Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 77 Waking the next morning, I roll over to find both Mateo and Ezra not in bed. I could hear the shower running so opened the bathroom door to find Ezra.
Stripping my clothes off I climb in,shutting the shower screen behind me.
âWas wondering when you would wakeâ he says kissing my head as he washed himself.
âWhere did Mateo go?â
âTo have coffee with Jasmine, I just hope he takes it ok, why didnât you tell meâ he asks.
âI donât know, I just didnât think it was our place to say anything, itâs between themâ I tell him.
âYeah I didnât have the heart to tell him, I was kind of hoping things would work outâ Ezra answers. Though I could feel he was nervous about something, his worry was eating at me.
âYou ok?â I ask, pouring shampoo in my hand.
âYeah I was thinking of going and seeing Mathias and having a look at the information he has on healers, It would be better if we had the scrollsâ
âAbout that, mum no longer has themâ I tell him hoping he wouldnât blow up, surprisingly he just sighs.
âYou donât seem upset about thatâ I tell him and he shrugs, pulling me under the stream of water and rinsing my hair out.
âNothing surprises me when it comes to your mother,â he says before stepping out and giving me the shower to myself. He wraps a towel around his waist leaning on the sink basin.
âDo you want to come with me to see Mathias?â
âYep be interesting if we can find anything, I will finish my shower then get dressedâ
Ezra was waiting downstairs for me, standing by the door when I came down.
âFinally, letâs goâ he says, grabbing my hand and dragging me toward his car. Walking around the passenger side I stop.
âOh yeah, I forgot about that,hang on a sec and I will get something to clean up the glassâ
âDo it when you get home I can just sit in the backâ I tell him, opening the backdoor and sliding to the middle.
âThat from the other day?â I ask while clipping my belt up.
âYeah Maddox did it, we didnât have a key and needed the remote to get insideâ Ezra says starting his car. We drove into town, but drove directly past the hospital turning up a street not far from it.
I hadnât been to Jasmineâs house before it was quite nice and had cottage style gardens out the front. And was a single story brick house that had been rendered and had metal lizards hanging on the wall on either side of the front door. Pulling up in the driveway Mathias comes out.
âMorning Alphaâ he says as I climb out of the back of the car. âLuna â Mathias nods and I follow him inside. Mathias leads us down a long hallway from the front of the house. The house looks quite small from outside which was rather decieving when you realise actually how long it is, we walked past two living areas one on each side, multiple bedrooms and a galley style kitchen and a bathroom before coming to the back door. He opens the door and it leads outside to more cottage gardens and with a gazebo in one corner. Off to the side was an outbuilding.
Mathias walks over before pulling a key from his pocket and unlocking the white door and I find it is an office, shelves and shelves of books lined the walls, a desk in the centre that also had a table beside it with jars of different herbs and specimens.
Mathias runs his fingers over the bookshelves grabbing some down along with some old journals.
âSit down where you like, you may just have to make some room. I am Sorry about the clutter in hereâ Mathias says and I grab a stool sitting on the end of the desk while Mathias brings over books and papers, and some journals. Ezra pulls a chair over while sitting beside me and Mathias hands me a huge journal full of notes, the paper was thick and looked really old but also had newer pages that had been added.
Ezra picks up a book flicking through the pages.
âNot sure if it will help, like I said there isnât much information just secondary and notes, Observations over the years by those who met some, Like I said I never expected to come across a Lunar wolf thatâs how rare they areâ Mathias says also taking a seat at his desk.
âThe one Kat is holding probably has the most information, I acquired that during my medical training from am old professorâ
I opened the leather book, mostly it had old drawings of different wolves and abilities they showed before coming to a summarised version.
âThere are this many healers?â I asked and Mathias stood up looking over the desk, Ezra looking over my shoulder.
âYes, they are who have been discovered over the yearsâ Mathias says sitting back down.
Looking down at the page I start to read, finding it all fascinating.
Spiritual healer Origins believed to be blessed by the Moon Goddess as a gift from birth.
Last discovered 1758 Female Cause of death unknown Abilities, able to cleanse and remove negative energy from oneâs soul also able to destroy a mate bond by touch, completely erase all traces of being marked.
Lunar wolf Origins, believed to be blessed with the gift of life and cursed with death.
Females First known existence 1478 believed to have shun the moon Goddess, name unknown Last known Lunar wolf 1741 woman named Marabella, gave birth to twins, child unknown Ability to cure any illness or injury with a kiss, or touch. Cursed with taking on the fatalities of the healed, the bearer becomes weakened from using gifts, and is known for having a white wolves.
I scanned the rest, the list was never ending and they all seemed to be from the latest the 1800âs and didnt provide much information, nothing that I didnât have from the dreams, I could probably fill in a few of the blanks for Mathias from what I know already. Turning the page I looked at the next page, my eyes scanning the information when a picture caught my eye. It was a picture of what looked like two crescent moons back to back touching with a bigger circle around them, sort of like a pentagram but with two Crescent Moons instead of a star.
Gemini Healer.
Last discovered 1301 Male Cause of death Suicide, Abilities, healing in one touch or kiss. Kill with one bite, believed to have had venom that could kill and mirrored Water hemslock and wolfsbane.
âWhat about this one?â I ask Mathias seeing as it was the shortest explanation and also the most intriguing.
