Chapter 71
Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 71
“To get a drink” I lie and he nods letting me go before snuggling back into his pillow. I wait a few
minutes for him to fall back asleep.
I walk to the walk in grabbing one of Ezra’s shirts from the hanger.
“You have drunk too much Kat, I don’t think I can shift, I feel queasy” Kora says. Great, now I had to
run, I felt fine though. Grabbing some track pants and a jumper, I slip them on, ditching Ezra’s shirt on
the floor before sneaking out.
Going down the steps, I forget about the third one and it creaks. My heart almost stopped at the loud
noise, made louder by the deafening silence that had fallen over the house.
It took me thirty minutes, quicker thanst time to get there and I stayed for around an hour when my
mother told me to head home because I couldn’t stop yawning. Trudging back we part ways when I am
halfway back home.
Kora was off making me wonder if me drinking affected her and not me, because I feltpletely sober
while she felt sluggish. Hearing a twig snap. I freeze, sniffing the air, my heart hammering in my chest
and Kora stirs nervously.
‘What is it’
‘Must have been an animal’ I tell her and I keep walking yet I felt like I was being watched.
I move quicker and start running when I hear movement behind me making me run faster. When I hear
another twig snap off to the side of me.
My eyes darted around looking between the trees when I saw Mateo walk towards me before stopping
his arms folded across his chest.
“I’m sorry Kat, you left me no choice” he says.
“What did you do?” I ask him, taking a step back when I hear footsteps behind me. I spin around to see
Ezra walking toward me from amongst the trees.
His eyes zing in his fury. I look at Mateo. He was leaning on a tree watching me before his eyes
darted to Ezra.
“I was hoping he was wrong, clearly I was wrong for trusting you” Ezra says.
I feel tears threaten, Mateo gave me up, how did he even know?
“Kat?” Mateo says.
“Save it Mateo you’re supposed to be my friend”
“I am your friend Kat, but you are also my Luna, my job is to keep you safe, keep Ezra safe and I can’t
do that if you are running off into the woods of a night, my job is to protect you even if it means
protecting you from your own poor choices ” Mateo says.
I felt cornered, Ezra reached for me, his fingers wrapping around my arm gently.
“Have you shifted out here?” I don’t say anything. Instead swallowed and was about to say no.
“Don’t lie to me” Ezra says and Mateo steps forward holding out something.
“I was going to give this to Ezra tomorrow, hoping I was wrong and that it was from the night you
shifted, until I felt you climb out of bed. You lied to me Kat, I nearly had a heart attack when I woke up
and you weren’t back from getting a drink” Mateo says.
He passes it to me and I look down at it, to find it is a photo of me with my mothers wolf, me also in my
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wolf form.
“You put yourself at unnecessary risk Kat” Ezra growls.
“Where did you get this?” I ask, looking at Mateo.
“Jacksons men” he answers and I hang my head. F*ck!
I shrug off Ezra’s arm, “I am trying to hold it together right now Kat’, but I suggest you start walking
home” Ezra says. I sniffle before pressing my lips together and walking ahead. Both Ezra and Mateo
following behind me. Getting to the house, I know I was in some deep Sh*t. I felt betrayed by Mateo,
why did he have to involve Ezra?
“Kat, I’m sorry but you can’t be out in the woods alone” Mateo says, grabbing my arm, he pulls me to
him wrapping his arms around my shoulders while I try push him away.
“I would never do something to hurt you kat, but I can’t always be your friend. Not when you do
something as dangerous as leave without telling anybody” He whispers before kissing my forehead. I
growl at him annoyed, he could have just got me. I dont see why he had to wake Ezra up.
“Don’t be P!ssed off at him, he was only doing his job. You brought this on yourself” Ezra says from
where he was watching us from the doorway. He nods to Mateo and he lets go walking upstairs.
I walk upstairs noticing all the lights were on and start flicking them off. I could still Mateos bedroom
light on and knew he was too chicken to sleep with it off as I walked toward our bedroom. Ezra silently
followed behind me, and his silence was almost worse than his raging fury. At least when he was
screaming I kknew what was going to happen, his silence felt lethal, deadly and if I couldn’t feel the
raging storm brewing within, I wouldn’t have realise how angry he was at me.
I walk into the room before getting in bed and Ezra waits by the door before I see Mateo pass him
something. My stomach drops when Ezra closes the door before walking over to me with a set of
handcuffs in his hand.
“You can’t be serious?”
“I can’t have you running around while I am asleep, don’t argue with me and be happy this is all I am
doing right now”
“Happy? You want to handcuff me?” I tell him as he cuffs one to his wrist before mping the other on
mine.
“It’s better than the alternative” He growls, pushing me to the centre of the bed.
“And what’s that Ezra, you going to let Maddox have me? Put me in my ce?” I snap at him when he
grabs my face.
“Don’t tempt me” He says, his grip loosening as his eyes flicker, he rubs his thumb below my eye
before letting out a breath and pressing his forehead to mine.
“Just go to sleep” He says before letting go andying down beside me. He pulls on the cuff forcing my
arm around him and making mey with my head on his chest.
“Don’t ever do that again”
“You wouldn’t let me see her”
“With good reason too” He says, I could feel his body trembling beneath me as he fought to keep
Maddox at bay after a while it stopped.
“I won’t have you running off, you want to see her take Mateo with you, I don’t trust myself not to kill
her” he says kissing my head before he reaches over turning themp off.
“Now go to sleep”