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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that saved me was nowhere to be seen. That made me panic a

she soothes, almost as if she could feel

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

Maybe we

I shake my head fervently, ignoring the pain that

whisper through the pain.

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

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

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

in a gentle tone while holding my hand.

power wash over me and on

my eyes el-

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

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

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

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didn’t matter, and, besides, even if I survived, who

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

that too, and also the fact that

go again with the mention of a

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

get to hear what the old woman says because I soon fell

next time I woke up, it was

the other times. I actually felt better and well rested. My head didn’t feel like it was filled with lead anymore,

voice draws

her hair was a fiery red, and she was totally beautiful. She had a few freckles on her

hoarse voice as I struggled

and rushes to

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

I nod. “Water, please.”

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

in.

eighties. She still looked pretty, even in her old age. What catches my attention, though, is her unnatural white hair. It’s like nothing

you’re awake, my dear” she tells me

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I just take a sip of my water as I survey