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?

would make it into the pack's territory but even if I did, there was no guarantee that I would live past a minute before the deadliest warrior in the realm shot

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 a total of three men that I have been able to recognize by their voice, "Surrender yourself

was going to

clouded my eyes, my heart clenching as it drew on me that I had failed as a mother

surrounded by death meant I had no way out... not

of the familiar voices questioned and the wind carried those words to me just as the sounds of their footsteps came to a

dangerously close to the Black Fur border. It was time to make a choice. If I couldn't escape Alpha Raiden

took the decision out of my hands when my left foot slipped and I fell, face first, landing on my stomach. "Aaah." I cried out as pain jolted from the center of my stomach, traveling down my spine rapidly. Gritting in 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

is no way she would survive that." I heard one of the assassins saying to the

my baby or give him or her

and as much as my heart cried out, I didn't feel the pain

up in my stomach and as the unbearable sensation spread through my body, I could only lay down on my back,

took for someone other than the assassins to find me but when they did, I knew I had fallen into death's trap... into the Black

a gruff voice

Like I was some

air. This was it. I believed I would be dying by a sword until another wave of