Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

Chapter 0128

His words ring in my ear. I get what he is saying. I understand the words, but I can't seem to grasp their meaning.

Adopted.

Adopted.

How am I adopted? Of everything that has happened, not once had it ever crossed my mind that I may not be the biological child of my parents.

"H-how?" I stammer the words as I try to make sense of what he just told me.

"Billy and Christine couldn't have children," Martin begins, his worried eye scanning my face.

How are you supposed to react when you find out that you were adopted? That the people you thought were your parents aren't. Should I consider this a lie? That my entire life has been a freaking lie? And why didn't anyone tell me? Hell, my dad should have included that big fact in the letter he left me.

"I don't understand," I whisper in confusion, as my gaze latches on to him.

"Like I said, Billy and Christine couldn't have kids. They had tried for years with no success. When the doctor told them they would never be able to have a biological child, it all but shattered them. It took a while for them to recover from the devastating blow, but when they did, they decided to adopt." He pauses to take a breath before continuing.

they wish to. They signed up to adopt. They wanted a small baby, since babies are a clean slate. Before their request could be approved though, Christine went to the Alpha with a baby, saying she

through my hair, untangling it from the messy bun on top of

have taken someone's baby. She said that she was picking flowers like she usually did when she heard a cry. When she investigated, she found you wrapped in blankets hidden behind a tree with a note asking her to take care and

in my state of mind, I note that it was an

us the piece of paper that had been tapped into your blanket. We convened because, after all, there were risks to just taking in an unknown baby. What if you were from an enemy pack, and they wanted to use you to stage

I'm not all that surprised. Things just kept on unfolding in ways that I wasn't really prepared

wanted. Christine wanted you and so they adopted you." He finishes finished with his eyes still focused

also didn't know I was adopted. Meaning, I was never truly a member of this pack. It would explain why I never

of them. "And how come no one bothered to find out who my real parents

weren't really bothered. We know it was the goddess's plan, and so we let it happen. As for why we

lot of things now make sense. It would explain why my parents weren't all that warm towards me in the first place. There weren't warm

was how they were. That it was in their nature. Now, I'm starting to wonder if it's because I wasn't their

my biological parents are?" I ask, feeling my heart sink at the thought that my parents had

"Even if we'd wanted to find out who your parents are or where you came from, there wasn't a way to. Whoever left you didn't leave a single trace. It's almost like

There has to be something.

her, wanting her presence with me. "Is

was having