Luna Aleksa's Escape
Luna Aleksa’s Escape Chapter 17

*Aleksa POV*

I stood there in shock, wondering how this handsome stranger knew my name. I took a deep breath and I was immediately alarmed. He is a werewolf and, judging by the aura and scent he is exuding, one of power, I assume, probably an alpha. I take a moment to compose myself although I am overcome with fear.

So many questions are swirling around in my head at this moment. Has he been sent by Lachlan? Is he here to hurt me? Does he know we are rogues? Are we encroaching on his territory? What does he want from me? Is he here for my pups?

At that moment, the stranger in front of me starts to clear his throat, pulling me out of my own thoughts. He stands there with a questionable look on his face as if he is trying to figure me out. He must sense my fear, I thought to myself.

“I believe you have met my Beta Asher”, he says with a smirk on his face. I looked at him, with utter realization, smashing into me. He is the alpha. We must be on his territory.

“Uh, yes, uh, we don’t mean any harm. We didn’t come into your territory intentionally. We didn’t know. We can leave right away! Please, we don’t want any trouble.” I said, panicked in a pleading tone.

The penalty for rogues entering pack lands is generally death or imprisonment. I started to panic and hyperventilate, looking at the wolf in front of me with sheer desperation and fear. I must protect my pups, I think to myself.

Clearly sensing my fear and panic, the alpha in front of me raises his hand towards me. “It’s OK. Don’t panic. I’m not here to hurt you, I just want to have a chat with you. Would you invite me in?” he politely asks me.

I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself down. I opened the door further to allow him to walk past. He slowly walks past me and sits on the couch, placing his arms on the top and side of the couch, sitting with his back against the corner of the couch, and placing his right leg over his left, looking relaxed. I just stood there dumbfounded, wondering what was to come next.

“Please, Aleksa, take a seat. This is just a friendly chat. I just want to know why you are here, on my pack lands. You don’t smell like rogues, but here you are out here on your own. Please explain yourself.” He says to me with a serious look on his gorgeous face.

I slowly sit on a chair next to the couch, sitting towards the edge of the chair. And I think to myself, and wonder how much I should tell him. I decide to go with the light version of events, skimming past the fact that I am Luna of a pack, and that my fated mate is currently hunting me and my rogue friends down.

“Start at the beginning, Aleksa, tell me. Is that even your real name?” He asks suspiciously.

I cleared my throat. “Yes, Aleksa is my real name. I guess I will start at the beginning then. I met my mate about two years ago. Everything seemed perfect. We had pups pretty much as soon as we met, twins actually.

“How old are you?” He asks me, interrupting my story.

“I’m twenty years old” I said to him. Wondering why he would ask that question. But I continue on telling my story to him.

“Pretty much as soon as I got pregnant I started experiencing intense pain, daily. I would see the pack doctor often, and she would put it down to growing pregnancy pains, and even when they continued after the twins had arrived she put it down to a traumatic delivery and said they would eventually disappear.”

“Well they didn’t, it wasn’t until one day when I had to leave work early because I couldn’t bear the pain that I walked in on my beta- uh- best friend and my mate in our bed together.”

“Long story short, although I planned to escape with my babies, my plan was cut short and I was thrown in the dungeons, until I escaped with the help of some friends, and we made it here.”

“Please, we have no intention of causing any trouble, we didn’t even realize we were on pack land. We can leave today, please don’t harm us” I pleaded, tears falling down the sides of my face.

I can’t read his face. I don’t know what his plans are. I am praying for mercy from the moon goddess, if just this once, things could go our way.

He took a breath. “I am sorry you had to go through all that. I can’t imagine why a mate would betray their bond given to them from the moon goddess. That is sacrilege.”

“Where are your pups and your friends now?” He asks.

“My friends Mason and Kaia are at work at the moment. They got jobs at a club in town. Uh Headquarters.” I told him.

“And the twins, well, they’re safe, they’re sleeping right now” I said.

“How old are your pups, and what are their names?” He asked me.

“Liam and Layla, they are two years old.” I said, biting down on my bottom l*p, wondering what he would do with this information.

“You aren’t technically on park land, you are on the outskirts. I will allow this for now. But we will be keeping an eye on you. We will need to verify that you are who you say you are.” He warned me.

“Which pack are you from?” He asked me. His eyes rested on my face.

