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.

ano

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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panic a little. I didn’t know her, but she saved me. Better her

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

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

pack are you from? Maybe we can take

my head fervently,

pack,” I whisper through the pain.

not yet shifted, but I could tell she wasn’t human.

nodded her head in understanding. There are different species, and we all operate differently, but banishment meant the same thing for all

she seemed willing to help a banished wolf given banished wolves were pariahs. I wasn’t in my right mind, though. And I was just

she tells me in a gentle tone while holding my

feel a power wash over me and

my eyes el-

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

you think she’ll survive?” Raven’s voice drifts through my unconscious

Was I so badly hurt that they thought I wouldn’t make it?

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no one. Nobody would care if I died or lived. It didn’t matter, and, besides, even if I survived, who would I be coming back to? Who was worth

of silver and wolfbane. It’s

at that too, and also the

a baby. Why do they keep talking

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

to hear what the old woman says because I soon

time I woke up, it was dark

wasn’t in as much pain as the other times. I actually felt better and well rested. My head didn’t

Her voice draws me

and she was totally beautiful. She had a few freckles on her face, but it made her all the more beautiful. Her bright green eyes shone as she looked at me, and her bow-shaped lips were

I tell her in a hoarse voice as

and rushes to

I get you anything?” she asks once I’m seated in an

I nod. “Water, please.”

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

in.

what I wasn’t able to see when I first arrived. My guess is that she was in her seventies or eighties. She still looked pretty, even in her old age. What

she

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thing. Instead, I just take a sip of