Let The Alpha Fall 107

Lori transformed.
The full transformation and the cabin suddenly felt small and stuffy. Two huge men came to her side, one ways holding a
book. Lori didn’t know what it was or what it was for, but it looked important enough.
“We have created a bath, you have to stay submerged in it to drown out our voices and movements.”
Lori looked around, they pointed to the end of the hallway. She wondered if whatever bathtub they had prepared would
fit her wings.
“Will this work?! You look unsure.”
She noted as she got a sense of her mother’s emotions now that she was fully nephilim. She could smell her worry, also
laced with fear.
She wondered if the ritual was safe.
“It will. It can take several hours though.”
Ione answered.
Lori decided at this point she needed to alert Gabriel. Just in case anything that wasn’t supposed to happen, happened.
Come now.
As fast as she had sent the message, she heard footsteps on the front porch, the door opened seconds later. Everyone in
the room turned to look.
The two men beside Lori rushed towards the door to prevent Gabriel from going any further.
“He’s with me.”
Lori announced. Ione turned to her, a frown on her face.
“There are to be no distractions or this wouldn’t work.”
Ione persisted.
Lori rolled her eyes.
“He’s my mate. Not a distraction.”
“Are we going to continue with this or not?!”
She added after and her mother sighed.
The men let Gabriel pass and he walked to her side, eyeing Ione.
Is this her?
He seemed to ask
Lori answered with a yes. Their mouths not moving.
Her mother looked away, as if she was interrupting a private conversation.
“Come then.”
She beckoned to her.
She had expected a bathtub, but found a small inflatable pool in the middle of an empty room. There was only one man
in the room and he seemed as if he was checking the temperature of the water.
“Is it ready?”
Ione asked and the man nodded.
“Perfect temperature.”
Lori noted that there were dried leaves in the water.
“What are those for?”
She asked.
“Just Herbs.”
Her mother answered.
“You should get in now. The temperature is right, Malachi here will put you in a trance and guide you into your memories,
after you have found a connection to your son, you would trace it to him, unlocking his most recent memory.”
“I’ll be able to find him?”
Lori asked and Ione sighed, there was no way she could properly articulate and explain what a seekers abilities were.
“You would get a window into his own mind, thereby seeing what he sees and what he hears, hereby finding him. That is
the simplest way I can put it.”
“Okay.”
Lori nodded as she walked closer to the water.
Gabriel dragged her hand, his mouth tilting to her ear.
“Are you sure about this?!”
He asked and she nodded.
“This is the only way.”
She murmured. She slowly pulled away from him and removed her boots, she dipped one naked foot into the pool,
expecting it to be cold.
The water was warm, deliciously warm. She slowly put her second leg in and submerged herself into the water.
The nephilim man with the book knelt before her, the book opened in his hand, his eyebrows furrowed with
concentration. Ione urged everyone to step back, even Gabriel.
“Close your eyes and relax.”
A voice said next to her, Lori did.
She followed the commands, they were mostly basic instructions. Close your reyes, lay back, relax, unclench your fists etc.
She felt drowsy and she wondered if it was something in the water, or something else that was fast making her
consciousness slip away faster.
Soon the commands started sounding really far away and indecipherable, she couldn’t hear any more voices and her
eyelids felt like lead, she could not lift them.
Everything went pitch black.
And then, blinding lights.
It was an hospital room.
No, no. 
She was in an operating room. Lori looked around, the way the nurses breezed about their business told her enough.
They couldn’t see her. She tiptoed to get a closer look of the young lady who was being operated and saw that the woman strangely looked familiar.
Lori gasped. Her memory. She was in her memory.
The memory of when she had gone to labor.
The doctors were operating on her, and although her younger self was teary eyes, with her eyelids struggling to stay
open, she stayed awake. Lori didn’t think about it then, but she looked pretty young. Young and scared to death by the
looks of it. She had grabbed one of the nurses hands and her knuckles were white from holding the nurses hand too
tight.
Moments later, a baby was pulled out of her, his umbilical cord attached, Lori watched as the doctors started talking
loudly, his complexion turning a sickly blue, tears blurred her vision as she walked closer to him. Her hand out to touch
him.
She touched him and everything went blank again.
Pitch black.
It was pitch black and then, light.
Unliked the harsh hospital lights, this on was softer, this one was more natural. She was in a room, a light and airy room
that smelled vaguely familiar.
A woman was crouched on the floor folding baby clothes, her back turned to her, she didn’t know who she was. Lori
walked some more and saw a baby cot on the floor, her heart beat rapidly as she saw that there was a baby inside.
Not just any baby.
Jack. 
She melted at the sight of him.
Oh he was perfect. His hair black and curly. His hazel eyes looking just like hers, the roundness of his cheek. She wanted
to touch him but the cautioned herself.
She was here for another reason.
The woman stood up after folding all the clothes and went to pick Jack up, taking him to the window.
Lori looked out too and saw trees, lots and lots of trees and noticed a downward slope in the road. In the middle of
nowhere then. In the middle of nowhere and on a hill.
