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.

her down this time but Alpha Tristan announced, "That's enough for the day, ladies." His gruff voice still carried the same amount of authority it did the day I stumbled into

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

Alpha." I pouted, smiling sheepishly at the same man who had ordered my death five

when he returned my smile with one of his mesmerizing ones. "Take it easy, Lia.

my 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 for Alpha Tristan who had never looked at any woman with affection since I opened

looked at any woman even though he was a handsome, wealthy, and powerful Alpha of Black

more grateful to him, after all, I

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

even though I assumed that would be the

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

nothing but a terrifying stranger to me back then. I had jolted off the bed when I touched my flat but stitched belly. I didn't remember pushing out

me to the bed,

with me. It was strange yet it was

with tears in my eyes and with a constant throb in

of them. You were passed out but the healers performed a cesarean surgery and saved your

the fact that he could have snapped my neck and thrown my lifeless body to the rogues. "I want to see them now!" Even now, five years later, I still wonder 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 prematurely, they had to stay in the

my past that

Tristan and the friends I had made here, I have been able

different now. I had become a mom and