Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

CHAPTER 26

Chapter 26

Sadie

I walked through the forest, feeling the effects of the full moon. Its power was around me, shifting like a caged animal. I could feel it inside me. On my skin and in my bones.

I’ve waited for this day since I knew who we were. What we turn Into. I’ve been waiting for this day since I knew what love was, Since I realized that I was in love with Alec.

Today was meant to mark a new day for me and those around me, especially Alec. Looking back, I don’t know if I would have been this excited if I knew what would happen before my first shift.

It’s been months since we left everything behind, and King joined us. Months since my torture and since I found out I was pregnant. Nothing much has happened except that we found a place to settle months after we left our home.

Just as nothing much has happened, nothing has changed in me. I still hated Alec and his damn pack. For the first time in my life, I wished the worst for someone. I wasn’t a mean person, nor was ! vengeful, but something shifted in me after being betrayed by people who I thought were my family.

My smiles no longer came easily, nor did laughter. It’s like Alec took everything that made me Sadie. Everything that used to make me the cheerful bundle of joy and energy I used to be. Nowadays, I look into the mirror and barely recognize myself, not because of my non-existent hair, the scar on my face. or the ones on my back… But because when I stare in the mirror, all I see is a girl I don’t recognize..

My

y eyes were vacant. I no longer felt the light that used to shine from inside me when I looked in the mirror. It’s like a part of me died in that dirty cell where I was held captive for months. A certain coldness had encased my heart. My soul was marked by a kind of darkness I couldn’t escape.

“Sadie, is everything okay?” Raven’s voice penetrates the mist that surrounds me. The mist I kept getting lost because reality was sometimes too much for me.

“Yes,” I replied, then asked, “Can you please go back? I want to be alone before shifting.”

Her eyes looked worried, but I also know that she understands that I needed to do this alone.

sure?” she

“Yes”

me

long after she left that I started to feel the effects. It’s like someone

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fall on my knees, careful not to hurt my belly, since I am now

two months like those of normal wolves. Just like with humans, and we are half-human, our

covered in sweat, but nothing happens. I didn’t know much about shifting, but

what the hell was

a strong, commanding

seemed so much clearer. My eyesight was so much sharper than

I ask,

confused. Is this yet another thing that the moon goddess has taken from me? Hasn’t she had enough? Enough of torturing me and condemning my life. Why was she

anything from you, my dear human.” Her voice was so

do you mean? If she hasn’t taken everything away from me,

when my life was much simpler, I looked forward to my shifting because I thought Alec and I would recognize each other as mates. After I found out about my pregnancy, I looked forward to shifting so I would be able to protect my

fight and protect my baby? Sure, I started training

but the moon goddess hasn’t

answer my question,

tell you yet. What I can tell you is that you’re not ready. It’s not time

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