I don’t know what to say. If I tell him which pack we are from, he might contact Lachlan. He would tell him something different to what I have, and we would be imprisoned again for Lachlan to replace us. I can’t tell him.

“It’s okay. We will leave today. Please, we don’t want any trouble. We just want to be left to ourselves,” I said defiantly.

“You will tell me which pack you are from now!” He says in a loud alpha command.

I cannot refuse a command, so I proceeded to tell him “Evergreen Pack”, “We are from the Evergreen Pack on the East Coast”. I say sadly.

“Evergreen, you say. You are missing Luna, are you not?” He questions me with amber flecks sparkling in his eye.

I looked at him with a tear-stained face. I say nothing but my face deceives me.

“Alpha Lachlan said you were kidnapped by rogues. Tell me Aleksa, have you been kidnapped?” He asks me with a curious look on his face.

“No! No I haven’t. Mason and Kaia are my friends.They helped us escape. Please, Mason and Kaia have nothing to do with this. Please don’t punish them. This is all my fault!!” I pleaded with him to spare my friends.

“I believe you, but I think you had better explain things to me more truthfully this time, Aleksa, and don’t lie to me. I am not here to harm you. I want to help you.” He says in a soft tone, and for some reason I replace that comfortable and I believe him.

We talk for some time. I fill him in on how I came to meet Mason and Kaia, as well as explaining how they came to be in the dungeons. I explained how we escaped and the events leading up to us arriving here. I explained how Lachlan treated me, and about his plans to make Eva his Luna, and me his mistress. As well as his plans for our pups. He sat there and listened intently to my words.

Although I couldn’t read him and had no idea what his train of thought might be, I also felt safe around him. I finished my story and sat there in silence waiting for him to respond.

Some time passed, as well as an awkward silence, and it felt like time was moving ever so slowly, then he spoke.

“I am sorry Aleksa. I am sorry that the moon goddess fated you with such a mate. Mates are supposed to be sacred, and if what you say is true then Lachlan has made a mockery of the sanctity of the mate bond. I will look into your account of events. If what you are saying is true then we will grant you the ability to live here on the pack border for now” He said to me.

“I will need to meet Mason and Kaia, as well as verifying their version of events”. He proclaims.

“I understand. Do you want me to call them for you?” I ask him.

“There’s no need for that. I will go into Headquarters and speak with them there.” He says.

“But, they are working, and there are humans around, are you sure you want to do that?” I ask.

“I think it will be fine. Especially considering I own that bar. In fact I own almost the entire town.” He says with a smirk on his face.

I look at him in shock. That means he probably owns the Tavern, where I work. That means that this isn’t a human town afterall. We had really messed up here. Of all the places.

“It was nice meeting you Aleksa. I will be in touch.” He says standing up from the couch.

“Uh, it was nice to meet you too, uh, I just realized that I don’t actually know your name?” I say to him realizing that he never introduced himself.

“Kingston, it’s Kingston.” He says with a cheeky grin on his face.

Kingston, I think to myself, for some reason hearing his name makes my heart happy. I feel warm all over. It’s at this point I realize I have been staring at his face a little longer than I should have. He just grins at me.

“Thank you Kingston, I appreciate you considering this. I promise we won’t be a nuisance.” I say to him gratefully.

He turns and walks off. I shut the door. Then not a minute later I hear little feet running down the hallway.

“Mommy! Mommy!” Liam and Layla yell at me happily. “Pancakes Mommy!” They yell in unison with great big smiles on their faces, as I pick them up for cuddles. I then place them on the bench top in front of the kitchen window so that they can help me make the pancake batter.

They position themselves front facing towards the window. “Wolf mama, wolf!” They yell, and we watch a huge black wolf run into the forest.

Kingston. I think to myself. His wolf is magnificent. His human seems to be quite alluring to. I scold myself for thinking of him that way in a time like this. I need to be practical and think clearly. I can’t allow myself these thoughts. “But he’s so gorgeous Aleksa!” I hear Amber say and giggle in my head.

I haven’t heard anything from Amber since we were thrown in the dungeons. I wondered if she would ever speak to me again. “Ofcourse Aleksa, I am always here I just needed some time to heal. We can trust him Aleksa.” Amber says. “How do you know that?” I ask Amber. “Trust me, Aleksa. All will be revealed in due time”. She says to me cryptically.