Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

CHAPTER 22

Chapter 22

“Who the fuck are you?” I asked, scrambling back until my back hits a tree.

My heart was racing, and my whole body was trembling. I felt like I couldn’t breathe as the weight of what I’d done suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks.

I know she wasn’t a good person, but she was still a person, and I had killed her. I’ve never killed before. Never hurt anyone intentionally, and now here I am, a murderer with blood on my hands.

“I was about to ask you the same thing,” he answered, but for some reason, his words just don’t register in my head.

He started walking towards me, and I scrambled further back, even though there wasn’t anywhere else to go.

“Stay back. Don’t come nearer,” I shouted at him, pushing my hands in front of me in an effort to wade him off.

My gaze got caught by the blood on my hands, which was now drying. Everything in me froze as I’m unable to tear my eyes from my bloodied hands. It was proof that I was indeed a killer. A cold, heartless killer.

A sob teared its way from my lips as the whole magnitude of my actions crashes into me. I had killed someone. I’d killed another supernatural. I’d taken someone’s life.

But I was protecting myself, I was protecting my unborn pup. It was self-defense. It was either me or her. If I hadn’t done it, then she would have killed me. The way she was drinking my blood, she would have ended up draining me dry.

I tried to reason. Tried to reassure myself, but it does nothing. The guilt was there. Maybe I could have incapacitated her. I should have left her after the first blow to her head, but instead I kept going, ramming her head with the stone over and over until she died.

I’m a mess, and I can’t stop my body from shaking. I can’t stop my hands from trembling.

“Hey, it’s okay.” His face appears before me, but it’s distorted because of my tears. “You’re okay”

“I killed her. I’m a murderer.” I couldn’t breathe. Trying to get air into my lungs was difficult, and I felt like there was this crashing weight on my chest.

“Look at me. Breathe. Just breathe.”

He forced me to look at him, and guided me. At first, nothing happens, but minutes later, I start to

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mimic his actions. It takes a while, but soon I start breathing again and relaxing.

When I’m calmer, he released my face and just stared at me

his intense brown eyes

to form

woman. Before I can react or

in shock just as Raven breaks

the hell?” She shoutsed,

all over. “Are you okay? Did he hurt

as the strange man turns to us. “Now

you?”

but you can call

my fear of

explain it, but deep inside,

that he wasn’t here to hurt us. That,

Raven and this Sadie,” Rave introduced us, probably sensing

gave me a side look, and I just know. One of the other gifts that Raven has is the ability to sense whether a person is malicious or not. She could read

Once that’s done, he picked up the firewood that Raven

started, he faced us and asked, “So, what

do you mean?” Raven

doing out here in an unclaimed land all

I gotta give him that. He was able to successfully tell our species. Not many can do that. Even with vampires, who, folklore states that they look pale or some shit like that. Unless each species is in its natural state, you cannot really tell us

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Chapter 22

can sense If a person is supernatural, but we can’t easily tell which species they are

are banished,” I simply said,

just shrugs

that we

that not everyone who’s been banished is evil. Unless you’re a rogue, then there may be some good in

a

we let his words sink in. Raven uses the opportunity to chant some spells. Seconds later, I the wound on my writs heald. I sighed in tiredness as I began to crash from the

King interrupts the silence. “But with her

of surprise. “Wait, you’re the one

nodded my head as I run my shaking hand through my hair. “Yeah. She recognized me and wanted to

Yes, I got a good feeling about Kingsley, but I couldn’t fully trust him yet. He was still a