Fated To The Alpha novel Chapter 236

Read Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 236 – Kyan POV

“Lucas, have you seen my phone?” I call out to him. I was running later; I should have left already. However, I was contemplating not going after Jonah’s threat. I knew he told his dad, who in turn told hers. I wasn’t worried about them doing anything. They stood no chance if they did. I didn’t need KaifKaif to take them down, but could I risk hurting Marabella anymore than I have.

Today I would do it, I would set her free of me, I would end this finally, and she would be safe away from me.

“Lucas!” I call out again when I get no answer.

“No, did you check your room?” Lucas calls out. Of course, I checked my d**n room. I growl, frustrated; it had all my videos stored on it, though I had them backed up on my g****e drive, but I still liked having them. They were the only thing that helped me keep control of Kaif when he was anxious.

 

He usually settled instantly when I would play the videos of Mara that I kept secretly. I had videos from when she was a baby right up until now. I suppose one would probably think it was creepy that I watched her without her knowledge.

Yet it isn’t hard to tap into her family’s security cameras, though she hardly spent time in any of the main areas, however, when she did. I always saved them, so KaifKaif had something to watch.

Hearing footsteps, I turn around, looking toward the stairs of the foyer.

“No, luck?” he asks, and I shake my head.

“If you find it, ring Jonah and let me know,” I tell him. I had to get to the challenge; I promised I would go. He had been waiting for this day since he was a kid, and I would make sure no matter how much of a terrible idea it now was going, that I would be there for him. Though it would be awkward now that KaifKaif had marked him. I still can’t believe he would betray me like that? Betray us?

“You left me no choice,” Kaif snarls.

 

“There is always a choice,” I tell him while walking out to my car.

“Then make the right ones, and I won’t have to take drastic measures,” He growls back.

“You know only mates are supposed to mark each other, and Jonah isn’t my mate,”

“No, but he was right about one thing, Mara was always supposed to be his too,”

“How so?”

“I don’t know, I could sense it when I marked him; he shared her essence,”

“Essence maybe because he had been with her all night,” I tell him, but he disagrees.

“No, I can’t explain it, he is like, I don’t know the glue, the one that holds everything together, her opposite if you like,”

“Opposite, that makes no sense,”

“With darkness come light, Jonah is the light, but I don’t know, it’s more than that,” He muses.

“Well, figure it out, let me know,” I tell him, starting my car.

“You don’t seem very upset about me marking him,”

“He is like a brother, though how this will work when he becomes Alpha is beyond me, you mate marked him, I am not about to leave the City, and I sure as h**l won’t be with Mara and ah, definitely not with him,”

“You always think of s*x. You know, relationships back in my day weren’t about s*x. None of this try before you buy c**p; you couldn’t even have s*x until you courted and married the lady and got parental approval,” KaifKaif says.

“Yeah in your day, you thought the world was flat, and that bad smells caused disease,” I tell him, shaking my head.

The drive took a couple of hours, and as I pulled onto the long stretch of road, I was suddenly nervous about seeing Mara. Should I apologize? Should I just steer clear until it is all over then approach her to reject her? I was definitely out of my element here.

Parking, I noticed the entire pack stared in my direction. Here we go, I thought. I could see Mateo and Ezra on the hill like they were waiting for me. I roll my eyes.

“You’re on your own,” KaifKaif says, and I growl at him.

“Aren’t I usually against you?” I scoff, pushing my door open only to see Mara walk out of the Packhouse with Sage. Sage stops and my stomach sinks. I felt terrible. It was clear she knew by the glare on her face. Marabella stops staring at her before looking over her shoulder and noticing me. She looks back at her Aunty, who suddenly starts walking in my direction and Marabella tries to stop her, but one look from Sage and she drops her head.

Sage storms past her in a blaze of glory. “I expected better of you. I f*****g expected so much better,’ She snarls at me. Everyone stopped to watch, and I saw her hand twitch a few seconds before her palm connected with my face.

I s*****w, unable to meet her gaze, instead looking toward Marabella. She had her hands cupping her mouth like she couldn’t believe Sage just hit me, her face turning red with embarrassment as the entire pack started crowding around.

“Explain yourself. You dare try… Try…” Sage couldn’t bring herself to say it. Tears spring in her eyes and her lip quivers.

