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?”

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 his father brought her back using necromancy. She

she the

her entire coven in this room, 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, thinking of what that must have been like when his voice

a nice woman,” Dominic

I ask

love, growing up in a loveless home, I would wish on nobody, I merely existed for her to use my

when she

he was always

you k**l

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 same time, Dominic kept Kyan away

show you, but it

can you show

wants to teach you to control,” Kaif

you to invade his

scare you. It’s how the game came to be the one he used to play with

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

knowing he had k****d someone. Let him show you. It’s grotesque, but you should probably know what Kaif is capable

up at him, I wondered what he was thinking and how he could tell when

aura changes. It goes darker,” Kaif

hadn’t noticed it, but the shadows that follow you, they darken

“What did he say?”

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

asked him, and my stomach

He sits on the top one before pulling me on his lap, and my eyes widen when

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a child, but I could even hear and feel

The old hag doesn’t want us in here,” I hear Kaif tell

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

glinted at him as the sun shone in the window, the stone reflecting oddly, and Kyan moved toward 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,

picked it up when a voice sounded

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

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

looking at him. She

know not to come in

promise,’ Kyan said, holding the car out to show her. She clicked

She says,

Kyan tells her,

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, what you need is good discipline, none of this naughty corner c**p your father tries to do,” Kaif growls in his head at her

tried to soothe him when the woman picked up the blade and stone and dropped them on the table before bending

“Come, come show 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 places his now healed hand in hers, Kaif having already healed it. Kyan wanted to go to his father, so he

piece of leather strap that she had from the table. He took the blow so Kyan did not have to. He struggled under her trying to

her foot was no longer on his back as she staggered back.

gone too far this time, mother. You dare touch my f*****g son, you

“That boy needs discipline,”

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

Dominic says when Kyan’s eyes darted to the leather strap wrapped around his father’s arm. The strap appeared

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. The gasp from her made Kyan turn around to find her clawing at her neck like she

disciplined, mother,” Dominic says, getting to his feet. He spotted his son staring horrified at

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

fists screaming for his father as he heard banging inside the room and his feral growls and

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

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

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

Kyan crying, saying to stop, trying 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

his grandmother in h****r when hands were suddenly over his eyes, and he was ripped from the room and only able to hear the soft murmurings