Alpha's Burden (Rejecting Fates Book 1) by Luna Lark & Veronica Eden

Author:Luna Lark & Veronica Eden [Lark, Luna & Eden, Veronica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-29T00:00:00+00:00

I don’t know what to expect two days later when I’m told I’m supposed to go to the healer’s cabin. It certainly isn’t arguing with the cantankerous male who has been the pack’s healer for two and a half generations. He has to be pushing two hundred by now, and could be languishing on the porches smoking pipes and listening to the strum of banjos in the evenings like the rest of the pack elders.

Instead, he’s here going blue in the face at my insistence that shifters can be susceptible to illnesses and ailments outside of moon madness.

“This is a ridiculous waste of my time. If you’d just listen instead of yelling over me, you might actually learn something about healing,” I say flatly.

“You can’t teach me nothin’ I don’t know about anythin’,” he hollers with a stomp of his foot. “I’ve been minding this pack for longer than you’ve been born.”

“She’s right, Eugene,” Alisha pleads. “Remember when I had trouble with a skin reaction after my runs and you kept telling me it would get better? It didn’t randomly go away. Avery’s the one who helped me with a paste to calm down the rash I was getting, and figured out I’m allergic to the ragweed my wolf loves to roll around in.”

It’s nice that she’s taking my side. She’s one of my best customers that trades often with me.

“Because people all say she’s a witch,” he snaps. “Allergies aren’t real. Maybe she cursed you with the rash in the first place for lookin’ at her wrong. Told you not to meddle with the likes of her, didn’t I?”

I’m so used to years of unkind whispers and dirty looks from the pack, his words don’t even sting. I rub my temple with a sigh at his incompetence.

Alisha scoffs. “She’s not a witch. I’ve been telling you for years about how all the things she makes from plants helps treat some cases you write off. There are others in the pack that would benefit from us expanding our horizons with her knowledge.”

“Hogwash.”

“It’s not.” I toss my hands up. “You only think that because you’ve never tried anything different. People in this pack need better. I needed better when my sister was sick.”

He doesn’t like the glare I give him. “I told that pup Caden I didn’t want a consult and he didn’t listen.”

“Alpha Blackburn,” I correct sharply, surprising myself. “His age has nothing to do with his rank. He’s still your alpha.”

He scrunches his face. “This isn’t going to work.”

“That’s too bad, because it’s not up to you,” Alisha says.

Elder Eugene storms out shouting about not needing extra hands. She stands in the front doorway, waving.

“Go have something to eat before you bother coming back here.” She offers me an apologetic smile. “Don’t mind him. He’s cranky and stubborn and his joints always ache. But we’ll get him to come around. I’m really glad to have you here.”

A smirk crosses my face. I have several remedies for aching joints, but I’m not sharing them with him.

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