Alpha alec's redemption (Sadie) novel Chapter 325

Knox is a storm inside my skull. His insistence that I go after her is making my head pound. His voice is a desperate snarl, scraping against every piece of my already-shredded heart.

I get his desperation. I’m also desperate, but I wish he could shut the fuck up and let me think without having him breathing down my neck.

I push away from the table so fast the chair nearly topples, and before Raven can move, I’m already halfway down the hall, following that faint thread of her scent like a dying man crawling toward oxygen.

Fear still gnaws at my ribs. A cold, vicious fear that I will lose her for good. I thought I could get this sorted out this morning; instead, it only seems like I’ve made everything worse and it’s all my fault. Again.

I shove the thought down, because thinking it will break me. I can’t break, not when she’s walking away from me like she doesn’t even care.

Knox howls, ripping inside me. “Fix this. FIX IT. She’s ours, Alec, move faster”.

“Shut up, Knox,” I growl under my breath, sprinting across the compound.

I inhale, catching her scent, which leads straight to the dungeon.

My stomach drops, getting this sinking feeling that this isn’t going to end up well.

By the time I reach the metal door, I find it already open. I follow and the moment I enter the damp stone room, everything inside me freezes.

Because Sadie is already there, standing like a goddess of fury, and Lola is standing a few feet away, sizing Sadie up like she’s gum stuck underneath her shoes.

The second she sees me, she gasps, her expression changing.

“Alec!” She runs straight for me, arms outstretched as though we are still mates. As though she didn’t disappear. As though she didn’t fucking reject me. As though she didn’t lie about being my mate.

Knox snaps inside me, rage bursting through his teeth. “Don’t let her touch us. Don’t you fucking dare.”

“How fucking stupid do you think I am?” I snap at him, which has him growling back at

I step back sharply.

Lola freezes mid-stride, arms still lifted. Confusion sweeps her face, then something uglier: disbelief curdling into outrage.

She glances between Sadie and me and then her expression darkens like a storm.

“So that’s it? ” she spits, pointing at Sadie like she’s filth on the floor. “You’re treating me like this because of this bitch? ”

A growl shakes the entire room before I can even breathe. It’s Sadie and I don’t even understand how she’s able to do that when Nyx is gone.

“Alec,” she whimpers, her voice breaking. “Are you really just going to stand there while she attacks me?”

I cross my arms over my chest, staring at her with nothing but cold emptiness. “Yes.”

The single word tears something in Lola’s face. She blinks rapidly, then laughs, a sharp, bitter sound.

“So, this is what you’ve been doing?” she sneers. “Cozying up to the woman who broke us apart? Acting like she’s something precious.”

“Shut the fuck up,” I growl, my voice dropping.

How did I not see her for who she was? Bitter and full of resentment. I was whipped back then; I guess it’s why I never noticed what a bitch she was.

Sadie disappears again and then reappears behind Lola with silver chains in her hands. Before Lola can flinch, Sadie throws the chains around her wrists and pulls. Hard.

Lola screams as the silver burns her skin. In seconds she’s hauled upward, dangling from the ceiling, feet barely brushing the floor.