Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

CHAPTER 18

Chapter 18

Alec

I stared at the pages in the book, but nothing made any sense. For me, it’s nothing but a blur of texts. and words that don’t really give me a f**g idea about what I’m dealing with.

“So we still have nothing?” I asked as I stared at my beta and **a.

For **g years, that s**d curse has been a thorn in my side. My father knew nothing of it, only what his father and the elders told him. The only one who could shed light on it-on what led to it or if there was a way to break it-was my great-grandfather, and he was long dead.

My grandfather said that the curse was placed on us when his father was still Alpha of the pack. Unfortunately, when the curse was placed, he was still a baby, about a year or so old. So, of course, he didn’t really know what went down, who cursed us, or why they did.

The burden was placed on him after he became Alpha and my great-grandfather had died. Then the burden was transferred to my dad and then to me. The burden of breaking this curse was a curse in itself, a burden that has been transferred from son to son for three generations and at this point I’m starting to think it will end with me-not that I’d be breaking it, but that my whole pack would be wiped out before the burden fell to my son.

“Yes,” Micah answered, pulling me back to the present. “We still don’t know how the whole thing started or why anyone would curse us”

I stood up from my seat and moved to the window that oversaw the lush fields of my pack. Pack members were all about doing their thing. Children were playing, teenagers messing around, warriors were training and the others who didn’t work within pack borders were just relaxing.

My hands ball into fists. It wasn’t f**g fair that we would all die if I couldn’t break the d*n c*urse. All the kids, at least the few we had, wouldn’t get to live to adulthood, and the same fate awaited the

teens.

I couldn’t let that happen. I couldn’t f**g allow that. We deserved better than to die at the hands of a plague no one understood.

“What do we have so far?” I asked, turning away from the window, more determined than ever.

We were in my office in the pack house. I took my seat again and focused on Jason and Micah. No one else knew about the curse except for the three of us and the elders. We decided to keep it quiet to avoid panic and words unintentionally landing in the wrong hands.

was placed during your great granddad’s time as alpha. No one knows much about it except that we are expected to start weakening physically, our sense diminishing and losing our wolves. Eventually we will die, either because we’ll be too weak for our bodies to function

come.

is also the fact that we’ve noticed how more and more pack members are easily getting sick and dying. Some

that these things are connected. The elders have encouraged them to pray to the goddess for favor and

continue to get worse, we’ll

mate was meant to break the curse, but then shit happened.

to ignore the pain that slashed through my chest at the reminder. I still hadn’t gotten over the rejection, and I doubt I’ll ever get over

he didn’t just tear my f**g heart with the mention of Lola’s name. “Don’t you find it strange, though? The prophecy was clear; then

get what he was saying, but that was not possible. Micah, for some reason, had never liked Lola, and

you trying to imply something?” I growled, not liking his

his arms in the air and gives me a sardonic

talking to her?” Jason cuts in. “Maybe you can talk her into helping even though

tried, but I can’t find her. Apparently she moved after she

need to escape the heartache,” Jason muttered with an understanding

attitude makes me want to pummel the idiot into

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Chapter 18

was a knock on my office door. I sniffed the air, and my nose immediately picked up Piper’s

that she would have listened in. The office was soundproof for

crossed the short distance and opened the door. I

her into my

couch and sat her down. A few minutes later, she stands up and starts pacing, wearing the carpeted floor. She seemed tense and agitated, and she

been a week since she buried that traitorous b***h, and something

“Piper?”

me. “I want to leave the

I

little sister, the only family I have, to leave the f**g pack. It’s