Alpha Alec's Redemption

“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 hit me like 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 same thing,” he answered, but for some reason, 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 come nearer,” I shouted at him, pushing my hands in front of me in an effort to wade him off.

My gaze got caught by the blood on my hands, which was now drying. Everything in me froze 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 either me or 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 draining me dry.

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 forced me to look at him, and guided me. At first, nothing happens, but minutes later, I start to 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 me

“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, examining me all 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.

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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 same thing I did.

She gave me a 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 some shit like that. Unless each species is in its natural state, you cannot really tell us apart from humans.