The car passed through the city center slowly. It was morning market time, so the streets were crowded.
I was huddled in a blanket as I peeked out the window at the prosperous scene. I had never expected that this border pack could be so prosperous and stable.
As the hardships and confusions of the past few years flashed through my mind, I suddenly felt that everything was worth it.
I was feeling groggy, when two small figures suddenly darted into my line of sight.
I instantly sat up straight. I eagerly looked out, wanting to take a closer look at them, but they had disappeared.
“Stop the car.”
I asked the driver to stop the car and opened the window to carefully study my surroundings.
The two children had vanished into thin air.
Was I hallucinating because I missed my kids so much?
“Alpha, what’s wrong?” The driver turned around to eye me in confusion.
I shook my head and rolled the window up again. “Nothing. Let’s go.”
The car began moving forward again. I rubbed my temples and felt a slight headache coming on. It seemed that I didn’t have the capacity to stay up late anymore.
The journey was long. After we crossed the city limits, I lay on the seat, wanting to sleep, but it eluded me. So I sat up and watched a movie on my tablet.
It was a horror movie and I found it quite boring. In the past, these movies used to terrify me, but now I could calmly watch them. I guess it had something to do with me reading horror stories to my kids every night.
As my eyes began to droop, the car suddenly screeched to a stop.
I was startled and got up to ask about the situation.
“Alpha, a huge boulder is blocking the road ahead.” The driver met my eyes anxiously.
I got out of the car and looked around. The road was narrow and a huge boulder sat in the middle.
My subordinate alighted from another car and instructed the other men to move the huge boulder to the side.
I returned to the car, not in the mood to watch the movie anymore. I swiped on the tablet screen absent-mindedly and inadvertently landed on my hidden folder. I was greeted with several photos of Rufus.
Initially, Rufus had been reluctant to take photos because he didn’t like them. He always looked stern and a little serious in them.
As time passed, he must have gotten used to taking photos, so his expression gradually became natural and he began to smile.
I ran my fingers over his smiling eyes in the photo, my insides churning with mixed emotions. I hadn’t realized how many years had passed by.
I used to think that living under Shawn as a slave was tough, but I now realized that missing someone was the hardest thing.
I would never be able to go back in time, and even if I could, I would have still made the same choice. There were some feelings I just couldn’t display for the rest of my life. The only thing I could do was move on and silently wish Rufus well from afar.
And I had to bring up my kids and teach them to become brave, indomitable adults.
I sniffled and suppressed my sadness. I would be arriving at the palace soon. I couldn’t afford to make any mistakes now, or else all my efforts of the past few years would be in vain.
Two days went by quickly. As I got closer to the imperial palace, I was engulfed with a sense of familiarity and timidity. I felt nervous, but Yana somehow became lively.
She had matured a lot in the past few years. She didn’t smile as much as she did before and she didn’t even like to sing anymore.
When we finally made it to the imperial palace, it began raining heavily. I was drenched as soon as I alighted from the car.
I touched the water on my face speechlessly, my stomach clenching uneasily. I had an ominous feeling that this trip to the imperial palace might not be so smooth.
Beryl’s POV
Arron and I hid in a corner of the park and munched on a few biscuits. Soon, a group of convoys pulled to a stop in front of the hotel opposite the park.
The convoy consisted of one limousine and three smaller vans.
As soon as they arrived, a group of well-dressed men, women, and children walked out of the hotel. Presumably, these people were the businessmen in charge of these goods.
Then several men in black loaded the cloth-covered baskets into the vans. I figured that the baskets contained precious gemstones.
After all, the border was rich in natural resources, namely precious stones. In order to promote the development of the pack’s economy, Mommy also allowed outsiders to utilize our mines. But I didn’t know what their agreement was exactly. After all, I was just a little girl and Mommy didn’t talk to me about these things. I only heard her talking about it in her study.
When the assistants were done loading the baskets, I grabbed Arron’s hand and ran to the van.
The group of businessmen were already waiting in line to get in the car. Arron and I stopped at the end of the line.
Two middle-aged werewolves in the line saw us and asked in surprise, “Little ones, where are your parents? I didn’t see you two earlier.”
“My brother and I went to buy some snacks just now. Our mother’s already waiting for us in the car.”
I smiled sweetly and pulled out a bar of chocolate from my pocket and offered it to the middle-aged werewolf.
“Try it! It’s very yummy. Mommy said that this kind of candy is only sold here.”
Right on cue, Arron also pulled out a strawberry-flavored candy from his pocket and put it in the palm of the middle-aged werewolf.
“You keep it. I’m a grown up now; I don’t really eat candy.” The werewolf laughed happily. He was obviously amused by our antics. Instead of taking our candies, he stepped aside and helped us into the car.
Arron and I thanked him politely. Then we scurried to the back of the van and took the empty seats in the last row. Beside us, there was a she-wolf in a beige dress. She glanced at us but said nothing. Maybe she thought we were the kids of one of the businessmen.
The car soon revved to life and drove away from the border area. We were finally on our way towards the imperial capital!
Arron and I were both giddy from excitement, but the trip was very long. At some point, we leaned against each other and fell asleep. When we woke up, we gobbled up the cookies Mommy made for us. Fortunately, Arron was wise enough to bring a water bottle, so we didn’t go thirsty.
Along the way, we looked out the window at the passing scenery happily.
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