Got it. Her first clue.
A house in the middle of nowhere.
She needed more.
Another memory.
She reached out and touched Jack and physically felt like she had teleported.
Into another timeline it seemed.
Another memory.
The same room, only this time there was a man in the room. He appeared to be. doctor, but he looked dubious in his
skinny jeans and body hugging black T-shirt. She wouldn’t have even thought that he was a doctor if not for the
stethoscope on his neck.
Jack was crying, the supposed nanny was in the corner, a grim look on her face.
Lori walked closer to get a closer look.
“What.. what are you doing to him.”
She murmured as she took a look.
Her eyes widened in horror.
She didn’t have time to register the shock before she heard a familiar voice.
“Is it done?”
The man asked.
Lori turned and saw Axel.
And just like that, she was jolted awake.
“Lori!!! What happened?”
Gabriel asked as he held on to her.
She was disoriented, but she looked around and quickly remembered her surroundings, where she was before the memories had taken over. What had happened before.
She looked at the small pool she was in and noticed that the water had sloshed around so much that the floor was wet. Gabriel, her mate, alsmo looked half wet.
“What happened.”
She murmured as she tried to stand up.
Her legs were weak.
Gabriel sighed as he explained to her what had happened.
Everything had ben going fine. Lori had spent at least two hours in the tub but her mother told him it was natural. During
the forth hour when it was already black out, Gabriel could feel her down the mating bond getting very distressed. He
tried to alert her mother but she refused to let him wake her, saying it would disrupt the connection.
In anger he had rushed towards her but he was quickly prevented by the two nephilim guards. He was fighting his way
out of their grasp when Lori started shaking violently, with them distracted, he pushed them away and ran towards her,
bringing her out of the water.
“What did you see?”
Her mother asked.
Lori sat down on the sofa, slightly shaking, someone had been kind enoygh to guve her a towel. Graham was it?
Lori looked at Gabriel.
“Axel. I saw Axel.”
“Axel… who’s Axel?”
Her mother asked but Lori was still looking at Gabriel. Her eyes narrow and bloodshot.
“Axel’s with my son Gabriel. He’s with my son, in some house in the woods, sticking needles into him!!!”
She snapped.
Gabriel fished for his phone, a deadly look on his face.
“Lori. What’s going on? Who is Axel?”
Ione asked and Lori sighed.
“I’ll explain.”
Gabriel stepped outside to make a phone call. A very important one. So Axel was the secret alpha Sabine was working
with. He wasn’t the least bit surprised, he imagined Axel was capable of many terrible things, but he had not thought
about that possibility.
He also didn’t think that he and Sabine were particularly close.
But now that he knew he was in on it, Gabriel planned on finding him.
Gabriel came back a few moments later, Lori was crouched on the sofa, the large towel was still huddled around her. Her mother sat a respectable distance away from her, but she still looked concerned.
“How are you feeling?”
He asked and she murmured.
“Cold.”
Gabriel pulled her up and bunched her up in his arms, his body heat radiating on her, warming her fasteer. Se smiled as
she snugged in closer to him, she closed her eyes to rest
“does this mean she’ll have to do the bath thing again?”
Someone asked nearby. It was the man seated next to Lori’s mother, Gabriel gave him a look.
Ione shrugged.
“If she didn’t get the precise location, I fear we might.”
“But she did find out who it was, and where they are.”
Gabriel defended.
They still looked unconvinced. He rolled his eyes, he would show them.
Soon enough.
There wasn’t much he knew about Axel, but there was enough he knew. And Axel wasn’t nearly as rich as the rest of the
elite Alphas. But he had a lot of sass and mouth and people stayed away. Axel had managed to come around to see them
twice.
The first time to drop a letter. The second time, to see Lori. He had come himself, so yes, he was in Denver.
Besides, he owned some gourmet restaurant in Colorado. That little Gabriel knew.
This had greatly narrowed down their search to one possible location. One place where it was possible he could be. Being
a paranoid alpha would have made him choose somewhere secluded, somewhere inside the woods making it convenient
to shift at intervals. Somewhere exactly like his former home.
Where he had grown up and where he, Lori, Elliot and the baby had moved out from.
He was interrupted from his thoughts by a call.
“You wouldn’t believe what I found.”
Draco said incredulously.
Lori heard and scrambled to her seat, she was alert again.
A smile spread across Gabriel’s face.
“Tell Myra, I owe her one.”
He said as he ended the call.
“What’s up?”
Lori asked.
Gabriel turned to Lori.
“We have the location.”
Lori’s eyes widened.”
“What are we waiting for. Let’s leave now!!!”
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Lori looked at the house on top of the hill, she had been largely unsure of it and the fact that her son could actually be
there. After so many dead ends, she was tired, tired and praying that this wasn’t another dead end.
Gabriel had parked at a farther distance and Lori had shifted to get a better look and smell of her surroundings and then
they had walked as close as they could get for a better look. That was when it had hit her.
That scent. That smell. She remebered it, vaguely.
It had filled a room she was once in.
It was hers.
It was her son’s