Fated To The Alpha novel Chapter 162

Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 162

Sage POV

“We are going to be caught, I just don’t understand why you haven’t told him, he has been good Luna” Casen tells me as we both carry our baskets toward the border near the waterfall.

“He doesn’t need to know, what if it triggers him, and he kills them. It is working isn’t it, none have stepped over since we started doing this, besides even Derrick agrees, Andrei still isn’t in the right headspace to tell him yet” I tell him looking down at the basket of vegetables and bread. Casen contained fruit and bottled water.

“ If he catches you this close to the border he will have all our heads Sage, you know he doesn’t want you this close to the front lines, it is dangerous” Casen tells me. He was right but I knew Andrei wouldn’t see it the way we did. Every afternoon Casen or Zane took me to pick strawberries when in reality we had been dropping baskets of food to the borders. Since we started doing that, no one has tried to cross except those that meant harm. Malik and Zane had been good at holding them back with Derrick’s help.

Derrick caught me the first time I suggested this, none of them agreed with me at first so I went alone. Little did I know nothing gets past Derrick’s watchful eyes when he was in Beta mode.

Derrick told me about his time as a rogue, Andrei told me bits and pieces but I knew it was hard for him talking about it, talking about his mothers hardships and the things he had witnessed while he was rogue. It haunted him, being rogues haunts all of us like a cloud threatening to rain down on us. When it did rain down on me trying to drown me in despair, it didn’t just rain it was like a monsoon, plunging me beneath the dark depths of the water drowning me so badly I could almost feel it killing me and washing away everything I had achieved, washing me bare and raw as I relived the trauma that for so long was my life.

Derrick agreed to keep my secret but only if I had someone with me, so he spoke to Casen and Zane and in turn everyone in the pack knew where I went except Andrei. They hated keeping it from their Alpha but we all knew the monster he could become when faced with rogues.

We stop beside the border at the edge of the river and Casen crosses the river, holding both baskets above his head as he makes it to the other side. He places them down before picking up the empty baskets and crossing back over. We didn’t think it would work but every afternoon we found the baskets empty before we replaced them with the fresh produce we grew in the fields along the mountain edge.

Casen and I quickly race back towards the back of the packhouse before following the treeline and keeping in its shadows as we made our way back to the strawberry patches near the training grounds. We both dropped to the ground out of breath looking around to see if Andrei was lurking about.

We had a few close calls but one thing I learnt about Casen was he was good at explaining his way out of anything. Though he copped a roasting when we were nearly caught last time by Andrei, Casen told him he heard a deer and we went chasing after it when he found us too close to the border.

Casen was ordered to do 200 push ups and run 50 laps of the oval. I felt terrible, but Casen just sent me a wink and accepted his punishment like it was nothing, though Malik had to carry him off the training ground by the time he was done. My punishment was being forced to watch him which was horrible. Andrei said he knew the consequences of taking me out that far, but the guilt I felt knowing he was only out there because of me made me nauseous as I watched him take his punishment, knowing it should have been mine. I wanted to tell Andrei but Malik shook his head at me telling me to keep quiet.

We start picking strawberries and placing them in the baskets. “We may need to find something else soon, these patches are getting bare. Andrei will know we aren’t here picking strawberries soon” Casen says and I nod, trying to think of a new excuse to slip away with Casen or the others.

“How are things with you and the Alpha anyway, are you going to let him mark you soon?” Casen asks and my face heats at his words.

“Come on Sage don’t you think he has waited long enough? He has barely left the pack in months and when he does he only leaves with his father so he isn’t tempted to go on a killing spree”

“But that’s my point, Casen. He still has those urges, he still wants to kill them. I can feel it every time rogues are mentioned” Casen nods before he sighs.

“Can’t say I blame him though, what the rogues helped Jackson’s pack do was disgusting, especially to Luna Angie” Casen says. Everyone spoke so fondly of her and sometimes I wished I could have

met her, she sounded like someone I could have been friends with.

“What about you, how do you feel about them?” I ask Casen.

“Most of us were rogues, Sage. We all know the desperation. Jackson was dangling a new life for them, promising them safety within his pack. I get it, I do. But to kill children, our elders, is unforgivable. I used to be angry, then sad but now. ” He pauses, grabbing a giant strawberry and holding it up like it was a lump of gold.

He bites into it, it was huge, nearly the size of his palm. “How did we miss you?” He says to it, strawberry juice running down his chin and I chuckle before he passes the other half to me. I scrunch my face up and he rolls his eyes.

“That one is sweet, not like the rest of these sour ass ones we have been eating” He says and I bite the other half of it, popping it into my mouth. “ See?” I nod while chewing, it was extra juicy and sweet just like he said.

“Anyway I know my mother wouldn’t want me duelling on the bad stuff, she was a bit of hippy my mum. Loved crystals and meditation and nature, she used to tie dye our clothes. We hated it.” He says with a laugh.