CHAPTER SEVENTEEN MEETING THE PRISONER LEONA

I had breakfast at the motel with the little I had on me, I had come here unprepared as everything happened like a disaster. I had no time to prepare for using funds like this so I had only brought my little savings with me. 

The cruel man who had sent me here wasn't providing me any help or any resources but all he was doing was having men spy on me which I knew they were doing right now as I remembered Adrian's words. 

“We will be watching your every moves” 

After eating the breakfast which I had managed to get despite me not having a lot of money with me. All I was keeping the little I had on me for was to get a house. Shelter comes first. 

I was out of the motel as I was thankful to the woman for taking me in, I paid for the room but I was still thankful because it provided shelter over my head for a day. 

I tried searching as I walked to houses checking for houses but was told there is none or they couldn't accommodate me. 

It made me wonder what was wrong and why I wouldn't get a house but I didn't need to think long as it was obvious and a piece of cake to figure out. My crippled legs! Nobody wants a cripple in their house. 

If it was back then in Alpha Kane's kingdom, they'd do worse than this. They would have spat about me being a rejected Alpha's mate which would have angered me and brought pain to my already healing wolf once again. 

I tried checking other places but all the same, it was either they were occupied or they wouldn't take me since they seemed to know that I wasn't from the moonlight pack but an outsider who wouldn't say where she's from. Searching around and walking through the streets, my eyes caught a lady who I was having a feeling that I knew, her face was a bit familiar but I couldn't process where I had seen her. 

I walked past her but then stopped again, the scent! Blue mint mixed with pine. It triggered my memory as Hera helped in getting back the memory I couldn't seem to recall. 

 Immediately, I turned to look and could see that she has stopped also staring back at me. 

I remembered where I had saw her, in the prison, she was one of those people I had saved in the prison. One of the many people I thought had died in Alpha Kane's hand. One of those people who their pack treated the worst way irrespective of whatever crime they must have committed.  

A pang of relief surged through me. To believe that one out of all those people was alive is a good thing. 

“You are the one” She said with a smile as I stared into her eyes while she approached me. 

“Leona, right?” She asked and I nodded. I wonder how she got the name but it's no news anymore. My name was all over the town back in the pack. Due to the rejection of Alpha Kane, I became popular. 

“You saved me from the prison!” She said, barely keeping herself from yelling as it looked like she was glad to see me again, her face beaming with excitement. 

I smiled nodding my head. She walked up to me with her face all plastered with a smile. 

“I guess you weren't able to bring her along?” She said, her smiling face turning into a sad one all in second. 

I knew what she was driving at, who she was talking about. The person I had turned the prison upside down to take along with me. Fiona. 

“Yes” I muttered with a smile.  “Only I made it here” I told her and she sighed. 

“I'm Haelyn” she said and I smiled. “A nice name you've got” I said with a smile and I really meant that. 

She looked younger than me as that was obvious. 

“Many others too got killed, some might still be on the run while some were taken back, I barely managed to escape” She said, her voice laced with concern and fear. 

“You did great dear” I said, giving her a reassuring smile. 

“You seemed like you were worried about something?” She asked, as if she could solve my problem. 

I chuckled silently. Right now! She's just lucky she hasn't become a rogue, she wouldn't be able to do anything to help me. 

“Yeah, accomodation, I need one, I plan on residing here” I told her. 

“Oh! It would be worse going back to Alpha Kane's pack, he rejected you” She said acting like she cares but it only hurts me hearing about him and my rejection. 

I had thought I was away from all those but here is someone from his kingdom reminding me about it. 

“How did you end up here? While running away from Alpha Kane??” I asked ignoring her words.  

“No, I originally belonged here, I'm a member of the Moonlight pack, one of Alpha Zane's people” She said and that made me look up at her in surprise. I was shocked, why was someone from the moonlight pack in Alpha Kane's prison. 

“What??” I almost yelled, though I've gotten over the shock myself. 

“Then how possible is it to end up in another pack prison, what did you do to Alpha Kane?” I asked eager to know that the hell it is the poor girl did to be separated from her family, her pack members and which almost got her killed. 

“You don't have to pry!” She said, her voice calm but the sharp edges creating a line of no trespassing could be noticed. She shot me a glare which made me more curious about what she had done but couldn't say. She isn't ordinary, there is more to her, the girl Haelyn, but her tender face and smiles says otherwise.