Alpha Alec's Redemption

Restless

Alec

I pace the floors of my office, feeling restless. Nothing has been the same for me since Lola rejected me as her mate.

The pain is constantly there. Every damn day, I wake up with this gaping hole where my heart is supposed to be. I feel completely empty. Like my f*****g soul has been ripped into pieces.

I tried to stay strong, but I couldn’t. I said I wouldn’t beg, but I succumbed to the pain my wolf and I were feeling. Knox keeps crying out for his mate. He was driving both of us to the edge of insanity.

We werewolves can’t get drunk on normal alcohol. We have our own special blend. One that our bodies doesn't burn quickly due to our fast metabolism.

One night, I couldn’t take it anymore. I couldn’t bear the pain anymore, so I succumbed and called Lola. I was drunk, and I begged her to take me back. To reconsider the rejection. I begged her to forgive me. She didn't, though.

She told me the same thing she said the day she rejected me. That she couldn’t forget nor burn the image of me and Sadie naked, tangled with each other, from her mind.

I hung up after that. Even though I wanted and needed her, I felt so f*****g weak that I begged her. I was a f*****g Alpha, yet I begged my mate to take me back.

It’s been days since that day... And a few weeks have passed since I banished that conniving snake from my pack.

I still get majorly pissed off every time I think of all she took from me. I didn’t even get the chance to punish her for her crimes because the f*****g b***h escaped.

This constant pain. This constant ache deep inside me is because of her. It’s because of her selfishness and her obsession. She destroyed my chance at having a mate, all because she couldn’t f*****g accept that I wasn’t hers.

Now here I was, restless and unsettled. Unable to concentrate on my damn work because both my wolf and I were hurting.

“Alec?”

I swiveled around sharply, growling at my beta.

I didn’t even notice that he had entered my office. This isn't like me. I'm now really irritable and distracted.

Jason raises his hands, showing that he is coming in peace. “I’m sorry, I knocked a couple of times, but you were lost in thought.”

Instead of saying anything, I remain quiet, choosing to stare outside my window. I focus on the view of the city below me, willing the pieces of my heart and life to fall back into place.

There was so much at stake, yet all I could focus on was the mate I lost. My pack needed me. They needed their strong and reliant Alpha, yet I was falling apart.

Who would have thought that the almighty Alpha Alec would be brought to his knees by a woman? That it would take his mate rejecting him for him to crumble.

I scoff at the thought, feeling the irony of it.

“Alec, are you okay?” Jason asks, concern marring his voice.

I turn and glare at him, feeling my anger and bitterness rise to the surface.

“Do I look f*****g okay to you?” I snapped.

He flinches at the burst of aura I unintentionally release. Unable to hold fast, he falls down on his knees and bows slightly in respect.

“I’m sorry,”

Reigning in my alpha power, I suck in a breath before taking my seat. Everyone knows that this hasn’t been easy for me. Not only is my ego hurt by being rejected, but also my chance at having a mate of my own has been taken from me and, with that, the hope for my pack.

“Have you found anything?”

He unsteadily rises up on his feet and faces me.

At first, I thought that it would be enough to simply banish Sadie, but it wasn’t. My anger wasn’t satiated, not even close. She managed to escape. I didn’t f*****g like that.

I wanted her punished. I wanted her tortured. I wanted her black, beating heart on my hand. I want nothing more than to witness it as life drains from her eyes, and even then, that wouldn’t be enough punishment for what she did.

“Nothing… Our warriors have been scouting the forest and the areas across the borders but have found nothing. Her scent was traced to some caves on the outskirts of the border, but from there it vanished.”

A growl involuntarily leaves my lips. I didn’t like that answer at all.

“How f*****g hard is it to find one f*****g woman? A woman who has been injured and tortured!”

Jason shifts uncomfortably from one foot to another. He is one of my closest and oldest friends, but even he can’t withstand the force of my alpha aura.

“It isn’t, but I honestly believe that someone is cloaking her; that’s why they can no longer scent her,” he says, almost hesitantly.

“Who would dare?”

Before he could answer, Knox perks up. His menacing growl filled my damn head.

“What is it?”

Her scent hits my nose before he can answer, making my nose flare and my lips twist in contempt.

“She’s here. That f*****g b***h is here,” he answers, confirming what I had already guessed.

Quickly, I switch on my laptop and scan the surveillance cameras in my building. I spot her immediately. She is standing near the elevator doors. She looks timid and out of place. She's thin and looks weak as hell. The camera also captures the fear and worry that were etched on her face.

You’ve got to be kidding me. Sadie was here.

She had just willingly walked into the lion’s den. Either she was pretty brave or pretty stupid. Either way, she just made my work easier. I was going to have fun torturing her before I ended her miserable existence.