âOh that one a gemini healer, no one knows how he became what he is, they believed he may have been a typical healer but something happened to him, he is the only known record we have of a gemini wolf. Was the only one in existence. That picture of the Moons was located on his body; they never said where they found it, but it was said to be cursed upon him, the gift of life and deathâ
âSo he killed himselfâ I asked and he pulled the book over, looking it over.
âThatâs what it says my professor said he found a document but I donât have it anymore got ruined in the floods few years back, but apparently when they found him he had gone insane and bit himself, injecting himself with the lethal poison his glands containedâ
âHis glands?â
âYes, similar to how we can heal with our saliva, he was said to have another set of glands that could kill with one bite, kind of like a snake in a way.
Unfortunately thatâs all the information we have on him. He was the only one in existence and because he was insane when he was discovered they couldnât get much information as to how he came to beâ Mathias explains.
âIs there a reason that one piqued your interest, are you hiding a mark I havenât seen yet Katâ Mathias chuckles and I shake my head.
âNo, he just had the least amount of information and I found the picture interestingâ I admit and he nods.
âYes when I was in med school I found all this fascinating hoping we could recreate it, but obviously you are to be cursed or blessed by the Moon Goddess so no way to replicate it of courseâ
âSo at least on the lunar wolf, I can add my own notes to it as long as youâre happy to help Kat, I can leave your name blank but we know it is genetic among the oldest female in each generationâ
âYep, and it is a blessing and a curse for cursing out the Moon goddess, um what else..... Oh and my wolf becomes stronger and faster and can heal on her own on a full Moon as long as she is in sight of the Moonâ I tell him and he starts writing notes down. Ezra sits back in his chair while I basically recite my dreams, his fingers gently rubbing the back of my neck. Mathias however was frantically taking notes, like it was the best thing he had ever heard while to me it wasnât that fascinating, just making me realise just how much of a freak I was.
Mathias, Ezra and I scoured pages for hours going over everything yet hardly getting any answers. Hearing the door open, I look over to it and see Jasmine pop her head in. She looked nervously at us, like she wanted to run and I remembered Mateo and her got coffee this morning.
âMum wanted to know if you two were staying for dinner?â Jasmine asks, she couldnât even look at Ezra and by his body language he was ticked off with her for not telling Mateo.
âNo, we should head home, we can grab something on the wayâ Ezra says.
âDo you mind if I keep this for now?â He asks Mathias holding up the old journal.
âNot at all Alpha, just return it when you are done with itâ Mathias smiles at him. Ezra nods and I turn back to find Jasmine was gone, the door clicking shut softly. Mathias walked us to our car and we got in. Ezra though I could tell was in a bad mood now that we ran into Jasmine.
âYou okay?â I ask him after we got Mcdonalds.
âYep, but I canât get ahold of Mateoâ He says through gritted teeth.
âWhat do you mean?â
â he keeps shoving me out and now the link is gone, like heâs asleep, usually I can wake him but not this timeâ Ezra answers. I nod maybe he was having an afternoon nap. The drive took around twenty minutes before we pulled up at home. Mateoâs car was in the driveway so we knew he was home. Ezra parks next to his car.
âOh for the love of godâ Ezra mutters, making me look at him before I notice Mateoâs car was smashed in at the front end and Mateo was slumped over the steering wheel. Ezra gets out before opening his door and all I could smell was liquor. Mateo nearly fell out of the car as the door opened and would have if Ezra hadnât caught him before tumbled out.
âCome on big fella, letâs get you insideâ Ezra says and I put everything on the bonnet before grabbing his other arm and helping carry a passed out Mateo toward the house.
âArgh he is heavyâ I tell Ezra who stops pulling him up higher before using his free hand to slap him softly.
âBuddy you need to wake up, so we can get you in bedâ Mateo mumbles incoherently but doesnt wake.
Suddenly Ezraâs eyes bleed black Maddox coming forward.âLet him go kitty, I will get himâ Maddox says and I step back when he tosses him over his shoulder. I run ahead, opening the front door for him.
Maddox carries him up the stairs and I go ahead opening his bedroom door before Maddox lays him down in his bed before turning around to face me.
âKittyâ Maddox purrs before brushing my cheek softly with his hand, I watch as he gives Ezra back control, his eyes returning to normal.
âMan havent seen him like that since his mother died a few years backâ Ezra says before bringing the bin in the corner of the room over and placing it next to the bed.
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âCome we can check on him laterâ Ezra says as he walks towards me. When Mateo mumbles something.
âWhat did he say?â I ask knowing Ezra was closest to him.
âSaid always second choice, I thinkâ Ezra tells me as we walk out. We go back outside and grab the stuff from the car before coming back inside.
âHow did his mother die?â I ask, come to think about it, I didnât really know much about him well not personally anyway.
âWhich one?â Ezra asks and I look at him.
âWhat do you mean?â I ask.
âMateo was adopted, his bio parents died when he was 8 in a car accident, he was raised by an omega woman she was also our house cleaner, when she found out Mateo lost his parents she took him in and raised him, he was staying with us for a bit but that was never a permanant solution, not with my fatherâ
âShe adopted him?â
âYep, Mateoâs real mother and mine were friends, so she knew him and when they died she raised him, she passed away 3 years ago. Her name was Andrea she had no kids and never found her mate, she died in a rogue attackâ Ezra tells me.
âYou think he will be alright?â I ask Ezra and he nods, walking me back to our room.
âHe should beâ Ezra says.
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