The Tale Of A Pregnant Luna
Chapter Sixteen

Chapter 16:

Reese's POV:

Reaching the hotel, I paid the driver a great tip to wait for me as Ienquired Colleen's whereabouts. Entering the decent hotel lobby, Iwalked toward the receptionist desk.

"Good evening, how may I help you?" the lady at the desk asked.

"Hi, um, Id like to enquire about a person. I think she's still stayinghere.” I said tapping my finger on the desk. .

"May I get a name so we can call them.”

"Colleen Anderson." I said.

Nodding at me the woman had pulled up her system looking thoughthe clients. A few minutes had passed before she had come acrossanything.

"Ah, she had checked out yesterday." she said, making my heart drop.I was a day too late. "Is there any way to know where she had gone?" Iquestioned in worry.

"I apologize monsieur, that we have no information on, but she did askfor a real estate's number, so we recommended her to one. We onlygive you the contact number.” the lady said

I nodded accepting any information they could provide. I needed toreplace her. I really needed to. The longer we were apart, the more themate bond thinned. The lady handed me a business card with anaddress. Looking at the operating hours, there was still an hour beforethey closed.

"Thank you.” I said gratefully as I rushed out, toward the taxi. Entering, Iclosed the door, giving the address to the driver. I tapped my footimpatiently as seconds turned into minutes. As the time neared Icouldn't help but clench my hands into anticipation, until I caught sightof her.

"Stop the car.” I said to the driver.

Stepping out of the car, I looked from the other side of the road."Colleen?" I said out loud

She paused for a second, before turning around looking to see ifanyone had called out to her. The moment our eyes locked, she tooktwo steps back, as if she had just seen a ghost. From the way she wasstepping back, my posture became more alarmed. And in the nextsecond, she took off.

Colleen’s POV:

As our eyes locked I couldn't help but feel my blood run cold, as myheartbeat picked up. He found us.... He really found us. It made nosense why he was here and looking for us at that. Was hurting us oncenot enough?

I felt a slight panic overcome me, so I did what I knew best, and ran.Running as fast as I could, I could hear his footsteps following after me.Picking up my pace, I caught sight of a park filled with trees. Turningquickly trying to lose him, he turned sharply, not missing mymovements. Bloody alpha genes! He was hot at my feet as wecontinued to run as though playing a game of catch. Trying to lose himbetween the trees that enriched the park, the was a small streamblocking the pathway, to the other side.

I paused for a second contemplating, jumping in, and getting across orgetting caught. Reese paused a distance away.

"Don't do it Colleen." he said almost desperately.

It was either now or never. Making my way closer I jumped in soakingmyself to wet my scent in order to give me some time to escape.Reaching the other side, I ran deeper into the tree filled park. Reachinga distance away, I sat near a tree, sliding down, panting. It felt asthough we were running for hours, when really it was only 10 minutes.Is this what pregnancy does to you?

Calming myself, I couldn't help but feel anxious as to what washappening. He wasn't supposed to replace me, he wasn't even supposedto know where we were, but here he was, chasing us. I closed my eyesfor a moment, trying to even out my breathing. A sudden crack of atwig caught my attention, my wolf becoming alert. I swiftly turned toscan the area, but there was nothing. Sighing I looked away.

"Maybe it was just my paranoia...” was what I thought until my eyeslocked with red eyes.

A... Rogue? The scent so adamant, I quickly stood up on my two feet.The distorted beast, made an appearance before me, slowly comingtoward me, as I took a step back. What are rogues doing in France?Mom had clearly said, there were not any packs, so it made no sensefor a rogue to be present, the stench this wolf gave off was enough tosay what it was. Lunging toward me, I tried dodging it only for my footto give out, allowing it to pierce its teeth into my arm. Managing to kickit off, I took a step back as blood dripped from my arm, my visionbecame hazy and blurry. Taking this opportunity, it growled at meagain, lunging forward, but this time I had no strength. Ready to feelthe impact, I closed my eyes. Was I really gonna get beaten down by arogue? The downsides of being an Omega.

A few second passed and a grunt resonated in my ears. I looked to seenone other than Reese. The rogue had been thrown aside, as Reesestood in his wolf form against it. Getting up, the rogue bared its fangs,as it circled us. Getting ready to lunge, Reese managed to dodge itsvital attack, but his hind-Leg had gotten caught, making me wince.Kinking the rogue once more, he had managed to knock it into a treebrutally, and without a second to waste, he had caught a hold of itsneck, biting into it, killing it slowly.

Moving behind a bush, where I assume he left some clothes to wear,the crackling of bones snapping into place rang in my ears, as he cameout, wearing nothing but shorts. Making his way toward me, hescanned my body before his eyes locked with my arm.

"Colleen...!, Are you okay?" he asked as he tried to touch my face. Islapped his hand away cowering away.

"What are you doing here?" I asked expressionlessly. Did he think aftersaving me, he could erase what he had done? He kept silent as helooked into my eyes, not answering me. "WHAT?!" I yelled out at him.Sighing he rubbed his face, before looking at me yet again. "Colleen,you need to listen to me, there's a reason I-" He began to makeexcuses, but I had cut him off.

"I have nothing to listen to.” I said monotonously. "Can you be certainthat everything that you're about to say is not an excuse? I'm not stupidto trust someone whose already hurt me once.” I said, tuning away.Feeling his pheromones rise, I heard him growl in frustration beforebanging the tree beside him, making it shake. "LISTEN TO ME!" heyelled.

A short silence fell over us before he spoke out, after taking a deepbreath to calm himself.

"Why did you do it? Why did you hide that you were pregnant,Colleen?"

"I don’t know what you're talking about.” I lied straight through myteeth. There's nothing that could give it away at this moment, my scentwas still wet, the heartbeat was too faint and the little bump didn'tattract any attention.

He stared straight into my eyes before speaking again. "Don't Liestraight to my face. I know you're carrying a part of me. That's why youran away. But did it not cross your mind to tell me? WHY WOULD YOUDEPRIVE ME OF MY OWN CHILD? Yes I was a scumbag, a jerk, anasshole, say what you must, but did you not think about how importantthis would have been to me?" he asked.

Wait.

Hold up.

Was he blaming me? We wouldn't be in this mess if it weren't for him inthe first place. He played with my heart, he played with me, andshamefully I let him.

"Now why would I think of you in any situation Reese? Just why wouldI? As if hurting me wasn't enough, was I supposed to hurt myself tryingto stay beside you? Let's get this right...You. Hurt. Me. Not the otherway around. You rejected me. Not the other way around. So why wouldI let us suffer? Is there a reason I should have stayed and let myself diewith a hope that ceased to exist?" I questioned.

I looked at him as he stayed quiet. As he looked away. Something waseating him up. He refused to look into my eyes and confess to hismistakes. "I'm trying to be happy here, so don't deprive me and mychild of that happiness. Please just leave us alone. Besides, you haveLillian, there is no need for us anymore, you'll be happy-"

"I did it for you!" his voice resonated cutting me off.

'What...?"

Sorry for the delayed update guys, this chapter was pretty long, andfunnily it's from this chapter all the plot holes started forming, so I'mkind of glad I picked them up and could edit so the future chapterscould be structured better. This chapter was a bit on the long side, I'msorry about that, but I hope you enjoyed it! Also i do apologize for thePOV change, but its gonna stop in a think a chapter or 2 hopefully. ;)what is the reason Reese did what he did? Will it appease colleen? Doeshe deserve her forgiveness? Let me know your thoughts in thecomments! :)

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