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

asked, his intense

to form

woman. Before I can react or anything, he takes out an axe I had not

just as Raven breaks

She shoutsed, dropping the firewood she’d

to me, examining me all over. “Are you okay? Did

head as the strange man turns to

are you?” Raven asked

you can

fear

explain it, but

feeling that he wasn’t here to hurt us. That,

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

One of the other gifts that Raven has is the ability to sense whether a person is malicious or not. She could read a person’s energy, so the fact that she was willingly giving out

that’s done, he picked up

us and

you mean?” Raven

an unclaimed land all by themselves instead of being in their pack

who, folklore states that they look pale or some shit like that. Unless each species is in its

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supernatural, but we can’t easily tell which species they are

are banished,” I simply said, gauging

just shrugs like it’s

that we

wolf, and I’ve met some pretty awesome people. I know that not everyone who’s been banished is evil. Unless you’re a rogue, then there may be some

like me, a

Seconds later, I the wound on my writs heald. I sighed in

to thank you for making my work easy, Sadie.” King interrupts the silence. “But with her

surprise. “Wait, you’re the one that did all

hair. “Yeah. She recognized me

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