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."

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

at me for a long second before slowly kneeling and retrieving the

trail. I can try to find her,

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

again. "Okay. Start from the beginning. Tell me

swallowed thickly

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

"The one with

more abomination into the

instinctively pressed over

was pregnant." My throat tightened. "But now, I do. And this time... the dream was different. She said I’m the abomination.

widened as she sat beside me on the bed,

to the spell. "Told me to find her. Said if

She went still.

and Cayden," she muttered, already moving

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

mouth opened in protest, but I

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

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

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

I paused.

I look like

changed slow, thoughtful

who?" she asked

I need to find out. Something’s wrong with me. Something

moment. Then she stood up and took a deep

location," she said. "But give

small nod and

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