Alpha Alec’s Redemption - Chapter 25: Chapter 25

“That’s the other thing that fucking frustrates me.” I grumbled; the need to stamp my feet on the ground like a child was almost overwhelming. “I have no idea who could have done it.”
“Are you sure? There has to be at least one person you suspect.’
“There isn’t,” I breathed out. “I was well liked.I didn’t have any enemies. I’ve never offended anyone and I always made sure I was at peace with everyone and would go out of my way to be kind. Of course, there were a few mean people who didn’t like me, but that’s that. Come to think of it, maybe I wasn’t as well liked as I thought, and other pack members just tolarated me because I was best friends with the Alpha’s sister.”
We are both quiet after that, both of us lost in our own thoughts. It just didn’t make sense, you know? I’m just an orphan girl, so why would someone set me up like that? Why would he or she want to destroy my life in such a wicked manner?
“What if you weren’t the one they were after?” Raven asked after a while, making me turn to her.
“What do you mean?”
“Think about it, Gabriel is a powerful alpha with one of the largest territories known to packs, so if they wanted to take him down and weaken him, the best way to do that would be to get his mate to reject him, and what better way to do that than to pay someone to drug him so he’d end up with another she wolf and then make sure they got caught?”
I paused and thought about it. It did make sense. I mean, for years, other alphas have been trying to bring down Gabriel ever since he took his place as an alpha.
Everyone knows that when your fated mate rejects you, you weaken because the bond created by the goddess dies, and I can see how Gabriel’s enemies might use this to their advantage, but it still didn’t make sense why I was drugged too. They could have easily paid a desperate bimbo to do the work for them.
“I get what you’re saying, but deep down, I feel like there’s something more. Like there is something I’m missing. I just can’t put a finger on what exactly it is, but I’m sure that Gabriel wasn’t the only target.”
“How so?” she asks curiously.
“I don’t know. It’s hard to explain.” And it really was.
I could barely make sense of it on my own, so how could I explain it to Raven? What I know is what I feel and what I feel is that there is something more to this whole thing.
Something or someone bigger and deadlier was pulling the strings. I just didn’t yet understand what my part in this was.
“I think we should make camp here,” Raven told me after we’d walked for a while. “It’s getting dark and you look pretty tired.”
I sighed in agreement. “Yes please”
She was right. My feet were killing me, and I was pretty worn out. What I wanted right now was to have something to eat and then sleep. I heard pregnant she-wolves at the pack hospital where I was volunteering complain about how they were always tired, but I always thought that they may have been exaggerating.
When I’m not plagued by my thoughts or what I have been through in the past few months, I have two extremes. Either I am hungry or really tired, and sometimes both.
I always knew that I wanted the whole fairytale kind of happiness. A mate and a whole bunch of pups. The bigger part of my fairytale consisted of Gabriel being my mate and the father of my children. I used to see it so clearly that I could almost taste it. Who would have thought that things would have turned out this way? That things would turn out so sour. Gabriel didn’t turn out to be my mate, and I didn’t get the fairytale happy ending I was wishing for. Instead, he turned out to be a monster, and my fantasies turned into nightmares. Gabriel is the father of my child, so that part turned out to be like my dreams. I wish I could change that fact, though, but unfortunately I can’t.
“Susie, are you listening to me?” Raven shook me a little, pulling me out of my thoughts.
“I’m sorry I tuned you out.”
She shook her head before folding her hands under her ribs. “You’ve been doing that a lot lately. Do you know how dangerous that is? You could get attacked while lost in thought and you wouldn’t realize it until it was too late.”
I let out a breath before finding a log and sitting on it. “In my defense, these past few months have been a rollercoaster that I’m still finding it hard to come to terms with and get over.”
I mean, how am I supposed to deal with the fact that the father of my baby wants me dead? Or that someone could potentially have it out for me, and that’s why they staged everything that led to the destruction of my life?
“You’re doing it again!” she snapped
“Sorry”
“Just pay attention, will you? Remember, you have a baby that depends on you. If something happens to you, your child will be affected too.”
I slumped against a tree that was behind me tiredly. She was right. I couldn’t be careless about my safety when I was pregnant. Instead of answering verbally, I just nodded my head.
She nodded back, acknowledging my agreement, before turning around.
“Where are you going?” I asked her.
“We need firewood, so that’s what I’m going to get.”
Once again, I nodded and watched as she left. I would have helped, but I was too tired.
The moment she was out of sight, I stood up and began unpacking our stuff. It was the least I could do after all she’s doing. Even as I unpacked our things, thoughts of what we’d discussed earlier invaded my mind.
Nothing really made sense. I mean, was I really just the unlucky victim of whoever was trying to weaken Gabriel, or was I chosen for a specific reason? Could there be something more behind the whole thing, and how come they still haven’t found the waiter?
The last time I was in the cells before He helped me escape, Matt had told me that they had yet to find the bartender that served us the drinks.