Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

Chapter 306

Nyx answers firmly. "You're progressing, Sadie. You're letting your walls fall, brick

by brick. That is strength, not weakness. You've always been powerful, but power without trust? That only cages you. Last night proved you can open the cage."

Her words warm something deep in me, something that's been cold for far too long. Still, the unease lingers.

"There's more," I admit softly. "When Piper walked in, I felt it; I knew before she did. I knew she was carrying life inside her. How, Nyx? How is that even possible? No one can sense something like that. It doesn't make sense."

For a long moment, Nyx is silent. Then her voice rises again, steady, patient. "You're right. What you felt is not something most can do. But you are not 'most.' You are a vessel of life, a bridge between new life and the existing world. You carry a bond with any form of new life. Where others see only flesh, you feel the thread of existence itself."

Her words send a shiver through me. "You're saying we can... sense life. Before it's even fully formed?"

"Yes," she confirms. "That spark, faint as it may be, burns bright to us. You felt Piper's child because the essence of life called to you."

I thought it was just a fluke in my powers, but now Nyx is saying that it's a part of who we are. Part of the powers we possess.

It's amazing and scary at the same time, because it's too much power handed over to just one, she-wolf.

it's starting to feel like there is more to this. These aren't just gifts from the goddess,

you started believing that," she

thick. "Extraordinary feels a lot like

two are often the same," Nyx says gently. "But you are not alone in it. I'm here and you have so many people around you who love you. Don't let fear stop you

of my mind. The forest is still around me, silent except for the distant rustle of

power. Think about it, if we remove the

answer her. "Happiness, joy and

supposed to bring all three of those. If you only focus on the fear,

into the damp earth, her words circling through me

the new power and how

that comes

sense life, does that only apply to wolves?" I

"Our powers are tethered to any new life. Whether wolf, vampire, witches and warlocks, animals, or plants. Anything that has breath. You were able to sense Piper's child because you and Piper had a connection before, but as our powers grow, you'll be able

but this just hits differently. There is so much to that. So much to process. It's terrifying like I said, but slowly a different kind of feeling is starting to bloom

loved animals, and always

felt