Chasing His Betrayed Luna by KiKi Jones

11. A Hefty Price

AURELIA

Hiding in plain sight has always been one of my few talents. Although I have always been singled out, I have also perfected the act of blending in and making sure I was not seen by the prying eyes of anyone who could prey on me...

And by anyone, I meant everybody that I had come across in the past months, including Alpha Raiden's men.

Alpha Raiden...

For someone who doesn't give a shit about me, he was quite persistent to find me. I knew he was sending his men out to every corner and small town so he could trap me again and punish me. That was his style.

But I beat him this time. After all, I had survived the harsh world that I found after I escaped the Dark Moon Park. I survived for eight months, moving from one rogue territory to another, from one small dangerous town to another. I discovered that there was a whole different world beyond the territory of Dark Moon Pack where I have been all twenty-one years of existing as my pathetic self.

"Move it!" Someone snarled behind me, breaking my chain of thought and causing me to stagger. "It's a dangerous place for a pretty pregnant woman to be walking alone at night, don't you think?"

"I'm not alone." I stuttered, holding my belly as I pulled Dakota's old coat around me to shield my baby bump from the world.

"You wish." The man behind me snorted before walking ahead of me, blending with the dark and leaving me to navigate the familiar path with my terrible eyesight.

Actually, I did wish I wasn't doing this alone.

I wished I could have a partner who would experience this with me and support me while our baby grows in my womb. I wished I didn't have to walk alone at night, carrying bags of junks. I have come across many refugees in the past months and most of them had their mates traveling the brutal world with them. I have settled in towns with some of them but at the end of the day, we all had to move and go our different ways because being together for anything longer than two months would attract rogues or even Alphas who didn't want any refugee group to grow stronger and likely stage an attack.

less than twenty

where dangers loom around like air itself. The Goddess knew that I didn't know where I

and lifestyle aren't what

pack that would be willing to accept someone like me as its

you that." I whispered to my baby, caressing my belly after

past few days. I didn't want to be seen in town so I preferred walking at night and doing my small shopping at

of sleep, resting even though I was still conscious of my surroundings. Letting my guard down would be a mistake. A mistake that would most likely cost me my life and that of my baby. That was a price I

day." I chanted those words to myself just like I have been doing for the past eight months, shutting my

that

I was snoring softly, the next minute had me frowning in my sleep due to the commotion outside, and before

rotten smell invaded my nose, that one word resounding in my ears just as my eyes

better than to keep them close because not only were my feet dangling in the

smell attacked my nostrils again and while I struggled to make out the face of the person whose strength could hold a heavily pregnant woman in the air like I weigh nothing, the feminine voice

kill me. I didn't bother to

woman as well and I have nothing to worry about- I thought

woman's strong physique, my eyes scanning her with every step she took towards me. "I'll never go back there and you can claim the price on my head but please don't kill me." She

you-" Her voice broke and she stopped walking when my back hit the wall, trapping me. Her fingers

began to laugh heartily. My eyes widened in shock when her fingers dug into the skin of my

Us?

She wasn't alone?