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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and were also my parents‘

lay my life down for them, and they would do the same, but right now I needed to focus on the pack and how to save my people. Work was the only thing that

to rest,” he said after a while. “When was the last

to just shut up. His nagging was getting on my nerves,

we 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

can give me a damn solution,

got back to work. I’d just gotten my focus back when

he hurriedly said, closing the door and

throw you both out right

unable to control the rising

looked puzzled at both of us before shaking his head.

and it was only then that I realized that he

about the curse?” Micah asked,

his head.

going to have to force the words

minutes of silence.

his head as if clearing his head from

elders told us about the curse?” he

“No one really knew about the origin of the

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first place.”

curse hanging over the pack; that meant not only those living in the pack but anyone that traced their

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

always backfired. They’d told my dad it was because whoever cursed us was

or more so, the

mean my great–grandparents?”

leaders… Alpha, Beta,

he was saying. If

weird thing is that the pages before and after

exactly

“Yes. The only existing part is the entry saying that the

much detail about it, except

to hand over the journal, when I felt a sharp pain in my lower abdomen. It’s like nothing I’ve never

hunched over, catching the attention of

okay, Alec? Why do you look like you’re

Sherlock,” I answered sarcastically, right before