Alpha Alec's Redemption - Chapter 118: Chapter 118
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I wake up a bit disoriented. My mind is a bit foggy and I can’t shake the tiredness that was weighing down my body.
I hate it when this happens. You fall asleep finally, thinking that you’ll have the rest your body has been craving, only to wake up feeling more tired than you were the previous day.
I sit up right, pushing the blanket off me before turning. Aspen isn’t next to me, and I am not surprised.
“Good morning, Martha, is Aspen with you?” I mind-link her as I get out of bed.
I sit there for a while, with my legs hanging on the side of the bed while I wait for an answer. If I am being honest though, I was also waiting for my brain to catch up.
“Morning Sadie, yes she is,” she responds in her soft and motherly voice.
“Okay, let me take a shower, then I’ll join you shortly.”
“Sure thing”
I make a mental note to let Raven and King know about my new-found ability. I should have told them the moment I found out. I’ll be correcting that today.
After taking a deep breath, I jump out of bed and head directly to the bathroom. I take a quick shower. I don’t know why, but there is this urgency in me to rush.
Once I am done, I get out of the bathroom and head to my suitcase. The mess on the floor bothers me. I should really put up both mine and Aspen clothes in the closet because we’ll be staying here a while.
It was while I was there I was putting my bra on that it suddenly hit me. The weird dream I had. I pause for a minute, trying to catch my breath as waves of sorrow flow through me.
It’s like I was relieving the sadness that little girl felt after her sister called her weak. The heartbreak she felt when her sister mocked her. I couldn’t see their faces clearly, but I was sure they were the same girls I had dreamt of previously. What’s even crazier is that it felt so real. It felt as if I was that little girl. Like I was there and not just watching the whole thing as an outsider.
I rub my chest when this intense longing hits me and, all of a sudden, I feel like all my energy has been zapped. Drained, leaving me empty.
I slowly put on my t-shirt before walking to my bed, then dropped down on it.
I am so confused. Why am I feeling like this? Why is it affecting me when I don’t even know who the two girls are?
I try to rack my mind, but I come up empty. I don’t recognize them, maybe because in my dream their faces were blurred. Either way, it doesn’t stop my heart from picking up speed, even as I feel it shatter at the same time.
The pain is there. Like a ghost. A phantom pain that I have no idea of its origin or how it got there in the first place.
It’s almost the same feeling I got when Piper betrayed me, only this one is deeper, more heart-wrenching.
“Nyx,” I call to her, hoping she would shed some light on these overwhelming feelings that seem to want to drown me.
“Yes?”
“I had a dream.”
“I know,” she whispers.
She tries to hide her feelings, but they are there in her voice. Gone is my wolf spirit, who is always assured, assertive and a badass. In her place is a broken wolf who has gone through hell and back. In her place is a wolf who has been betrayed in ways that have left scars.
No wonder she understood what I felt after the ones I loved turned their backs on me and betrayed my love for them. She’s suffered through the same. For someone to get exactly what you feel, they must have passed through the same thing.
“Who are the two girls?” I ask, fearing the answer she’ll give.
“Me and my sister,” she whispers, brokenly.
The air gets stuck in my throat as the words strike my already battered heart in a way I don’t understand. There is something just on the surface, but before I can fully grasp what it is, it disappears.
“Sister?” I choke the words out in one breath.
“Yeah”
“You had a sister, a twin sister at that and you never freaking told me?" Everything is moving in slow motion as my brain slowly registers her response.
How does she have a twin sister? And where the hell is the sister now? How come I didn’t know a single fucking thing about it? What else has she been hiding from me?
My hands tremble as waves of shock flow through my tired body.
“Yes… and I didn’t tell you because you weren’t ready for it just yet,” she answers, her voice cautious and small.
“And now I’m ready for that information?” I snap. “Is that what you are trying to say?”
“Mhmm,” she mumbles in a low pitch.
My anger vanishes and I stay silent. My eyes stare ahead without really seeing anything. She answered my question but there is still something that’s missing.
Those feelings I felt earlier? Yeah, they are still there. They are even more overwhelming now that I understand who the two girls are.
“So, I just got a memory? One of you and your sister?” I mumble, again rubbing my chest, trying to chase the ache that’s there.
“Yes”
“Was the other one a memory too?” I push, remembering the dream before of the same girls, though they were younger in that one.
I already know the answer, but I just want confirmation.
“Yes”
She retreats after giving me the one-word answer.
I’m left with questions I can’t answer. The first one at the forefront is: Why did I start getting her memories in the form of dreams?
Although it just confirms what I’d suspected before. Nyx has been there a long time, and she was once someone else’s wolf... but why? They are memories, like she told me. Why am I relieving them? Should I be a clean slate, where my life and the life of her previous human don’t collide?
The second question is: why does it feel so real? Why does it feel like the pain that’s haunting me is not just Nyx, but mine too? Is it because now that I have bonded with her and she’s my wolf, her pain has become mine?
It’s all confusing, and I don’t have anyone to help me figure this shit out. The one being who could shed light on things is Nyx, and we all know how she rarely tells me what’s happening.
Maybe it’s time I started doing my own research. If I continue to sit and wait for Nyx to reveal the truth, at this rate, I’ll be waiting forever.
Sighing for the hundredth time, I finish dressing, get up and leave the room for breakfast.
I walk through the corridors distractedly. Going down the stairs, I almost slip and fall because my mind was on Nyx and what she’d just revealed.
I was still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Nyx has a twin sister when I stopped dead in my tracks after entering the dining room.
