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."

"You’re a witch, right? You can figure out

me for a long second before slowly kneeling and

cloaked trail. I can try to find her, but Hazel— Who is she?how do

"Please. I need you to

"Okay. Start from

swallowed thickly

dream—a nightmare, maybe. I was being chased. And the figure chasing me looked like that witch we saw when

tense nod. "The one with the long, tattered

kept calling me an abomination. Said I was bringing more abomination into the world, disrupting the balance of nature. That night... I heard a

paused. My hands instinctively pressed over my

"But now, I do. And

widened as she sat beside me on the bed, the paper clutched in her

motioning to the spell. "Told me to find her. Said if I didn’t, I’d be

She went still.

Caspian and Cayden," she muttered, already

she gasped. "Don’t tell them. Please. I have a bad feeling.

in protest, but I shook my

You can do this. You and I—we can go alone. Or you can just tell

go alone to some cursed place, chasing

eyes. "Because they won’t understand. They’ll treat this like a threat. But it’s not. I felt it, Aurora.

I paused.

I look like

changed slow,

who?" she asked

find out. Something’s wrong with me. Something deep. And

was silent for a moment. Then she stood up and

said. "But give me a few

gave me a small nod and