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

almost as if she could feel my

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

Maybe we can take you

shake my head fervently, ignoring the pain

whisper through the

but I could tell she wasn’t human.

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

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

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

power wash over me and on

my eyes el-

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 don’t make sense to me. A lot of those times I try to speak,

she’ll survive?” Raven’s voice drifts

I wouldn’t make it? The thought of it terrifies me, but at the same time, it

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

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

too, and also the fact that the baby has

a baby.

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

hear what the old woman says because I

time I woke up,

felt dreadful, but I wasn’t in as much pain as the other times. I actually felt better and well rested. My head didn’t feel like it was filled with lead anymore, and my aches and pains

voice draws me in her

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

hoarse voice as I struggled to

this and rushes to

anything?” she asks once

I nod. “Water, please.”

in a glass and hands it over to me, just

in.

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

awake, my dear” she tells me right before kissing

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thing. Instead, I just take a sip of my water as I survey the hut