Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

Alec’s CHAPTER 79

Chapter 79

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Alec.

I was still reeling from whatever the f**k Raven had done to me when her words penetrated my throbbing brain.

F**k, I shouldn’t have antagonized her, but in my defense, I wasn’t in the right headspace. Things haven’t gone the way I’d pictured them today. I was stressed and on edge. That wasn’t a good combination.

“A confinement spell. What does that mean?” Sadie asks. She couldn’t hide the tremble in her voice.

“Exactly that,” Raven explains, a certain edge coating her voice. She pulls her gaze from Sadie and fixes it on us. “You thought that it was a curse that was eating this pack, but it’s something else.”

Rubbing my temples, I try to ease the migraine that had worsened because of whatever voodoo s**it Raven did to me.

For the hundredth time, I curse this day. It keeps getting worse instead of better. It’s getting on my f**g nerves.

As if it wasn’t enough with the confrontation I had earlier with Sadie. Then finding out that she’s adopted and now this?

I grew up being told that our pack was cursed. A curse that’s so severe it’s draining the life force of our pack members. Since I was old enough to understand the true meaning of what that means, I’ve worked my a**off trying to find a solution. Trying to break the d**n curse so that we can be free.

No one said otherwise. My grandfather, my dad, the elders, everyone said it was a curse, now Raven is saying it’s something else. What the f**k am I supposed to do with that?

“So, you are saying it isn’t a curse?” Elder Martin asks. He looks skeptical of what she is saying.

I

had been wrong this get him. I f**g do. Like I said, it was imprinted in us that it was a curse. To find out that everyone whole time, is a major blow. It’s akin to saying that we could have found a solution long ago had someone pointed us in the right direction. Meaning our pack would have been saved from the damage that had been inflicted.

Raven folds her hand across her chest and starts tapping with her foot. “I’m not sure, what I know is that I did trace the spell, trying to find the remnants of the kind of magic used. The remnants I found don’t have the same markings as the ones that are usually found in curses.”

“You said that it’s a confinement spell,” Sadie asks in a taut voice. “What does that mean exactly?”

what their names suggest. They are used to keep, bind or tether someone to a specific

my desk, and place my elbows on top of it. “You are saying someone bound something in

that was used, was used to imprison someone here?” Sadie starts pacing much like Raven

explain why your pack is getting weak. Confinement spells need loads of power. The spell is probably draining power from the land and its people to sustain itself given it’s tethered here. You are all getting weak because the spell needs power to keep whoever

Believing that it’s a curse plaguing us or this. Either way,

a curse,” Elder Gabriel argues, his

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didn’t mean an actual curse, but whichever way you

ask. My stress

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and that it is draining us just made everything a thousand times worse. We need to find a

we can,” Raven whispers,

growl, my anger rising. I could barely think straight “I want

on my shoulder, feeling my frustration and anger. “I get what she means. Think about it,

and the kind of power used means they don’t want that person getting out. Do you seriously want to mess around with that? Do you seriously want to undo

“If it were any other crime, they would have been imprisoned in a normal dungeon or hell, in the council’s stronghold. Instead, they were imprisoned somewhere where no one knew their

right,” Sadie sighs tiredly. “Whoever imprisoned this person went to great lengths to make sure they never escaped. If Raven hadn’t figured it out, then we would have continued to run in circles,

up and walk to my window. “Meanwhile my pack

finally making headway. That we were finally getting somewhere. Now, it seems like

supposed to

and her presence is making things so much better” Micah tries to reason, tries to make things better. “The text did say that Sadie

the key, which means there is a way to undo this

release a breath, sighing tiredly as I try to figure things out in

of who this prisoner is?” Sadie asks the

the rest of us, believed it was a curse. One put

we can start researching in the pack’s library. We can check the records of crimes committed and who committed them. Maybe we can find something there. Maybe a pack member who committed a crime so

the case, wouldn’t we know about it? Especially if it’s a terrible crime. Unless someone didn’t want the

that’s all, then

takes Raven’s hand and pulls her away. They leave, shutting

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