Luna Aleksa's Escape
Luna Aleksa’s Escape Chapter 24

*Aleksa POV*

When Kingston invited me out for lunch I tried to contain my excitement. It’s not a date Aleksa – I told myself. We’re just getting a bite to eat. Why was I so taken with this guy? If anything I should be anti male right now. After all I had been through. But I needed to remind myself that this is a fresh start, I’m not that girl anymore. It was time to live a little, to have a bit of fun, and learn to trust people again. I had trusted Mason and Kaia, and they are like family to me now. Goddess knows where I would be right now if it weren’t for my friends helping my pups and I to escape.

We had reached our lunch destination. It looked like a quaint little Italian pizzeria. When we walked through the door, the waitress made a beeline for Kingston. She was tall, blonde and slender. She had a little too much mascara and eyeliner on, it was all smudged, I assume she was going for a smokey eyes look. She had bright red lips, encapsulated with the wrong coloured l*p liner. Her foundation was heavily caked on. And, her uniform was a few sizes too small, of which her breasts were practically oozing out of.

The waitress looked pretty excited to see Kingston, she pushed out her chest and plastered a big smile on her face “Alpha, how can I help you today, table for one is it?” she asks practically drooling over him, and paying no attention to my presence.

Kingston seems oblivious to her flirting attempts and unimpressed that she hasn’t acknowledged my presence. He asks for a table for two, for him and his beautiful guest he says. To which she frowns and promptly shows us to a table near the window, a small square shaped wooden table.

It’s a cute little pizzeria, probably family owned I would assume by the framed photos on the wall, with red and white gingham table coverings, and gentle Italian music playing in the background, bright lighting, large vases of bright coloured flowers and lots of wine bottles and glasses everywhere.

My stomach growls loudly as I can smell the divine Italian cuisine being cooked in the kitchen. I can’t remember the last time I ate at an actual restaurant, I thought to myself.

Embarrassed by the loud growls of my stomach, I apologize to Kingston, who has an amused look on his face. “Let’s order shall we?” He says with a chuckle.

I look at the menu, and everything sounds amazing. I go for a focaccia for starters, followed by a simple tagliatelle boscaiola (which is basically fettuccine with bacon and mushrooms) for my main, and a tiramisu for dessert. I know it’s only lunch, but I am famished, I have barely eaten in days. And to be honest, I was never the side salad kinda girl. I have always had an appetite, and I’m okay with that.

Kingston orders spiedeni balsamico, which is basically eye filet with bacon strips for starters, followed by bistecca for mains, which is simply eye filet with mushroom cream sauce, opting for tiramisu for dessert as well. We chatted for a few hours while enjoying our food. I ignore the rude glares that the waitress is giving me. I focus all my attention on Kingston. We have similar opinions on a lot of things. We are two completely different wolves with completely polar upbringings and life experience but the chemistry is next level.

As we both go to grab the salt and pepper shaker our hands graze each other. There go those strange tingles again. They were similar to what I felt when I first met Lachlan. I guess it’s because I’m developing feelings for him, I thought to myself. I replace myself stuck in my thoughts when Kingston clears his throat and begins to speak.

*Aleksa POV*

When Kingston invited me out for lunch I tried to contain my excitement. It’s not a date Aleksa – I told myself. We’re just getting a bite to eat. Why was I so taken with this guy? If anything I should be anti male right now. After all I had been through. But I needed to remind myself that this is a fresh start, I’m not that girl anymore. It was time to live a little, to have a bit of fun, and learn to trust people again. I had trusted Mason and Kaia, and they are like family to me now. Goddess knows where I would be right now if it weren’t for my friends helping my pups and I to escape.

“Aleksa, I’ve enjoyed having lunch with you today. I don’t mean to be rude but something has come up at the packhouse so I need to drop you off home and attend to the matter. Are you ready to go?” Kingston asks me.

“Yes, of course. I have enjoyed myself too. I hope it’s nothing serious?” I ask him with a concerned look on my face.

“I’m sure it will be fine, but my attendance is required.” He tells me calmly.

He opens his wallet and leaves the money for our bill plus a generous tip behind for the waitress. We get up and walk out of the restaurant towards his SUV.

A little while later, Kingston is dropping me off at the old log cabin. I look up at the cabin and feel happy to finally be home. I thank Kingston for everything he has done for me and I leave the car, turning to wave goodbye to Kingston as he drives off.

