Chapter 254
Read Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 254 – The moment we shed, all h**l broke loose.
All of them began shifting and attacking. My focus is solely on this giant directly in front of me. It
became clear he was the one in charge. Were-bears, who the h**l would have thought those existed,
and what were chances of us stumbling upon them. Trust Rose to find the only other monsters beside
us.
His paw swiped at my face, and I sank my teeth into it, which made him roar as Jax’s teeth sliced
through the pad of his paw, his ws scratching out tongue as he waved his arm. Out of the corner of
my eye, I saw Eziah taking his sweet a*s time as he got undressed. Folding his clothes while the bears
circled around him, he kept at his leisurely pace of getting unchanged. Casen was fighting two and had
a spear stuck in his side while the rest spun around, watching with their spears ready.
The bear roared as he swiped at my back, his ws raking through my fur to our tail before he grabbed
it and flung me across the tiny clearing. We hit a tree, and Jax got back to his feet and shook out his
fur, spraying blood everywhere as we turned back toward our target. The bear stood up on its feet and
snarled before dropping back down and charging at us. Jax growled, rushing at it before springing off
his feet and onto its back, tearing into his neck.
“F****r’s got thick skin,” Jax growled at me.
“Make a good rug. We need a new one,” I told him. But one thing was not on this bear’s side. We had
speed he could never match, and years of handling Kaif, this was child’s y for us. He tried to toss us
off, but Jax sank his teeth deeper, making him whine and try to rip us off, and swiped over his shoulder
at us.
He abruptly stood up, leaving us hanging from his neck by our teeth, while he flung his arms blindly,
trying to get us off. Jax snarled before he was forced to let go or lose a tooth. He slid onto his feet
across the grass about 10 meters away from the force of being tossed off. Casen had k****d a smaller
bear, but had a huge bite in his back leg and fought another while three stood around Eziah’s naked
form. His hands were glowing and they stared, mesmerized.
“What the f**k is he doing, showing them a magic trick?” Casen snarled through the link at me. The
bear I was fighting also turned to look at Eziah before cocking his head to the side. The light in his
hands grew more extensive and the bears backed up, Eziah smirked at their obvious fear.
“Always enjoyed hunting, and I must say, you have a lovely pelt,” he said while looking at a malted-
colored one. They backed up some more, staring at his hands as he rolled the sphere between his
hands, letting it grow bigger as his power surged through it. The gigantic bear I was fighting against
suddenly roared and ran at him. Jax was quick on his heels, about to rip into him when Eziah raised his
hand before mming the ball of light at the ground.
The ground lifted like a wave, and my eyes widened when I was sted backward. All I saw was ck
furing at my face. I was about to a****k the bear when it flew towards me. It smashed against me
and we hit the ground in a heap.
The air was expelled from our lungs in a quick wheeze, and I felt some of Jax’s ribs crack as its weight
crushed us. The bearnded on top of us, and Jax struggled to get out from under the big b*****d,
squirming when the bear suddenly got off us and shook himself out. With a nce around, the other
bears started charging at Eziah. He was tossing a sphere of gold in the air like he was about to y
dodgeball. Trees around us were fallen or wholly uprooted, except for the spot where Eziah stood,
which was perfectly intact and looked untouched.
The rest of the ce looked like a tornado had passed through. He smiled and the beast charged at
him, snarling and growling all ws and teeth. Eziah raised his hand when he suddenly disappeared as
fur engulfed my vision of him, and all I could see was the ck bear. The enormous ck bear roared
and stood up, raising its paws, and the other bears slid across the ground and came to a halt at their
leader’s order. The bears shoulders dropped in what looked like submission, and the ck bear turned
to face Eziah, who waved to him.
“Do you mind stepping aside? I don’t want you as rug. I want that one?” he said while peering around
the giant bear and pointing to a malted brown one; he sent him a wink. The ck bear suddenly
shifted, turning back to his human form before dropping on one knee.
“Sorry, I didn’t know you were the Moon Goddess’s kin, your Majesty,” he says, and all the bears drop
on their paws and bow to him. Eziah huffed and tapped his foot, clearly annoyed. Whatever, for I did
not know, we were nearly made into a bear snack, so I had no idea why he was upset.
“Mum always ruins my fun; I was really looking forward to skinning that one,” Eziah pouted before
winking at the bear he liked, who shuddered and backed up, bumping into another. Well, this is fresh
development, and how did they know about the Moon Goddess?
Casen shifts back, drenched in blood, and huge w scratch down the center of his chest. He rips the
spear out of his side, blood gushed down his abs and leg as he covered it with his hand while it healed.
He snarled, stalking toward us.
“Well then, you best show me to my mate,” Casen growled, gripping the leader’s shoulder and turning
him to face him. The man red at him, but Casen shed his canines at him.
“My mate, where is she?” he growled angrily with rage. Yet, I was still trying to get over his confession
of k*****g his brother. I couldn’t wrap my head around it.
