Alpha Alec’s Redemption - Chapter 30: Chapter 30

Sighing, I throw the sleeping bag in anger. To some extent, I get Gabriel’s anger towards me. Any normal wolf would have done the same if they’d lost their mate because of someone’s devious plan. I get his anger at losing Eunice, at his heartbreak, and at his bitterness.
What I can never accept or forgive is his one-sided mind. They took one look at all the evidence pointing at me and believed that I was behind it. He didn’t investigate further. He didn’t try to look at it from another angle. He didn’t even think for one second that maybe someone else had planned everything. That was just something I could never get over. That and how he punished me for it.
I dropped the bag that had some of our stuff and just began kicking it. I was angry and bitter, and the emotions felt like they were drowning me. I imagined it was Gabriel’s face I was hitting over and over because it would be so satisfactory if it were. “What do we have here?” A creepy voice made me freeze my assault on the defenseless bag.
My heart started beating fiercely as fear encased me. My run in with the rogues and the vampire was still fresh in my mind. For the millionth time, I cursed Gabriel to the moon and back. If he’d only had the sense to look at things from a different angle, then I wouldn’t be here. Everything that was happening was that damn bastard’s fault.
I slowly turned and stared behind me. I’m surprised to find a woman. She had this creepy smile and her eyes were a mix of bright red and black. I tried to sniff her, but my senses weren’t that sharp, and I couldn’t get anything from her.
We stared at each other. Me in fear and her with curiosity.
My fear escalated when her smile turned sinister and her eyes widened in excitement.
“Oh my, I recognize you,” she states as she starts approaching me. “Everyone thinks you’re dead but you’re not. Imagine how happy Alpha Gabriel will be when I deliver you to him.”
Without warning, she charged at me with an alarming speed that knocked me hard to the ground.
Fuck, that hurt, but more importantly, I couldn’t let her take me. I couldn’t let her take me back to Gabriel, because it would be game over for both me and my baby.
I really should have started training when Sabrina did. In my defense, I thought I had time. Never did I imagine that I’d find myself in such a situation. I was fighting for mine and my baby’s lives.
I dodged yet another attack, but I don’t know how long I could keep this up. My plan was to keep dodging until Raven got back. With her powers, she could easily take the woman down.
“Will you stay still?” she snarled at me, and I just scoffed
Was she stupid? Stay still so that she can capture me. Over my damn dead body.
I don’t know what Beth had done when she told us not to worry about Gabriel coming after us, but it seemed like she’d somehow convinced everyone that I was dead.
If this woman is able to catch me and take me back to Gabriel, I know there will be hell to pay. First of all, because of what he believed I did, and second, because he’ll take it personally that he was tricked and fell for it.
“Can we just please talk about this?” I asked her in desperation.
I was getting really tired. Leaning against a tree, a few distance from her, I try to catch my breath. This whole thing reminded me of the Tom and Jerry cartoon.
“There is nothing to fucking talk about,” she responded with a menacing and cold voice. “Do you realize how much money I can bag when I capture you and take you back to Alpha Gabriel? Not only will I be rewarded, but I’ll be praised for capturing a traitor who faked her own death.”
I looked at her, puzzled. “I didn’t fake my death; as you can clearly see, I’m alive.”
What the hell was she talking about? How would I fake my death? It just wasn’t possible. The only way that would be possible is if someone found a burned body and somehow Beth managed to convince them it’s me.
Even then, knowing Gabriel, he would demand a DNA test be done, unless the body was burned to ash, which I still doubt Gabriel would easily believe it’s me without proof.
“Yes, you did.” Her voice pulled me back to the present. “They found your body, tortured, and the throat slit.”
That couldn’t be right. I am right here, so how the hell is it possible that they found my dead body?
“That’s not possible,” I mumbled to myself, still unable to make sense of things.
Something wasn’t adding up. What had Beth done? And if she were the one responsible, which I firmly believe she is, what is the extent of her power to be able to manipulate a body to look like me? Did she use an illusion spell or some other type of magic?
Before I can get my head wrapped around everything, the woman attacks me again.
“Enough chit-chat; it doesn’t matter what’s possible or not; what matters is the reward I’ll get when I bring you to the Alpha.”
My brain was a bit slow, so when she attacked me, my guard was down. I tried running, but she kicked me in the back, which sent me flying. I hit a tree before crumbling to the ground.