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.

are allowed to adopt from the orphanage if 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 wished for her

run my hand through my hair, untangling it from the messy bun on top of my head. I don't need to be

did when she heard a cry. When she investigated, she found you wrapped in

I note

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 an attack? We were to send you

is even weirder, but with how things have been weird these past few weeks, I'm not all that surprised. Things just kept on unfolding in ways that

you

both looked as shocked as I was. I guess they also didn't know

how come no one bothered to find out

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

why my parents weren't all that warm towards

okay with me. I just always thought that it was how they were. That it was in their nature. Now, I'm starting to wonder if it's because I wasn't their

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

you came from, there wasn't a way to.

has to be something. Someone must have

her, wanting her presence with me.

confirm it. Some part of me was having a hard time accepting that