Fated to the Alpha–And His Triplet Brothers

Chapter 34: Doppelganger

~Hazel’s POV~

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

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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."

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

before slowly kneeling and retrieving the slip. She squinted,

is a hidden location spell," she murmured. "A very old one. A cloaked trail. I can try to find her, but Hazel— Who is

said firmly. "Please.

up at me again. "Okay. Start from the beginning.

swallowed thickly

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

gave a tense nod. "The one with

Said I was bringing more abomination into the world, disrupting the

instinctively

now,

me on the bed,

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

She went still.

go tell Caspian and Cayden," she muttered, already

she gasped. "Don’t tell them. Please. I have a bad feeling. If we tell them... they’ll ruin everything. They’ll scare

protest, but I

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

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 will literally burn down the

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

I paused.

I look like

changed slow,

she

don’t know. But I need to find out. Something’s wrong with me. Something deep. And I have to

silent for a moment. Then she stood up and took a deep breath,

she said. "But give me a few

me a small nod and rushed out