Fated to the Alpha–And His Triplet Brothers

Chapter 79: She’s awake!

**~ Hazel’s POV ~**

"Is she awake?"

"Hazel...?"

Voices. Familiar ones..muffled, cracking through the pounding in my skull like the aftermath of an explosion. Aurora’s silhouette hovered beside me, her hand carefully tipping a spoon toward my lips, whispering something I couldn’t quite catch.

Caspian’s hands were wrapped around mine, thumbs tracing soothing circles over my knuckles like he was holding onto a lifeline. Or maybe I was his.

My head throbbed. My chest ached.

My breath hitched, and my fingers trembled. I felt it. That pain. That... weight. The cold grip in my chest had loosened.

Wait...was that an emotion?

Did it come back?

Caspian’s grip on my hand tightened as his gaze met mine and his eyes shimmered. No, more than shimmered. They glowed with tears that clung to the corners, refusing to fall, but threatening with every breath.

"Oh my god," he whispered, a desperate grin cracking through his stunned face. "Hazel... it’s you. You’re back. It worked!"

Before I could even process it, he pulled me into his arms like he never wanted to let go again. His hold was warm, trembling, frantic.

Aurora exhaled a breath she must’ve been holding for days. Her shoulders dropped, eyes fluttering closed as if the entire war she’d been carrying eased in one moment.

And then everything came crashing back.

Like a tidal wave slamming into my soul.

The pain.

The sorrow.

The screams.

The bodies.

The blood.

The hurtful things they said.

The hurtful things I said.

The people I killed

It all came flooding back and it hurt. Oh god, it hurt so much. My chest heaved. My lungs burned. And then I whispered

Caspian’s name.

"Caspian," I choked, tears now freely falling. "I’m a monster."

eyes wide with fierce denial. "No. No, you’re not.

it take over..I hurt people—I.."

whispered, my voice shaking. "I need to see him. I need to

blinked, confused. "Hazel... what are you

"Everyone keeps saying that...that he hated me. That he hurt me. But they don’t know. He didn’t. My mother wiped his memory. But before she did... he loved me. Even if it was just for a minute. He loved me. He

Panic was

I haven’t.." My breath hitched. "I hope I

shook his head gently, his

listen to me..your mom will wake up soon. And when

held on to

added, quieter this time, "As for your father... and Ariel... they’re

I didn’t even need to ask. My eyes

Standing still he didn’t say a

silence was the answer...It was him. He was the one who

But Ariel?

"No,"

reach for me again, but I shoved

crossed the room in two steps and grabbed Cayden by the

screamed into his face. "Why

didn’t answer. He didn’t

even there. I slapped him hard. My hand stung

No guilt. No

child! She didn’t

word echoed in the

Monster.

it out loud. And then... it cracked something

I stumbled back.

Monster.

word tasted different now. Bitter. Because suddenly, it wasn’t just

killed too. Wolves. Pack members. Innocent people who were just doing their

to my knees, shaking, my hands

I whispered. "I’m also a

me again, but I

when Cayden

what it feels like. When your actions don’t feel like yours. When you can’t stop

looked up at him through blurry

shame and can do nothing about it. That’s been

I couldn’t read him. Not anger.

"You turned your emotions off. You got to disappear from the pain. But me? I’ve

Caspian, his voice clipped

to wake Lilith. We need to find the babies. And we need to alert the packs. Lock the

with that, he walked out—leaving silence in his

his words didn’t. They

sat there, frozen, replaying every syllable. Every

wrong about him all

monster that I never

arm gently and whispered something to him but it wasn’t really a whisper to

to breathe and sink into everything. She’s going through too much right now. She’s a paranoid mother who hasn’t even held her own babies..hasn’t

hesitation in them sliced through me. He didn’t want to leave—his whole body screamed to stay. But Aurora tugged at him