Fated To The Alpha novel Chapter 200

Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 200

Sage POV

After everyone left I made more coffee and we sat out the back talking. Nora came over feeling a bit lonely without Zane and her siblings were too busy playing their video games. We watched the kids play and Marabella eventually fell asleep on the picnic rug and kat went and laid her down inside while we watched Kyan and Jonah sword fight with some twigs they found while running around the backyard and along the treeline before Mateo called them over, not liking them that close to the forest edge.

“We can always go out the front, the kids can climb the willow tree and it is shadier for them to play” I tell Mateo and he nods, before scooping up Eziah who was ripping out handfuls of grass.

“Come on boys” Mateo calls out to them, waving them over. They stop what they are doing and race over to us skidding to a  stop on the grass in front of me.

“Where has Ella gone?” Kyan asks, looking around.

“Ella?” I ask.

“Marabella, ” He says.

“She is sleeping, ” Mateo tells him.

“Come on, you both should get a drink, your little faces are so red” I tell them walking inside with them. I make them a drink of cordial each before washing their faces with a wet cloth to try to cool them down.

“Want to climb the willow tree?” I ask them and they rush toward the front of the house. Following them, I couldn’t see   them.   I was looking  up the stairs when I heard hushed voices making me look in the living room to find Kat watching Marabella sleep in her fold out bed. Jonah and Kyan staring down at her.

“Why does she make that face?” Jonah asks at Marabella’s quivering lip as she sleeps.

“She can hear them?” Kyan says, reaching his hand out toward her.

“Boys, come on. Let her sleep ” I whisper to them when Kyan reaches down touching her cheek, black mist rushes up his arm and his eyes turn black. The sight sends goosebumps up my arms and the room feels electrified   when he suddenly pulls his hand back.

“There, all better now” Kyan says. “What did you do?” Kat asks him.

“Took it from her, they were scaring her” “What were?” Kat asks, looking at me.

“The shadows, come on, I want to climb this tree” Kyan says before pecking Marabella’s head.

“Sweet dreams, Ella” He says before grabbing Jonah’s arm and tugging him past me to the front door.

“What was that about?” Mateo asks, watching the boys run out the front door.

“Marabella   must have been having a nightmare, Kyan took it from her” I tell him.

“Yeah that kid does some spooky things”

“So does our daughter, ” Kat says with a soft laugh.

“ I   think he is sweet” I tell them and they both nod.

“Yes, he seems like a good kid, ” Mateo says before following them outside.

“Are you coming out with us?” I ask Kat.

“ I will wait for a bit to make sure she is alright,”

Kat says looking down at Marabella.

“Is   everything alright, you seem distracted?” I ask her when Mateo and Nora walk out the front door.

“Yeah, I am. I have a lot going on with the Moon Goddess dying, the Packs. My kids, everything feels like it becoming too much”

“What about your mates, have you told them? I sensed some tension between you and Ezra”

“Yeah we are fine, Ezra worries, he thinks I am taking on too much, Mateo he is  great and good with the kids. Honestly I feel like a shit mum. I feel like all I do is work and when I am not working, I a m exhausted or so stressed I am cranky”

“Have you told them this?” I ask her and she shakes her head.

“Why not?”

“Because there are some things I  can’t speak about, there will be consequences if I do, it could change things and make them worse”

“Everyday, I always wonder about the what ifs. What if I didn’t convince my  family  to go  to Flower Meadows? But you know what? It happened,   I survived it and I got my life back. A better one and I realise what happened was on them, not me. What they did is on them and nothing I could have or should have done would change it. Sometimes fate has a funny way of showing   us how much one can endure but once you endure it, you realise nothing will break you, except yourself. You will realise that kat, one day you will wake up and the weight on your shoulders won’t feel so heavy, it won’t feel consuming    and you will  realise  you can carry  it, because you carried a weight so much heavier before   and  you are stronger because   of it” I tell her while hopping up.

“Come on, I will make more coffee. Mateo is right with the kids and we can steal Andrei’s monte carlo biscuits he has hidden in the back of the pantry”

“I  love Monte Carlo’s, ” Kat says with a groan.

“Yeah, Casen brought them over this morning to replace the ones he stole last night” I chuckled while walking out to the kitchen. Kat follows after me and I flick the kettle on.

“Thank you” Kat says and I nod to her.

“You can always talk to me, ” I tell her, grabbing some mugs down. Kat grabs the milk from the fridge and hands it to  me. We were  in the middle o f making coffee when nausea rolled over me, making my  heart  race and beat  frantically  in my chest. Sweat coated my forehead and my hands trembled.

“Sage?”

“Get the kids” I shrieked, fighting down the urge to throw up  as I tore off out of the house. Rushing out of the house, I see rogues  running in from every direction. My scream is loud and bounces off the trees as well as through the mindlink as I screamed for Andrei.

I look for  Jonah  and the kids spotting  them both in the tree, Mateo’s grey wolf fending off rogues as they come out of nowhere and everywhere. Our pack   ran from the houses  and treeline   trying to help Mateo as Eziah started crying under the tree where he sat. Shifting I jump into the fray, racing towards where the kids are.

“Get the kids to the packhouse and lock it down” I rush through the mindlink as Sierra sinks her teeth into a brown blotchy coloured wolf. Kat races toward Eziah but is tackled at the last second, her wolf skidding across the ground when it sinks its teeth into her neck forcing her to shift back. Her naked body was tossed and Mateo’s wolf whimpered but he was the only thing standing in the way of the wolves getting to his son as I tried to get to his position. Sierra kills a wolf as our warriors start taking them down, but there were so many, they came out of nowhere and seemed to have no end as they kept zipping out of the trees toward us.

Being jumped from behind, I am shoved forward face planting the ground, Sierra turns quickly snapping at anything that comes into reach when Kat barges into me. Kicking another wolf in the head as it tried to get me from my blindspot. Her entire body saturated in blood and her neck was bleeding profusely as she continued  fighting, trying to get to her son and the boys. Mateo is suddenly jumped by three wolves and he kills one quickly before the other two pounce on him and knock him down. One of them ripped into his flank viciously. Sierra charges toward them and she tackles one off  the top  of him tearing  into its neck.

Looking up into a tree Jonah and Kyan were perched on a branch both looking petrified, I see Kat get to the tree and Sierra biting and clawing at anything that attacks when I hear Kat tell the boys to jump. I didn’t have time to look to see if she needed help as I felt teeth sink into my tail,

ripping me back, claws digging deeply into my ribs and scratching down my hip.

“Andrei! ” I scream through the link, needing them to get here before we all end up dead. We were outnumbered five to one easily and they just didn’t stop coming. I see Jonah out of the corner of my eye jump into Kat’s arms and Kyan, both of them running toward the packhouse and to safety.

I was running towards them when Kat started to scream .

“No, no, no, not now” She screams, making me look at her. She had Eziah in her arms when she suddenly   vanished, disappearing into thin air. I didn’t have time to think much of it when I was smashed  from  the side. Gun fire  rings  out before I  hear someone scream. “Grenades!”