Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

CHAPTER 6

Chapter 6

My brain is definitely foggy because I know I didn’t hear her right. She was suggesting that I was pregnant, which isn’t possible, right? Even if that were the case, considering all the torture I went through, shouldn’t I already have had a miscarriage?

hung helplessly while she tried to support my weight. I’d used up my strength when I tried fighting

rogues. I had no more energy in me, and I could feel my body start to shut down.

the

“You-you’re wrong,” I tell her tiredly.

I

Fuck. I was so tired and in so much pain. I wanted all of it to end. I wanted the pain to stop. I wanted the blissful blackness I disappeared into when I lose consciousness.

“Stay with me,” she says instead. “What is

your name?”

Stranger danger, right? But in this case, she saved my life, so that’s a moot point. Besides, I had no one else, and she seemed to be helping me. What’s the worst that could happen?

“S-Sadie” I finally stammer the word out.

Goddess, why did everything hurt so badly?

“Like I said, I need to get you to a healer. Please try and stay awake,” she all but begged.

“I can’t…I’m so tired. I just want to sleep,” I whisper as we continue to goddess knows where.

“Think about your baby.”

There she goes again with the baby thing. I wasn’t pregnant. I think I would have known if I were. Was this just her way of trying to keep me fighting? I doubt it will work because I knew there wasn’t any baby.

I want to tell her that, but my vision becomes blurry and I become dizzy. Soon after, everything around me fades, and I fall into the blackness I was craving so much.

When I open my eyes again, I’m in what I can only describe as a hut.

“Where am I?” I ask an old woman who was next to me.

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My voice is slurred, and I feel disconnected from reality. Everything around me was spinning, and I had a headache to end all the headaches.

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me was nowhere to be seen. That made me panic a

safe child. Don’t worry,” she soothes, almost

on the tiny bed. The mattress was thin, but it was better than sleeping on the damn hard ground. I tried breathing

you from? Maybe we can

snap open. I shake my head fervently, ignoring the pain that shoots down

I whisper through the

didn’t know who she was. I had not yet shifted, but I could tell she

understanding. There are different species, and we all operate differently, but banishment

wolf given banished wolves were pariahs. I wasn’t in my right mind,

tone while holding my hand. “Raven and I will

power wash over me and on their

my eyes el-

is blissful and other times the pain is crushing, and I can hear the sounds of my screams echoing inside the small room. The faces of the old woman and Raven, the girl I assume had saved me, appear to me. Sometimes they’re just staring at me worriedly and other times they’re murmuring words that don’t make sense to me. A lot of those times I try to speak, but no word leaves

you think she’ll survive?” Raven’s

a chance I wouldn’t? Was I so badly hurt that they thought I wouldn’t make it? The thought of it terrifies me, but at the

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Nobody would care if I died or lived. It didn’t matter, and, besides, even if I

full of worry. “Apart from her wounds, she was pumped full of silver and wolfbane. It’s bound to

also the fact

they go again with the mention of a baby. Why do

think happened to her? Do you think she was in captivity?” Raven asks

to hear what the old woman

time I woke up, it was dark

as the other times. I actually felt better and well rested. My head didn’t feel like it

awake.” Her voice draws

was totally beautiful. She had a few freckles on her face,

tell her in a hoarse voice

this and rushes to

get you anything?” she asks

I nod. “Water, please.”

some in a glass and hands it over to me, just as the door opens, and the old

in.

first arrived. My guess is that she was in her seventies or eighties. She still looked pretty, even in her old age. What catches my attention, though, is

she tells me right

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a sip of my water as I