Alpha Alec’s Redemption - Chapter 23: Chapter 23

I just sighed tiredly while trying to keep my tears away. “I know.”
She’s right. I should have been there for her, and I’m so fucking sorry that I wasn’t. Wherever her soul is, I hope she’ll one day forgive me for not sticking by her side.
I stared at the pages in the book, but nothing made any sense. For me, it’s nothing but a blur of texts and words that don’t really give me a fucking idea about what I’m dealing with.
“So we still have nothing?” I asked as I stared at my beta and gamma.
For fucking years, that stupid curse has been a thorn in my side. My father knew nothing of it, only what his father and the elders told him. The only one who could shed light on it-on what led to it or if there was a way to break it was my great- grandfather, and he was long dead.
My grandfather said that the curse was placed on us when his father was still Alpha of the pack. Unfortunately, when the curse was placed, he was still a baby, about a year or so old. So, of course, he didn’t really know what went down, who cursed us, or why they did.
The burden was placed on him after he became Alpha and my great-grandfather had died. Then the burden was transferred to my dad and then to me. The burden of breaking this curse was a curse in itself, a burden that has been transferred from son to son for three generations and at this point I’m starting to think it will end with me-not that I’d be breaking it, but that my whole pack would be wiped out before the burden fell to my son.
“Yes,” Colin answered, pulling me back to the present. “We still don’t know how the whole thing started or why anyone would curse us”
I stood up from my seat and moved to the window that oversaw the lush fields of my pack. Pack members were all about doing their thing. Children were playing, teenagers messing around, warriors were training and the others who didn’t work within pack borders were just relaxing.
My hands ball into fists. It wasn’t fucking fair that we would all die if I couldn’t break the damn curse. All the kids, at least the few we had, wouldn’t get to live to adulthood, and the same fate awaited the teens.
I couldn’t let that happen. I couldn’t fucking allow that. We deserved better than to die at the hands of a plague no one understood.
“What do we have so far?” I asked, turning away from the window, more determined than ever.
We were in my office in the pack house. I took my seat again and focused on Matt and Colin. No one else knew about the curse except for the three of us and the elders. We decided to keep it quiet to avoid panic and words unintentionally landing in the wrong hands.
“It was placed during your great-granddad’s time as alpha. No one knows much about it except that we are expected to start weakening physically, our sense diminishing and losing our wolves. Eventually we will die, either because we’ll be too weak for our bodies to function or other packs will notice our weakness and attack,” Matt answered, his eyes expressing the worry and fear of what’s to come.
It was already happening. We haven’t had a birth in a decade. The youngest child is eight years old. There is also the fact that we’ve noticed how more and more pack members are easily getting sick and dying. Some warriors aren’t as strong as they used to be. We also have a few members who have lost their wolves already and are nothing but a shadow of their former selves.
Of course, pack member have noticed these strange things, but no one so far has connected the pieces. No one has realized that these things are connected. The elders have encouraged them to pray to the goddess for favor and that’s what they’ve been fervently doing.
If things continue to get worse, we’ll have to tell them the damn truth.
“We also know the prophecy that your mate was meant to break the curse, but then shit happened and Eunice rejected you,” Colin added, his eyes pointedly staring at me in an accusatory manner.
I glared at him, trying to ignore the pain that slashed through my chest at the reminder. I still hadn’t gotten over the rejection, and I doubt I’ll ever get over Eunice.
Colin continued as if he didn’t just tear my fucking heart with the mention of Eunice’s name. “Don’t you find it strange, though? The prophecy was clear; then how come in the few months you were with her, her presence here didn’t improve anything?”
I get what he was saying, but that was not possible. Colin, for some reason, had never liked Eunice, and she, of course, never liked him back.
“Are you trying to imply something?” I growled, not liking his tone of voice or what he was insinuating.
He raises his arms in the air and gives me a sardonic smile. “Nope.”
“Have you tried talking to her?” Matt cuts in. “Maybe you can talk her into helping even though you two aren’t together.” Sighing, I stand up and start pacing. “I tried, but I can’t find her. Apparently she moved after she rejected me. No one has seen her since.”
“That’s understandable. I get her need to escape the heartache,” Matt muttered with an understanding look while Colin just scoffed.
His attitude makes me want to pummel the idiot into a bloody pulp. I was about to do exactly that when there was a knock on my office door. I sniffed the air, and my nose immediately picked up Sabrina’s scent.
I’m not worried that she would have listened in. The office was soundproof for obvious reasons.
I crossed the short distance and opened the door. I was immediately tense after seeing her red and swollen eyes.