The walk to the bus station was a long one, she didn’t dare use one of the pack cars and risk getting caught. She sighed, glancing at the time on her phone that was now non-functioning. She had removed the SIM card from it to avoid anyone from the pack finding her and had tossed it in the river. She planned on ditching the phone as soon as she got on the bus and they got far enough away. Glancing up as she heard the bus approaching, she tried to make herself look less like she had been sobbing and more like… Her normal self.
“Another vacation for you sweetheart? Where’s that mate of yours?” The bus driver asked as soon as he had opened the doors for her to step on.
Zalena gripped the straps of her bag a little more as she walked up the steps and held a wad of cash out to him, her voice cracking as she began to talk. “He… He wasn’t my mate… I was…” She didn’t finish the sentence as her voice caught on the lump in her throat.