Fated To The Alpha (Ezra, Katya)

Chapter 266

Weightlessness consumed me, the oblivion fading when I was suddenly somewhere else. A place I had never seen before, in a time that no longer existed. A woman stood next to a huge square stone, a man on the other side, his resemblance to Kyan and all Octavian men was uncanny Witches circled around chanting, their hands in the air as storm clouds swirled above. Their clothes and dresses told me this was a period of time that existed centuries ago.

“Once this done, it cannot be undone, Kaif,” The woman says. He peers over his shoulder at the young woman who stood off to the side but within arms reach of Kaif, she had the same regal air to her as the woman who held out her hand to Kaif, a dagger was in her hand, the same blade I saw upstairs yet no gemstone was in its hilt.

“It’s the only way Celeste; I will not lose her,” Kaif tells the woman, her dark flowing curls picked up in the wind, blowing behind her like a dark veil.

“Very well. Luna, come forward, dear,” Celeste called to her daughter. Kaif smiled tenderly at her, though I could see the dangerous glint in his eyes, A glint that told me he was no longer human. Kaif was Lycan, a beast. Looking around the vast village, I noticed the Lycans chained down, caged, yet here Kaif stood in control, and by the look on his face as he stared down at his future mate, she was the one that helped him keep that control. This was the seance to bind them. Celeste cut both their palms before drawing the blood into the stone.

She murmurs a few words, their blood mingling together before catching fire and turning to tar before she raises her hand, drawing the tar-like substance off the rock and into the air. The torches stabbed into the ground flared high into the sky while the tar-like blood drops dropped back into a goblet Celeste held in her hands. I watched as Kaif and Luna drank from the goblet; it appeared to be some ceremony.

“Correct,” Dominic’s voice says, answering my thoughts before he materialized beside me.

“This was the first pairing; she tied their souls. Now watch,” Dominic says, and I turn my gaze back to the memory playing out in front of me. Kaif drinks from the goblet and heaves in a breath, his eyes flickering black before he roars, suddenly shifting, and out came the beast.

Celeste jumps back away from him and tries to tug her daughter away, who just stared, Kaifs breathing ragged, and he truly was the monster they portrayed him to be. Luna, however, held no fear despite her mother trying to pull her back. Instead, she reached her hand up and cupped his giant furry face, her hand running down his neck to stop as it fell over his heart.

“Right here, this where you are,” Luna murmurs to him. His trembling stops, his breathing slows, and finally, he begins to shift back; it was so weird seeing a Kyan’s look-alike in a time period that ended eons ago. Back to himself, he grabbed luna around the waist and sank his teeth into her neck. She clutched his arms, her back arched as he marked her before she passed out. “Mine, forever mine,” Kaif murmured as he scooped her up.

“That was our first mistake, taking a god’s daughter for a mate,” Dominic said as my surroundings swirled and faded before it was sometime later.

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Luna held a baby boy in her arms. She sat in a rocking chair, her son suckling at her breast o n the porch of their home. It was a clear day as I stared at the vast homestead. Kaif, I could see, was in the fields sowing seeds by hand, working the land while Luna watched.

I watched Kaif, and it wasn’t until I heard Luna’s scream for him did I turn back to the house. A man appeared out of nowhere. He stood on the step. I found him imposing, he commanded attention, and the vibe he gave off sent a chill up my spine.

“Father,” Luna gasped. Clutching her boy in her arms.

“Your mother was a fool for thinking she could hide you from me,” Hades said, walking up the steps slowly, his steps calculated and his eyes falling on the child in her arms. Hades sneered.

“You disrespect me so, to breed with the mutts your mother created,” Hades said. Luna backed up, and I heard Kaif’s roar behind me, but he was too far away. Hades tried to grab his daughter, but she was helpless with her arms full with her son. She could only run, which is what she did.

