The Alpha King's Contracted Luna by Nelson Claudia

Chapter 107

-Grayson’s POV-

The silence stretched on, heavy and suffocating, as Maria’s words settled over me like a death sentence.

“Cursed.”

The word echoed in my mind, sharp and jagged, scraping against my sanity with every repeat. I gripped the edge of the table, my knuckles turning white. My pulse thundered in my ears, drowning out everything else.

“What do you mean, cursed?” I growled, my voice lower than I intended, my wolf stirring restlessly beneath my skin.

Maria’s sigh crackled through the phone, weighed down by hesitation. “It’s not a simple curse, Grayson. It’s old–ancient. Something that binds your bloodline. It’s why your connection to your wolf has been… unstable.”

My wolf’s instincts flared, primal and raw, a caged predator sensing unseen danger.

“Why now?” I demanded, my voice clipped, sharp. A chill crept down my spine. “Why is it affecting me now?”

“Because,” Maria said quietly, “it’s tied to you finding your mate. This is bigger than you think. I need you to come here. I can explain it all–face to face. How soon can you get here?”

I ran a hand through my hair, my frustration barely contained. “Twenty minutes.”

flickered Without another word, I hung up, pushing myself off the chair. As I strode toward the front of the estate, my gaze toward the house. For a moment, I considered going back inside to Ava. To tell her where I was going, what was happening

We were making progress. Slowly, painfully, but progress all the same. I didn’t like fighting with her, and part of me hated walking away like this. But I wasn’t wrong. I had only been honest about what I wanted and what I didn’t–what I couldn’t give her. That truth hadn’t changed, and it never would.

With that thought clanging in my head, I slid into my car and sped off.

The highway blurred around me, my mind spinning faster than the engine roaring beneath me. Cursed. The Blackwood bloodline couldn’t be cursed. I would’ve known. My father–cruel as he was–wouldn’t have kept this from me.

Would he?

It didn’t matter. If a curse was to blame for my fractured connection to my wolf, then it could be broken.

A grim smile tugged at my lips. Breaking things was something I was good at.

and grew as I pushed the car faster. The winding road narrowed, and Maria’s house appeared at the end of it. The door swung open before I even stepped out of the car, and Maria stood waiting, a

deep in my gut. Whatever this curse was–whatever I had come to

going to like it,” she

steady, masking the unease gnawing at me.

herbs hung in the air, stronger than usual. I glanced around her cluttered living room, the mess grating on my nerves more than

on the edge of her chair, watching me carefully. You’re calm for someone who just

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is cursed. Not to mention the toll it’s taking on

curse, it can be broken. I’ll deal with whoever dared to curse me and my

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a grimace. “Really? You’re going to take that up with the Moon

toward her.

was discreet when I started asking questions, so don’t worry about your secret getting out. What I found is… troubling.” She paused, as if weighing how much to say. “A very long time ago, your ancestor openly mocked the existence

to fall into place, sharp and

mate. A mate chosen solely by the Moon Goddess and if they didn’t find her and make themselves worthy

My wolf growled in my head, restless, almost

can’t be,” I muttered under my breath. “She’s fated to Dylan Not me.”

unflinching. “You’re repulsing the idea, I can feel it. But you’re not

mate,” I snapped,

she is,” she said carefully, “but the curse is real. And it affects every

words twisted into something I didn’t want to admit, something I didn’t

madness. And the only

slamming into me like

you,” she added, “with your… bedroom

her a glare. “I don’t have any problems.”

sharply, then sighed “Look,

“Then don’t say

it.”