CHAPTER 453: DISGUISE

Jasmine gently touched Marro’s hair as he slept on Kire’s body.

It had taken a while for Kire to allow Marro sleep on him but eventually he had agreed.

Kire has caught a rabbit and Jasmine had been able to roast it and they had eaten it for dinner

She sighed weakly.

She still couldn’t believe this little boy had lost his entire family just because he had wanted to save Xaden.

His mother, father, brother... she bit her bottom lip.

He was all alone.

At least she had not grown up with love.

He had seen a family who she could tell loved him and watched it snatched away from him.

Once this was over, she was going to speak to Xaden and they would take him along.

There was no way they could abandon him after everything he had gone through for their sake.

Jasmine heard a loud howl and she felt a kick in her tummy.

Her baby knew that Xaden was still alive.

If he was dead she would know.

Her baby too would know.

She knew what to do tomorrow.

Very early the next morning she was up before Marro was up, she was already ready to leave.

She had her coat and hood on.

She turned and saw Marro wide eyed looking at her.

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"Goddess." She gasped. "I thought you were asleep."

She took in a deep breath.

"I’m going back to your pack." She said.

His face fell instantly.

"No you can’t do that." He expressed. "They will kill you."

"They don’t know who I am." Jasmine said wisely. "And I don’t have a scent. I can tell them that I’m a pregnant traveler who is visiting my mother in the next pack. You said that Xaden told you to send them word and they were his allies right?"

Marro still seemed skeptical but he nodded his head.

"Good. Once they let me go, I’ll find my way there and get help. Perhaps before I do I might have heard a few gossips whether this Alpha hunter has taken captive."

"I’ll go with you." Marro said after much thought.

"No you can’t." She expressed. "If they catch you we are both dead. I can’t let anything happen to you."

Then she turned to Kire who was already progressing towards her. "You too."

Kire looked taken aback.

"You need to stay behind and watch him." Jasmine advised. "You have to make sure nothing happens to him. And if I don’t come back by dusk, then you take him and run back to our pack."

Kire howled in protest.

"Shhh." She chastised him gently. "You’re going to get us all killed."

He looked very offended, so she squatted and cupped his face. "I know you want to protect me. But I promise you this is how you protect me."

"I can protect myself." Marro said.

"No you can’t." Jasmine argued back. "If anything happens to you I won’t forgive myself."

"I don’t want you to die." Marro said tears filled with his eyes.

Jasmine was touched.

She had just met him and yet he had become attached and was worried for her safety.

She went to him and kissed his head.

"I won’t die." She assured him.

Even though she didn’t know how true that was.

"You are a very strong boy. I’ve never met anyone like you." She said. "Keep your strength and I want you to hide with Kire. He will protect you with his life. If I don’t come to me by dusk then he will take you back to my pack where you can tell them what happened."

"If." Marro said widely.

Jasmine laughed a hearty laugh.

How could someone who had witnessed such horrors still be so positive.

"Yes if." She said.

And then she rose up to her feet and gently rubbed his neat scalp.

"Make sure you both remain hiding. Don’t try anything. I would be back before you know it." She said. "Just point me the way to the pack."

He did and then she waved them goodbye before heading off on her journey.

She walked on for a good one hour and was grateful that Nanny Nia had insisted she take walks and exercises during her pregnancy.

She would have probably fainted by now.

She was drinking from her water gourd for the last time and realized that water had finished.

She looked up and saw that the market was already in view.

Excited, she hurried her way in.

It was filled with different people and she could feel the tension in the air.

There were guards all over.

She went past the fruit sellers and blended as if she was used to the busy schedule.

She picked at some apples as if she was observing which was best.

Then she cunningly asked the lady standing by the fruits. "What’s happening?"

The lady who was probably in her early thirties, lucky enough for Jasmine, was a gossip.

"You didn’t hear?" The woman asked. "Beta Rodrick and his entire family were killed because they were harboring enemies of alpha hunter."

"That’s....." jasmine didn’t know if it to support or oppose the killings in case the woman was a supporter.

But the woman hadn’t noticed and she continued gossiping in low tones. "So horrible. But they said the youngest one Marro is missing you can imagine how scared he is."

"This enemy that they were harboring did they find him?" Jasmine coyly asked as she looked at an unripe mango and picked up a coconut.

"I don’t know." The woman shrugged. "But Alpha hunter now seems laid back. He isn’t looking for him anymore so I think maybe they have."

Jasmine felt her throat go sour.

That meant Xaden had been captured.

"And where does Alpha hunter stay?" Jasmine asked.

"In the pack house where else." The woman said and put her hands on her waist. "Are you new here? Why are you asking all these questions."

"Nothing." Jasmine said a bit too quickly. "I was just traveling by. On my way to see my mother in the next pack."

The woman looked at her, her eyes narrowed.

Jasmine took that as her hint to leave.

"Thank you." She said quickly.

She hastily turned around to leave and bumped into a very hard surface.

She looked up and saw that it was a giant man with the meanest face looking down at her.

"Where do you think you are going?" He asked her.