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 what’s in

me for a long second before slowly kneeling and retrieving the slip. She squinted, her brows drawing

she murmured. "A very old one. A cloaked trail. I can try to

I said firmly. "Please. I need you to help

Start from the

thickly

time 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

"The one with the long, tattered cloak and

Said I was bringing more abomination into the world, disrupting

instinctively pressed over my growing

was pregnant." My throat tightened. "But now, I

she sat beside me on the bed, the paper clutched

her. Said if I didn’t, I’d be the one to pay. That everything

She went still.

go tell Caspian and Cayden," she

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

opened in protest, but

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

go alone to some cursed place, chasing some dream woman, and not tell the two alphas who will literally burn down the world

said, tears stinging my eyes. "Because they won’t understand. They’ll treat this like a threat. But

I paused.

I

expression changed slow, thoughtful

who?" she

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

was silent for a moment. Then she stood up and took a deep breath, her fingers tightening around the

the location," she said. "But give

a small nod