Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 202
Katya POV
People were dead on the ground everywhere as I dropped back into the middle of a war zone.
Trained rogue fighters attacking and Andrei’s pack is equally as efficient but lacking the numbers. I recognise Dominic’s men instantly by the sheer size of them, and how effective they were. They didn’t flinch and fought like they were training for this day all their lives.
I turn around watching the carnage when I see Mateo, he runs toward the packhouse and it was like time slowed down when I heard Andrei scream for Sage, who was also running toward the packhouse ahead of him, Mateo not far behind her. So much going on it was hard to keep track of as I turned to see Andrei screaming and running straight toward me, and I gasped.
This was the vision, I was reliving it but in real time as deja vu washes over me and I duck as a rogue jumps toward me. Dominic punches it out of my way as I clutch Eziah to my chest. I feel the ground vibrate, heat makes the air warmer as the packhouse explodes.
I cover my ears not expecting the blast only to be tossed backwards into the dirt, Eziah still out cold but on my chest. Sitting up, my heart thumps against my chest when I see bodies scattered everywhere, dazed I look around . Andrei is clutching Sage in his hands as everyone rushes toward the burning destruction of the packhouse, digging through the debris and that’s when I notice Mateo lying dead not far from Andrei.
Ezra frantically tries to revive his charred and burnt body. My stomach twists as I look around praying this was a figment of my imagination only I knew it was real, very real. Hearing a growl behind me I turned to see him.
His figure was imposing as he clapped his hands. He laughs maniacally and rubs his hands together, black mist spreading across his body, his shirt had been torn off in the fray revealing tattoo’s that shimmered and rippled and swirled across his body, making me realise they weren’t tattoo’s but the markings of his magic. An army of shifted wolves behind him when I hear shifting and menacing growls only to see Donnie and Maddox had taken over in their grief.
Dominic smiles cruelly and raises his hand in the air. His eyes pitch black and I see the rogues backing up, the fear on their faces. Goosebumps rose on my flesh and I could see the darkness taking Dominic over as his magic rippled over his men, firing them up as they growled and snarled, hackled up and wanting blood.
The wolves behind him growling and snapping their jaws. Dominic drops his arms and rolls his hands around making a black sphere of his magic with them.
The menacing look of red eyes chills me to the bone, as I look at his men, their bodies transforming and growing larger. Dark mist envelopes his hands spreading out over the wolves behind him, turning them into rabid beasts with blood red eyes.
“Kill them all” He says and the wolves start charging toward me where I was standing watching all this play out. I scream seeing Donnie and Maddox running into the fray. They start ripping into the rogues, tearing them literally limb from limb when Dominic’s eyes focus and I watch him use his powers like some dark angel out for revenge. He walks around the carnage like it couldn’t touch him and I turn to the packhouse. Mateo lay motionless on the ground and I ran over to him.
Shaking him, but getting no response, my mark burning and I could feel the bond severing, like recognising his death somehow brought the pain forward, making me clutch my chest.
The vision Seline showed me came to the forefront of my mind, I could see it clear as day as I watched my kids play. I thought the decision was when we had the war with Jackson’s pack but now I realize without a doubt it was now. It was never then, but now as I turn looking over at Sage’s dead body on the ground. She is drenched in blood, her skin grey and my eyes burn at the sight of her.
Seline’s voice booming through my head, her words on repeat. “Always choose the mate bond, choose your mates over everything” She said and I blink back tears, choosing Mateo would save our family, but that meant destroying Andrei’s. I choke back a sob.
I knew it was selfish but I couldn’t live without him, I couldn’t live without my mate, couldn’t live with Ezra hating me, I couldn’t live with the guilt that he wouldn’t be able to watch his children grow.
Leaning down, tears stream down my cheeks knowing Andrei would hate me, knowing I was choosing my mate over Sage as I press my lips to Mateo’s. Warmth moves through me and everything I love about him rushed to the surface. As my magic flared to life and a sob broke past my lips. Everything falling quiet around me as I pulled him back, pulled him to me when he gasps, sucking in a deep breath.
