The Alpha Who Cursed His Mate novel Chapter 24

"Yes,"

"Well, that means I can sense and feel my mate, and I don't feel the mate bond with you,"

Claire lets out a loud gasp, gaining the attention of anyone nearby.

"What are you saying, Magnus?"

"What I'm saying is you're not my mate. So our relationship needs to end. You're only going to get hurt if we stay together and I find my fated mate,"

"You're dumping me in front of everyone at school?"

"I suggested I talk to you privately,"

Claire bursts into tears.

"How dare you break up with me? No one breaks up with me!"

"Claire, I'm sorry, but it's over." I take my textbook from my locker and head to English class.

She doesn't sit next to me in her usual spot but a few rows away, sobbing throughout the class.

"Claire, you have been crying throughout the class. It's rather distracting, you know. Do you need to see the school nurse?" A classmate asks.

"No, Magnus broke up with me." Claire blurts out and cries louder.

All the girls in the class whisper amongst each other and smile at me. The bell rings, and I walk to my next class with a dozen girls following close behind. I completely ignore them and walk into science.

Nina sits at our wonky table in silence.

"Hey, Nina,"

"Hey," she says quietly and focuses on the notes in her textbook.

"I thought maybe we could go to the library today and study up about curses. It might help us find out more about yours?"

"Shh, someone might hear you. I'll go to the library after school by myself. We need to avoid each other until you find your mate. I'm only sitting at this table with you because Mr Thomson made us lab partners, and we don't get a say in it."

Knowing that Nina doesn't want to be around me after we already missed seven years of friendship is taking a toll on me. At lunch, I decide to spend it in the library and research curses to help Nina.

I've spent twenty minutes searching for a book about curses and cannot find one. I see Pipsqueak at her usual table.

"Psst, Pipsqueak,"

She looks around the library.

"Over here," I whisper.

"Magnus?" She says, standing up from her chair as she approaches me. 'I-is everything alright?"

"I need your help,"

"W-what kind of help?"

"If I wanted to study curses, where would I find the right book?"

"Oh, curses or any type of magic isn't allowed, Magnus. Those books aren't out here with the other books. We would get in big trouble if we studied any kind of witchery, voodoo, or magic,"

"Where are they kept then?"

"Why? What has happened?"

"I can't tell you. Only the high-ranking wolves in the pack know, and I've been told not to tell anyone else,"

"Oh, Okay. I just m-might not be as much help if I don't know what it is you are trying to find the answer t-to,"

"For now, let's just get inside that room,"

Pipsqueak nods and gestures for me to follow her. We enter the library, and she leads me to the librarian's desk.

"See the office over there? Inside is another door at the back. It's locked, and that is where the forbidden books are,"

"Where is the key?"

Pipsqueak points at the librarian at her desk, scanning the box of returned books. I can see a ring of keys dangling by her side.

"How are we meant to get the keys when she is wearing them?"

"Y-you distract her. I'll sneak up behind her and take them,"

I nod my head and approach the librarian.

"Why hello, miss," I say, gazing into the librarian's eyes.

"Yes, how can I help you?"

"I-I um was wondering if, ah, you fell from heaven?"