Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

Chapter 238

I didn't answer. I couldn't. The silence stretched until it felt like it would choke me.

"You don't have to say anything," he said gently. "I'm not telling you to give him a chance, Sadie. That's your choice. But I think... I think it's time to stop hiding."

"Hiding?" I repeated, my voice hollow.

"You think you healed from what happened, but you didn't. You just got really good at pretending it didn't hurt anymore. At locking it away. But burying your feelings isn't the same as healing. Healing means letting go of the past—not just locking it in a box and pretending it doesn't exist."

His words landed like a weight on my chest.

I didn't respond. I couldn't.

"I'll reach out to some of my contacts," he continued when I didn't speak. "See if I can dig up anything about Kaden or Xena. Before I forget, say hi to my favorite niece."

"Thanks, King, I will." I murmured.

"Anytime. And Sadie?"

"Yeah?"

"Be kind to yourself. Okay?"

He hung up before I could reply.

I stared at the screen for a long time, his words still echoing in my head. Burying

your feelings isn't the same as healing.

that he was

it even more because I

away and reached out through

training ground in ten, I told my

within minutes, forming a tight semi-circle

boss?" one of them asked,

be helping Alec's

chorus of cheers and mutters

groaned. "I was getting bored. I

even me. "Well, you're about to get a challenge, because training will be different given you'll have a hybrid

eyes stared back at

joking, are you?" one of them asked, shock written all over his face. "No, I'm

expected them to be angry as I filled them in, but they

will be interesting.” Miles,

with a smirk. "I've always wondered what it would be like going head-to-head with one without worrying about being

my warriors. "Well, you are about to

instructions as we made

ground, I stopped

in the center of the field,

And Aspen.

were cupped around his face

full. Content.

much that made me

me then. Aspen turned, her face

is!" she screamed, pointing at me. "I found him! I told you I'd