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."

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

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

trail. I can try to find her, but Hazel— Who

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

glancing up at me again. "Okay. Start from the beginning. Tell me everything. All over

swallowed thickly and

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

"The one with the long, tattered

calling me an abomination. Said I was bringing more abomination into the world,

hands instinctively pressed over my

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

widened as she sat beside me on the bed, the paper

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

She went still.

Cayden," she muttered, already

I grabbed her wrist so fast she gasped. "Don’t tell them. Please. I have a bad feeling. If we tell them... they’ll

mouth opened in protest,

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

saying? Are you hearing yourself?" she snapped, her voice hardening. "You want me to let you 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. She wasn’t

I paused.

said I

expression changed slow, thoughtful

she

with me. Something deep. And I have to know what it

up and took a deep breath, her fingers tightening

she said. "But give me a

small nod and rushed out of the