Fated To Her Alpha (Jessica Hall) novel Chapter 11

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Chapter 11

Doc moves toward her with water, and she clutches the glass, gulping the water down, her hands trembling. Kat sighs and lays back down when she suddenly notices everyone; her face flushes red, and she ducks her head.

“I’m so sorry, baby, I didn’t know. I didn’t know,” Shirley says, rushing over to Kat and clutching her face in her hands. She looks at her mother, confused. Mateo lets out a menacing growl, ripping Shirley away from her by the back of her shirt before I have time to. Something was not right.

“What the fuck did you do?” Mateo demands. Doc jumps out of the way as fur grows on Mateo’s arms, and he puts himself between Shirley and Kat.

Turning to Kat, I brush her cheek with the back of my hand before cupping it. “You okay, love?”

“Love?” she asks, and I realize what I just said and did and jerk my hand away from her. She shakes her head, and her brows pinched together.

“I’m fine. Please don’t hurt my mum. She did nothing; I accidentally touched some in science,” Kat lies. I could tell not even she believed what was leaving her lips, and she was okay during detention, so she was nowhere near a science lab. She was just scared for her mother, tears springing in her eyes, and I wanted to comfort her but knew how inappropriate that may seem to her.

“No one could ingest that amount, dear. Who are you covering up for? Who gave you the wolfsbane?” Doc asks gently, patting her shoulder. Kat’s eyes dropped as she fiddled with her fingers.

“No, it was an accident, in science“–

“Stop lying, one of you better speak and the truth,” I snap, turning to glare at Shirley. Shirley looks away guiltily, and now I know why her mate slapped her.

“She needs to grow a tolerance just in case,” Shirley whispers, barely audible to even my ears. I growl, lunging at her and shoving her against the wall.

“What did you just say?”

“She needs to build a tolerance to wolfsbane.”

“You gave her three times the lethal dose,” I scream at her.

“Please, she didn’t do anything,” Katya says, jumping to her feet and clutching my arm. She swayed slightly, and it pissed me off that she would defend the woman that poisoned her.