She bought a new phone and used it to start looking at all the towns around the state, looking at the pictures of the towns as well, all the seasons of the State. It snowed here; she’d never seen the snow before, and smiled at the thought of one day she could build a snowman with her daughter.
She was changing everything about her life. Arizona and Maine were nothing alike. She found a nice little town away from all the major highways, with plenty of forest on a lake, Greenville, and made her way there, the place she thought was perfect.
All the way on the other side of the country, it had a hospital for when she needed to deliver her daughter and was quite touristy so she should be able to pick up work. She spent a few days just looking around, and was booked into a hotel while she tried to find somewhere to live. Not such an easy thing for one to do in the human world, she now realised. It wasn’t something she’d thought about, she still had that wolf-pack mentality where everything was provided for you, she supposed.
Oriana was sitting in the caf? she’d taken to having lunch in for the past three days, was on her phone trying to find some place to live, when the girl behind the counter came over and sat across from her. She’d heard a few of the locals talk to her, appeared to Oriana that she was the owner.
Her name tag read Maddie. “You wouldn’t be looking for work now, would you? I could use some help, just haven’t put the sign up yet.” She stated.
“I could use a job.” She nodded, would help with getting and being able to afford rent, something she’d not had to pay before. “I’m Oriana, but go by Ana.” She told the woman, would be taking a new name with her new life.
Inside the pack she’d been known as Oriana, or Ori to everyone. No longer would she use that name. Ana was now who she was.
“I know, I write it on your coffee cup every day.” Maddie had smiled at her, “I also have a nice place up the road a piece, if you’re looking for somewhere safe to stay.”
“Safe?” Ana raised an eyebrow at her.
“Hm, for…” Maddie looked right at her “One’s like us, that…smell different.” She murmured.
“What?”
“I can also tell you’re with child.” Maddie smiled at her, and Ana stiffened a little in her chair, as she realised this woman understood what she was. “Don’t freak out, I am just like you, myself. Only minus the child.”
“W… What?” Ana stuttered. She’d come here to get away from wolves, she didn’t scent of a wolf or a rogue though.
Maddie smiled at her once more, “You, Ana, came to the right place.”
“You’re…” how did she put this while sitting here in a human world caf?? She knew she wasn’t on pack territory, she would have felt that gotten attacked by the border patrol and her ass hauled into see the Alpha.
“Yes, I was homeless like you are now.” Maddie answered her question. “I have been for three years now, I’m 20. I ran away like you did, I’d say. Got me a nice quiet life, just like what I imagine you’re looking for right this minute.”
“And you own this caf??” the girl was just 20.
“Yes, actually own it.” she nodded. “Let’s just say, I’m not exactly uneducated, a bit of a child prodigy. Why don’t you come and stay with me? I could use the company to be honest. Been alone three years, it gets lonely out here by myself.”
“Any others?”
“No.” she shook her head.
“Why can’t I…you know, tell that about you.” and she couldn’t, for all intensive purposes this woman across from her was human to her wolfen senses. She couldn’t even tell what rank she was. Nothing at all, just human.
“I’ll clock out at four today, take you to see the house I live in, and you can let me know if you want to stay. I don’t bite, just like you, left something I didn’t want to be a part of anymore.”
She looked at Maddie, actually recalled the first time she’d bought coffee from her, the way she had looked at her, stared at her for a long moment before clearing her voice, stated an apology and murmured your eyes are amazing. She had given Maddie her actual name that first time, and then stated afterward “Ana is fine.”
Maddie had actually chuckled a little and nodded, stated “That saves me asking how to spell Ana with one N or two?”
That reaction she now realised could have simply been shock at seeing a female rogue standing before her, in her coffee shop, could well have been worried herself that Ana would recognise her as a she-wolf as well.
Slade
He stood there staring at Anders now, Hail had shifted him back, at that one word ‘pregnant’, she had smelled different to him, from the very moment she’d picked him up at Alpha College, he’d told her as much, hadn’t realised what it could mean, because he was too bloody wrapped up in his love bubble with Audrey, and he knew it.
A month had passed since he’d seen her. “Who’s?” he half whispered, not really wanting to hear or know the answer considering all that had happened in the last 24 hours.
Slade watched as Anders raised an eyebrow at him now, “It’s likely yours.” He grated out coldly, suddenly angry with him, it seemed.
“No,” he shook his head “It was just one drunken night, that I barely…” he dodged out of the way of the fist he saw coming, well, actually Hail got him out of the way. “No,” he denied it” She told me she had a boyfriend.” Slade stated shaking his head.
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