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?”

are used to keep, bind

someone bound something in this pack?” Raven’s eyes turn and glare at me, but

that was used, was used to imprison someone here?”

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

curse plaguing us or this. Either way, we are f***d because the bottom

Gabriel argues, his voice almost whinny. “It never mentioned anything

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it didn’t mean an actual curse, but whichever way you look at it, it is

do we undo this?” I ask. My stress

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bad enough, thinking it was a curse. Knowing it’s a confinement spell and that it is draining

not sure we can,” Raven whispers, her

I could barely

she means. Think about it, Alec. It’s a confinement spell. You only imprison someone who has committed

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 this not knowing the

eyes refocus on me. “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 location and then their prison was sealed off with magic. That should

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

up and walk to my window. “Meanwhile my pack continues

didn’t f**g like this at all. I thought that we were finally making headway. That we were finally getting somewhere. Now, it

long were my people supposed to suffer

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

She’s the key, which means there is a way to undo this spell without releasing whoever this person is. We just have to figure out which way that

as I try to figure things out in my head. Everything is such a mess.

any of you have the slightest idea of who this prisoner is?”

they wouldn’t know who the person is. They, just like the rest of us, believed it was a curse. One put on us because we offended a witch. How were they to know that it wasn’t an

to begin,” Martin states, “But 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

if that’s the case, wouldn’t we know about it? Especially if it’s a terrible crime. Unless someone didn’t want the pack knowing about it. Unless something like that did happen, and

“If that’s

for anyone to speak. She just takes Raven’s hand and pulls her away.

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