Billionaire Quadruplet Alphas

Sunday 20th September, 2020 (Continued)

Jonah’s POV

It was torture being away from Star all the time, especially during times like these. Trying times. Pivotal moments when I knew she could use the support of a mate. Most Alphas were able to sweep their Lunas off their feet immediately or within the month of meeting. It came naturally. We craved each other as Alpha and Luna and nothing should be able to keep us apart. In my case, my very love for Star kept me away from her. I refused to be her death sentence. That wasn’t love. Love was more than yearning. Love was wanting the best for the person. My younger brothers were a bit too frivolous to understand that. They were moping about. I could hear them plotting to go see Star. They wanted to go to Harper’s family estate and wait out front.

“None of you are going anywhere,” I said bluntly, interrupting their plans.

“We should be there to support her,” said Noah softly.

“This is our opportunity to meet her father,” said Eli.

“And impress him!” Added Zaya.

I had mind-linked Harper to ask how Star was doing and he had informed me that they were anxiously awaiting the arrival of their father. He was alive and on his way to them. I had made the mistake of sharing this information with my younger brothers. Now they wanted to barge in on Star’s family reunion.

“He won’t be impressed by us, not the way we’ve stressed out Star and if he finds out about the curse, he will drive a wedge between Star and us,” I said.

“You’ve done a good job of that all on your own,” muttered Zaya.

I sharply inhaled and exhaled. I would not be incensed by Zaya.

“Let’s give them this time together. Tomorrow morning we can all talk with Star about it,” I reasoned.

Zaya shook his head.

“I feel as though she won’t be at school tomorrow morning. I don’t want to be there tomorrow morning either. I want to be wherever Star is,” grumbled Zaya.

I sighed. I wanted that too.

“We can’t get slack now. You three already undid some of the hard work we’ve done with your debauchery. Let’s just be thankful that our efforts are not in vain. The curse seems to be confused. Star didn’t have a second premonition dream for the Vice Principal’s death but Angie did!” I exclaimed.

My brothers gasped.

“When were you going to tell us that?” Asked Eli, annoyed.

“I only just found out myself! Angie called me. She had another nightmare like the previous one. She saw that stage light fall on the Vice Principal the night before it happened,” I informed them.

“Wait, then why didn’t she warn the Vice Principal? I understand if she didn’t believe the first premonition dream but after that one came true, she would know by now how serious they are!” Said Zaya.

Even though Angie was in the dark about the curse itself, Zaya had a point. If I had dreamt of someone’s death before it happened once, I would take any further dreams of death extremely seriously.

“Warning Hitch wouldn’t have necessarily spared her from the curse. Maybe the death was inevitable one way or another,” said Noah.

“And maybe, just maybe, Angie is so evil she could know the hour and cause of death of someone and still not lift a finger. How difficult would it have been to ask Vice Principal Hitch to not do any announcing? Or she could have distracted Hitch as much as necessary and made her miss all her cues?” Explained Eli.

I shrugged. I wasn’t sure why Angie hadn’t tried to warn Vice Principal Hitch especially since Angie was one of the only students who had gotten along with the crabby Vice Principal.

I pulled out my phone. I smiled at my wallpaper. It was a picture of Star in front of her birthday cake at Chet’s Cabin. Just before she had blown out her candles, I had felt compelled to capture the moment. That was mere moments before the full mate-bond had taken effect. Whenever, Angie was not around, I made that picture of Star my wallpaper. I changed it whenever I was expecting to see Angie to a picture of Angie and me from that same day but from earlier, by the lake. I sighed. I hated living a lie like this but it was necessary. I felt guilty. Angie wasn’t what most people would consider a good person but she wasn’t completely heartless and soulless. I wanted her to make it out of this in one piece also.

“So, since the plan to confuse the curse seems to be working…are you gonna propose to Angie?” Asked Noah hesitantly.

“Do I have any other choice?” I said, shrugging.

“Has father located Alto’s body yet?” Asked Eli.

“The pack historian said he would be in the Alpha Mausoleum on the zenith of Mount Viper,” said Noah offhandedly.

“Well, as soon as Jamie finds out where Georgianna is buried, we can bring Alto to her,” said Eli excitedly.

“Hopefully no one else is taken by the curse in the interim,” I said dryly.

“If the curse thinks Angie might be the Luna, then won’t getting engaged to her provoke Georgianna even more?” Asked Eli.

“Yes, but we might need Georgianna to be provoked again,” said Noah.

“What? Why?” Asked Zaya.

“Because Jamie is having trouble locating Georgianna’s tomb. Last time, she summoned Georgianna, she, Star and Jessie all saw something, like a flashback of Georgianna’s life, her memories,” I explained.

“So maybe it’s not Georgianna’s memory we need to access to know where she is buried,” deducted Noah.

“What do you mean?” I asked, intrigued.

“We just need to make contact with literally anyone who attended Georgianna’s burial,” said Noah.

