#Chapter 216: Damage Control

Alexander’s POV My illness was the talk of the pack come morning. This was never what I wanted to happen. Never what I expected. I thought I could keep everything under wraps, quietly deal with it before it became widespread news—but after my episode in the hospital, everyone knew I was sick. They just didn’t know with what. Not even the doctors who diagnosed me with tuberculosis and said my symptoms were worsening knew the truth of my condition. It wasn’t truly tuberculosis. It was a curse that never should have existed. Of course, I couldn’t tell anyone the truth for obvious reasons. Not only would no one believe me, simply assuming that I had gone mad, but they could also potentially be affected in the same way. And if I condemned innocent people? Well, as Alpha King, I could never forgive myself. If I even lived long enough to see the consequences. So when my Alpha King advisors contacted me the next morning for an emergency meeting in the