***

Mason, Kaia and I have been talking about the offer that Kingston presented to us, about joining his pack. Mason and Kaia are naturally quite excited, and are in agreement that we should accept Kingston’s offer.

I really want to accept his offer, but I still feel hesitant, as I don’t want to impose on the pack. So I have agreed to come and visit the pack, meet some of the pack members, and see how things are done there.

Kingston tells me that everyone has their role to play within the pack, and tells me that training is compulsory for all wolves, which I am excited about. I am untrained which means I am currently unable to defend myself. And after what happened last week, I definitely need to be able to defend myself, and my precious pups.

Kaia is super excited about training and has even been told she can try out for the warrior squad once she has been initiated into the pack.

Mason is already a stronger wolf due to him being Beta at his previous pack, so he will be applying to be on the warrior squad as well.

I am told that the pack has a huge daycare, so I can’t wait to check out for Liam and Layla.

I ring Kingston and discuss with him our thoughts on his offer, and he is happy for us to come along for a visit to Rocky Mountain. We make a plan for tomorrow morning, Kingston offers to send a car for us, but we politely decline and tell him we are happy to drive there ourselves. It’s easier that way, with the twin’s car seats already installed.

So it’s all set, tomorrow we visit our potential new home. We are all pretty hopeful that this will work out, we have been without our packs for months now, and it’s important for us to be part of a pack, to feel connected with other wolves.

***

We are drinking coffee in the lounge of the old log cabin, we are all dressed and ready for our visit to the Rocky Mountain pack. I have told the twins we are going to look at a pack, and they don’t really know what is going on, but they were excited to be going on an excursion.

I start loading Liam and Layla into the car, buckling them into their carseats, they are sipping their milk bottles. I need to remember to take them off before we start driving, this is just to settle them while we are all getting ready to go.

In no time, we are all in the car, Mason, Kaia, Myself and the twins and we are heading off towards Rocky Mountain. Technically we were already on their territory, but because we are driving we have to go right around, so it’s a bit of a longer drive.

It takes about forty five minutes to get to the entrance of the pack’s territory, where we are met with the patrol guards. We show them our ID and the guards eyes glaze over, they are mindlinking someone to check we have clearance. They walk off and a few moments later the gates start to open, and we are signaled to drive through.

We start to follow the long windy road, it’s covered in big green trees, lots of shrubbery, and the forest looks dark on the sides of the road. We drive straight for another thirty minutes, then we see a large area of grassy fields on either side of the road. As we continue to drive we see lots of small cottages on either side.

On the left we see a large stadium, which we assume would be the training grounds. It’s so much larger than what we had back at Evergreen. To the right there is a large building that I know to be the pack hospital. I didn’t notice it that much the day I was discharged, as I was so overwhelmed at the time.

There is a big building that has a large outdoor area with a naturalistic style playground. I can see lots of little pups running about exploring, so I would say that is the daycare facility.

We keep driving further down the road and there is a lot of bush and more trees, but we can make out a large mansion in the clearing. This must be the pack house I think to myself. It is nothing short of magnificent.

It’s a large three story white mansion house surrounded by large trees and bushes. The paintwork is immaculate. I wonder how many people live here, I think to myself. We drive up further and park the car in front of a water front that is positioned in the middle of the end of the driveway.

We slowly unbuckle our seatbelts and start to depart the car, we all look a little taken back at the size of this pack. Everything looks so immaculate and well planned.

As I start to unbuckle Liam and Layla, I smell that scent of fresh pine again, it infiltrates my senses and overwhelms me. Then I hear his voice. It’s Kingston. Could it be Kingston’s scent? I keep picking up on everything, I thought to myself.

“Welcome, I’m glad to see you found your way here, I hope you had no trouble replaceing this place. It’s a bit off the beaten track, but that’s the idea right?” He says to us with a big smile on his face.

“If you would like to come with me, I thought we would start with the pack house, I have arranged for some refreshments, you must be parched after the drive here, please follow me” Kingston says to us, gesturing us to walk up the stairs.

He’s so thoughtful I thought to myself. I look up at the pack house and begin to ascend up the steps, as we step in through the front door, I gasp. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Mason steps forward and starts sniffing, he seems restless all of a sudden, he starts pacing around frantically and stops in his tracks as a beautiful girl starts walking down the staircase.

MATE! He yells and he picks up his pace and walks towards the young she wolf walking down the stairs, she also yells MATE! They freeze and take a moment. Well it looks like Mason has just met his fated mate. I think to myself. I wonder who she is?