Alpha Alec’s Redemption - Chapter 29: Chapter 29

He was staring straight at me as he said that. Out of habit, I touched my hair (I do that when I’m nervous), but there’s nothing there. I released a deep breath when I remembered Gabriel cutting it all off. Fuck, I hate him.
“Destiny,” Raven mumbles, looking at her now-half cup.
“What are you talking about, Rave?” I questioned her.
“Destiny. Intertwined destiny,” she says, looking up at the both of us. “I think his destiny is intertwined with yours, just like mine and yours are.”
A chill passed down my spine, and I shivered.
“Rave?”
I look at her, deeply staring into her eyes. There’s something there. Something I can’t even begin to explain.
“I started having dreams about you years ago. I didn’t get why or who you were, but I always pushed it to the back of my mind. It continued for years, snippets, but I brushed them off. That was until a couple of months ago, when the dreams turned into nightmares and I saw the girl I’ve been dreaming about suffering.
She looked at King and stopped. We didn’t know him well, so we couldn’t fully trust him. She doesn’t need to explain the rest to me, I already knew because I lived the nightmare.
“During those times, I didn’t know who you were or where you were. I didn’t even know if I should trust them. You were just a girl in my dreams, one who couldn’t be real. Well, that is until I found you in the forest surrounded by rogues.”
Both Kingsley and I were quiet the whole time. I was shocked, honestly, but King was thoughtful.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” I asked in confusion.
“You’d already been through enough. I didn’t want to spring this on you when I didn’t understand it myself.”
My thoughts were rushing too fast for me to grasp all of them. My head was a jumbled mess.
Raven continued. “I believe it’s destiny. Beth pretty much told me the same. If you believe that you are meant to be here with her, then this is where you should be.”
What she said would explain why I trusted him despite him being a complete stranger.
“Who is Beth?” King asks after a while.
“She’s my mentor.”
He nodded his head and looked into the distance. It seemed like he was deep in thought. Lost in thought. I didn’t know what to feel. This was all overwhelming. Everything that has happened since yesterday has been heavy on me, and then to learn that Raven has been having dreams about me for years? Well, that just tipped the scale.
“So, what are you going to do?” Raven asked Kingsley, but I feel it’s more than a question. It’s almost as if she was challenging him.
He stared at her and then shrugged. “I guess I’ll just have to trust my gut and go with you wherever it is you’re going.”
At first, I was shocked that he would follow two strangers, but after a while, I nodded, accepting his decision.
I no longer believe in the goddess or destiny, but somehow, this whole thing felt right.
Gabriel.
It’s been a couple of weeks since Susie died and Sabrina left the pack. Things have been fucking terrible, and I don’t even know how the hell I’m going to fix everything that is happening.
The pack is getting weaker as the days go by. A few days ago, there was a rogue attack, and we almost fucking lost. Some of the warriors who had been attacked have yet to heal.
Werewolves have fast healing. They should have healed in a few hours after the attack, but it’s been days, and they’re still in the fucking hospital. We’ve been debating with Matt, Colin, and the elders whether to tell them the truth or not since they’ve started questioning why they aren’t healing as fast as they should. It was all so frustrating, considering we aren’t anywhere close to finding a solution. It’s like fate is working against us or something.
My door opened, and I stopped what I was doing to stare up.
“Tell me you have some good news,” I growled, my frustration evident in my tone of voice.
Matt and Colin stared at each other, as if communicating something silently, before turning to me.
“Well!” I all but shouted while standing up.
I was wound up tight. Axel and I were on edge. We could both sense the danger that was lingering. The chaos that would accompany the revelation of our weakness. We were the leaders of this pack. Our job was to protect the pack, and yet we were failing.
“We couldn’t find anything,” Colin finally said.
“What the hell do you mean?”
Matt took a deep breath, as if preparing to deliver a devastating blow. I just knew that I wasn’t going to like whatever it was he was about to tell me.
“Spit it out, Matt,” I snapped when he still didn’t say a fucking thing.
“We haven’t been able to find her,” he began. “Her house is empty, and it looks like she hasn’t been there in months, and no one has seen her around either.”
“That’s not possible,” I muttered more to myself.
How is it possible for her to just disappear? Efforts to find her have borne no fruit at all.
“It’s like Eunice just disappeared from the face of earth.” Colin added unhelpfully.
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me! How hard is it to find one fucking woman?”