The Alphas Runaway

Chapter Two

As soon as the beating of my father started I turned and walked away for two reasons. One I didn’t want to watch my father be beat to death and two, it was only a matter of time before they found me behind this dumpster then my parents deaths would have been for nothing.

And I was not going to let that happen. As soon as I was safe the people who took my parents away from them would get what they have coming to them, that’s a promise.

It wasn’t easy getting out of the gas station as the mafia was crawling all over the car my father and I have been in, how they knew it was ours beats me. So I hitched a ride from someone else.

Well, actually the person who owned the car didn’t really know I was their passenger since I was hiding in the bed of their truck but that’s beside the point.

Once the truck had stopped and I was sure that the driver was out of the car I quickly poked my head up, looked around, then jumped out of the car and casually walked away from the truck to not draw attention to myself. The first thing I did was look around the town to find possible escape routes in case they were to find me again and then I found a place to sit down and get my head together, which mainly consisted of having a quick crying session before I pulled the rubber band off the box that held the paper on it and opened the box. The first thing I saw was a folded up piece of paper with my name written on it and underneath it was a wad of cash, before I looked at the other various things in the box I read the letter which brought more tears to my eyes.

Katia,

If you’re reading this then unfortunately it means that you are now on your own. Your father and I love you so very much and hope that through all of this you won’t remember us as the parents you made you ran but as the parents who tried their very best to protect you. I know you have questions at this point and you will eventually get the answers but please, go to the address on the box you will be safe there for a while. You are a very strong girl and I know you will get into situations where you think you don’t know what to do but sweetheart you do, never second guess yourself because once you second guess you’ll be in more risk of getting caught. You can do this.

Love,

Mom and dad

“Okay Katia pull it together.” I mumbled to myself as I ran my hands threw my hair and wiped the tears from my cheek before carefully folding the letter and placing it back into the box. I grabbed the paper with the address and phone number then stuffed that along with some of the money in the wad in my pocket. Doing what I was instructed by my dad I got on the second bus that was leaving the town I was in, which I discovered was River Hills, Nevada, and sat up near the front in case I needed to make a quick escape. Throughout my years we found that the people hunting us would always skip over the people in the front and head towards the back. Idiots.

The bus ride was about three hours away from River Falls and unfortunately it consisted of me staring at everyone new that came onto the bus to see if they seemed suspicious. But during the times when we were out in the middle of nowhere I got time to look at the piece of paper that was on top of the small wooden box my dad gave me.  It was wrinkly and worn out in some spots where it looks like the address had been erased and a new one added on top of it which was just another confusing factor in the whole thing.

All I wanted to do was sleep but I knew that just meant a bigger chance of these men finding me so there was no time to rest, not until I got to the address on this paper. Looking down at the paper I silently thanked God that the city was in the same state I was in but then cursed because I had no idea where this place was.

“Excuse me sir.” I said walking up behind an old man and put a hand on his arm to get his attention.

“Oh Jesus child! You scared me, are you trying to send me into an earlier grave?” he asked while placing a hand over his heart.