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

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

was thin, but it was better than sleeping on the damn hard ground. I tried breathing in

pack are you from? Maybe

snap open. I shake my head fervently, ignoring

whisper through the

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

and we all operate differently, but banishment meant

my right mind, I would have questioned why she was understanding. Why 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 thankful that I was safe. At least I hoped I

child,” she tells me in a gentle tone while holding my hand. “Raven and I will

power wash over me and on their own

my eyes el-

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

think she’ll survive?” Raven’s voice

I wouldn’t make it? The thought

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

of silver and wolfbane. It’s bound to have some horrible side effects, given it’s been in her system for

that too, and also the fact that

again with the mention of a baby. Why do they keep talking about a

Do you think she was in captivity?” Raven

hear what the old woman says

next time I woke up,

wasn’t in as much pain as the other times. I actually felt better and well rested. My head didn’t feel like it was filled with

awake.” Her voice draws

freckles on her face, but it made her all the more beautiful. Her bright green

in a hoarse voice as

sees this and rushes to help

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

I nod. “Water, please.”

over to me, just as the door opens, and the

in.

or eighties. She

awake, my dear” she tells me right before kissing

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just take a sip of