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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that saved me was nowhere to be seen. That made me panic a little. I didn’t know her, but she saved me.

she soothes, almost

the damn hard ground. I tried breathing in

from? Maybe we can

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

whisper through the pain.

but I could tell she wasn’t human. I just didn’t know what

all operate differently, but banishment meant the

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

a gentle tone while holding my hand. “Raven and

over me and on

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 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

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

there 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 same time,

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besides, even if I survived, who would I be coming back

don’t know.” The old woman’s voice was full of worry. “Apart from her wounds, she was pumped full of silver and wolfbane. It’s bound to

also

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

to her? Do you think she

to hear what the old woman says because I soon fell into another deep

time I woke up, it was dark

actually felt better and well

awake.” Her voice draws

hair was a fiery red, 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

I tell her in a hoarse voice as

sees this and rushes to help

get you anything?” she asks once

I nod. “Water, please.”

glass and hands it over to me, just as the door opens, and the old woman

in.

that she was in her seventies or eighties. She still looked pretty, even in her old age. What catches my attention,

she tells me right before

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just take a sip of my water as