Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

CHAPTER 28

Chapter 28

“You have to rest, Alec… Staying up day and night isn’t good for your health.”

Micah’s voice interrupted my concentration while I was working. I looked at the clock only to realize that it was already morning. Ten, to be exact.

Ignoring him, I went back to my work, checking the printed papers and some of the texts that the elders had provided me with.

“Alec?” he called with frustration.

His voice was starting to annoy me. I wanted to get to the bottom of things. Was that too hard to fucking understand?

He called me again, and this time I fucking lost it.

“What?” I yelled, the words coming out as a growl.

My eyes pierced his as I raised my head, Knox close to the surface. He was usually calm and was only a beast when we needed to fight or someone crossed us. Now, with everything that had happened; losing his mate and our pack being on the brink of extinction, he was more on edge than usual.

The situation was fucking pushing us. It frustrated me and agitated my wolf, which isn’t a good combination for an Alpha wolf, since we are usually more likely to lose control.

Instead of leaving like I expected him to, he sighed, crossed the room, and took a seat in front of my

desk.

“You’re not listening, Alec. You’re my Alpha, but you’re also my friend, and I refuse to let you wither away because of the curse and your mate rejecting you.”

“Piss off, Micah.”

I don’t want to be reminded that Lola rejected me and then disappeared. She didn’t even give me the chance to try and earn her forgiveness. I want to try and understand her, but I get it. I would also have reacted violently if I’d found my mate in bed with another man, whether it was intentional or a

drunken mistake.

“Not even on your fucking last breath, Alec,” he simply replied, and then leaned back against the

chair.

We’ve been best friends for years. Growing up, he and Jason were the only ones my age, so it was a given that we would be best friends. It also helped that their parents were gammas and betas,

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were also my

I needed to focus on the pack and how to save my people. Work was the only thing

said after a while. “When was the

nagging was getting on my nerves, and I

are getting and how tired and feeble our warriors. are getting. We haven’t had a birth in fucking years, and it’s all because of this stupid curse… Tell me, Micah, how can I be expected to sleep peacefully when my people are suffering, knowing very fucking well that if I don’t do something, then things are only going to get

I continued. “I’ll gladly sleep if you can give me a damn solution, but until then, get off my fucking

work. I’d just gotten my focus back when the door opened again. I released a groan

of you are here,” he hurriedly

nag me, I’ll throw you both out right after I’ve kicked both

growled, unable to

us before shaking his head. “No, I

me, and it was only then that I realized that he was holding

the curse?” Micah asked, turning

his

to have to force the words out of your lips?”

minutes of silence.

if clearing his head from a

the elders told

of the curse or why someone would curse us

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first place.”

knew was that we had a curse hanging over the pack; that meant not only those living in the pack but anyone

knew who cursed us or why they did it in the first place, which made it difficult to break. My dad and grandad went to different witches and warlocks, and all of them said the same thing. It’s hard to break a curse if you

tried breaking it, but it always backfired. They’d told my dad it was because whoever cursed us was really powerful,

something the pack did, or more so, the leaders of the pack did.” Jason’s voice pulled me back to the

mean my great–grandparents?”

not sure, but I think it’s all the leaders… Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and the elders at that

trying to understand what he was saying. If it’s true, what did they do that was bad enough to earn them

pages before and after are torn. This seems like someone’s journal. Someone who

to great lengths to hide exactly what happened by tearing out

simply replied, “Yes. The only existing part is the entry saying that the pack did something

There isn’t much detail about

over the journal, when I felt a

hunched over, catching the attention of

Alec? Why do you look like you’re in pain?”

Sherlock,” I answered sarcastically, right before