He looks around frantically, clutching his chest before his eyes fall on me, he clutches my face and I could hear the fighting slowing down.
“You’re ok, we are okay?” Mateo whispers, pulling me to him when he gasps.
“Jonah, Kyan, they are in the house” he says and I snap my head back.
“What?” I shriek, my head snapping in the direction of the packhouse.
“The children” I scream and Dominic looks over at me and I shove Eziah in Mateo’s arms before rushing over and ripping through the rubble of what’s left, the house reduced to concrete rubble.
“Kyan?” Dominic yells, his magic dropping and he rushes over to me.
“Move!” He says and I step back. He raises his hands and I could feel the energy rushing off him, physically feel it as he started flinging concrete like it weighed nothing, the shadows lifting the debris and moving them off the side when I spot my father. Mateo rushed over helping me drag him out with his free hand that wasn’t clutching Eziah. I could see Ezra and Andrei taking down the last few rogues. The ground was completely drenched in blood.
People were injured everywhere and I hear my father coughing. His legs were crushed and he had a piece of rebar through his stomach. I move to his side.
“Kat, you need to” He chokes out. “Jonah” he gasps.
“Kyan! ” Dominic says and I hear him ripping away rubble with his hands when I see the black sphere. Both boys inside are perfectly okay, Kyan’s face deathly pale when he drops his magic and Dominic scoops him up.
“I got you, I got you buddy” Dominic says to him as I watch through tear filled eyes.
“Jonah?” My dad asks just Andrei comes rushing over screaming for him. His entire body was drenched in blood. “He’s fine” I tell my father watching Andrei hug him.
“Where is mum?” I hear Jonah cry out and Andrei drops on the ground sobbing into Jonah’s shoulder and clutching him tightly.
“Where is she?” Jonah asks. Pulling on Andrei’s head.
“Dad, where is mum? Where is mum, dad?” Jonah asks before he starts wailing trying to get out of his grip as Andrei holds him, refusing to let him look behind him. Jonah starts smacking his arms and Eziah stirs on the grass beside my father, finally waking back up as Ezra rushes to my side scooping him up.
.”Where is Marabella?” Ezra asks frantic.
“ In the car, Sage got her out” Mateo says, looking over my shoulder at her body when suddenly I hear a bloodcurdling scream making me look at Andrei. Jonah thrashes wildly in Andrei’s arms before escaping him and dropping next to Sage. He starts yanking on her shoulders, her body completely limp and Andrei tries getting up.
“Jonah! ” He calls getting to his feet, his eyes all swollen from crying, his body marred with the scars of the war. Dominic’s men were walking around killing the injured wolves.
“It’s okay, Pumpkin” I hear my fathers weak voice making me look at him. I nod.
“Pull it out, so I can heal him, ” I tell Mateo. He pulls the rebar out of him and my father groans. I could hear Jonah wailing in the background.
Andrei crying and trying to console him. My hands instantly reach for his wound when my father grips my hands making my eyes dart to him.
“You can’t heal her can you?” he says and my lips tremble and I shake my head trying to heal him, but his hands refuse to let go as he pushes mine away.
“Stop dad, let me, I can help” I tell him.
“You’re right, but not this time, pumpkin” My father says and I ignore him trying to twist my wrists from his grip.
“I abandoned him once, I won’t do it again when he needs me” my father says.
“No! I won’t” I tell him.
“Pin him,” I tell Mateo who hesitates when my father glares at him.
“You do, I will never forgive you, you will do this for me. I need you to do this for me” My father says and I shake my head.
“ I have made so many mistakes, I won’t let this be one of them. He’s my son”
“ And I am your daughter” I cry out, shaking my head.
“And so is she, so is Sage. I love her like one too. You guys don’ t need me, you have your mates, you don’t need me anymore Pumpkin, and that’s okay. But your brother needs her, Jonah needs her and you will do this for me and him, either way you are not healing me, not while she is laying there and I can take her place” my father says, squeezing my hands softly, a pleading look in his eyes.
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