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

he asked, his intense brown

to form words

up and looked at the body of the dead woman. Before I can react or anything, he takes out an

as Raven breaks

She shoutsed, dropping the

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

my head as the strange man turns

are you?” Raven asked

but you can

calmer, my fear of him fades. I don’t

it, but deep

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

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

is the ability to sense whether a person is malicious or not. She could read a person’s energy, so the fact that

away. Once that’s done, he picked up the firewood that Raven had dropped,

started, he faced us and asked, “So,

do you mean?”

here in an unclaimed land all by

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

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Chapter 22

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

simply said, gauging

just shrugs like

doesn’t bother you that we are banished?” Rave asked

some pretty awesome people. I know that not everyone who’s been banished is evil. Unless you’re a rogue, then

he’s like me, a wolf.

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

King interrupts the silence. “But with her kind, you have to sever their heads or they

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

as I run my shaking hand through my hair. “Yeah. She recognized me and wanted to take me back to him. I couldn’t let that

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