CHAPTER TWENTY TWO LEONA

Right! Who would want to take in someone they doesn't know, even if it was just for the night, it was risky, although I looked pitiful enough for anyone to take me in. The woman wasn't at fault, nobody was. I was used to being rejected so this one wasn't new. 

I left her house, not dejected but determined to find another place to pass the night. 

Or maybe I was dejected but just didn't want to show it?? 

I smiled to myself telling Hera that everything will be okay, although she didn't ask me. She should be my companion who talks to me in hard times like this but Hera barely talks. She always find the need to converse with me when she's in pain or when we are in danger. 

I wheeled my chair through the festival places as I didn't find the need to stop staring at anything. They were all having fun but to me, it wasn't fun. It was supposed to be for every werewolf but right now, it wasn't. They were shifting in merriment but not a twitch of the lips could be seen on me. 

I walked through some trees and saw some light somewhere, for some reason, it attracted me. I walked into it and was surprised that there was a garden in there. Maybe the place could be safe enough for me to pass the night until I can figure things out tomorrow.  

I walked in admiring every flowers in there, the scent of lavender was also smelled. It made me miss my scent but I dare not try bring my scent back right now else I'd only get into trouble if I ever met Alpha Zane. 

I plucked a leave off the lavender tree and smelled it. The scent! I inhaled it and smiled. I could feel Hera bubbling inside of me. 

I dropped the leave gently walking over to admire the other flowers and trees.  It was such a beautiful garden and from what I had already seen and the distance I had walked. I could tell that it was a damn big garden belonging to someone in a high position. 

I walked round it feeling peaceful for a moment after a while. I was able to forget all my troubles and everything about Alpha Kane. Too bad! I forget about Fiona also, everything causing me pain disappeared as I knew the garden was one of a kind. One that soothes anyone in pain. 

I smiled, had my eyes closed feeling the breeze which sped into and past my skin as it felt like the world was just like the breeze. Calm and refreshing. 

I heard footsteps approach me from behind, my eyes flung open in fear. I wondered who that was, the owner of the garden?? I wondered if I had trespassed or if I was going to be reprimanded for being here so I had my mind prepared. 

I spun around, making my gaze meet that of the person who had walked in on me. My eyes opened wide with the view I saw. My hands shaking as I tried to control it all to no avail. Like damn! I prepared my mind for whatever was to happen but I didn't prepare enough. I haven't prepared enough.  

I had encountered a man, a powerful one at that. 

His grey eyes which bore into me, his coffee brown eyes which my eyes locked with, those tattos on his arms which was slightly revealed as he had a covered robe on. His tanned skin which I noticed with just a glance. Still staring and processing all these, my body was still shivering like I had been in the cold for hours when I've never been. It had been freaking days since it rained last. 

Alpha Zane!!

My eyes finally blinked from staring at him for too long. He was staring at him with a cold face, one which I knows will never get to forgive me once i gets to know that he owns this garden which I sincerely hope he's not. 

The man in front of me was just staring at me with evil and devilish eyes without saying anything. Damn! Wished he would say something. 

His eyes was asking for answers to why I was there, who I was and how I got there. All which I would be forced to answer after he finally leaves his mute state and starts questioning my authority. 

“Good—” I wanted to say but paused again, talking to Alpha Zane again after years. Trying to act now like I adore him and respects him. 

I swallowed hard not letting my nervous actions show but those grey eyes never left me. 

“Good day Alpha Zane” I said and paused, I wasn't expecting an answer from him and Yea! He didn't give a response. 

“I'm Leona” I said, making a brief introduction without him asking, I had to get myself of this, that is, if it's a mess I got myself in with the Alpha of Moonlight pack. 

He wouldn't recognize me through my voice, nor my name since he doesn't keep memories of people he had supposedly killed just like Alpha Kane had said. 

Flickers of memory of that night came into my head. As I closed my eyes trying to wave it off. Gina! My legs! the deaths! Everything came rushing as I couldn't help but open my eyes which was almost turning red at that moment. But dared not look at Alpha Zane, he shouldn't see that, else my cover is blown. 

“You!” His voice called as he quirked his eyes, his face hardening. If made my heart skip. He just called me like he had recognized me. I sniffled for my scent maybe that's the source of his findings but couldn't get the scent of lavender. 

He didn't recognize me, did he?? I thought getting convinced that my Jasmine scent had not worked. 

I shuddered in fear waiting for his next words but Zane didn't speak, he didn't! And that's getting me more anxious and more nervous!!!