Once Upon a Blue Moon

Stranger town

In the next few minutes after exchanging some friendly words with Henrietta, silence broke in and I stared out the window.

Watching the trees fall behind us as the train moved on continued to give me countless emotions. As the train reverberated my body, forcing Asher into a sound sleep, I'm forced to look down and watch him sleep.

How did I get here?

I put a hand up to shift the cloth covering his little face to the side and touched his round cheeks with my fingers.

He's adorable. And he is my son. My beautiful son.

'i will take care of you, Asher. I will protect you.' I think to myself.

Alpha Shane....

The call of his name resounds in my head.

I loved him even when our meeting was only fated by my wicked step father. I learned to love him even in his cruelty, even after he forced himself on me too many times.

I thought I could hate him for doing all he did to me, but after having Asher and seeing and holding him for the first time, I suddenly felt this strange surge of hope and energy within me. And I actually thought Asher's arrival would mean a lot to him, would be a chance for him to be a better person, to learn to love me at least.

I'd thought Asher would be his redemption and he would finally learn to love someone, to care for him, to be his weakness.

I thought Asher would be a reason for him to love me, to finally look at me.

But I was wrong. Because he couldn't even love his own son.

"Are you okay?" Henrietta's voice forces me out of my deep thoughts.

Frantically looking up at her, I reply quickly "yeah I'm fine. Thank you."

"We'll be there in a minute." She informs me with a small smile which I returned before quickly looking out the window again, shutting my eyes for just a second as I tried to take everything in again.

This is going to be my new life now. Shane will never be able to find me. He's not stupid, he wouldn't put his life down to come after me. He doesn't love me like that. He doesn't love or want Asher like that to want to put his business aside to come look for me.

He has probably found out that we left and doesn't care enough to try to get us back.

The thought causes a pain in my chest but I tried to accept and live with it. Alpha Shane never loved me, I was simply a commodity that he bought for a penny. I was his play thing that he could r**e whenever he wanted.

Just then, the train came to a stop after the announcers announced the next stop, forcing me out of my deep thoughts. I waited with anxiety as people trooped in again. My body starts to shake as I waited.

Suddenly, I'm overwhelmed with a bad feeling that Alpha Shane's men would walk in right now and spot me. There would be no way for us to hide without them catching our scents.

I hadn't realized I was shaking visibly until I felt Leona's hand touching mine comfortingly.

I look up at her and there's comfort in her eyes as they watched me with a strong intensity. I sensed Henrietta watching us with confusion and I couldn't even blame her. Everything about us screamed weird. Imagine meeting a woman at a train carrying a baby at this hour of the night, who is constantly looking behind her back. I would be petrified.

I lean back against the soft leather chair and tried to calm my nerves.

"Do trains usually run in the nights like this?" I ask Henrietta who had suddenly seemed occupied by something on her hand gloves as her own attempt to mind her business.

I wanted to make little talks to make this journey much less boring and awkward than it already is.

Henrietta's eyes travels down to the small black watch around her slim wrist before looking back at me with a small smile and responds "well, I don't usually take night trains but I've heard of them."

I assumed the time was most likely past midnight already. Anything between two and three.

Henrietta's moves in and whispers conspiratorially "I hear night trains exists because of all the illegal activities carried out in the big cities. You know, gun men needs a way to get their arsenals into town and child traffickers also needs a way to have kids brought to them without alerting the authorities."

Henrietta chuckles and I wondered why she found this humorous enough to laugh about. I look down at Asher and couldn't imagine anybody ever taking him away from me.

"We are almost there." She tells me. I look around to find that the train has become somewhat empty after the last stop. A good number of passengers had gone off.

Still, something felt off about this strange woman seated right next to me. She's too nice, almost like she'd boarded this train deliberately for us. Is it possible that she somehow knows us? What if she was a spy sent by Alpha Shane. What if she was leading us into a trap? Why did we even agree to drop off exactly where she had mentioned that she's going?. To not seem too off and suspicious, that's why, a little voice in my head says.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid. This is a woman who is just being sweet and nice because that's just who she is. She's not trying to pull anything on us.

"Brookeway is close by," Henrietta speaks after a while "you might wanna get ready to leave."

