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?”

witch. It was the first time an Octavian had been destined for another witch, like Kyan’s grandfather. They were both witches. They thought it was the key to breaking the curse. She died having Dominic, but

she the

k****d Dominic’s father along with them when Dominic was 8, right in front of him, she slit his throat,” Kaif answers. My mind went to Dominic,

wasn’t a nice woman,” Dominic answers

so?” I ask him

a loveless home, I would wish on nobody, I merely existed for her to use my magic, try

when she

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

you k**l

Kyan came in here and knocked something over. She hit Kyan, and Dominic immobilized her power and told her he would get rid of her if 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

but it may

you show

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

don’t want you

you. It’s how the game came

I ask, but Kaif shakes his

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 know what Kaif is capable of,” Dominic says, and my eyes dart back to Kaif. Kaif turned his head to the side and

and I nod my head. Staring up at him, I wondered what he was thinking and how he

aura changes. It goes

the shadows that follow you, they darken

“What did he say?”

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

you hold her in case she faints?” Kaif asked him, and my stomach dropped, wondering

him before tugging me today the three steps. He sits on the top one before pulling me on his lap, and my eyes widen when I see the shadow s*****w both of Kaif’s gigantic hands before he grabs my face in them. The room

*********

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

hag doesn’t want us in here,” I hear Kaif tell him, but he wanted his car and the

father,” Kaif tells him, but Kyan ignores him. It was right there, he thought as he quickly rushed in. He picked up the little blue hot wheels car when something

reflecting oddly, and Kyan moved toward it, ignoring Kaif like he was in a trance. He climbed the three little steps and moved toward

it up when a voice

before it did, but it sliced his palm as he grabbed the blade instead of the hilt, making him let go. For

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

the back of it when she bent down looking at him. She smiled at him, yet I

not to come in

the car out to show her. She clicked her tongue and her eyes

broke it,” She says, and

Kyan tells her, and her eyes snapped to

just as useless as you, b****y pathetic, he is 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?

anger the old woman more, seeing his tears as weakness. Kaif tried to soothe him

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

the blow so Kyan did not have to. He struggled under her trying to get out, and Kyan felt bad

teach you 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 she staggered

You dare touch my

“That boy needs discipline,”

my boy, and if you do again, you will meet your

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

blasted back, smashing

horrified at his grandmother as she choked and Dominic dropped his magic, letting the woman breathe, not wanting to

you soon, Mother,” Dominic says, turning his back 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 father only to see him ripped back into the room as shadows engulfed him like tentacles before

as he heard banging inside the room and his feral growls and

Kaif heard the woman laugh and gasping breath, he shoved forward just

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

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

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

his grandmother in h****r when hands were suddenly over his eyes, and he was ripped from the room and