Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

Chapter 0139

"Alec, is there really a need for Calvin to stay in the dungeon?"

I sigh once again as Piper's voice pulls me from my thoughts.

"You know I can't," I reply, taking in a deep breath. "He plotted against me; that's a crime that can't go unpunished."

"B-but what he did led you to your true mate and stopped you from taking an impostor as a mate. That has to mean something," she tries to reason, her desperation clear in her eyes.

"It doesn't work that way, Piper. He conspired against an Alpha and his actions led to a sequence of events that nearly destroyed Sadie's life. Imagine if Sadie had actually died three years ago."

Her eyes fill with tears. She's my sister and I know her. I know her. I know that, despite the truth of my words, she's determined to save her mate.

stronger

nothing I can do. Calvin connived with another to drug an alpha. That isn't a

not enough to undo everything I did to her, and Calvin isn't wholly to blame for the torture I put her through, but at

"Calvin has to pay for his crimes. Sadie paid for a crime she didn't commit. Do you think it'll be fair

goes to say something,

is as much her decision as it is mine. She has the right to decide what

truth. Being an alpha gives Sadie the right to make decisions concerning what to do with Calvin. That is something I refuse to take from her after everything else I have taken from her. "What will

know," I answer. "It's mainly up to Sadie, but for now, he'll stay in the dungeons until a sentence

hate seeing her in

absolve me from my own mistakes, but I won't make

do anything for her. Anything but this. Anything but releasing Calvin from the dungeons. She needs to understand that