I nod before giving Leona a quick look. It was clear that we shared the same feelings about Henrietta.

Like she had said, the automated voice announced our arrival to Brookeway and a few seconds later, we were dropping off in front of a very much bigger terminus than the one where we'd first boarded from back at the Caribbean.

Everything looked strange to me as I just stood there watching what's left ahead of us. I can see a couple of cars parked up outside of this terminus. Maybe they were taxis ready to take you to wherever you were going.

But I can't help wonder which cab driver would still be up at this hour, waiting to deliver passengers to their destinations.

"Let me have him." Leona says as she puts out her hands for Asher.

My hands are stiff from carrying his weight throughout the entire ride so I quickly give him out. Asher has slowly woken up now. I'd fed him shortly before getting off the train.

I can feel and intense cold here, the weather is quite different from the Caribbean. It's much colder here and I noticed Asher's skin slowly getting red. I needed to get him proper clothes.

I felt my stomach rumble and I looked ahead, wondering where we could go from here. We needed a place to sleep.

"You guys sure you can find your way from here?" Henrietta once again startles me from behind causing me to jump and turn around to find her standing with her hat now tilted back on her head, her hands clasped together in front of her, one of her signature sweet smiles spread across her lips.

"Oh thank you very much, but we can find our way from here." I tell her.

I could've sworn I saw some kind of sadness appear of her face and disappeared quickly as her smile vanished.

"Alright," she mutters "well, take care then." She says and we both watched her walk away.

I couldn't help but feel bad. She was just trying to help.

"I don't know, I have a bad feeling about her ma'am." Leona says as we started walking out of the terminus and onto the quiet streets.

"You're right," I reply "the most important thing right now is that we're far away from Shane and his men. It feels like I'm finally free, Leona."

"I'm sorry that you had to go through all of that, ma'am," Leona says after a short silence "Asher doesn't deserve this kind of life."

"I think you should also start calling me by my name, Leona. I'm not your Luna anymore. For what it's worth, I'm just a simple Omega again."

Leona gives me a lip lined smile, as if holding back whatever she has intended to say.

"Where are we headed?" She asks as we exit the terminus premises and entered the street.

The road is eerily quiet, not a single person on the street. It's expected, owning to the current hour of the night.

I wasn't scared of getting jumped on as I knew I could always defend myself with my wolf abilities.

As I tried to take a sharp turn, I felt a sudden presence surrounding us. Before I could decisfer what that presence was, I perceive strong scents. The scent is mixed up, which told me there were more than one person around and they are on us, watching us. And the feeling wasn't good.

"We're being watched." I whisper to Leona, causing her to quickly slower her pace.

My heart began to thunder in my chest as I thought about the possibilities of Alpha Shane's men already here waiting for us, watching us. Waiting to capture us and take us back to the Caribbean pack.

No, I cannot go back.

The scents gets strong, stinging my senses. And then everything suddenly made better sense.

They were scents of Lycans.

Lycans....

It's strange because I didn't seem to recognize them. Perhaps I would've recognized if it was Shane's men.

"Well, well, well. Look what we have here." A semi deep masculine voice speaks from somewhere above, followed by a thudding sound which I follow up to the front to find a guy, dropping himself onto the roof of a house just before us.

"What are two little lost wolves finding here at this hour?" Another one says and my eyes quickly follows to find him seated on a lower roof, just beside where the previous guy had jumped on.

This guy looks completely different from the first guy even though they wore the same type of black robe over black suits.

His hair is completely white, styled in a way that there's a parting line in between his head, one side of the divided lump of hair falling right over to the side and almost concealing one of his eyes.

His eyes shone in the dark as they watched us from afar and when he opened his mouth, I noticed his tongue is completely black, as well as his lips and mouth entirely.

Fear engulfs me and my heart started to ponder in my chest.

Everything about these men screamed danger.

I start to step back slowly, hoping to be able to outrun them if need be.

After taking two steps back, my back hits something solid from the back. It was somebody's body. And the contact forces a gasp out of my mouth.

"You counted wrong, Kai," a very deep and intimidating voice says from behind me, sending a strange kind of shivers coursing through my body "they're three. Three. Little. Lost. Wolves."

He said each words separately.

And I realized what I felt.

It was fear. Intense fear.