Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 2 Viper bite

CA SSANDRA

“Cas sandra?” Marley mudged me back into reality. Her pretty eyes were wide with concern. “Are you okay?”

I gulped, and then nodded as I pushed away my memories of Anemond. “Yes.”

I managed to pull myself together. I needed to be level-headed if we were going to heal this patient.

It didn’t take us long to reach the Pack House. The enormous mansion wasn’t

far from the clinic.

When we crossed through the doors, we were surprised to see a crowd of people hustling around. The Pack House seemed to be in a huge commotion, and I had to duck to avoid bumping into anyone around me. This was the most activity I’d seen here in a while.

“Wow,” Marley remarked as Jasper led us down the hall. “This must be serious. Everyone seems so upset.” She tugged at Jasper’s sleeve. “Can you tell us what’s going on?”

“The Alpha will tell you once we find him,” Jasper remarked.

“Oh,” Marley replied, and she let out a sigh. “So much secrecy.

I wanted to ask follow-up questions, but Jasper’s tone was so serious, I decided to wait. When we reached the end of the busy hall, a pair of people were waiting for us. One of them was Gareth, the Alpha of the Wild Crawler Pack, and the -other was his eldest son, Rayden.

We bowed respectfully when we stopped in front of them.

The Alpha of the Wild Crawler Pack was a stern man, yet fair, and he was

well-respected amongst the Pack. He was normally quite calm, but today, his brown eyes were wide with concern. Rayden wore a similar expression.

Rayden was tall, with big, dark brown eyes, and black hair that glinted blue in the light, and his perfect teeth were white as pearls. He was slim, but covered in exotic tattoos, and girls in the pack admired his high cheekbones and fit frame.

When I first arrived here five years ago, Rayden had been a young man of sixteen. Now he was all grown up, and it likely wouldn’t be long until he took his father’s place as Alpha of the Wild Crawlers.

I was a little surprised to see him here at the Pack House. The last time I’d seen him was two years ago at a dinner hosted by the Alpha’s family. It’d been a farewell dinner to celebrate Rayden’s departure for the Wegalla Empire’s army- an elite group known as the Myriad. It was an honor to be recruited, and so we’d honored the young man accordingly.

“Ca ssandra,” Gareth greeted me in a relieved tone, and then he looked at Marley. “And Marley. I’m so glad to see you.”

me.”

leave us. Thank you for collecting them for

gave us a small smile, the guard turned and

offered me a kind smile as we

me warmly, if not formally, and he

head at me.

politely. “It’s a surprise to see you

he agreed, and then he looked at Gareth. “If you’ll excuse me, father,

course,” Gareth replied. “Do what you need to do, son.”

the corner. “Please escort the doctor and her assistant to the second floor,” he ordered

usually reserved for the Alpha’s family and their ser vants. It was considered private quarters while the first floor was used for meetings and

forming in the back of my mind, but I did

addressed us, and after Marley and I offered polite nods toward Gareth,

a pair of double doors, and on either side of them stood

Marley whispered under her breath. She too recognized the special crest on the guards’ shoulders. Her pale green eyes darted around the hall. -“What’s going

This guest of

of the door.

door, but they stood aside

doors flew open, a chorus of sounds flew toward us. A

-light in

fire.

a few with piles of towels, and others with trays of various foods, drinks, and other

when a few moved out of the

the center of the bed was a young boy, around the same age as my Finnick. Se rvants attended to the boy, and even from across the room, I could see his lips. were blue. Perspiration ran down his face and his eyes were squeezed tightly shut. He was clearly

patient,” Marley noted sadly as we followed

him,” I assured her. As we walked, I pulled my waist-length. copper hair into a ponytail and steadied my nerves. I needed to have my wits about me if I

She was just as beautiful as ever,

footsteps, she turned her attention to me and I noticed her eyes were underscored by light purple shadows.

sighed in

Luna’s beautiful face looked tired, but she managed to smile at me anyway.

she answered before I could ask. “They’re safe

they’re

nodded her head toward the young boy. “Please, doctor, you must do something to help him. I fear he’s in a great deal of pain,