Alpha alec's redemption (Sadie) novel Chapter 307

“What?”

I’d guessed it, but hearing Nyx confirm it twits something inside my chest.

“You can sense new life about to begin, while Xena senses a life when it’s about to end” Nyx says.

“So, anything or anyone about to die, she feels that?”

“Yes.”

I press a hand on my chest, feeling as if a heavy weight has been placed there.

Beneath the fear I felt at discovering my new powers, there was also a kind of excitement. Being able to sense life, like Nyx said, brings happiness and joy; I can’t imagine what being able to sense someone is about to die feels like.

No one wants to know their loved one is about to die, now imagine being able to sense anything or anyone about to die?

“Xena hated her powers.” Nyx voice cuts through my thoughts. “She said it felt like a curse.”

And I can imagine why she’d feel that way. Being able to sense death isn’t a power I’d like to have.

I resume walking, both Nyx and I quiet, lost in our own thoughts… That’s until, just ahead, the silence of the forest is broken.

A sound slips through the trees, thin and raw, barely carried on the wind.

Someone crying.

I freeze where I stand, my breath catching in my throat. The hair on the back of my neck rises, and every instinct screams at me to listen closer.

The sobs are faint, but they’re there.

The sound pulls me forward before I’ve even decided what to do. My feet move on instinct, crunching softly over damp leaves as I follow the trail of muffled sobs. The closer I get, the sharper they become. Quiet gasps breaking through the morning silence, a pain too heavy for the forest to hide.

“Is it about yesterday?” I finally ask.

She doesn’t answer right away. Her gaze drops to her lap, fingers twisting together, and I know the silence is its own kind of answer.

“Yeah,” she whispers eventually. “It’s not… it’s not that I don’t want the baby.” Her throat works as she swallows hard. “I do. I really do. It’s just… Calvin’s not here. And I don’t know how I’m supposed to raise a child without him by my side.”

Her voice trembles on the last word, and she presses her hand over her stomach instinctively, protective even in her fear.

I understand her fear. I know how terrifying it is to raise a child by yourself. I’d been lost when Alec rejected Aspen. I didn’t know how I was going to do it all alone, but good thing I had a strong support system.

I reach for her arm, squeezing lightly. “Have you talked to him about it?”

Her eyes flick to mine before darting away. “No. He keeps trying to get through to me. I can feel him pushing at the bond, but…” She exhales shakily, guilt pooling in her tone. “I blocked our mind link. I just… I don’t want him to feel all this. I don’t want him to carry my fear when there is nothing he can do about it. It’ll only make him feel more helpless.”