Alpha Alec’s Redemption - Chapter 33: Chapter 33

He rises up and stares right past me, since it’s disrespectful for him to stare directly into my eyes. He, despite being highly ranked, isn’t at the same rank as me. Plus, doing so would push my beast forward, since she’ll view it as a challenge, one that she’ll definitely accept. She’ll end up triumphant, and he’ll end up in the infirmary.
“Any news for me?” I asked, adjusting myself in my seat.
“Nothing has changed, your majesty, but things are unfolding as you said they would. Everything is going according to plan.” I’m a bit irritated by his answer. I already knew that. I wanted him to tell me something I didn’t already know.
“What about my mother and sister? Are they still separated?”
I made sure that they were separated. That way, they couldn’t join forces. That wasn’t possible, though, because I was more powerful than them. I’d made sure of that when I sealed my mother’s powers.
“Nothing has been heard about them; we truly believe your mother is dead. Her power is her essence. Her life source. Given that you took that from her, it’s a given that she probably didn’t survive.”
I nodded at that. I thought the same thing, and to be honest, I didn’t give a shit that she was probably dead. I didn’t feel a thing for her. Not after what she did to me… But then again, I know my mother, she wouldn’t die so easily. That’s why I have a backup plan.
As for my sister, I still needed her. After her usefulness ends, I’ll end her. No one who contributed to my pain will survive.
“And our little hybrid project?”
“It’s going perfectly well… Soon enough, we will have an army large enough that you won’t have to lift a finger to cause havoc in the supernatural community. Hell, even with humans,” he said with a small smirk.
There was a reason I liked him and chose him as my second-in-command. He loved chaos, and, just like me, his family didn’t really accept him for the bloodthirsty maniac he was. Just like me, he was marked as the black sheep of the family because he was rebellious.
I leaned back on my throne and grinned. “Good.”
Taking the scepter near my seat, I feel the power rush through me.
I turned to the seat next to me with a small smile. “Soon, my love.”
Susie
I walked through the forest, feeling the effects of the full moon. Its power was around me, shifting like a caged animal. I could feel it inside me. On my skin and in my bones.
I’ve waited for this day since I knew who we were. What we turn into. I’ve been waiting for this day since I knew what love was. Since I realized that I was in love with Gabriel.
Today was meant to mark a new day for me and those around me, especially Gabriel. Looking back, I don’t know if I would have been this excited if I knew what would happen before my first shift.
It’s been months since we left everything behind, and King joined us. Months since my torture and since I found out I was pregnant. Nothing much has happened except that we found a place to settle months after we left our home.
Just as nothing much has happened, nothing has changed in me. I still hated Gabriel and his damn pack. For the first time in my life, I wished the worst for someone. I wasn’t a mean person, nor was I vengeful, but something shifted in me after being betrayed by people who I thought were my family.
My smiles no longer came easily, nor did laughter. It’s like Gabriel took everything that made me Susie. Everything that used to make me the cheerful bundle of joy and energy I used to be. Nowadays, I look into the mirror and barely recognize myself, not because of my non-existent hair, the scar on my face or the ones on my back… But because when I stare in the mirror, all I see is a girl I don’t recognize.
My eyes were vacant. I no longer felt the light that used to shine from inside me when I looked in the mirror. It’s like a part of me died in that dirty cell where I was held captive for months. A certain coldness had encased my heart. My soul was marked by a kind of darkness I couldn’t escape.
“Susie, is everything okay?” Raven’s voice penetrates the mist that surrounds me. The mist I kept getting lost because reality was sometimes too much for me.
“Yes,” I replied, then asked, “Can you please go back? I want to be alone before shifting.”