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.

winding road narrowed, and Maria’s house appeared at the end of it. The door swung

met, a sinking feeling settled deep in my gut. Whatever this curse

like it,” she said

masking the unease gnawing at me. “When have I ever

her cluttered living room, the mess grating on my nerves more than normal. I sank onto the couch, resisting the urge

perched on the edge of her chair, watching me carefully.

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something halfway between a smile and a grimace. “Really? You’re going to take that up with the Moon Goddess?”

toward

She paused, as if weighing how much to say. “A very long time ago, your ancestor openly mocked the existence of the Moon Goddess. He scoffed at the idea that a ‘superficial female‘ was the source of their power. The Moon Goddess didn’t let

began to fall into place,

now. “From that moment on, he and his descendants would be unable to mate with anyone but their fated mate. A mate chosen solely by the Moon Goddess and if they

something deep within me. My wolf growled in my

my breath. “She’s fated to Dylan Not

idea, I can feel it. But you’re not saying

snapped, my voice

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

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

only person who could ever calm him was

surprise slamming into me like a

“with

“I don’t have any problems.”

replied sharply, then sighed “Look, I

“Then don’t say

it.”