My mouth hangs open in shock as I stare at Alec, seated at the head of the table with none other than Aspen on his lap.
I hate it when this happens. You fall asleep finally, thinking that you’ll have the rest your body has been craving, only to wake up feeling more tired than you were the previous day.
I sit up right, pushing the blanket off me before turning. Aspen isn’t next to me, and I am not surprised.
“Good morning, Martha, is Aspen with you?” I mind-link her as I get out of bed.
I sit there for a while, with my legs hanging on the side of the bed while I wait for an answer. If I am being honest though, I was also waiting for my brain to catch up.
“Morning Sadie, yes she is,” she responds in her soft and motherly voice.
“Okay, let me take a shower, then I’ll join you shortly.”
“Sure thing”
I make a mental note to let Raven and King know about my new-found ability. I should have told them the moment I found out. I’ll be correcting that today.
After taking a deep breath, I jump out of bed and head directly to the bathroom. I take a quick shower. I don’t know why, but there is this urgency in me to rush.
Once I am done, I get out of the bathroom and head to my suitcase. The mess on the floor bothers me. I should really put up both mine and Aspen clothes in the closet because we’ll be staying here a while.
It was while I was there I was putting my bra on that it suddenly hit me. The weird dream I had. I pause for a minute, trying to catch my breath as waves of sorrow flow through me.
It’s like I was relieving the sadness that little girl felt after her sister called her weak. The heartbreak she felt when her sister mocked her. I couldn’t see their faces clearly, but I was sure they were the same girls I had dreamt of previously. What’s even crazier is that it felt so real. It felt as if I was that little girl. Like I was there and not just watching the whole thing as an outsider.
I rub my chest when this intense longing hits me and, all of a sudden, I feel like all my energy has been zapped. Drained, leaving me empty.
I slowly put on my t-shirt before walking to my bed, then dropped down on it.
I am so confused. Why am I feeling like this? Why is it affecting me when I don’t even know who the two girls are?
I try to rack my mind, but I come up empty. I don’t recognize them, maybe because in my dream their faces were blurred. Either way, it doesn’t stop my heart from picking up speed, even as I feel it shatter at the same time.
The pain is there. Like a ghost. A phantom pain that I have no idea of its origin or how it got there in the first place.
It’s almost the same feeling I got when Piper betrayed me, only this one is deeper, more heart-wrenching.
“Nyx,” I call to her, hoping she would shed some light on these overwhelming feelings that seem to want to drown me.
“Yes?”
“I had a dream.”
“I know,” she whispers.
She tries to hide her feelings, but they are there in her voice. Gone is my wolf spirit, who is always assured, assertive and a badass. In her place is a broken wolf who has gone through hell and back. In her place is a wolf who has been betrayed in ways that have left scars.
No wonder she understood what I felt after the ones I loved turned their backs on me and betrayed my love for them. She’s suffered through the same. For someone to get exactly what you feel, they must have passed through the same thing.
“Who are the two girls?” I ask, fearing the answer she’ll give.
“Me and my sister,” she whispers, brokenly.
The air gets stuck in my throat as the words strike my already battered heart in a way I don’t understand. There is something just on the surface, but before I can fully grasp what it is, it disappears.
“Sister?” I choke the words out in one breath.
“Yeah”
“You had a sister, a twin sister at that and you never freaking told me?" Everything is moving in slow motion as my brain slowly registers her response.
How does she have a twin sister? And where the hell is the sister now? How come I didn’t know a single fucking thing about it? What else has she been hiding from me?
My hands tremble as waves of shock flow through my tired body.
“Yes… and I didn’t tell you because you weren’t ready for it just yet,” she answers, her voice cautious and small.
“And now I’m ready for that information?” I snap. “Is that what you are trying to say?”
“Mhmm,” she mumbles in a low pitch.
My anger vanishes and I stay silent. My eyes stare ahead without really seeing anything. She answered my question but there is still something that’s missing.
Those feelings I felt earlier? Yeah, they are still there. They are even more overwhelming now that I understand who the two girls are.
“So, I just got a memory? One of you and your sister?” I mumble, again rubbing my chest, trying to chase the ache that’s there.
“Yes”
“Was the other one a memory too?” I push, remembering the dream before of the same girls, though they were younger in that one.
I already know the answer, but I just want confirmation.
“Yes”
She retreats after giving me the one-word answer.
I’m left with questions I can’t answer. The first one at the forefront is: Why did I start getting her memories in the form of dreams?
Although it just confirms what I’d suspected before. Nyx has been there a long time, and she was once someone else’s wolf... but why? They are memories, like she told me. Why am I relieving them? Should I be a clean slate, where my life and the life of her previous human don’t collide?
The second question is: why does it feel so real? Why does it feel like the pain that’s haunting me is not just Nyx, but mine too? Is it because now that I have bonded with her and she’s my wolf, her pain has become mine?
It’s all confusing, and I don’t have anyone to help me figure this shit out. The one being who could shed light on things is Nyx, and we all know how she rarely tells me what’s happening.
Maybe it’s time I started doing my own research. If I continue to sit and wait for Nyx to reveal the truth, at this rate, I’ll be waiting forever.
Sighing for the hundredth time, I finish dressing, get up and leave the room for breakfast.
I walk through the corridors distractedly. Going down the stairs, I almost slip and fall because my mind was on Nyx and what she’d just revealed.
I was still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Nyx has a twin sister when I stopped dead in my tracks after entering the dining room.
My mouth hangs open in shock as I stare at Alec, seated at the head of the table with none other than Aspen on his lap.
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