Jessie’s POV

“Why are we here again?” I asked an already disgruntled Jamie.

“You know why, Jessie,” answered Jamie. “This is the coven house of Georgianna’s old coven. They took forever to track down.”

“Why though? Isn’t that sort of information readily available? In Ambrosia, everyone knows where the coven house is,” I said, feigning innocence.

I already knew what she was going to say because she had explained this to me several times but I liked teasing my beautiful wife and Luna, Jamie. I also liked listening to her explaining witchy things. It was hot.

Jamie told me the story again, describing how Georgiana’s coven members had faded into the shadows after Alto’s death. Although Alto’s last command as Alpha provided protection for Georgiana, the same could not be said for the other witches and wizards in the area. They had been under considerable strain as the death of Alto increased every manner of vitriol against them from werewolves. They had felt unsafe and thus had decided to conceal their coven house with powerful enchantments. Jamie had been trying to find out if the coven in question still existed today. We had both been surprised to learn that they did in fact still exist and continued to reside on the outskirts of the Viper Moon Pack lands. Jamie had cast every revealing spell she knew until she uncovered the current whereabouts of the coven.

We were standing before a dilapidated looking mansion with its stone pillars crumbling and its garden overgrown with weeds. The grass on the estate was waist-high in places and chest-high in others even for me. We waded through the green sea of grass as the long blades bowed to the wind. We stood at the foot of stone steps leading to large double doors. All the windows and doors had been boarded up. There were cobwebs in every corner and archway. Vines covered the walls and crisscrossed across the roof. Jamie offered a white rose as a symbol of peace, resting it on the doorstep of the house. She began to chant.

“Sacred charms of anonymity,

Spells of stealth and secrecy,

Reveal what you’ve concealed from me

Revelare

So mote it be!”

There was a high-pitched hissing sound reminiscent of how a kettle sounds right before it begins to whistle. All the wooden planks nailed to the windows and doors crumbled to dust before our very eyes. Meanwhile, the crumbling pillars were rebuilt and reformed. The vines shrunk away from the house and the spiders un-wove their webs, moving in reverse. In mere moments, the mansion was restored to its former glory.

“Awesome, my Luna! What now?” I asked, looking at her in amazement.

She grinned at me. She stretched her hand out and simple knocked on the door.

Harper’s POV

“Do you have the portal in your possession, Hannah?” Asked our father, gazing at a nervous Star.

She nodded and revealed the snow globe where the icy storm raged on outside the magnificent gleaming castle.

“How comfortable are you two with the cold?” Asked Dad.

Star and I glanced at each other. We shrugged.

“We’re going there, right away?” I asked incredulously.

Dad looked at me strangely.

“We’ve waited eighteen years. You want to wait some more?” He replied in the same incredulous tone.

I looked at Star.

“What about the guards that appear to be patrolling outside the castle?” I asked him.

There were tiny guards marching about the wintry landscape. I spotted some of them in wolf form and others in their human forms. I even noticed a few guards who had pointed ears and somewhat iridescent skin. They skin seemed to glow from within in a most peculiar way. They were undoubtedly magic beings.

“Are some of the guards…Fae?” I asked hesitantly as I gazed at the globe.

“Yes, indeed, a few are,” said Dad offhandedly.

“How will we get past them? They had magic! Our magic doesn’t come in until we set foot in the castle, right?” I clarified.

“Yes, you must enter the castle to activate your full powers as your mother specified when she first told me of the spell,” said Dad. “But I will be with you to help you fend off the werewolf guards…”

“And the Fae ones?!” I reiterated.

Dad had a knowing smile playing about his lips.

“Your mother’s favourite cousin, Prince Asriel, has agreed to help you evade the Fae guards as well. In fact if all goes as planned, you may not even need my brute force, only his stealth. He means to conceal us all as we traverse the perimeter of the castle,” said Dad.

“Prince Asriel? He’s Fae?” Star asked.

“Naturally,” said Dad.

I had to admit that my father had at least given this plan some thought. However, I still didn’t like the way it was sprung upon Star and me. There was one other thing I wanted to do before I went to the Ice Moon Castle. Star was being rather quiet, her expression concerned.

“When do you intend to do this?” I asked.

“As soon as possible, tonight even!” Said our father.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

“And where is Prince Adriel?” I asked.

“He is to meet us here soon,” said Dad with a smug smile.

“Might I propose a test run then?” I asked.

My father raised his eyebrows.

“So that Star and I may see for ourselves how stealthy we actually can be with his help?” I asked.

My father did not look too eager.

“Surely you wouldn’t have our very first instance with Fae magic be the storming of the castle. We should at least have some practice first,” I said.

Star smiled slightly. She knew exactly what I meant.

“Where do you intend to practice sneaking into?” Asked Dad, furrowing his brow.

“The Plastique Estate,” I said without hesitation.

Star bit her l*p but she did not protest.

You ok with this, Movie Star? I asked, to be sure.

I think it’s a brilliant idea! She replied mischievously.