Fated To the Alpha by Jessica Hall
Chapter 253
“You become a woman?” Holy sh*t, he really is crazy. I keep my face neutral, not wanting to hurt his feelings. No, her feelings?
“I am being serious, Jonah,” Eziah says, stopping. I looked over at him and he really was bothered by whatever was happening to him. He shook his head after I watched him for a second.
“Forget it,” he says as he stomps past me. I grabbed his arm.
“No, I can see it is bothering you, so tell me.” “You will just laugh,”
“I won’t, promise,” Eziah raises an eyebrow at me before noticing I was being serious, and he sighs.
“I can feel her. Everything she feels, I feel like I am trapped in her body. I can even see what she sees, sort of,”
“Who?”
“My mate and I can’t help her,”
“But you haven’t met your mate yet?”
“Not in person. I don’t know how to explain it, but I know she is my mate because my wolf goes berserk wanting to help her.”
“What do you mean, and how long have you had these out-of-body things for?”
“Two years, but they weren’t frequent, but lately they are constant every night,” he explains.
“Have you told your mother? Maybe she can help?”
“No, I can’t. You know how the future changes. I probably shouldn’t even tell you. I know mum will interfere and put me on medication to help me, but I can’t lose the connection to her; I need to know she is okay or at least alive,” Eziah explains.
“So what happens in them?” I asked, not wanting to know, but maybe it might help if he could talk about it. Whatever it is, it is bad because it affects him this way.
“It’s so dark where she is, but it’s… I don’t know. Sometimes they drag her out and hurt her, but mostly she is in the dark, scared.” My brows furrow in confusion.
“So, she is being held by her pack?”
“I’m not sure. I can just see glimmers, like last night. It was the same place. They were torturing her, waterboarding her. That’s why I woke up gasping,” he says, rubbing his face.
“You have to tell your mother, Eziah,”
“I can’t. She will make them stop. I need to know she is alright,”
“Your mother will help. Surely there can be a way to find her. Your mother is the moon goddess,”
“And she can’t interfere, you know that. If she does, it could end worse than it already is. They could K*ll her,”
“Tell your mother,” I tell him, gripping his arms. He goes to argue when I shake him.
“If they are torturing her and what you are seeing and feeling is what she is now enduring, death would be a blessing. Tell her, at least let her try to help. Because by doing nothing, you are torturing yourself and her, let the future change. Any fate would be better than the one she is stuck in,” I told him, and he seemed to think.
“But what if I lose her?”
“Then you hunt down the bastards that touched her. No one should be f0rced to live like that. If what you are seeing is real, you need to stop it even if it ends there,” I tell him. He sighed but nodded.
“Fine, I will tell her,” he says before looking at me.
“Good, come on then, let’s find this sister of mine, then we can focus on finding your mate.”
“You want to help?”
“We may not see eye to eye, but we are still family. Family helps each other,” I tell him.
“You seemed pretty pissed off about me getting involved with Mara and Kyan. Even though she is my family.”
“Yes, because you all treat her differently.” “I don’t,”
“You do, Eziah. None of you realized she was hurting, but then Kyan f*uc*ks up once and suddenly, you all want to be there for her? When none of you were before that. Then dared to upset her more when she voiced how she felt, and don’t think I forgot what you said to her at the house.”
“That wasn’t my intention. I love my sister. Kyan is no good for her, and I didn’t mean what I said; I was just angry she chose his side. Kyan is bad news, I mean it. I have seen it.”
“Really, you see her relationship with Kyan, but couldn’t see how your own friends treated her?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Were you all that blind?”
“Mara never told us. We didn’t know. You do not know how hard she is to read. Not even mum can get a grasp on her or me. We have both tried, but when we tried to look, all we got was a blank slate.”
“She shouldn’t have had to. It was obvious. Did you know she was cutting herself for years?” Eziah looked away.
“I heard. We all just thought she was depressed because of the darkness. She kept it from all of us, just like Kyan has been hiding everything from you. You think he is good for, but he is the death of her.”
“Hiding what, Kaif?” “You know he is Lycan?”
“Of course, I know. How do you know?”
“I saw it, the day of the Alpha challenge. That’s why I escaped mum. He will K*ll her, Jonah,”
“He won’t. Kyan is aware of what Kaif is capable of,”
“So he told you he K*lled her, I saw it. She was in his arms. It looked like he strangled her to death,” I stopped at his words. They sounded similar to what Kyan described to me once.
“You had the same vision as Kyan?” “What?”
“As Kyan, he had the same vision,” I told him.
“You knew and left her with him?” he said outraged.
“He is her mate, Eziah. Her mate, she already marked him. Kaif won’t hurt her. I know it’s hard to believe, but I think you have the visions wrong. I have told Kyan the same thing. They don’t add up.”
