Chapter 22

Words : 1485 Updated : Feb 27th, 2025
"Who the fuck are you?" I asked, scrambling back until my back hits a tree. My heart was racing, and my whole body was trembling. I felt like I couldn't breathe as the weight of what I'd done suddenly hitlike a ton of bricks. I know she wasn't a good person, but she was still a person, and I had killed her. I've never killed before. Never hurt anyone intentionally, and now here I am, a murderer with blood on my hands. "I was about to ask you the sthing," he answered, but for sreason, his words just don't register in my head. He started walking towards me, and I scrambled further back, even though there wasn't anywhere else to go. "Stay back. Don't cnearer," I shouted at him, pushing my hands in front ofin an effort to wade him off. My gaze got caught by the blood on my hands, which was now drying. Everything infroze as I'm unable to tear my eyes from my bloodied hands. It was proof that I was indeed a killer. A cold, heartless killer. A sob teared its way from my lips as the whole magnitude of my actions crashes into me. I had killed someone. I'd killed another supernatural. I'd taken someone's life. But I was protecting myself, I was protecting my unborn pup. It was self-defense. It was eitheror her. If I hadn't done it, then she would have killed me. The way she was drinking my blood, she would have ended up drainingdry. I tried to reason. Tried to reassure myself, but it does nothing. The guilt was there. Maybe I could have incapacitated her. I should have left her after the first blow to her head, but instead I kept going, ramming her head with the stone over and over until she died. I'm a mess, and I can't stop my body from shaking. I can't stop my hands from trembling. "Hey, it's okay." His face appears before me, but it's distorted because of my tears. "You're okay" "I killed her. I'm a murderer." I couldn't breathe. Trying to get air into my lungs was difficult, and I felt like there was this crashing weight on my chest. "Look at me. Breathe. Just breathe." He forcedto look at him, and guided me. At first, nothing happens, but minutes later, I start to 1/4 mimic his actions. It takes a while, but soon I start breathing again and relaxing. When I'm calmer, he released my face and just stared at"First kill?" he asked, his intense brown eyes piercing my own. I nod, unable to form words yet. He stood up and looked at the body of the dead woman. Before I can react or anything, he takes out an axe I had not noticed and severs her head. I'm rooted in shock just as Raven breaks through the clearing "What the hell?" She shoutsed, dropping the firewood she'd collected. She rushed to me, examiningall over. "Are you okay? Did he hurt you?" I shake my head as the strange man turns to us. "Now she's truly dead." "Who are you?" Raven asked him. *Kingsley, but you can callKing Now that I'm calmer, my fear of him fades. I don't know yor how to explain it, but deep inside, I had the feeling that he wasn't here to hurt us. That, we weren't his target. "I'm Raven and this Sadie," Rave introduced us, probably sensing the sthing I did. She gavea side look, and I just know. One of the other gifts that Raven has is the ability to sense whether a person is malicious or not. She could read a person's energy, so the fact that she was willingly giving out our names meant that we could trust him. King nodded, and we watched as he dragged the body and a distance away. Once that's done, he picked up the firewood that Raven had dropped, arranged it, and lit the fire. As the fire started, he faced us and asked, "So, what is your story?" "What do you mean?" Raven retorted. "I mean, what are two girls doing out here in an unclaimed land all by themselves instead of being in their pack and coven?" He was good; I gotta give him that. He was able to successfully tell our species. Not many can do that. Even with vampires, who, folklore states that they look pale or sshit like that. Unless each species is in its natural state, you cannot really tell us apart from humans. We can sense If a person is supernatural, but we can't easily tell which species they are exactly "We are banished," I simply said, gauging his reaction. He just shrugs like it's nothing. "It doesn't bother you that we are banished?" Rave asked in disbelief. "Not really. I'm a lone wolf, and I've met spretty awespeople. I know that not everyone who's been banished is evil. Unless you're a rogue, then there may be sgood in you." So he's like me, a wolf. That's almost comforting. We were quiet for a moment as we let his words sink in. Raven uses the opportunity to chant sspells. Seconds later, I the wound on my writs heald. I sighed in tiredness as I began to crash from the adrenalin withdrawal. "I've got to thank you for making my work easy, Sadie." King interrupts the silence. "But with her kind, you have to sever their heads or they may just cback." Raven turns towith a look of surprise. "Wait, you're the one that did all that damage?" I nodded my head as I run my shaking hand through my hair. “Yeah. She recognizedand wanted to takeback to him. I couldn't let that happen." Her eyes turned soft in understanding. Yes, I got a good feeling about Kingsley, but I couldn't fully trust him yet. He was still a stranger. "What did you mean about her kind?" I turned to him. "I thought she was a vampire." "She isn't. She's a hybrid, and I've been hunting her for a few days now," he answered. "That's impossible. Hybrids don't exist. We can only procreate with our own species," I rushed to say. Sure, sex is possible between all four species, but not conception. A werewolf can't conceive with any of the other species, and the sgoes for the others. What he was saying was beyond impossible. It was in the realm of dreams. "She's a vampire-werewolf hybrid, so it's possible, especially with the help of something really powerful," King calmly answered. My world is blown away by this news. No wonder she was really strong. I don't even know how I defeated her if that's the case. "Dark magic," Raven whispered. "No." he simply says. "This is something more powerful than dark magic. Yes, dark magic is strong, but the magic coursing though her lis different it's powerful and ancient. Someone