Alpha Alec’s Redemption - Chapter 24: Chapter 24

“What is it, Buttercup?” I asked, pulling her into my arms and shutting the door.
I walked her to the couch and sat her down. A few minutes later, she stands up and starts pacing, wearing the carpeted floor. She seemed tense and agitated, and she doesn’t look like her normal, put-together self.
It’s been a week since she buried that traitorous bitch, and something seems off with her.
“Sabrina?”
She turned those bloodshot eyes toward me. “I want to leave the pack.”
“Absolutely not.” I stood up and fired. “I am not going to allow my little sister, the only family I have, to leave the fucking pack. It’s fucking dangerous out there on your own.”
Her eyes immediately shut down. “I wasn’t really asking.”
“Neither was I. You aren’t leaving, and that’s a fucking command.”
She collapsed to the ground, crying, and it took me a second to realize what had happened. I rush to her and pick her up, her sobs tearing at my heart and soul.
“Please, Gabriel,” she pleaded, clutching my shirt, her voice broken and tears falling down her eyes. “I can’t stay here. She’s everywhere. In every nook and cranny. I can’t get her out of my head or get over the guilt I feel. She was my best friend since we were both in diapers; ninety percent of my memories have her. I just don’t know how to deal now that she’s gone. This entire place reminds me of her and the plans we made.”
Her pain hurts me, but I am torn. I don’t feel an ounce of pity that the woman who destroyed me is dead, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t feel sorry for the fucking pain my sister is in.
“Please, Gabriel. I just need time away. Everything is still so fresh, and everything here reminds me of Susie.”
Fuck. I am torn. I don’t want her to leave, but I also understand what she means. If I didn’t have a duty to my pack and company, I would have left because this place also contains memories of Eunice, and it always kills me knowing I have nothing but the memories of her.
Someone cleared their throat, and it’s only then that I realized that Matt and Colin were still in the room.
“Okay. Fine” I concede.
“Thank you,” she mumbled over and over against my chest.
I held her close and rubbed her back in comfort, trying to push down the resistance and restlessness I felt at her leaving.
Susie
So many times I wanted to turn back, but I couldn’t. It took Raven’s encouragement and push to keep me going.
I was still having a hard time letting go of everything I’d known. Damn, I’ve never been out of our city, yet here I was traveling to places unknown. Somewhere far away, where I didn’t know anyone except for Raven.
My heart bleeds, and I get angry every damn time I remember all the things Gabriel has put me through. All the things he’s taken from me. I’ve never hated anyone as much as I hate him right now. As if that wasn’t enough, he rejected his own flesh and blood. Who the fuck does that?
I get his hate towards me, but what does he have against an innocent child? My baby did nothing wrong, despite what Gabriel and his stupid pack believed, yet he was ready to kill us both. What and utter bastard.
“Are you okay?” Raven asks, her eyes shifting from my face to my clenched hands.
I breathed in and then out, trying to cool down the anger that was burning inside me.
“I will be.” I growled in anger and bitterness.
I needed to do better. I needed to get my emotions in check. The anger and bitterness and the overload of emotions I was feeling weren’t good for my baby. The last thing I wanted was to put stress on my child.
I needed to get myself in check because when I got the opportunity to visit a clinic, I wanted nothing but good news concerning my baby’s health.
“Want to talk about it?”
I stopped and looked at her. So far, we’ve been keeping to the dense, unclaimed forests. It was rare for werewolves to wander into such areas so that was our safest bet. We’ve been lucky so far. We have yet to encounter any rogues, so I’m grateful for that.
I couldn’t fight since, when I was in the pack, I didn’t need to know how to. I had always planned to start training when I reached twenty-one, but because of my circumstances, there will be a bit of a change of plans.
Rave is powerful, but I couldn’t expect her to fight everyone who brings trouble to us on her own. With that in mind, I decided that I’d start training immediately after I gave birth. I needed to be able to defend me and my baby.
“Susie?” She shook me gently, bringing me back to the present.
I started walking again, and she fell in step right next to me. “I’m just angry and bitter. Sometimes I feel like those two emotions are consuming me. Burning me from the inside out.”
“You know hate and bitterness are a lethal combination. I’m not telling you to forget, but I am asking you to control it for your own sake and that of your baby.”
I sighed in frustration, needing to hit something or someone. “That is easier said than done.”
She was quiet for a while. “Do you have any idea of who might have framed you and why?”
We’ve been travelling for almost a week now. During that week, she told me about herself, and I told her about me and what happened.