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Chapter 35: The Curse Origins

Author: Jokes Writes
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-28 03:29:52

Twelve years ago – just three days after the mess at Greyhaven.

Raiden Shadowfang was seventeen, standing there watching the flames eat up his dad's body on the funeral pyre. The only parent he'd ever had, gone.

Aldric Shadowfang had been a goddamn legend. A real warrior. The kind of Alpha who ran the pack with an iron grip for thirty straight years.

And that curse took him out in three months flat.

It kicked off with headaches. Bad ones. Then came the seizures. After that, these awful episodes where he didn't even know his own kid, where the wolf just took over and they had to chain him up like some feral dog.

By the end, he wasn't even him anymore. Just a hollow shell with Dad's face.

The healers all said the same thing: it's the curse. The one that got his grandfather too. And his great-grandfather. Every Shadowfang Alpha for the last six generations.

The mate curse.

Raiden's mom died giving birth to him. The curse dragged it out over the whole nine months, gnawing at her f
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