Chasing His Betrayed Luna by KiKi Jones

13. My Buried Past

AURELIA

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*FIVE YEARS LATER*

"This is just the beginning, Lia. Get your ass up!"

Alpha Tristan's voice echoed through the sparing section of the field. My ringing head and sore muscles protested as I pushed myself off the floor.

"Clear your head and focus on your opponent. She won't go easy on you just because you have fallen a thousand times in the last fifteen minutes." His voice hit my eardrums again and again, I obeyed him, forcing my gaze to stay focused on the fierce brunette who had used my body as a mop to clean the field floor since we started sparring fifteen minutes ago.

The fierce brunette, Jessica, smirked at me, "Listen to the Alpha, Lia. Going easy on you isn't an option in my cookbook."

"I can only hope killing me during training isn't in that book of yours as well, Jesi." I retorted with a plea but amusement flashed through Jessica's eyes as she threw another punch my way.

I dodged.

Yet I found my body crashing to the floor again before I could protect my legs from Jessica. "Gosh, you're fast." I lamented, getting up before Alpha Tristan interfered.

"You can't keep giving me the chance and expect me not to take it, Lia." Jessica countered with a shrug and a smile that told me she was pleased with herself.

this time but Alpha Tristan announced, "That's enough for the day,

men to kill me even though I was in labor and this close to bleeding

smiling sheepishly at the same man who had ordered my death

wasn't surprised when he returned my smile with one of his mesmerizing ones. "Take it easy, Lia. Jessica is

crown, you have to regain your strength." Jessica's eyes lingered on Alpha Tristan's frame but she soon excused herself to join the other warriors in the field. I knew she had a thing

at any woman even though he was a handsome, wealthy, and powerful Alpha of Black Fur Pack except one

more grateful to him, after all, I owed

thinking about how to grade my performance in the sparring field this morning, my mind floated through memories and back

For goddess's sa-sake, s-save my ba-ba-" I had begged him before I lost consciousness on the rough floor of his pack border five years ago and even though I assumed that would be the

locked me up or even left me to die in the forest but he took me to the hospital, cleaned me

bed when I touched my flat but stitched belly. I didn't remember pushing out my baby and the thought of surviving while my

Tristan had moved closer to me, pinned me to the bed, and said to me, "The

gentle with me. It

with tears in my eyes

healers performed a cesarean surgery and saved your lives." Those

why Alpha Tristan had been so careful with me as he led me to the strange room with tubs that had my babies' tiny bodies. Since they were born

my past that second and answered, "Lia and the place I come from is

was born. As the years went by and with the help of Alpha Tristan and the friends I had made here, I have been able to sculpt Lia into a woman I

now. I had