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 brown eyes piercing

nod, unable to

at the body of the dead woman. Before I can react or anything, he takes out an axe I had not noticed and severs her

as Raven breaks

the hell?” She shoutsed,

examining me all over. “Are you okay? Did

as the strange man turns to us. “Now

are you?” Raven asked

but you can call me

my fear of him fades. I don’t

explain it, but deep

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

Raven and this Sadie,” Rave introduced us, probably

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 a person’s energy, so the fact that she was willingly giving out

body and a distance away. Once that’s done, he picked up the firewood

he faced us and asked,

do you mean?”

doing out here in an unclaimed land all by themselves instead of

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

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Chapter 22

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

are banished,” I simply said, gauging

just shrugs like it’s

that we are banished?” Rave asked

met some pretty awesome people. I know that not everyone who’s been banished is evil. Unless

like me, a wolf.

to chant some spells. Seconds later, I the wound on my writs heald. I sighed in tiredness as I began to

silence. “But

to me with a look of surprise. “Wait, you’re the one that did all that

shaking hand through my hair. “Yeah. She recognized me

about Kingsley, but I couldn’t