Chapter 19: I Miss Them.

LEONA 

She was supposed to let me hear how harsh I must have sounded. But she didn't. 

“It's okay, I understand your fear; people in Moonlight pack aren't like that,” She said, seeming to know why I didn't want to take a tour. 

I sighed. It looked like she was winning, and whatever I did, she would not leave me alone. I succumbed to her requests. 

“What fun would be in going shopping for groceries in the market?” I asked with a side-eye. 

“Hmmm. It's not a market, just like a large store, many things to feed your eye with” she explained. 

I thought about it again; it would be nice to check the whole place in, then I'd be able to learn how things work here, and I would be able to know things that could make everything here easier for me. Things that would help me plan out my mission easily. That's surely a cool idea. 

“Okay then, let's go,” I muttered, and I could see the smile on her face. 

One could think she won the lottery, she seems cheerful, just like Fiona had always been, but she's just too young. I chuckled silently at my thoughts. 

We got to the market on a walk as it wasn't far from her mansion. The market was a local one, I watched as everyone made their movements. They were all smiling and chatting like there was no other side to this world. But there is! The sad and devastating side. A side when all these smiles would turn into tears. It made me remember the time when I used to be an assassin. The merciless assassin who would spare no one. The ruthless assassin who had always turned deaf ears to their pleading as they shed those deceitful tears. 

“Here! Muffins,” Haelyn said to me, bringing me out of my fantasy as I turned to look at her. I couldn't even notice when she had gone to get the muffins but all I knew was when she had called me and handed some to me.  

I stared at the muffins for a while before accepting it from her, it reminded me of Fiona. The muffins she always made for me. The last one I had eaten, the time I had got rejected by the Alpha. It made my heart sink. 

I took a bite out of the muffins she had handed over to me. It tasted great but not as great as the one I had always eaten with Fiona. I miss her. I couldn't deny that. “Has she had breakfast today, what about lunch?” I thought, wondering about those things whenever I did have time to think. We only had each other, but now that we were apart, I could only care for myself here, but the thought of Fiona going through hard times alone made me feel pain in my heart. 

Going into the market as Haelyn picked some of the things she needed, my eyes were roaming everything in the market. It was such a lively kingdom but it doesn't deserve the ruler they had. Alpha Zane was not the right man to be the Alpha of this pack. Not a cunning man like him. The thought of Alpha Zane triggered my memory again. I had to act fast and get things done the way Alpha Kane had wanted it before he changed things again. I dread that, changing promises like he had always done. 

My eyes caught a glimpse of sisters in the market as I stared around. They were checking out body accessories as they picked out hairpins for themselves checking it if suits them, all smiling. 

It reminded me of a family with three sisters I once knew, those three loving sisters who would always do this almost whenever they had the time. Those lovely sisters were me! Fiona and Gina. 

I recalled when Gina would find ways to persuade the rest of us to go shopping with her. We would pick out pins just like they were doing, and Gina would put them on funnily on both of us, telling us to check the mirror. And if we did, we couldn't help but frown, although our appearance was strong enough to earn laughter from tons of people. 

She would have used the hairpins to clip our hair in a very funny way. I smiled recalling that memory again. Here in this pack, sweet and strong memories of the bond with my sisters were coming to me, but the memory about this place I wouldn't be able to lose is; my crippled leg, which Alpha Zane had made that way, and Gina, who I'm yet to find out the truth about her death. 

But one thing is certain, I wouldn't stop until I get everything I need to know about what happened to my sister. To do that, I have to be with Alpha Zane. 

I checked the ladies again and I could bet that I was envious of them. I was never envious of anything or anybody when I had my sisters with me but right now, I had none. They were not with me. One was gone, and I knew I would never get to see her again and there was another trapped and cornered for plotting against the king. I wondered what state Fiona would be in at the moment. I wondered if she got to eat any muffins, I bet she didn't. Alpha Kane wasn't kind enough to give snacks to people he called prisoners. 

I brought out a hairpin from the pocket of my jacket. The hairpin looked old, but it was my most cherished treasure after Fiona. 

The first hairpin Gina had ever bought me. I stared at it for a while thinking about the memories lurking behind it. I didn't know but I knew my eyes blurred with water clouding it. Before I could think of making it vanish, a tear fell from my eyes. “I Miss You, Gina,” I muttered and sniffled. “I Miss You, Fiona” I muttered again. 

I miss them, and I do mean it!!