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."

out, grabbing Aurora’s hand tightly. My grip was frantic, desperate. "You’re a witch,

long second before slowly kneeling

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

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

at me again. "Okay. Start

swallowed thickly and

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.

with the

I was bringing more abomination into the world, disrupting the balance of

hands instinctively pressed

My throat tightened. "But now, I do. And this time... the dream

me on the bed, the paper clutched in her

me to find her. Said if I

She went still.

and Cayden," she

them. Please. I have a bad feeling. If

opened in protest, but I shook

go alone. Or you

snapped, her voice hardening. "You want me to let you go alone to some cursed place,

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

I paused.

said I look

expression changed slow,

she

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

and took a deep breath, her

she said. "But give me

a small nod and rushed out of