Chasing His Betrayed Luna by KiKi Jones

12. Black Fur Pack

AURELIA

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Against all odds, I rose again, pushing my legs against the floor of the forest and pushing beyond the limit of any pregnant woman. "That bitch killed June. Don't let her escape." An angry masculine voice roared somewhere behind me.

Their determination to catch me wasn't shocking but the energy I suddenly obtained, the energy pumping through my veins as I ran, my hands on my lower belly, was alarming. Although I couldn't see clearly in the dark forest, I let my legs carry me despite the fact that I kept falling over and over again. Every part of me was hurting, including my belly. The scratches from June's fingers stung as my beads of sweat trickled over them. June...

I killed her.

She was the first person I would ever kill and as much as I hated it, her name has been etched in my memory. It would have been easier if she had remained some faceless and nameless woman... but now I knew her name and I would have to live with that for the rest of my life which might not be very long considering the fact that my legs were becoming weaker and probably bleeding from hitting the ground so many times in the past five minutes.

Plus, they were catching up to me and it was only a matter of time before they snuffed my soul out of my body, killing my baby in the process.

"Black Fur Pack is barely thirty steps away. We can't let her get there." One of the hired assassins sent by my ex-mate shouted to the rest of his crew and my heart almost stopped.

It couldn't be.

Black Fur Pack?

into the pack's territory but even if I did, there was no guarantee that

Fur Pack was known far and wide. Its members are strong warriors and even their youngest pups were allowed to wield weapons and learn combat. Obviously, I was running from the messengers of death into death's trap yet I couldn't stop running. Someone else hissed behind me, making it

to

on me that I

way out... not for myself

choice are you making? Peaceful death or the Black Furs kind of death." One of the familiar voices questioned and the wind carried those words to me just as the sounds of their footsteps came to a

Black Fur border. It was time to make a choice. If I couldn't escape Alpha Raiden and cheat death, then I might as well

raw agony, I tried to roll over- to save my stomach from taking any more blows- but to my dismay, I found myself rolling over and over again, down a steep landscape that I didn't see

I heard one of the assassins saying to

my baby or give him or her a good

came to a stop at the bottom of the steep hill and as much as my heart cried out, I didn't feel the pain when my head

wave of unfamiliar kind of pain built up in my stomach and as the unbearable sensation spread through my body, I could

I didn't know how long it took for someone other than the assassins to find me but when they did, I knew

suspicion was confirmed when a gruff voice

Like I was

knife, slashing through the air. This was it. I believed I would be dying by a