is turning people into hybrids, and they've been popping up everywhere. I don't know if the council knows this yet, but something tellsthat this is bigger than anything anyone can imagine." "What could be more powerful than dark magic? It's the reason it's forbidden because, apart from corrupting one's soul, no one has ever been strong enough to contain it." Raven had a valid point. We were told stories of one or two witches who practiced dark magic. They ended up dead because their bodies were too weak to contain it. The powers ended up destroying them from the inside out until there was nothing left in them. "Look, it's hard to explain it, but I just know. It's why I've been hunting hybrids and killing them Most of these hybrids are evil, but I also wanted to know what kind of magic is being used and, more importantly, why someone is turning them." Now more than ever, I needed to do something about my training. If King is right and going by how strong and vicious the woman was, then I needed to be able to defendand my baby. I sat there and listened to the crickets. Lost in my own thoughts, the question the dead hybrid asked continued to ring in my head. What are you? push the thought away, not really ready to probe into why two vampires askedthe squestion after tasting my blood. My focus now is on being able to protect those I love, and that means I have to accept that that may just include killing in order to survive.

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Contents
Alpha Alec's Redemption
Alpha Alec's Redemption Author:Kathy M
Chapter 1 The night everything changed Dec 4th, 2024
Chapter 2 The day after Dec 4th, 2024
Chapter 3 A monster Dec 5th, 2024
Chapter 4 I reject you Dec 5th, 2024
Chapter 5 My pain Dec 5th, 2024
Chapter 6 Unexpected surprise Dec 16th, 2024
Chapter 7 Feb 17th, 2025
Chapter 8 Feb 17th, 2025
Chapter 9 Feb 17th, 2025
CHAPTER 10 Feb 18th, 2025
Chapter 11 Feb 18th, 2025
Chapter 12 Feb 18th, 2025
Chapter 13 Feb 19th, 2025
Chapter 14 Feb 19th, 2025
Chapter 15 Feb 19th, 2025
Chapter 16 Feb 19th, 2025
Chapter 17 Feb 25th, 2025
Chapter 18 Feb 25th, 2025
Chapter 19 Feb 25th, 2025
Chapter 20 Feb 25th, 2025
Chapter 21 Feb 27th, 2025
Chapter 22 Feb 27th, 2025
Chapter 23 Feb 27th, 2025
Chapter 24 Feb 28th, 2025
Chapter 25 Feb 28th, 2025
Chapter 26 Feb 28th, 2025
Chapter 27 Mar 3rd, 2025
Chapter 28 Mar 3rd, 2025
Chapter 29 Mar 3rd, 2025
Chapter 30 Mar 3rd, 2025
Chapter 31 Mar 3rd, 2025
Chapter 32 Mar 3rd, 2025
Chapter 33 Mar 3rd, 2025
Chapter 34 Mar 4th, 2025
Chapter 35 Mar 4th, 2025
Chapter 36 Mar 4th, 2025
Chapter 37 Mar 5th, 2025
Chapter 38 Mar 5th, 2025
Chapter 39 Mar 5th, 2025
Chapter 40 Mar 5th, 2025
Chapter 41 Mar 5th, 2025
Chapter 42 Mar 5th, 2025
Chapter 43 Mar 6th, 2025
Chapter 44 Mar 6th, 2025
Chapter 45 Mar 6th, 2025
Chapter 46 Mar 7th, 2025
Chapter 47 Mar 7th, 2025
Chapter 48 Mar 7th, 2025
Chapter 49 Mar 7th, 2025
Chapter 50 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 51 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 52 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 53 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 54 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 55 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 56 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 57 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 58 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 59 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 60 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 61 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 62 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 63 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 64 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 65 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 66 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 67 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 68 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 69 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 70 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 71 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 72 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 73 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 74 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 75 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 76 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 77 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 78 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 79 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 80 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 81 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 82 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 83 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 84 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 85 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 86 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 87 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 88 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 89 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 90 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 91 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 92 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 93 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 94 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 95 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 96 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 97 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 98 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 99 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 100 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 101 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 102 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 103 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 104 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 105 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 106 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 107 Apr 15th, 2025
Chapter 108 Apr 15th, 2025
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