving love in return. Dominic never spoke ill of her, he looked after her in her old age, but at the same time, Dominic kept Kyan away from her, wouldn’t allow him to be subjected to the same torment he endured,” Kaif answers taking the sword thing from my hand and placing it down. He reached over the table to a box

but

can you

Kyan wants to teach you to control,” Kaif answers, and I bite my lip, wondering if I wanted to see such

to see it? I don’t want you to invade his privacy for

It’s how the game came to be the one he used to play with his

you k****d her?” I ask, but Kaif shakes his head, and Dominic

did, scared him. Kyan struggled with knowing he had k****d someone. Let him show you. It’s grotesque, but you should probably know what Kaif is capable of,” Dominic says, and my eyes dart back to Kaif. Kaif turned his head

head. Staring up at him, I wondered

aura changes. It goes darker,” Kaif

it, but the shadows that follow you, they darken

“What did he say?”

see what you are capable of,” I tell him biting the inside of my lip. Kaif looks

hold her in case she faints?” Kaif asked him, and my stomach dropped, wondering how gruesome it would

pulling me on his lap, and my eyes widen when I see the shadow s*****w both of Kaif’s gigantic hands before

*********

yet everything looked bigger. Maybe it was because Kyan was a child, but I could even hear and feel Kyan like I was a host in his body. His toy

us in here,” I hear Kaif tell him, but he wanted his car and the

your father,” Kaif tells him, but Kyan ignores him. It was right there, he thought as he quickly rushed in. He picked

trance. He climbed the three little steps and moved toward the table. It was the strange mini sword, yet the stone sat in the handle wrapped in gold wires, which must have been why

when a voice

and startled Kyan, and he dropped the knife back on the table. He turned around only when he did the knife bumped his elbow and fell to the floor. He tried to grab before it did, but it sliced his palm as he grabbed the blade instead of the hilt,

the woman snapped and his eyes darted to her. She was a withered old woman, long white hair to her waist, her nails were long and pointed but badly stained. She was thin too, scarely so and her cheeks hollow and eyes sunken in, but the look in her eyes was youthful and sparkly even, like the body had worn

looking at him. She smiled at him, yet I didn’t like the look

to come in

my car, Grandma, I promise,’ Kyan said, holding the car out to show her. She clicked her tongue and her eyes went to the

broke it,” She says, and her

tells her, and

her and tending to her needs. Look where that got her, d**d, in the ground, didn’t it? You k****d her, you Octavians

more, seeing his tears as weakness. Kaif tried to soothe him when the woman picked up the blade and stone and dropped them on the table

me that hand,”‘ She says while offering out hers to him. Kaif tells him not to trust her, to wait for his father, but the woman motions him toward her and he hesitantly scoots forward a little and

the blow so Kyan did not have to. He struggled under

woman snarled, raising the strap again, only this time it didn’t hit him. Instead, feet appeared by his face, and her foot was no longer on his back as she staggered back. Kyan looked up to see the strap wrapped around his father’s arm, his arm bleeding, and the woman laughed manically in

gone too far this time, mother. You

“That boy needs discipline,”

at your hands, you don’t touch my boy, and if you do again,

wait in your room,” Dominic says when Kyan’s eyes darted to the leather strap wrapped around his father’s arm. The strap appeared to be tightening and for some reason, Kyan knew his grandmother was using

father was suddenly blasted back, smashing into the pentagram just as he reached the door to escape. The woman laughed, and Dominic growled, getting to his feet before he waved his hand at her and murmured some incantation. The gasp from

spotted his son staring horrified at his grandmother as she choked and Dominic dropped his magic, letting the woman breathe, not

walks out the door but sends a nervous glance back at the woman before walking out the door. Dominic’s voice cut

on the door with his tiny fists screaming for his father as he heard banging

okay, only when Kaif heard the woman laugh and gasping breath,

he did, taking on the whole body of Kaif. I knew he shifted young, but I expected him to match his human counterpart. Not morph into a full-grown Lycan. He whipped his hands

started screaming and thrashing, yet he doesn’t let go. Even when blood started pouring from eyes, mouth and beneath his hands covering her ears, her eyes melted out of her head when

to pull back control when Kaif’s foot came down on her face, crushing her face inward. Dominic gasped, and Kaif looked over his shoulder at him while Dominic stared in h****r at what became of his mother. Her blood smeared his floor along with her brain

eyes, and he was ripped from the room and only