Alpha alec's redemption (Sadie) novel Chapter 332

Aspen seems satisfied with that and wiggles off my lap to play with her dolls on the carpet. The moment she’s distracted, I stand. Alec stands too, as if instinct drives him.

“I want you to know,” I interrupt quietly when he opens his mouth to speak. “That no matter what happens between us, I won’t get in the way of your relationship with Aspen. I promise I’ll tell her you’re her father as soon as I can.”

His shoulders relax, and warmth fills his eyes. “Thank you.”

We stand there awkwardly until I break the silence.

“I need to go. Raven is waiting for me.” She’s not, but I need an anchor before I lose myself to my powers again.

“Okay,” he finally says. “I’ll see you later.”

I nod once, then leave before my resolve can crumble.

I walk again with no direction of where I am going. Soon, I find myself along the hallway leading to the dungeon. I don’t know why, and I don’t understand how, but it’s like something invisible is pulling me towards the dungeon.

The hallway is colder today. Maybe it’s me. Maybe it’s the power simmering under my skin. Maybe it’s the fact that Nyx’s absence leaves me feeling unsteady, like a table missing a leg, but there is something I’m yet to grasp.

I open the iron door and step inside. Lola hangs from the silver chains. She should be in a sad state, but yet she still looks beautiful, glowing, as if she’s vacationing somewhere tropical instead of in a dungeon. Apart from her bloody and torn clothes, nothing else shows she’s a prisoner.

She turns her head slowly as I enter.

“Oh look,” she sneers weakly. “The little homewrecker returns.”

I say nothing as I walk closer.

She laughs a brittle, ugly and bitter sound. “Come to show off more tricks? Maybe claw me again? Maybe kill me this time so you can keep him?”

My jaw twitches. “Lola, if I wanted you dead, you’d already be in the ground.”

I step closer, lowering my voice to a whisper that slices through the room like a blade.

I focus on her eyes, and that’s when I see it. A glimmer of power inside her… and something else, recognition maybe?

"You're nothing, Sadie," she says, giving me an evil smirk. "You can't beat me... you never could."

Her words send chills down my spine, but still I can't help wondering. What the hell does she even mean?

I don’t know what the hell is going on, but one thing I am so sure of now is that Lola isn’t who she says she is.