The Alpha’s Unwanted Mate
He told me about his father, who had been a formidable Alpha by all accounts but a difficult man, which Sebastian said without bitterness, simply as a fact he had made peace with over time.
He told me about the founding of this territory three generations back and the alliances that had built it and the ones that had fractured it and what it had taken each time to hold it together. He told me about the curse, when it had started and what the first signs had been, and he told me about Elena and what the pack had lost with her in a way that was grief that had been lived with long enough to be carried rather than borne.