The Alpha Who Cursed His Mate novel Chapter 53

"Magnus, what are you saying?" She trembles in shock.

"Nina, it's you I love. It's you who I want to spend the rest of my life with, even if it means I never shift again and you never have your wolf. We don't need to have the mate bond to know we love each other. I don't need to feel electricity when we touch, but the warmth of your soft skin. Nina, I want to be with you. I love you," I say.

"Magnus," she sobs. 'I love you too," she says as we gaze lovingly into each other's eyes.

We kiss with the utmost passion. A crack of lightning strikes a tree nearby, and thunder roars through the sky. Nina wraps her arms around my neck, and I wrap mine around her waist as the kiss intensifies.

Suddenly Nina flinches back and screams in pain as a bone snaps.

She is shifting. The curse is broken.

More thunder and lightning flash through the sky above us and turns into a wild storm raining down on us. As I hold Nina in my lap, I feel the tingly static where we touch. It feels amazing. Our eyes turn black. 'Mate," we say in unison.

Nina lets out another scream.

"Try not to fight it, Nina. It will hurt less if you let your wolf take over," I say, stroking my fingers through her hair.

"It hurts,"

"I know, babe. I'm here, and I will help you through this."

She nods and tries her best to relax. Black fur covers her as she shifts into her wolf. My breath is taken away. Her wolf is pure black with a white-shaped star on her forehead.

"Nina, your wolf is so beautiful. You even have a white star on your forehead. I've never seen anything like this," I say, stroking her fur. She steps back, prances happily in wolf form, and then nudges into my shoulder.

"You want me to shift too?"

She nods her head.

"Well, if the curse is broken, I shouldn't feel any pain when I shift."

I remove my clothes and focus my mind, closing my eyes for a moment. Then, I open them to find I have shifted straight away, pain-free, into my sizeable white wolf.

"This is amazing," I think to her.

"I can hear you!" Nina replies.

"I can hear you too we can mind-link now!"

"We were fated mates all along. Can you believe that?" Nina cries.

"We were never cursed, Nina. On the contrary, we had been blessed with each other all along."

We rub our furry faces all over each other affectionately.

"Let's run home," I mind-link.

Nina runs ahead with super speed. I can only just keep up behind her. We run for hours through the night until we are exhausted. Then, we lie huddled together and stare up at the moon.

"Moon Goddess, thank you for blessing me with Nina as my mate,"

Nina nudges me and shifts back into her human form. I shift back, too.

"That was amazing. We can both shift now, and we are fated, mates!" Nina squeals and plonks herself happily in my lap. I nuzzle my face into her neck and inhale her Lavender and Mint scent.

"You smell so good," I say.

Nina giggles as my nose tickles her neck.

"You smell like chocolate and freshly chopped wood," she laughs.

"Really?"

"Yep," she grins.

Without warning, my mouth crashes onto hers, and we share a passionate moment.

"Shall we skedaddle the rest of the way back home?" She asks.

"Yes, let's go,"

Embraced in my arms, she waves her wand around. 'Skedaddle Dash, Skedaddle Dash, Skedaddle Dash."

We blink multiple times until we reach Shadow Crest, except we land in the water at Shadow Crest Lake.