Fated to the Alpha–And His Triplet Brothers

Chapter 34: Doppelganger

~Hazel’s POV~

The dream still clung to me like wet fog... "

"She smirked, it is you who has to pay..." View the correct content at NovelFire

I jolted awake, heart slamming against my chest. A soft gasp escaped my lips as I sat up, breath hitching. For a split second, I didn’t even know where I was. The air was thick. My head buzzed. And then I saw her.

Aurora.

She was standing right beside me, her eyes wide and rimmed with tears, fear etched into every crease of her face.

"Oh my God," she exhaled shakily, pressing a hand to her chest as she leaned in. "Hazel, I was checking your temperature, your pulse—you weren’t breathing. You didn’t even look alive." Her voice cracked. "I thought you were" She shook her head. "No. No, no. What happened? Did you feel anything? Did you see anything?"

"I’m fine," I whispered, though my voice was anything but steady. "It’s just..."

My gaze drifted downward, and there it was.

Crumpled softly in my left hand.

The paper.

The same paper the woman had shoved into my palm before everything went blurry. My entire body shivered like something was on me. I flung it away like it burned.

Aurora turned sharply, following the motion. Her eyes landed on the discarded slip. "What was that?"

"She gave it to me," I said, voice shaking as the words tumbled out. "She said... she said to use it to find her."

"What? Who gave it to you?" Aurora asked, more confused by the second. Her brows furrowed as she stepped closer.

"I don’t know," I whispered, voice barely audible. "But we need to find her."

hand tightly. My grip was frantic, desperate. "You’re a witch, right? You

long second before slowly kneeling and

"A very old one. A cloaked trail. I can try to find her, but Hazel— Who

is real," I said firmly. "Please. I need you

up at me again. "Okay. Start from the

swallowed thickly and

I saw someone like her... it was back at my father’s house," I began, closing my eyes. "I was having a dream—a nightmare, maybe. I was being chased. And the figure chasing me looked like that witch we saw when we escaped

with the long, tattered cloak

I was bringing more abomination into the world, disrupting the balance of nature. That night... I heard

hands instinctively pressed over my growing

didn’t understand it then. I didn’t even know I was pregnant." My throat tightened. "But now, I do. And this time... the dream was different. She

as she sat beside me on

I said, motioning to the spell. "Told me to find her. Said if I

She went still.

Caspian and Cayden,"

a bad feeling. If we tell them... they’ll ruin

protest, but I

You and I—we can go alone. Or you can just tell me where the location leads. I’ll go

you saying? Are you hearing yourself?" she snapped, her voice hardening. "You want me to let you go alone to some cursed place, chasing some dream woman, and not tell the two alphas who

They’ll treat this like a threat. But it’s not. I felt it, Aurora. She

I paused.

said I look like

expression changed slow,

she asked

Something’s wrong with me. Something deep. And I have to know

Then she stood up and took

location," she said. "But give me

me a small nod and rushed out of