Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

Chapter 0165

Fuck. What the hell was I doing? Why was I allowing him to hold me like this?

I aggressively pushed him away. He wasn't prepared for my actions, so he stumbles a little bit, but releases me. I pull away, breathing hard, trying to clear my head from the spell that had been cast on me. "Sadie?"

I raise my finger, indicating to him to give me a minute. When I calm down, I pull myself together before facing him. "Don't ever touch me like that ever again, Alec." "You are my mate, Sadie? How can I not touch you?" he asked, advancing on me while I took steps back.

"Touch me? Remember how you were disgusted by my touch when you realized we slept together? And mate? You had a mate, Alec... Or have you forgotten that you told me Lola was the love of your life, and you wouldn't touch me with a pole even if she wasn't in the picture?"

in doing so, you hurt the one you were in love with?" I do get it. If things were different and Alec and I got together. It would have shattered me to realize he had slept with another woman a few days before our mating ceremony. The old me wouldn't have retaliated in the way he did, but it would have hurt the same.

you're telling me

could never stand. The one woman you were never attracted to. Whatever you are feeling is courtesy of the bond. Once you accept the rejection, it'll fade away,

into what it is. I don't want to see

he surprises me by asking. "Are your

don't

I feel is courtesy of the bond, yet you don't want me to dive

you want from me, Alec? I loved you; is that what you want to hear? I did. I loved you, and you shattered me. The love I had for you died in the dungeons three years ago. I

is for the best. Whatever I felt for Alec is buried deep down in the darkest depths of my soul,