“Kaif!” Luna screamed, the sound so petrified it hurt my heart and made it clench as she ran from the man who she called father only for him to materialize in front of her. Her feet faltered as she stood on her dress and tripped, pivoting just in time before she landed on her baby. Her screams for her mother, for Kaif, were pointless as Hades advanced. Her cries for him to let her go fell on deaf ears.

has brainwashed you against me,’ Hades’ roared, gripping her arm, trying to rip the baby from her arms. “You’re not keeping that mutt,” he snarled at her, his hands yanking at the baby’s blanket. Kaif raced toward them, screaming for his mate and son while Luna struggled to protect her son from her father. Kaif’s feet creaked on the wooden floors of the porch when Luna screamed. My heart lurched in my chest when magic fizzled

a lethal blow to their son. Luna did the only thing she could. She threw him. Kaif’s feet faltered as his eyes followed his son, wrapped in his white crocheted blanket, tossed in

you both,” Luna screamed just as Kaif caught the bundle in his arms only t o look up to see Luna slam her hands into her father’s chest, her own magic slamming into him, and Hades gripped her arms and snarled before they vanished into thin air. Kaif wailed, shifting back into his human form. His son tucked in his

as his son let out a scream. Moments later, Celeste appeared frantic looking for her daughter as she ran across the field. She stopped on the steps, and her eyes went to Kaif, who was on his knees. “I’m too late,”

him. I FUCKING KILL HIM!” Kaif

speeds along, and suddenly it is night. The magic in the air was electrifying, and the sky was now dark. I gasped when I realized we were at the ruins. This property was Kyan’s, the thick forest surrounding it

god I must make you one,”

wandering with me through the memories,

we could kill a god and get away with it,” Dominic murmured. Celeste produces two identical daggers, two huge rubies. The cauldron that sat in the middle bubbled as she tossed them in. Celeste cuts her

life, we must take it,”

only taking life,” Kaif says to her, looking

kill her if she disobeys him, Kaif.

Kaif

two daggers, one to kill a god,

I can’t use the light,” Kaif

making you a god. Only a god or goddess can wield these daggers; only a

she slices her wrists.

face to the dark sky. She murmurs words in a foreign tongue, and storm clouds brewed violently. Kaif takes a step back from her as veins of darkness sliver across her milky skin, her eyes turning black as coal, and she cracks her neck. Her voice echoed the louder she chanted, her blood spilling onto the ground when a lightning bolt broke across the sky, hitting the ruins and before striking the next. I gasped, looking at the pattern above, as the lightning

ground, and he collapses.My heart pounded at what I just witnessed as he lay limp, his breathing stopped, and Celeste looked toward the trees, darkness tainted her, and black veins streaked her skin, moving as she walked into the trees before

she didn’t come alone. No, she came with a girl; her hands and feet chained, a gag in her mouth. Celeste

only a teenage girl. She fell limply at Celeste’s feet, and Celeste turned, cutting the girl’s heart out. She stood above the cauldron and squeezed the heart in her hand. Murmuring some spell that made lightning hit the cauldron and smoke

the cauldron before taking it to Kaif, she prys his lips open and pours it down his throat and leans down and kisses him. Kaif sucks in a breath and lurches upright, breathing heavily. Shadows slivered across his skin, etched into it like tattoos, the same markings that shadowed Kyan’s

eyes go to the girl, and his eyes open in horror. “What did you do?” he

before giving his hand to Celeste, she cut his palm. The flames flared higher

trap and kill it,” Celeste murmurs. She cleans the daggers on her

need one for

Hades, he will kill Luna, and when he does, I will trade my life

not meant for Seline, but her daughter?” I

the Luna

killing Luna with the dagger instead of Hades, trapping her soul forever in the stone. Her rage that her son didn’t recognize her, didn’t know who she was was heartbreaking as

stay before she tried to kill him, and in turn, her son chose his father and the man who raised him. Then I watched the curse Hades bestowed on him. Before I watched Kaif kill each and everyone one of his mates. His curse turned him darker with each one, and for a while, he gave up. He killed the last three before me when they gave birth and didn’t even allow the mother to hold their children, just let them give birth before killing