Twin Alphas: Desired (A BBW Paranormal Romance) by Georgette St. Clair
Authors: Georgette St. Clair
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about, in hindsight. Anyway, I hadn’t seen her in a couple of years when she bonded with your fathers. Then she got pregnant with you right away of course, and she called me, and we were starting to reconnect. I came out to visit her one time when she’d slipped on the ice and broken her leg. She was maybe six months along at the time.”
“And you weren’t aware of my fathers or their pack having any problems with anybody at the time…”
“Barron,” she said patiently. “ You’ve asked me that many times. Nobody that I know of. But if you went back there, and asked around, people might know. You could go after the festival.”
“Thanks. I’ll keep you posted as soon as I know anything,” Barron said grimly, and hung up.
He couldn’t wait until after the festival. Mackenzie might not last that long.
Chapter Seven
“Curses are a thing? They’re real?” Karlie asked skeptically. Barron had sent for her, and Vita had tagged along. Mackenzie was inside the cabin napping, and Ajax and Barron stood outside, keeping a watchful eye as if the cabin might burst into flames.
Ajax nodded. “They are very real,” he said. Vita nodded too, vigorously.
“So that’s…legal? You can just get a Mage to curse anyone that you want?” Karlie was appalled. “Like, if I lived in your world and wanted a promotion at work, all I would have to do is get someone to curse whoever else was up for the job?”
“No. There are rules.” He shook his head. “The person who’s been cursed must have committed a grievous sin against the person cursing them. The Mage placing the curse must do a truth spell to ascertain who orders the curse is telling the truth, and they really have been wronged. This curse shouldn’t carry over to the next generation, though, and as far as I can tell, it originated with my fathers. So it shouldn’t still be affecting us, but is. Not only that, but it’s only supposed to affect the person who is cursed.”
“Well, then, if the curse is breaking the rules, can’t you get it lifted?”
“Only the person who placed the curse can lift it. And we don’t know who did it,” Barron said. “We tried to talk to Cornelius about it – he’s in charge of all the Curse Mages. He refused to speak to us.”
Vita’s forehead wrinkled in concern. “Even if you can find the person who placed the curse, they must have believed that there was a reason to place it, so why would they lift it?”
Ajax scowled. “Because if they don’t, I’ll rip their god damned head off. Literally.” His fangs briefly descended and his ears went pointy and hairy. Karlie had no doubt that he meant it.
Barron shook his head at him reprovingly. “We need to be able to prove that the curse was placed in bad faith, and then they will have no choice. If we could get that kind of proof, then even without Cornelius, we could go to the Council of Mages and force the person to lift the curse.”
Karlie folded her arms, pacing back and forth. She thought about the family history that they’d just recounted. “Wouldn’t it make sense to go visit your fathers’ former pack mates and ask why somebody would have cursed your family? If they see you face to face, if they understand what the stakes are…”
“They absolutely freak out whenever we contact them – the few that we can find. They refuse to talk about it or try to pretend they don’t know what happened,” Barron said.
“If that’s the case your fathers must have been cursed because they did something dishonorable,” Vita said, looking puzzled. “Something that brought shame on the pack.”
“That is my
“And you weren’t aware of my fathers or their pack having any problems with anybody at the time…”
“Barron,” she said patiently. “ You’ve asked me that many times. Nobody that I know of. But if you went back there, and asked around, people might know. You could go after the festival.”
“Thanks. I’ll keep you posted as soon as I know anything,” Barron said grimly, and hung up.
He couldn’t wait until after the festival. Mackenzie might not last that long.
Chapter Seven
“Curses are a thing? They’re real?” Karlie asked skeptically. Barron had sent for her, and Vita had tagged along. Mackenzie was inside the cabin napping, and Ajax and Barron stood outside, keeping a watchful eye as if the cabin might burst into flames.
Ajax nodded. “They are very real,” he said. Vita nodded too, vigorously.
“So that’s…legal? You can just get a Mage to curse anyone that you want?” Karlie was appalled. “Like, if I lived in your world and wanted a promotion at work, all I would have to do is get someone to curse whoever else was up for the job?”
“No. There are rules.” He shook his head. “The person who’s been cursed must have committed a grievous sin against the person cursing them. The Mage placing the curse must do a truth spell to ascertain who orders the curse is telling the truth, and they really have been wronged. This curse shouldn’t carry over to the next generation, though, and as far as I can tell, it originated with my fathers. So it shouldn’t still be affecting us, but is. Not only that, but it’s only supposed to affect the person who is cursed.”
“Well, then, if the curse is breaking the rules, can’t you get it lifted?”
“Only the person who placed the curse can lift it. And we don’t know who did it,” Barron said. “We tried to talk to Cornelius about it – he’s in charge of all the Curse Mages. He refused to speak to us.”
Vita’s forehead wrinkled in concern. “Even if you can find the person who placed the curse, they must have believed that there was a reason to place it, so why would they lift it?”
Ajax scowled. “Because if they don’t, I’ll rip their god damned head off. Literally.” His fangs briefly descended and his ears went pointy and hairy. Karlie had no doubt that he meant it.
Barron shook his head at him reprovingly. “We need to be able to prove that the curse was placed in bad faith, and then they will have no choice. If we could get that kind of proof, then even without Cornelius, we could go to the Council of Mages and force the person to lift the curse.”
Karlie folded her arms, pacing back and forth. She thought about the family history that they’d just recounted. “Wouldn’t it make sense to go visit your fathers’ former pack mates and ask why somebody would have cursed your family? If they see you face to face, if they understand what the stakes are…”
“They absolutely freak out whenever we contact them – the few that we can find. They refuse to talk about it or try to pretend they don’t know what happened,” Barron said.
“If that’s the case your fathers must have been cursed because they did something dishonorable,” Vita said, looking puzzled. “Something that brought shame on the pack.”
“That is my
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