Chapter 1

   I kept running and running despite the branches and roots tearing at my skin as I drove deeper into the woods. I also made sure to keep looking backwards so as to make sure they weren't following me. I clung tightly to my baby boy wrapped in an already torn blanket by the roots. Suddenly I tripped and fell hard to the floor breathing heavily. I felt immense pain from the thorn driven deep into my leg and tried not to scream so as not to attract them to where I was.

       But unfortunately my baby started weeping loudly,he was injured when I fell to the ground. 

     " Over here,I heard a baby cry" one of my chasers yelled and I immediately gathered my strength and tried as much as possible to get up from the already wet sand so I could continue running. They can't and mustn't get their hands on me. I can't survive another day with that monster.

       I tried as much as possible to stop my baby from crying but he wasn't stopping. Instead it got louder. I couldn't blame him. He was hungry and tasty. He hadn't taken anything for the past 24 hours except breast milk and now I couldn't afford to give him that now or I might get caught.

     " But if you don't feed him, his screams will get louder and attract Maximus's men" My wolf Sapphire warned and I gasped realizing she was right. What was I going to do? I panicked.

     " Why don't you just find a nearby cave or something? It doesn't have to be a cave,it could just be a place where you can just smuggle yourself into like a rock or something" she suggested and I immediately got to action,my eyes roaming about for a safe place to lay low for a while as I kept running. My hand over my baby mouth to prevent his cries from being heard but who was I kidding? Maximus's men had super hearing so they would still hear his cries. 

       Suddenly I sighted a big giant rock which looked bent over. I signed in relief and dashed towards it. It wasn't easy trying to get myself in with a baby in my hand but I had no choice but to try. For our sake. I managed to get in and immediately slumped against it in fatigue. My baby was still crying and my hand over his mouth wasn't offering much help. Suddenly there was a loud clap of thunder before heavy rain started to pour.

I looked up with a smile even though I couldn't see the clouds and thanked the moon goddess for her help. Now they wouldn't hear my baby's cries and might not even see the rock. I finally relaxed and felt like my body was on fire. I started to now feel the pains from the wounds I had acquired while running in the woods. I bit down hard on my bottom lips to snap myself back to reality as I felt dizziness hit me.

    I sat down on the wet plants and felt rain dripping on me and my baby. I fought to shield him from the rain by using myself as a cover and trying as much to make something of his torn blankets. I raised up my torn top and guided him to my boobs. He sucked on it hungrily and I felt pity and sadness rise in me at the sight of my baby's teary face.

  How I wish I could avoid putting him in such a situation but there was no way. I had to make this escape for the both of us. He didn't deserve us. I adjusted my baby's blanket well to at least protect him from the cold and also tried to use my warm body to shield him.

 " Am sorry you have to face this little one" I apologized to my baby who was already falling asleep as his lips fell from my nipple. I struggled to hold back my tears as I sighted the cuts on my baby's arms. I didn't even have the time to name him because we took off immediately after I delivered. My virginal still hurts like hell but I had no choice,I just had no choice. I thought as I whimpered,tears already rolling down my cheeks. 

   I hate myself for wishing he was here,I hate myself for ever thinking he could actually care,I hate myself for missing the moments I had spent together with him. I hate myself for still loving him and finding it difficult to let go. I hate myself for wishing I was in his embrace,I hate myself for missing every fucking thing about that monster.

      I have to forget him. For the sake of my son. I have to.

     " You know," Sapphire began. " You are just hurting yourself the more" she whispered and I ignored her.

   " I think you should never have left," she said and I gasped. " You know,I tried convincing you otherwise when you were thinking of this insane plan" she continued and I didn't know when I cut in.

" Are you kidding me now?" I asked. " Sapphire, you know how we were treated, you know what we went through in the hands of that beast and yet you expect me not to have come through with this plan?" I asked in shock but she just signed.

  " Besides, remember who felt the pain of being rejected most,who felt the pain of being seen as a mere toy. It was your sapphire. You" I yelled at her in my mind, crying already. 

   I just feel so frustrated right now. I had no idea where to go nor whom to run to. I have no idea if we are even going to survive at all but we have to. For the sake of my baby. I thought as I clutched him tightly to my chest.

   " But you know what you did was wrong" She said and I signed. " Taking his child away from him and denying him the right to ever see him" she added.

   " Dehlia," She called. " I know we went through alot but this is our fate,we can't push it away nor avert it. He is our soulmate and I am sure the moon goddess paired us both for a reason" She explained and I actually thought about it. I mean I don't understand. Why would the moon goddess pair me with a monster?

    The moon goddess decides our fate but this time,I will take control of it. Not just for my sake but for Sapphire and my little boy.

" Oh No" Sapphire muttered painfully when she heard my thoughts and I shut her out. I didn't want to hear from her anymore.

    I ran my eyes through the empty rock and despite my resistance found myself reminiscing our memories together. How we first met and How it all began back to the night my step father came to break the most horrible news I had ever heard in my life to me.