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 catchwasn't shocking but the energy | suddenly obtained, the energy pumping

through my veins as | ran, my hands on my lower belly, was alarming. Although | couldn't see clearly in the dark

forest, | let my legs carrydespite the fact that | kept falling over and over again. Every part ofwas

hurting, including my belly. The scratches from June's fingers stung as my beads of sweat trickled over them.

JUTE

I killed her.

She was the first person | would ever kill and as much as | hated it, her nhas been etched in my memory. It

would have been easier if she had remained sfaceless and nameless woman... but now | knew her name

and | 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 toand it was only a matter of tbefore 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?

There was no guarantee that | would make it into the pack's territory but even if | did, there was no guarantee

that | would live past a minute before the deadliest warrior in the realm shotdown like a bird.

Black 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, | was running from the messengers of death into death's

trap yet | couldn't stop running. Someone else hissed behind me, making it a total of three men that | have been

able to recognize by their voice, "Surrender yourself and | will make your death quick but take another step and

you will have to beg for death in the hands of the Black Furs." He was right.

| was going to die either way.

Hot tears clouded my eyes, my heart clenching as it drew onthat | had failed as a mother even before |

becone.

Being surrounded by death meant | had no way out... not for myself and not for my baby.

"What 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 tojust as the sounds of their footsteps cto a stop.

They stopped running afterwhich could only mean that | was dangerously close to the Black Fur border. It

was tto make a choice. If | couldn't escape Alpha Raiden and cheat death, then | might as well choose how |

die with my baby.

| thought of halting and taking a minute to catch my breath but fate took the decision out of my hands when my

left foot slipped and | fell, face first, landing on my stomach. "Aaah." | cried out as pain jolted from the center of

my stomach, traveling down my spine rapidly. Gritting in raw agony, | tried to roll over- to save my stomach from

taking any more blows- but to my dismay, | found myself rolling over and over again, down a steep landscape

that | didn't see beforehand. My stomach bore the impact more with every uncontrollable roll that had me

screaming my lungs out in pain.

"There is no way she would survive that." | heard one of the assassins saying to the others. "It's a pity we can't

take her head back as promised."

No. It's a pity | wouldn't get to meet my baby or give him or her a good life.

My eyes began to close even before my body cto a stop at the bottom of the steep hill and as much as my

heart cried out, | didn't feel the pain when my head crashed against something hard, perhaps a rock but | was

too weak to tell.

Another wave of unfamiliar kind of pain built up in my stomach and as the unbearable sensation spread through

my body, I could only lay down on my back, crying silently.

"We have a trespasser." | didn't know how long it took for someone other than the assassins to findbut when

they did, | knew | had fallen into death's trap... into the Black Fur Pack.

My suspicion was confirmed when a gruff voice stated blatantly, "Kill it."

It? Like | was sanimal.

Death flashed through my blurry eyes as | heard the sound of a sword or maybe it was a knife, slashing through

the air. This was it. | believed | would be dying by a sword until another wave of pain sliced through me.

"Aaahhh..." | screamed again.

Something popped withinand | felt liquid slipping out of my core. It has to be blood.

But it wasn't.

"Sh-she appears to be in labor, Alpha." Whoever was standing overwith a sword in the air, stuttered.

My water just broke.

It was early labor and | cried even harder when | realized that | was about to push my baby out only for him or

her to be killed and there was nothing | could do about it... not when | was completely weak and drained. "Is that

supposed to make a difference?" This voice carried authority as the owner snarled viciously.

"No, Alpha..." Cthe response.

And | knew without a doubt that this would be the end of the pathetic Aurelia yet | whimpered, "P-please he-help.

For goddess's sa-sake, s-save my ba-ba-"

The rest of my useless plea died in my throat as | fell fast into unsettling darkness, noting that the sword could

have been lowered to stop my heart. This was my end. Sadly-