Eziah also stared at Casen, and I had no idea what to think of anything anymore. I just wanted this s**t
over so I could go home to my mates. However, I wasn’t sure the sickly feeling in my stomach was
caused by all this drama, or Kyan, maybe a mix of both. Yet as I shifted back, the first thing I did was
double over and threw up next to the tree. I clutched my stomach as pain rippled through me.
“Jonah?” Eziah called out to me, and I shook my head and gasped. I felt like something was crushing
my chest, and I found it difficult to breathe.
“I will take you to her?” The man said. Casen shoved him forward with a snarl. The man got to his feet,
and those with him shifted back. I tried to catch my breath. Everything suddenly ached. Adulling throb
resided behind my eyes, and I staggered, clutching a nearby tree trunk.
“Can your friend walk?” the leader said. I waved him off and forced myself upright. Turning, vertigo
washed over, and I suddenly saw double before everything went ck.
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Kyan POV
A few hours earlier,
Marabe struggled to contain the shadows. We had created a dome shield so they couldn’t escape
while I tried to coach her to pull them back in. Her hands glowed a smokey gray as the shadows
engulfed her.
“Just draw on it,” I told her, walking around the dome of my magic to see her better through the
transparent shield I created. “Kyan, I can’t,” she cried as frustration set in.
“You did it before. Just focus on them and try to pull them back, feel for their energy and will it to draw
toward you,” Sweat beaded on her forehead as she concentrated. The dome surrounding her filling
with mystical mist. “Kyan!” She shrieked as panic set in before she unleashed thempletely.
“E, I need you to calm down. Don’t panic, just breathe,” I told her. Kaif’s unease settled over me as
we watched the shield obscure her and gopletely dark. ck as coal when I heard her cough.
“E?” I called to her, all I got was a shuddering rasp of a response. Kaif shoved forward with me,
reinforcing the shield. It shudders as the darkness swirling inside tried to break out, her own power
mingling with it, and she made the same choking noise.
“Kyan, this shield won’t hold much longer,” Kaif warned when pain sliced through my neck; Kaif
quivered inside me as the bond to her faltered. “E?” I rasped out. Kaif, in a panic, dropped the shield.
“Kaif, no,” I screamed as the shadows burst free. Kaif recognized his mistake threw my hands out,
trying to pull them, and I let go of control, letting him take over. His hands glowed a silvery blue as he
tried to ce the surrounding shield again. It was like grasping air in your hand, near impossible as
they swirled like a tornado above.
Marabe gasps, and he turns his head toward her to see her clutching her neck. As if she had been
choked. She crawled to her hands and knees, and her eyes zed white for a second.
“She hasn’t let go of them,” I murmur to Kaif, and we nced up. The shadows were swirling above but
not unleashing. Marabe raised her hand, and I could see the ck tendrils around her throat from
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where the shadows had tried to k**l her.
Marabe gritted her teeth before she screamed, trying to draw them back and thunder and lightning
suddenly cracked across the sky. A storm came out of nowhere, and the winds picked up, blowing her
hair across her face.
“They’re fighting her,” Kaif whispered.
“What?”
“The shadows. They don’t want to go back to her, so they are fighting to break free of her,”
“You are making no sense,” I tell him as I watch, horrified. “They belong to the Octavian bloodline Kyan,
now out they want to go home,”
“But?” He nced at Marabe when she fell backward as if the rope to her shadows suddenly
snapped or gave way. Kaif looked up to see them suddenly whisking with rming speed directly at
her. It all happened so fast, and I screamed in h****r as they flew toward her just as she sat up.
She shakes her head, her eyes returning to normal, and Kaif moved as the shadows rushed toward
her. He tossed himself in front of her, and he tensed as they smashed into him. So cold and loud. I
could hear the d***g screams of those trapped there writhe through my soul. Icy cold, and Kaif jolted as
he took it, absorbed it. He gasped and stumbled forward, and I peered out his eyes to see Marabe
cup her mouth with her hand as he steadied himself on his feet.
“Thank g*d,” I murmured to Kaif, but I got no answer. I pushed on the barrier separating us, but he
seem locked in ce; the barrier was rock solid.
“Kaif, give me back control,” I said, pushing on it when his back arched before he copsed. Darkness
swallowed me, and yet I could hear my own heart beating, the sound hollow before flickers of light. No
memory shed through me, only they weren’t mine. The shadows were angry, and at first, I didn’t
understand what was happening as I watched. I was a bystander.
A woman stood by a cradle humming when the door opened, and I looked over at it. I recognized this
room. It was one upstairs in the house only different, like I was transported back in time. Their clothes
were not suited to this time period either. The woman was wearing a puffy dress with shoulder pads,
her hair curled down her back. Whereas the man had brown pants and a white shirt, and suspenders.
The man says something to her, but the woman doesn’t turn. I couldn’t hear what he said, but I could
hear the tune she hummed, which I thought was peculiar. Her voice clear, rings loudly on echo.
