My winter treasure

Chapter 11.

Lisa was right after all, this is going to be the longest winter for more than a decade. But now I don't find it beautiful anymore, it hurts, the cold hurts me.

Returning to the city was not so difficult, after a whole night's walk through the trees around the road, I returned to my city, that cursed place that I could never leave.

But now I was in the rich area, I tried to move as little as possible so as not to be beaten up by business owners who hate homeless people, but life was difficult in winter, when the streets are so empty and it's cold all the time.

I forgot how to live this way, less than two months at Theo's side were enough to erase my mind from the hell I lived in all my life, so going back to sleep in the streets and alleys was uncomfortable, and scary. Even so I don't sleep much anymore, whenever I close my eyes feeling exhausted, I can only think of him, of his scent and his warm arms around me, his laughter and the way he caressed my abdomen, how he told me he loved me and how I could never answer him...

Then I would wake up almost immediately, crying desperately and looking for him next to me in the middle of the snow, but Theo is not here, and it's killing me.

It's been almost a week since I left Theo's mansion, and today I have to find something to eat. The pregnancy symptoms are still going on even though I'm back on the streets, so I throw up all the food that touches my lips, but now I don't have Theo hugging me and bringing me another delicious meal after throwing up, I'm alone in the middle of the dark alleys of the city.

But today I have to eat, I have lost almost all the little weight I was able to gain in my alpha's mansion, and I feel my puppy's pheromones getting weaker and weaker, he is dying...

As Lisa said, she put a generous amount of bills in one of my coat pockets, even though I didn't use it until now and just ate things out of the garbage. I don't know if it's right to use Theo's money, in a way it feels like I stole it, and that's why I didn't use it until now.

But these are desperate measures, I am so afraid that my baby will die, that I am forced to use that money to buy something to eat. That is why at dawn I quietly move to the poor neighborhood of the city, I know that no one would sell me anything in the rich neighborhoods because of my appearance, but here it is common for them to sell food even for coins.

I'm looking for something cheap to eat, I don't want to spend money that doesn't belong to me, so I notice a little old pies store that is open even though it's early in the morning, which seems to be the perfect place to get something small and cheap but nutritious for my puppy.

"So you're pregnant, wow..." Said the kind store owner when she saw me enter the place.

"Yes, for a couple of weeks" I answer in a whisper.

"You must feed well, that's important for the puppies."

The store is empty, and while she is talking to me, the store owner is preparing the pie I will eat, with a big smile on her face and being kind. That makes me smile too, it's not normal to find kind people nowadays, especially when I look like this, so I can't help but smile, feeling flattered by these people.

"Wow, a new customer" Says a man's voice behind me.

I get scared for a moment, but then I see that it's a guy carrying a sack of flour, which he's going to leave behind the counter with the store owner.

"Yes, he's a pregnant omega" says the owner talking to the man.

"Wow, so we have to be nice to our new client..."

They share a strange look, but I don't really care, the pie the lady is preparing for me is almost ready, she just has to put it in the oven for a few seconds and I can leave.