Chapter 468 - Fated To The Alpha (Complete Fated Series collection)

With all my might, I pull against the restraints holding me down. My muscles strain and my bones ache, Lorelei watches with glee as I writhe in pain. She cackles, relishing in my agony as the next volt courses through me.

“Hold on Temperance, we are close,” Eziah tells me. I'm barely conscious, the remnants of electricity still dancing along my nerves. Lorelei hovers over some aged papers, Satish however, begins questioning the source.

“It's not working, where did you even get that old thing,” Satish asks.

“Alpha Jackson provided it as part of a deal. It’s incomplete since he was killed before he gave me the other page but mentions a sacrifice and drinking the blood of the Gemini’s last breath. We need both wolves to come forward,” she says with an unsettling calm.

Satish approaches, lifting my chin with a cold grip. “Bring the other wolf forward!” he demands. I’m too weak to respond, my body battered from the relentless electrocution.

However, Nova pushes through and I feel my eyes bleed black. “Which one are you?” Satish interrogates.

“Nova,” she growls defiantly.

Satish’s frustration boils over. “The other one! I know she has two!” he shouts. When Nova remains silent, he orders another shock. My body convulses, a puppet to their cruel whims.

“We are almost there! I'd port to you, but I need to know where to go!" Eziah urges and I hear his whimper as the shock affects him too.

Then, in a terrifying turn, they bring out Casey and my heart drops. Sage, bound beside me, screams in terror. Lucas, in his cage, bangs against the bars, his young face twisted in fear.

Vince, who had brought Casey in, hesitates. “Maybe use the boy instead?” he suggests, a conflict evident in his eyes.

Satish pauses, eying Vince suspiciously. “You’re not having second thoughts, are you?!”

Vince’s gaze flickers between Casey and Satish. “The boy … he’d… I’ve raised this girl like she’s my own!” he stammers.

“You want to get back at Rose, right?!” Satish presses. Vince nods reluctantly.

“Then this is how you do that! Hook the girl up because like your brother took my son, so am I about to take his daughter! Or do you have a problem with that?!” Satish asks coldly.

Sage pleads desperately. “No! No, use me! Shock me!” Her voice breaks, the anguish clear.

I’m screaming internally, begging Shadow to come forward. Nova joins in the plea. The sight of Casey being strapped to the machine is unbearable as she thrashes. Lucas’s screams fill the basement, echoing our horror as he rattles the cage door.

“Eziah!” I scream through the mindlink.

“They're going to kill Casey!” I whimper, tears flood down my cheeks, and Sage loses it, ripping at her restraints, and I yank on mine fiercely.

“Shadow please! Please!” I beg her. “She is a baby!” I beg her and something shifts inside Shadow and I feel her stir.

“I can't.! We can't!” Shadow whimpers as they strap little Casey down.

“What?!” I beg her when Casey screams and so does Sage. But it's Lucas' scream that sends the power out. The lights flicker before total darkness engulfs us. Lorelei screams to get the lights back on, only when they do return, Casey is gone from the chair. “Where did she go?!” Lorelei snarls, looking around before spotting the cage empty, the door still shut.

“Did I forget to tell you Lucas can portal?!” Sage cackles. “Oh silly me, must have slipped my mind!” she mocks. Lorelei, in a rage, storms toward her but then the lights flicker again and the power goes out once more. Lorelei and Satish snarl and I feel something brush my back, making me jump.

“I know you're in here Lucas!” Satish speaks and my eyes dart to the side. Sage's eyes glow back at me when the power comes back on and I suck in breath when I notice Lucas untying Sage, but his skin is ghostly pale, and his nose dribbles with blood.

“Hmm, it seems he has power yet is too weak to harness it!” Satish laughs just as Lucas sways on his feet. “He'll do for the sacrifice, put him in the chair!” Lucas collapses and my breath comes in short pants as panic kicks in. We may have Casey out of here, but now Lucas is trapped.

They strap Lucas down, while I pull on my restraints, my heart racing frantically in my chest.

Just as they are about to shock Lucas though, Shadow surges forward, seizing control. “You always were a weak piece of shit Satish! To hurt a child?!” her voice vibrates out of me with a menacing edge.

Lorelei turns towards me, a twisted smile on her lips. “We did it! She’s marvelous!” she utters, her hand cold on my face. “And so we meet the Shadow side,” Lorelei smiles, looking over at her son.

Shadow laughs, a sound that chills the air. “Do you know what a shadow is?!” she taunts.

Lorelei smirks. “She’s feisty. Now we just need to break them and get them to merge. Shock them, use everything we’ve got!” she orders eagerly.

Shadow’s laughter grows darker. “Shadows steal light. Light becomes darkness. And what comes next is blinding!” she threatens, her presence overpowering the room yet I feel the nauseous feeling emanating from her.

“But you’re not just darkness, being a Gemini,” Lorelei retorts, undeterred by Shadow’s ominous warning.

The air crackles with tension. Shadow’s emergence has changed the game, but to what end? And what did Lorelei mean by making them merge. Fear and uncertainty grip me, even as I’m trapped within my own body, an observer to the battle before me.

“She means we all become one,” I gasp at Nova's words when Shadow answers next.

“A cataclysm.” Shadow growls, when suddenly an explosion goes off above ground, dust and debris rain down.

“Now, Satish! They're here! They've found us!” Lorelei screams at her son, when another blast makes the entire place shake.