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

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

sleeping on the damn hard ground. I tried breathing in through the pain. My damn ribs hurt like a

pack are you from? Maybe we can

shake my head fervently, ignoring the pain that

pack,” I whisper through

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

all operate differently, but

been in 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

my child,” she tells me in a gentle tone while holding my hand. “Raven and I will take care of

power wash over me and on their

my eyes el-

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

she’ll survive?” Raven’s voice

chance I wouldn’t? Was I so badly hurt that they thought I wouldn’t make it? The thought of it terrifies

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had no one. Nobody would care if I died or lived. It didn’t matter, and, besides, even if I survived, who

voice was full of worry. “Apart from her wounds, she was pumped full of silver and wolfbane. It’s bound to have some horrible side effects, given it’s been in her system for

too, and also the

the mention of a baby. Why do

you think she was in captivity?” Raven asks after

hear what the old woman says because I soon fell into

next time I woke up, it

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

draws

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, but it made her all the more beautiful. Her bright green eyes shone as she looked at me, and her bow-shaped lips were curved

I tell her in a hoarse

this and rushes

she asks once I’m seated in an

I nod. “Water, please.”

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

dear” she tells me right before kissing

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