Fated to the Alpha–And His Triplet Brothers

Chapter 11: She’s a witch!

~Hazel’s POV~

"I reject you."

That’s all I heard. That’s all I felt.

Cayden’s words struck my chest like a whip. Cold. Final. Cruel. He stared at me like I was filth smeared across his boots like I was something he wanted to scrape off. That one sentence ricocheted in my head repeatedly, each time cutting deeper.

And then like thunder following lightning, I heard Caspian’s voice boom through the hall:

"I accept you."

Gasps. Shocks. Echoes. But none of it mattered because, in the next moment, Caspian knelt beside me. I didn’t move. Couldn’t. My limbs were frozen, locked in some invisible chain of shame and disbelief. Yet he was so... gentle.

He tucked my hair away from my neck. My breath hitched when his fingers grazed my skin, and then—gods—his warm breath blew across my nape, slow and steady like a prayer. I should’ve felt fear.

Instead?

My stomach flipped.

My lips trembled as I bit down on them, trying to muffle the gasp threatening to escape me.

Then he bit me.

Not with violence. Not with force. But like I was something precious. Cherished.

The pain was brief. Sharp. But it was swallowed quickly by this wave of tingles rushing from my neck down my spine. Something stirred inside me, something raw and wild and not human.

What just happened?

What is happening? NovelFire

And more terrifying..what’s going to happen?

I was marked. By Beta Caspian.

By a man, I didn’t know but whose arms felt safer than home ever did. Around the entire pack, in front of my father, I had been claimed. And they called me...me—their mate?

Sophia. Not Natasha.

at the edges as my head started pounding. Faces swirled, mouths moved, but all

the hall with his arms folded and disgust carved into every line of

and rage. I tried to cover the mark, but my hand wouldn’t move. My fingers just hovered there, like I was

Because it was.

was his mate. The Moon Goddess chose me. But

I’m human.

have mates. We choose. We date. We marry. The Moon Goddess doesn’t pick for

wrap my head around it, Cayden’s voice sliced through

got what you wanted,

My

I don’t have a wolf, even though I wasn’t connected to their rituals, that rejection hurt. Deeply. In places I didn’t know

around me... it dulled the pain. Replaced

Excitement? Warmth?

Then chaos.

like she’d been lit on fire. She pushed

me

burned. My vision blurred with hot tears. But I stayed still, too shocked

spat. "You can’t be my daughter-in-law.

echoed like a curse through

screamed, eyes wild, "Tell me she’s

silvery gleam. She scanned me slowly,

recognize her," she said finally. "I don’t sense any power in

her head, furious. "She must’ve cloaked it! Witchcraft

again. And

arms shot around me as I stumbled, catching me like I weighed nothing. He pulled me into his chest, strong and unshakable. My face pressed against his heart and it beat steady...

recoiled at the

too!" she screamed, her voice cracking with

control yourself!" the former Alpha, Sir

turning to the crowd. "But you all want

at Dahlia.

guard, who immediately