The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate (Jason and Laila) by Caroline Above Story novel Chapter 308

Chapter 308

“Your level of wolfsbane mustbe severe,” the healer said. “It’s a miracle with these levels that it hasn’t killed you.”

“I don’t remember ever being poisoned,” I said. “I’ve always been like this, for as long as I can remember.”

“It’s possible that this occurred when you were very young.”

I had come to the Moon Ridge Pack as a frightened 5 year old child. All my memories of the time before were practically nonexistent. I couldn’t remember where I had been from, or even what my parents had looked like.

“Could I have gotten it from my mother, like Ava did from me?” I asked.

“No,” the healer said. “The levels go down as it is passed forward. Ava’s levels of poison are not as high as yours, and yours are nearly close to the lethal. For your mother to have given you this much would be impossible. She would not have survived, and neither would you, in her womb.”

So I had to be the target of the poisoning, and it likely happened in the time I couldn’t remember.

But who would want to poison a child?

“Are you from the north?” the healer asked, breaking me out of my revelry. I looked at him in question. He continued without me having to ask. “Wolfbane prominently grows in the north, in the Lycan pack. We have treatments that can try to limit the damage of the stuff, but the Lycan pack has been studying wolfsbane for centuries. They have a cure, but they refuse to share it. And they refuse to allow outsiders into their pack territory.” He shook his head. “If only everyone understood the global benefit of shared knowledge.”

“Yeah…” I said, my stomach sinking.

I didn’t care about myself, but no cure meant Ava would have to suffer through life with a weak wolf like I do. I wanted better for her. My child should live life to the fullest without being held back by a poison never meant for her.

The healer gave me a prescription that was more or less a pain reliever. I wasn’t sure how that was going to help my weakness from the poison. I didn’t feel much pain, or at least I didn’t think so. Wasn’t a low level of consistent pain normal for everyone?

Prescription in hand, I walked back to the waiting room to find Jason pacing the length of it. When he saw me, he stopped and walked straight toward me.

Before he could even say one word, I told him, “The results are positive. I’m poisoned, and I gave it to Ava.”

He immediately tensed even more than he had already been. That didn’t seem possible, except I saw it for myself

“Could Brittany…?”

“No,” I said. “This must have happened when I was a child. Before I came to your pack.”

Jason frowned hard.

“The healer said that wolfsbane grows in the north, and that the Lycan pack might have a secret cure. But they aren’t sharing.”

“They are incredibly secretive. The Alpha most of all. He never attends the kingdom summits, and his ambassadors always keep to themselves.”

“If anyone knows the cure, it’s the Alpha,” I said. “But if he never leaves the pack…” I cursed. “I just want to save Ava from this life.”

“I want to save you both,” Jason said. “I met the Alpha once and only once. I’d been a child then. I barely remember it.” He seemed far away for a moment, then shook his head and said, “I want to help.”

“Help what?” I asked. Things seemed pretty hopeless from where I stood. Perhaps Ava would respond well to the treatments. Perhaps these painkillers would work. These weren’t great solutions, but they were something. Nothing Jason could help with

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