The Alpha Who Cursed His Mate novel Chapter 31

I'm woken by Zak and Flint shaking my shoulders and tapping my face.

"I'm okay now," I say, sitting up.

"Is it going to be this bad every time you shift?" Zak asks.

"Yup, at least until Nina's curse has been broken,"

I make myself presentable and walk downstairs with Flint and Zak. We find Hank the Greystone packs future Alpha looking around.

"Hank, can I help you?" I ask.

"Actually, you can. I have a proposition to offer," Hank smirks.

"What kind of proposition?"

"One, you would prefer we speak about privately,"

"Whatever you need to say to our future Alpha, you can say to us," Flint says.

"Well, if you don't mind everyone finding out about Nina's curse? I'd hate to know what would happen to her if anyone found out,"

I grab him by the scruff of the neck and growl in his face. My eyes have turned black. I quickly let him go as people enter the room.

"Flint, Zak, gather Josie, May, and Nina. We are to meet by the lake immediately."

We all leave and promptly arrive by the lake.

"What's going on?" Josie asks.

"Hank knows about Nina's curse. He has some proposition to make. I assume in return for him to keep his mouth shut?" I say, glaring at Hank.

"How did he even find out?" May asks.

"None of us have told anyone, though?" Flint says and looks at us all. Nina hugs herself and looks down.

"Nina, what is it?" I ask.

"I-I thought I could trust him. I thought he could help me find out how to break this stupid curse," she cries.

I pull her into my chest and let her cry.

"Who is him?" Josie asks.

"Moss," Hank and I say at the same time.

"Shit," Zak says.

"Why did he tell you?" I ask Hank.

"Moss and I go way back. We went to Pup school together far South from here. So, you could say we are very close friends. In case anything happened to him, he told me to tell his mother about the curse,"

"What good would telling his mother about the curse do?" I ask.

"You can't do this, Magnus. You can't choose one of them and pretend she is your fated mate! I can pack my stuff and leave Shadow Crest right now. I could never live with myself if you had to live with and mate with someone you didn't want to be with,"

"No, I could never live with myself if you ever left Shadow Crest… left… me. No matter where you go, someone would also be after you until they found and killed you,"

"Then what do we do?" She cries.

Flint, Zak, Josie, and May all have worried looks on their faces.

"I will do anything it takes to protect you, Nina."

"Which sister is the oldest?" I ask.

"That would be Addison," he smiles.

"You can't be seriously thinking about doing this, Magnus?" Josie says.

"What other choice do we have?"

Josie glares at Hank, "We could kill him?"

"Josie, that would only worsen the situation, especially if the evidence is led back to us as the killers,"

Hank is looking at us, mortified that murdering him could be an option.

"If you ever tried to kill me, Moss would know you were all behind it,"