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."

cupping my cheeks, eyes wide with fierce denial.

I did those things! I let it take over..I hurt people—I.." my voice broke, breath hitched, and I

whispered, my voice shaking. "I need to see

confused. "Hazel... what are you talking

Even if it was just for

voice cracked. Panic was

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

head gently, his hand

alive. She’s just unconscious. Hazel, listen to me..your mom will wake up soon.

on to that—just

time, "As for

even need to ask. My eyes snapped across the

Standing still he didn’t say a word. But

was him. He was the one who killed my

But Ariel?

up. "No,"

to reach for me

me."l crossed the room in two steps and grabbed Cayden

his face. "Why did you kill

answer. He didn’t even

I slapped him hard. My hand stung

No expression. No

"She was a child! She didn’t even get

word echoed

Monster.

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

I stumbled back.

Monster.

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

people who were just doing their jobs, trying to protect their Alpha. I had

to my knees,

a monster," I whispered. "I’m also

reached for me again,

when Cayden

know what it feels like. When your actions don’t feel like yours.

looked up at him through blurry

you act without acting. When you carry the pain and the shame and

and I couldn’t read him.

off. You got to disappear from the pain. But me? I’ve

to Caspian, his voice

need to find the babies. And we need

that, he walked out—leaving silence in his

didn’t. They stayed behind with

replaying every syllable. Every

wrong about him all

him as a monster that

it wasn’t really a whisper to me. It echoed loud in my ears, like she was saying it to

give her space... privacy 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 fed them,

hesitation in them sliced through me. He didn’t want to leave—his whole body screamed to stay. But Aurora tugged at him again. This time, he gave in. Quietly. And the door