“What do you mean?”
“Kyan has had two visions of how Kaif supposed Iy K*lled her. You can’t K*ll someone twice, so you are both missing something,” I scowled at him. I trudged further through the thick brush. Eziah was talking behind me when we finally reached the tiny clearing. I could see Casen ahead and call out to him.
“O I, wait up” My words cut off, and I stopped in my tracks when I noticed we weren’t alone in the clearing. Men stood around us, and Eziah came up behind me talking some crap, and my hand smacked into his chest, making him stop. He looked up and noticed my stare as I turned to find we had walked into some sort of ambush. Men were holding spears aimed at Casen and now us.
“Woah. What the f*uc*k,” Eziah said, glancing around.
“Hey, those are my bloody pants,” Eziah snapped, pointing at one of them, and the man turned his spear to Eziah, who put his hands up.
“Geez, fine. You like them that much. Keep them then,” he said.
“WE…COME…IN…PEACE…WE” I motioned to Casen, Eziah, and I. “MEAN YOU NO HARM,”
“They speak English, you knob,”
“Oh, okay then, I was about to bust out the charades or an interpretive dance. Saves me making a fool of myself then. ” I shrugged before rubbing my hands together. I peered around at them, all nearly na*ked, but they didn’t smell like wolves. However, there was something off about them.
“Well, in that case, have you seen a girl, nose piercings, heavy eye makeup? Rolls her eyes constantly about yay high.” I hold my hand up to my shoulder to show how short she is.
“Has a bad att*itude and rainbow-colored hair. Parents named her after a flower, but she is more like algae. You know you want to get rid of it, but keep it around to feed the fish. Or maybe she is more like an obnoxious weed. Major pain in the a*ss, but a pain I kind of want back, so perhaps you have seen her around?” I joke. None of them laugh, just stare at me.
Eziah leans toward me, and they raise their spears and step closer.
“Looks like we are doing this the hard way then,” Eziah mutters to me.
“Oh, so you have a plan?”
“Why do you?”
“Yeah, I say bail and leave Casen to defend for himself,” “I heard that a*ssh0le,” Casen called out.
“So you’re fine with it then? Good to know, buddy. Have fun with your new friends,”
I turn about to leave when another spear is thrust toward me, right at my family jewels. I look down at it, before tilting my head at the man.
“Were you really going to leave?” Eziah whispers, looking at the spear pressing against my nuts.
“No, of course not,” the man that was holding the spear grunts at me.
“I thought they spoke English?”
“They do. I think we should have gone with the charades, though they aren’t big talkers,” Casen calls out, and I peek over my shoulder at him. With a heavy sigh, I turn back to the man holding my nuts hostage.
I sniffed the air, trying to see if they were human when I got a whiff of something that wasn’t human or wolf. Why do they smell like bears?
“So, which one is the mate K*ller?” comes a booming voice as a man stomped through the long gra*s*s. I turned to face the voice and found a man barely clothed.
“Ah, not mate K*llers, but he is her mate. I am the brother, and the short one is the cousin,” I told the giant of a man that approached me. He looked between us all before pointing to Casen. “That one, take him,” the man said while I peered up at him.
“Nope, no can do Bigfoot. He is staying, and nobody is going anywhere,” I told him when the other man poked my c*rotc*h. I growled at him, and he jumped back before snatching his spear and tossing it.
“You dare come into my forest and challenge my men to destroy my land?” the man announced before his eyes flickered at me. Well, that is new.
“You saw that, right?” Eziah asks, and I nod.
“Yep, not human,” I told him.
“You’re not really going to try to fight that big bastard, are you?”
“I have had bigger,” I tell Eziah. Eziah gives me a funny look.
“No need to fight. We come for our little Rose’s mate K*ller,” the man says, removing his pants. “But if you insist,” the man says.
“Are you sure you have had bigger?” Eziah asks. “Mate, he is not a mate K*ller,”
“No? So where is her other mate, then? Vince, I think she said his name was?” the man asked, turning to look over at Casen. He hung his head.
My eyes went from Casen back to the man in front of me. ”Casen, care to explain what the f*uc*k he is talking about?” I called out.
“Oh, you didn’t know?” the man asks. I look at Eziah, who seemed just as oblivious.
“Vince isn’t missing. I K*lled him,” Casen said, and Eziah and I stared wide-eyed at him. What the f*uc*k?
“So what shall it be? We take the mate K*ller, or” he suddenly shifts. And not into a wolf, but a f*uc*king bear.
“You best still have power in your bank?” I mutter to Eziah, ” because we are gonna need it.” I tell him, shifting just as he came rushing at me.