Fated To The Alpha novel Chapter 195

Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 195

Sage POV

I had just put Jonah to bed and Andrei still wasn’t home, he had left early this morning and now it was nearly 11pm. He had been in and out all day and we had barely spoken. Derrick left around lunch time to go to Kat’s. He wanted to help  her and her mates with the kids. Apparently they were teething badly and Marge has been sick with flu, but they had no sleep and Kat hasn’t been able to shift because of it.

He   was going home  to give her mates reason to force her to shift. Closing the door slightly, I walk into the  bedroom  and flop on the bed. It was so quiet,   the bed felt too big with no one in it and I debated whether or not to just climb in Jonah’s with him so I could try to sleep. My eyes felt like sandpaper as I walked to the room flopping on the bed face down. It was only when I felt the bed shift and hands gripping under my arms that I woke up. More exhausted than I realised when the scent of soap and Andrei wafted under my nose.

“You’re home finally”  I mutter  as he  maneuvers  me around the bed and tugs the blankets up.

“Sorry I was  busy, it took longer than I thought”  h e says, wrapping his body around mine before I drift back off. It was early when I woke up, the sun was not even out yet, something unnerved me and I  had no reason to wake yet. Andrei was sleeping soundly but dread washed over me and I was unsure why. This feeling had been appearing since Jonah came home, like something was going to happen. Something bad.

“It’s nothing, go back to sleep” Sierra says but I couldn’ t help it, forcing myself up to go check on him. Paranoia always crept in, were the windows locked, was the door locked and was he still in bed. Walking down the hall I push the door open to find him tucked safely in his bed, nothing out of place.

“ See told you,” Sierra says and she was right, as always when I woke. Climbing back in bed, Andrei rolls on his back.

“Go back to sleep” He mutters, he had become used to my nightly waking to check Jonah. My mind  was alert  though  and unable to   go back to sleep, looking at the alarm clock it was a little after 4:30 AM.

“Sage please sleep ” Andrei mutters turning to face me and tucking me closer, my nose pressed against his chest. His scent was calming and made the tension leave.

“Please don’t make  me get up, I can feel how awake you are and it’s going to keep me awake” He says.

“Sleep” He says and I sigh trying to close my eyes and fight the urge to check Jonah again.

“No, one will take him, ” Andrei says, pulling away and opening one eye to look at me.

“You’re going to make me get up aren’t you?”

“Can you just check the  border cameras please” He sighs.

“You know I can feel if intruders step over right?”

“Yeah but sometimes they still slip through” I tell him and he groans.

“This is the third time since I got home” He mutters.

“I just woke up” I tell him.

“That doesn’t stop you from wacking me to get up to check the cameras while you’re sleeping, you know what it is? You are so used to something going wrong Sage that when you find a sliver of peace you are waiting for something to go wrong” He says and I know he is right but still the feeling of unease was unsettling.

“Fine,   I am going, this is the last time though, I need more than 4 hours of broken sleep at night” He says  tossing the blanket     back and walking out of the room. I hear him go downstairs and into the office, around 5 minutes later he returns but instead of  climbing back in bed he walks into the bathroom and turns the shower on. Tossing the blankets off I follow him into the bathroom.

“I thought you were coming back to bed”

“Well I can’t now, I go back to sleep and get up in an hour. I will be more tired” He says, stripping his boxer shorts off.

“You’re leaving again aren’t you?”

“Yes, but hopefully I won’t be long today, I just need to go meet some people and If all goes well I will   be home by  lunch” He   says before stepping into the shower..

“Shower with me?” I nod, stripping off and climbing in and shutting the shower screen.

“Where have you been going?” I ask him. “ The caves where Jonah was found”

“We found a rogue camp there and Zane and I have been sussing them out”

“You aren’t going to hurt them are you?”

“What no, just observing them, most of them are women and children. There a few men but mostly women and children”

“And what’s the point to watching them”

“We have been sending supplies in, I tried to speak to them yesterday but they know of my cruelty towards rogues and it is making it difficult”

“Making what difficult?”

“I offered for them to join our pack but they are hesitant” He answers, reaching for the shampoo. He turns me around before squirting some in his hands.  He washes my   hair, massaging  my scalp with his fingers.

“You will let them join, you would bring a rogue camp in” I ask him, a little shocked.

“Mmm” He hums softly.

“Why are they hesitant, most would jump at that opportunity”

“Well I haven’t exactly got a good reputation with rogues, and also the other rogue packs in the area have been talking, they have been warned away from our pack” Andrei says and I sigh in understanding. I wouldn’t exactly be jumping to join the Rogue killing Alpha’s pack if he wasn’t my mate.

“Maybe I could come with you?” I ask him but he pushes me under the stream of water.

“No, we have spotted a few camps surrounding it,  it isn’t safe and I found a few all male rogue camps that seem to have more sinister intentions, we have spotted them going to this camp. I think they are the main reason they are refusing to join, I think they fear the men’s camp” Andrei says.