“You have disappointed me,” She says. My stomach dropped. She was like the mother I never had, and her words stung more than her hand.

“I’m sorry,” I tell her, meaning every word of it.

“I’m not who you should be apologizing to,’ She says before walking off. She pauses when she gets to Marabella’s side and grabs her arm before turning to look at me.

“Andrei is inside with Jonah,” She says before tugging Mara away and toward the training grounds. I watch them go before heading inside. Her fathers start walking down toward the packhouse, and I groan, ignoring them and heading inside.

Andrei was sitting on the stairs when I walked in with no shirt on and a pair of shorts. He didn’t even look up as I entered. Instead, his fists clench on his knees, and his jaw clenches before he rises and walks over to me, stopping beside me. He doesn’t even look at me.

“You hurt my niece,”

“I know, I wouldn’t have gone through with it, you know me, Pa,” he nods.

“Your right, I do. And you know me, you know how we handle things,” I press my lips in a line and nod once before spotting Jonah on the top of the stairs watching us.

“You block him out, he doesn’t need to feel it, but you get in that ring afterward, you take your punishment, understood?” Andrei says.

“Yes, Sir,” I sigh, and Jonah looks away.

“You’re lucky I know you, you’re lucky I love you like my own, if you were anyone else and you had gone through with it, you wouldn’t be breathing, Kaif or not, I would have found a way to bury you for what you did,”

“I know you would, but I wouldn’t have,”

“I know, I know my boys, I know what they’re capable of, and you aren’t capable of being that monster, but I know you did it to scare her, I know your reasoning, but I am telling you now, your reasoning is wrong and now you pay the price for your mistake,” He says before walking out the door.

Jonah looks away from me and folds his arms across his chest. “You see Mara yet?”

“Yes, and mum,” he nods, walking down the steps toward me.

“And?”

“And what?”

“F**k Kyan, you need to fix it,”

“I know, I will I am rejecting her after the challenge,” I tell him, and he growls.

“You do that, and I will f*****g hate you,”

“What else do you want me to do? I can’t keep her and I doubt she would want me after today ends anyway,”

“You’re a b****y idiot,”

“No, you are for thinking this was ever going to work. I k**l her, Jonah, k**l her. I have told you this,”

“No, you have some blurred out image of what you think you did to her; we don’t know for sure,”

“I do know for sure, Jonah, she was d**d in my arms,”

“Just… f**k. Why do you gotta be so complicated,” I rubbed my temples was I the only one here that was trying to protect her, everyone trying to force her d***h? What is it with everyone?

“You need to get ready,” I tell him, and he sighs.

“What?” I ask and he shrugs before biting his lip.

“What is it, Jonah?”

“What happens when I win?”

“What do you mean?”

“We are bonded in more ways than one, we can’t be apart now without weakening each other,”

“We will figure it out,” he nods, running his fingers through his hair and I grip his arms.

“You want this. You have trained for this, ” I tell him, and he looks at the ceiling and I could feel his worry through the bond, feel his anxiousness but also something I couldn’t decipher.

I slap his arm. “Go get your title,” I tell him and he nods.

“Yeah, I should get out there,” The moment we walk out the door, I am punched. What shocked me most is, that it was Mateo that hit me. I expected Ezra, but it was Mateo who sat me on my a*s before gripping the front of my shirt. Ezra quick to his side and grabs his arm.

“You touch my daughter again, and not even the gods will protect you from me,” Mateo snarls as Ezra yanks him back.

“Save it for after,” Mateo snarls at him, and I thought he may actually swing at his husband for stopping him. Mateo lets my shirt go before shoving me back on the ground.

“You hurt the wrong girl. No one touches my girls,” he sneers.

“Dad?” Mara whispers behind him, looking horrified like she was torn on whose side to pick. Jonah grabs my arm, hauling me to my feet, and Mateo wraps his arm around his daughter’s shoulder and tugs her away. Ezra watches me when his eyes flick to his wolf.

“You fucked up,” Maddox growls at me, and I nod, wiping my lip that dribbled blood down my chin. Kaif enjoying my pain.

“I know,” I tell him, and he walks off. Jonah nudges my shoulder with his and I glare at him.

“What you deserve it,” he shrugs.