Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Alpha King

CASSANDRA

“Well, then you’ll have to tell them to hurry up and find the beast,” Marley remarked beside me, and she rolled her pretty eyes in annoyance. “The sooner the

better.”

The room suddenly grew heavy and my eyes widened.

While part of me agreed with her sentiment, I couldn’t believe she’d been so bold as to say that to the Alpha King. Of course, I wasn’t fully convinced that my friend knew that’s who she’d been addressing. If she had, I doubt she’d have spoken

so tersely.

“Marley!” Sofia exclaimed. The Luna looked shocked and embarrassed at my assistant’s outburst, and her cheeks flushed scarlet.

Asher’s eyes narrowed, and the room fell silent.

“Your Majesty, please excuse her,” