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Chapter 2
XANDER
Dad’s jaw tightened as he glanced away. “That’s not entirely... true.”
“What the...?”
“The story goes that the witch was so upset by being rejected by the Alpha, that she cursed the pack.” Dad turned around, clicked a few buttons on his laptop, then closed the lid.
When he turned back around, he had our full attention.
“It’s said that the curse is one of heartbreak.”
I gaped at my father. “Didn’t you think this was something we should know?”
He shrugged. “It’s conjecture. A story told in whispers over the years. How much is true... I don’t know.”
Disappointment hit me with the weight of a thousand hammers. The women of our pack had killed themselves trying to birth the new generation, and now my father was telling me, it may never have been possible in the first place?
Those... assholes. Hiding this for their own prideful reasons.
“What’s true is that our pack is done for,” I said, standing up and clenching my hands into tight fists at my sides. “There won’t be any more children, Dad. With Mikaela no longer able to have babies, there are no more childbearing women available in the pack. And you know that marrying outside of the pack doesn’t work either. None of the men of my generation who married a woman from another pack have been able to have a single live baby. We’ll all be alone, and childless, forever.”
It sounded like that was what the witch wanted.
“If you want to know the truth, you need to speak to the Alpha,” Dad said. “He should be back within the fortnight.”
Two weeks? No fucking way.“I’m not waiting, Dad. We need to find that witch and get her to undo the curse.”
However the hell one did that.
“You’re not going anywhere without me,” Kyle said, jumping up to stand next to me.
A begrudging smile lifted my lips. “I wanted it to be your choice.”
Kyle snorted. “Always is. You’re not Alpha yet.”
The words hung in the air, and no one spoke. Taking over the Alpha role would be a huge undertaking and I would need to fight for the right to lead our people.
I didn’t want bloodshed; I wanted to earn my pack’s respect. And breaking a years-long curse would be the way to do that.
“I don’t want to wait another two weeks.” I turned back to my dad. “Do you know where the Alpha would be now? We need to find him.”
Dad’s brows furrowed. “He runs the state line, Xander. That’s a lot of area. I doubt you’ll ever find him.”
I turned to Kyle. “Then we need to go north. Find the coven and see if we can track down the witch who put the curse on us.”
“And if we can’t?” he asked.
“Then we come back and talk to the Alpha when he surfaces again.”
Kyle nodded, our path of action sealed. “Okay.”
A sense of purpose flowed over me. We were going to reverse this curse. There was no back-up plan. Our pack’s lives were on the line.
We turned to my dad, who was getting up slowly from his chair. “If you’re really going to do this, Xander...” he said.
“We are, Dad.”
