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

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

thin, but it was better than sleeping on the damn hard ground. I tried breathing in through the pain. My damn ribs hurt like

Maybe we can take you

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

whisper

was. I had not yet shifted, but I could

understanding. There are different species, and we all operate differently, but banishment meant the same thing for all to

why she was understanding. Why she seemed willing to help a banished wolf given banished wolves were pariahs.

a gentle tone while holding my hand. “Raven and I will take

feel a power wash over me and on

my eyes el-

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.

survive?” Raven’s voice drifts through my unconscious

they thought I wouldn’t make it? The thought of it terrifies me, but at

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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

“Apart from her wounds, she was pumped full of silver and wolfbane. It’s bound to have some horrible side effects, given

too, and also the fact that the

mention of a

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

to hear what the old woman says because

I woke up, it

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

awake.” Her voice draws me in

a few freckles on her face, but it

tell her in a hoarse voice as I struggled to

and rushes

she asks

I nod. “Water, please.”

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

in.

eighties. She still looked pretty, even in

awake, my dear” she

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of my water as I survey the hut and