Chapter 42

I sat up in the padded chair, my legs trembling and my brain trying to process the word banshee and curse the healer had uttered.

Instinctively I brought my hands to my neck, I could still feel the commander's grip around it, and I remembered his pale, distant eyes... crazed.

My heart raced and the tears welled up again, and I wiped them furiously and forced myself to stand, then faced Mr. Carter.

— Tell me everything please.

He nodded, walked towards me and gently sat me down in the armchair, quickly pulled out another chair and sat down facing me.

— Do you know how John became the alpha?

I shook my head negatively, and realized that I loved a man of whom I knew nothing about his past.

— Clayton Chase was the alpha before John, and his father. Clayton already knew about Selene's curse, for this reason he put off marriage for many years, until the demand for an heir to continue the bloodline forced him to marry, his heir could not come from