Alpha Alec's Redemption by Kathy M

Chapter 307

"What?"

I'd guessed it, but hearing Nyx confirm it twits something inside my chest.

"You can sense new life about to begin, while Xena senses a life when it's about to end" Nyx says.

"So, anything or anyone about to die, she feels that?"

"Yes."

I press a hand on my chest, feeling as if a heavy weight has been placed there.

Beneath the fear I felt at discovering my new powers, there was also a kind of excitement. Being able to sense life, like Nyx said, brings happiness and joy; I can't imagine what being able to sense someone is about to die feels like.

No one wants to know their loved one is about to die, now imagine being able to sense anything or anyone about to die?

"Xena hated her powers." Nyx voice cuts through my thoughts. "She said it felt like a curse."

And I can imagine why she'd feel that way. Being able to sense death isn't a power I'd like to have.

walking, both Nyx and I quiet, lost in our own thoughts... That's until, just ahead, the

through the trees, thin and raw, barely carried on

Someone crying.

in my throat. The hair on the back of my neck

sobs are faint,

sound pulls me forward before I've even decided what to do. My feet move on instinct, crunching softly over damp leaves as I follow the trail of muffled sobs. The closer I get, the sharper they become. Quiet gasps breaking through the morning silence, a pain too heavy for

I

wrapped around her knees, her face buried in them. Her shoulders shake as the tears slip free, and my heart squeezes

gentle, careful, like approaching

For a second, she tries to wipe her

she gives up the pretense with a shaky laugh. "And I didn't want

walk over slowly and lower myself onto the log beside her. "Well... I couldn't sleep either," I admit, offering a small

breath that's halfway between a laugh and a sob. "What is it with us

a real laugh out of her, even if

the morning birds beginning to stir in the branches above us. The world feels suspended,

it about yesterday?" I

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