“Do you know what creates a monster?” She murmurs as she leans into the cradle. I looked at the
man, who seemed confused.
“Another monster,” she says before turning with the baby in her arms. Little ck tufts of hair showed
on his little head.
“Monsters create Monsters, Kaif. I won’t let you make him one,” she whispers, looking down at the
baby in her arms. She brushes her finger down his nose and ck tentacles rush under her skin,
making it ripple.
“Mummy won’t let him ruin you, isn’t that right sweet boy?” she says, her lips turning up in a snarl. She
raised him above her head, and the man I now knew was an ancestor, one that contained Kaif, rushed
forward, hands out. His eyes were on the baby in her arms.
“I won’t let you turn him against me. I won’t allow him to be a monster,” she sneered, her eyes turning
ck. The man shifts, and Kaif rushed forward just as she went to throw the baby. Kaif’s hand snaked
out just in time to grab the bundle of fabric while his fist connected with the side of her head. He
clutched the baby to him while the woman went sprawling before smashing her head on the corner of
the dresser.
I watched as he soothed the screaming baby, and my eyes moved to the woman. Blood started pooling
around her and across the floor. Kaif looked down as the trail reached his feet. He jerked, startled,
before ncing over his shoulder to see her bleeding on the floor. He appeared to scream, before
cing the baby in the cradle and rushing toward her.
Clutching her and trying to wake her. Her body was floppy in his arms. The memory fizzles, and I am
tossed into another one and another, the same cycle repeating as I watched them all try to k**l his
child. Then, those he didn’t k**l tried again and again until he was forced to k**l them.
I closed my eyes, unable to witness the horrors each woman tried to do to their own young as the
shadows overtook them all. Changing them and destroying them. I couldn’t take it, feeling sick to my
stomach when Kaif growled menacingly, and I opened my eyes to see Kaif was now standing. He
growls at Marabe, who looks at him horrified.
“Kaif?” she whispers, but he wasn’t seeing her. He was seeing someone else. Hisst mate, as she
tried to d***n their 4-year-old son in the bath, thought he broke the curse with her. He had marked her
the night before his burning anger vibrated through him, and I tried to shove through the barrier.
Screamed to him, it wasn’t her. Marabe scrambled backward on her hands and feet, trying to escape
him. Kaif shed the air, narrowly missing her face with his ws, and she shrieked before scrambling
to her feet.
He growled before giving chase as she shifted. My surroundings blurred as she raced toward the
forest, everything turning into a blur as Kaif chased her. Kora darted among the trees, and a sense of
Deja vu washed over me.
The trees zipped by in a blur as we chased her. Kora darted between the tombstones and along the
track, trying to remain on the narrow path, but Kaif was faster, and she diverted away from it. Marabe
was forced to flee into the thick brush, but it was no good as Kaif lunged forward. Her loud scream
infuriated her more and Kaifmanded her to shift back.
“Shift,” he yelled into her face as Kora squirmed in his arms, trying to break free. Her body tensed in his
arms. Her body shudders and her ribs crack as he squeezes while she tries to fight hismand.
Eventually her bones snap, and she is forced to shift in his arms.
His grip never lessens and Mara’s scream rattling off words that would disable me if we’re used on just
me, but a monster like Kaif. One that held the power he has, and filled with rage he felt, they had no
effect. The shadows of our ancestors weren’t the Octavian bloodline at all but his mate’s ghostly
shadows. Now I know why they refused to return to her. They knew he would protect her, and instead
of k*****g their offspring, they wanted to k**l the source, which was Mara. His mates wanted revenge,
and using Kaif, they would get it. Ending the bloodlines, ending our mate.
Kaifughs and squeezes her. She thrashes, gasping while she tries to break free. I scream, shoving
forward as he aims to rip out her throat to k**l her.
“Kaif No!” I screamed before smashing my hands against the barrier that separated us. He jolts. His
teeth, missing their mark, and instead of k*****g her, he marks her. His teeth shed and tore through
not only her neck but also her chest and shoulder de. She screams loudly, and blood runs down her
body before she goes limp in his arms just as I smashed through the barrier.
Her head falls forward. I scoop her. Marabe’s body is all floppy, and I notice I am in Kaif’s body, not
my own. I sniff her, and her head rolls back in his furry arms. Blood drenched her, and her marking
looked more like a bear had mauled her. Blood oozed out of her, dripping off our arms, and the color
drained from her face. Her heart rate slowed to a deadly beat as I looked on, horrified at what he had
done.
I shake her, but she doesn’t wake when I notice the markings around her neck, thick lines etched into
her skin from the shadows, and I look around when I feel Kaif surge to life and stir within me. “What
have I done?” he gasps as the shadows evaporate and fizzle. An icy feeling seeps out of me and down
our arms, forcing me to shift back into my human form. I grit my teeth, not wanting to drop her as the
shadows leave me and seep back into her.
“The ruins! Get her to the ruins,” Kaif screams at me. I look up the hill before I take off running.
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