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."

my cheeks, eyes wide with fierce denial. "No. No,

things! I let it take over..I hurt people—I.." my voice broke,

need to see him. I need

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

But before she did... he loved me. Even if it was just for a minute. He

cracked. Panic was

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

gently,

will wake up soon. And when she does, we’ll make a plan. We’ll find

on to

quieter this time, "As for

heart stopped. I didn’t even need to ask. My eyes snapped

say a word. But he didn’t

the answer...It was him. He was the one who killed my father. Killing my father is still

But Ariel?

"No," I

me again, but I

two steps and grabbed

into his face. "Why did you

didn’t answer. He

there. I slapped him hard. My hand stung from the

nothing. No expression. No guilt. No pain. Just...

was a child! She didn’t even get to live! Why are

echoed in the

Monster.

loud. And then... it cracked

I stumbled back.

Monster.

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

had killed too. Wolves. Pack members. Innocent people who were just doing their jobs, trying to protect their Alpha. I

my knees,

a monster," I whispered. "I’m

me again, but

Cayden

monster. All your life, Hazel. But now you know what it feels like. When your actions don’t feel like yours. When you can’t stop it,

at

act without acting. When you carry the pain and the shame and can do nothing about it. That’s

and I couldn’t read him. Not anger.

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

to Caspian, his voice clipped

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

that, he walked out—leaving

his words didn’t. They stayed behind

sat there, frozen, replaying every syllable. Every

wrong about him all this

busy labeling him as a monster that I

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

and sink into everything. She’s going through too much right now. She’s a

didn’t want to leave—his whole body screamed to stay. But Aurora tugged at him again. This time, he gave in.