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

Don’t worry,” she soothes, almost as

back on the tiny bed. The mattress was thin, but it was better than sleeping on the damn hard ground. I tried breathing in through the pain. My

are you from? Maybe we can

head fervently, ignoring the pain that shoots down

pack,” I whisper through

yet shifted, but I could tell

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

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

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

over

my eyes el-

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 to me. A

survive?” Raven’s voice drifts through

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

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

pumped full of

at that too, and also the fact that the baby has

with the mention of a baby. Why

do you think happened to her? Do you think she was in

the old woman says because I soon fell into

woke up, it was

better and well rested. My head didn’t feel like it was filled with lead anymore, and my aches and pains

Her voice draws me

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

hoarse voice

this and

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

I nod. “Water, please.”

it over to me, just

in.

She still looked pretty, even in her old age. What catches my attention, though, is her unnatural white

she tells

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Instead, I just take a sip of my water as I survey the hut and the two women who saved my