Chapter 38: Tying Up Loose Ends

Alec

When I arrive at Wade’s house, I immediately step out, not allowing myself to hesitate for a second.

I can’t waste any time. Too many lives depend on it.

I walk up to the front door and then press the doorbell. I hear it ringing a few times, and then wait. I try to close myself so as to not appear nervous at all, but this house makes me remember Trevor, and whenever I do, I feel this nervousness that I can’t put my finger on.

He’s been dead for seven years, yet I still feel the same way I did right before I slammed that rock over his head.

I think it’s because how hard his mother cried during his funeral. The woman was inconsolable, and that was the first time that I actually felt the impact of what I’d done. Someone was suffering because of his death.

I sometimes ask myself what would have happened if I’d never killed him. I could’ve perhaps tried to push him off her. I could’ve even hit him. Whenever I ask myself this, though, my wolf feels betrayed.

She was my mate, an