Sapphire kept running without looking back in fear of being captured and brought back to the palace. She knew that if she let herself get captured, she would have to explain why she ran away.
She had no idea of how she was going to explain to Alpha Alberto that she is not really sapphire but Akira. She wondered how she was going to explain that Sapphire’s body is only hosting the soul of Akira- his initial mate from the past.
With all of that clouding her head, she felt her pace reduce. "Oh no, not now. Please cooperate with me." She begged her body.
She wouldn't blame it, she is pregnant and running like one trying to win a sprint. She soon began to gasp for air and her legs could barely carry her.
In frustration, she heard a voice inside of her telling her to feel it and let it all out. It made no sense why she'll have a talking voice in her head all of a sudden which made her want to fight it. At that point, she felt like she was hallucinating and she was imagining things.
"Let me help you Akira." The inward voice came again.
Sapphire paused her step and took a very deep breath in. Inside of her, she began letting her inner self take total control.
She let the wolf inside of her begin to transform and she soon felt excruciating pain radiate all around her body such that it felt like hell.
With all her bones cracking and breaking to reshape, came contortion and twisting. She cried out so loud in pain. At that point, she cared less if anyone was going to hear.
In a short while, the bone breaking and skin tearing soon stopped. She suddenly felt like a whole new being. She struggled a bit to maintain her stance as it is her first time of transformation, on four paws. She felt so happy because she thought she would never be able to transform into her wolf form.
She looked at herself and she felt so pleased with the fact that she is a pure white wolf with so much fur. The amazing part of it all is that she has what seem like a silver lining at the tip of her furs.
She instantly let out a very loud howl in the sky in excitement. "Calm down Akira, you can't be too loud. They'll find you." A voice in her head spoke to her.
A frown etched on her face because she wondered how she was supposed to get used to the name sapphire when her inner wolf calls her Akira.
The voice in her still felt uncomfortable because she wasn't used to her wolf communicating with her. The voice, the body, the heightened sense of hearing, sight and a few other things all felt new. She knew she had to get used to it in a short time.
She remained on the spot thinking of which name to maintain, if she should maintain the name of the owner of the body, or if she should use her original name. While debating on that, she realized that she has spent too much time on the same spot and she is meant to keep running.
She instantly raced through the trees, she could feel the wind rushing through her fur and her paws against the earth. She felt super excited that all she cared about was to make it far away from the palace as fast as she could.
The thrill of her transformation instantly replaced her fear of getting found. The whole thing felt super exhilarating that she didn't realize that the air was changing.
In a split second, she felt sudden ropes out of nowhere roll around her. She struggled and tried to free herself but nothing seemed to work. in terror, she looked around but she could not see anything.
It was like, all that existed is the darkness of the surroundings. In an attempt to try and make sense out of it all, she was roughly yanked off her feet and held up mid air. She kept struggling with the rope bounding her but the more she struggled, it felt like the more the rope tightened around her.
She growled and fought with everything in her, yet it was of no use.
She began to hear echoes of men laughing wickedly, that was when she became certain that she must have fallen into the trap of slave hunters. They turned on their torches and pointed it straight at her. "Wow, this one is a unique one. Our Sire would be proud. She would be worth a ton." The man with the torch in his hand said to the other men who chuckled.
"We have a long way ahead, we better start moving. Alpha Alberto's guards cannot find us on this side of the woods.
Sapphire's eyes flicker at the sound of her husband's name. She wished he would somehow find her and save her from the claws of the horror that awaited her as a slave.
She began to regret running away and not facing her fears. She wished she had just remained behind and raised her child as Alberto's. No one would ever know if at all the child belongs to Gonzalo.
She was well aware that it is a selfish thought, but in her opinion, it is better than being dead or a slave with nothing to show. If she remains a slave till she gives birth to her child, her child would be sold out. All of that terrified her.
They cut down the rope that was hanging her mid air which caused her to fall down hard on the ground. One of the men walked to her, picked her up and threw her into the back of the wagon.
She tried to sit up and have a look around her when her eyes met with that of other captives all bound like animals.
One of them who was free got up with a knife in a band, and Sapphire felt terrified when the person began walking towards her. With his hand raised slightly in the air, he spoke to her. "I am not here to hurt you, I want to help you take off your bounds. You can't stay like that else you'll be kept for show." He explained to her but one part got her really confused.
He cut off her bounds and patted her on the head to help her feel calm and change back into her human form. In a few minutes, she was able to do so and he gave her some clothes to put on and keep her warm.
“Why is that?” She asked him with curiosity laced on her voice.
“Do you see yourself at all?” He said pointing at her.
“What about me?” She asked him, still confused.
Nothing made sense to her and if she had a chance of understanding what she got herself into, the young man is her only chance.
“You've got silver lining furs missy, have you ever seen those around? Even by mistake?” He asked her.
“No, but what does that mean? If you do not tell me, I have no idea about what deep s**t i am into right now. So please, tell me; what is so special about a pure white fur with silver lining?” She asked again.