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.

worry,” she soothes, almost as if

the damn hard ground. I tried breathing in

pack are you from? Maybe

shake my head fervently, ignoring

pack,” I whisper

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

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

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

she tells me in a gentle tone while holding my hand.

over me and on their

my eyes el-

Sometimes everything 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

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

I wouldn’t make it? The

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if I died or lived. It didn’t matter, and, besides, even if I

honestly 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

and also the fact that the baby has

with the mention of a baby. Why do

Do you think she was in

to hear what the old woman says

next time I woke up, it was dark

better and well rested. My head

voice draws

delirious, I could actually see her clearly. Unlike her name, her hair was a fiery red, and she was totally beautiful. She had a few freckles on her face,

a hoarse voice as I struggled

this and rushes

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

I nod. “Water, please.”

it over to me, just

in.

Seeing 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 catches my attention, though, is her unnatural white

she tells me right before kissing my

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find this odd, but don’t say a thing. Instead, I just take a sip of my water as I survey