Alpha Alec's Redemption

Alec.

I stumble back in shock when the little girl ran inside screaming for Sadie. Screaming for her mama. Her body collides with that of Sadie, and she lifts her up by her armpits. I didn’t see her face because her back was turned to us, but I couldn’t fucking deny the pull towards her.

My heart begins to race. Blood rushing through me at the speed of light. I could feel sweat pool under my arms as I continue watching her.

Through the fog, her scent hits me hard. My lungs constrict and it becomes so fucking hard to breathe. So hard to draw air into my fucking lungs. Ice filled me, completely freezing me on the spot.

It can’t be.

I kept repeating the words in my head. I blinked, trying to erase the image. Maybe I was seeing things. Maybe I was hallucinating. Deep down though, I knew that I wasn’t.

The feeling I felt three years ago and earlier, settles deep inside. Etching itself in my bones, my heart and my fucking soul. It’s like it was tattooing itself in the very basis of who I was.

“Alec, are you okay?” Jason asked, but I couldn’t pull my eyes from the little girl.

No, I was definitely not fucking okay. I was far from it.

That’s what I wanted to say, but my lips weren’t moving. My mouth couldn’t form a single fucking word. I was rooted by shock. My fucking mind wasn’t even working, how then could I answer him?

“Everyone out” Sadie’s voice filled the room. “Martha, please take Aspen for a little while”

A woman steps forward to take the little girl from Sadie’s arms.

So that was her name, Aspen. It suited her.

“But Mama, we always eat together” Aspen complained, trying to hold on to her mother.

“I know, my love, but I have pack work to discuss” Sadie ran a finger down her chubby rosy cheek before giving her a kiss. “I promise once I’m done, I’ll come read you a story book.”

“About the strong princess and the dragon?” she asked, hope filling her voice.

Sadie nodded “Yes, baby. I’ll read you that one and any other you want.”

“Promise?”

“I pinky swear”

Seeming satisfied with her mother’s answer, she nods her head, before releasing Sadie’s neck. When she turned, me and my two officials gasp in shock.

“She’s ours” Knox whimpered, his tone registering shock.

There was no denying it. Her green eyes, her pouty lips and her round face. She looks like my mini version. She looks like a girl version of the child I used to be.

We were strangers to her, so she doesn’t pay us any attention. We don’t exist in her world. What she doesn’t know is that she was starting to exist in mine.

Her scent and her eyes were pulling me, roping me in. A familial bond was wrapping itself inside me. It was similar to the one I had with Piper, only that this was stronger. Stronger because she’s mine. My daughter.

“Why are you acting so surprised?” came Sadie’s growl. “It’s not like you didn’t know about her”

My chest tightens. My throat clogs and I’m unable to speak a single fucking word.

I now understand. I understand what I felt three years ago and just a few hours ago. The last time I saw Sadie, she had told me she was pregnant. I didn’t fucking believe her.

Months later, I felt that shift. That unexplainable shift.

“The pain and that shift. That was the bond settling in. We didn’t know it. We couldn’t explain it, but that’s what it was” Knox whispered while pacing in agitation.

He was fucking right. It’s always said that when a pup is born, the father fills the pain of a new bond forming. He feels pain as the bond settles in, attaching itself to his soul.

A bond between a father and his pup is different. With the mother, it’s there immediately conception is complete. With the father, it’s formed when the baby is born.

It all made sense now. Why at times I would feel a kind of longing that had nothing to do with Lola. Why I felt the need to search the whole fucking world for something or someone, until I found them. It drove me so fucking crazy, not knowing why or what I was longing for.

“You kept his child hidden” Micah growled. “There is no deny that that girl is Alec’s child. They fucking look alike!”

Sadie turned those deadly eyes to him. All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

“Don’t fucking get into something you have no idea about… and don’t you, for a fucking second, accuse me.” She takes a deep breath in an effort to control her anger. “Why don’t you ask him, Micah? Ask him what he fucking did when I told him I was pregnant.”

My eyes continue studying Sadie. Gone was the girl I knew. Her face used to be round, but not anymore. Exercise and lots of training will do that. My eyes focus on the scar on her face. The one I gave her.