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

she the

right in front of him, she slit his throat,” Kaif answers. My

wasn’t a nice woman,” Dominic

I ask

wish on nobody, I merely existed for her to use my magic, try

old was Kyan when she died?” I ask

was the morning, and Kyan came into this room, he was always

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

can show you, but it

you show

you to control,” Kaif answers,

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

game came to be the one he used to

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

but it scared Kyan. He was a boy. What Kaif did, scared him. Kyan struggled with knowing he had k****d someone. Let him show you. It’s grotesque, but you should probably

nod my head. Staring up at him, I wondered what he

goes darker,” Kaif

it, but the shadows that follow you, they darken

“What did he say?”

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

my stomach dropped, wondering

when I see the shadow s*****w both of Kaif’s gigantic hands before he grabs my face in them. The room warped

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was because Kyan was a child, but I could even hear and feel Kyan like I was a

I hear

Kyan ignores him. It was right there, he thought as he quickly rushed in. He picked up the little blue hot wheels car

it, ignoring Kaif like he was in a 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 I saw it

picked it up when a

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, making him let go. For a five-year-old, his senses were insanely quick.

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 down but not the soul or mind, yet just looking at her instilled fear in Kyan, and me. She had evil eyes, cruel eyes as she stalked toward him. Moving quickly despite how frail she looked, Kyan

to the back of it when she bent down looking at him. She smiled at

not to come in

car, Grandma, I promise,’ Kyan said, holding the car out to show

says,

her, and her

making you soft, ruining you, like he did that b***h mother of yours always pampering 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 kil everything you touch,

tears as weakness. Kaif tried to soothe him when the woman picked up the blade and stone and dropped them on the table before bending down again. She clicks her tongue and shakes her

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 places his now healed hand in hers, Kaif having already healed it. Kyan wanted to go to his father, so he obeyed. Only when he

He took the blow so Kyan did not have to. He struggled under her trying to get out, and Kyan felt bad that Kaif took his punishment while Kaif was

manners, boy,” The 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

this time, mother. You dare touch my

“That boy needs discipline,”

your hands, you don’t touch my boy, and if you do again, you will meet your maker far earlier,”

wrapped around his father’s arm. The strap appeared to be tightening and for some reason, Kyan knew his grandmother was using magic as his father’s blood dripped down onto the

her by the front of her blouse. Kyan scrambled to his feet and rushed down the steps to the door when his 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.

his feet. He spotted his son staring horrified at his grandmother as she choked and Dominic dropped his magic, letting

on the woman and moving toward him. Kyan walks out the door but sends a nervous glance back at the woman before walking out the door. Dominic’s voice cut off abruptly, and Kyan looked up at his

he heard banging inside the room and his feral growls and snarls and the woman

him his father would be okay, only when Kaif heard the woman laugh and gasping breath, he shoved forward just as Kyan’s

air clawing at his throat, his legs kicking frantically and a growl so menacing tore out of Kyan when he suddenly shifted. A boy so tiny should not be able to grow so large, but 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 out, blasting the woman. Recognition hit her face a seconds before, and her eyes widened to the size of saucers as she was slammed back against the tiny stairs. Dominic hit the floor with a hard thud, and Kaif stalked past him over to the woman and grabbed either side of her head. She laughed in his

and held her in the air. Her feet dangling when her laughter cut off. Kaif murmurs something and she 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 he suddenly slammed her on the ground, her body fallen and writhing on the floor and

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

he was ripped from the room and only able to hear the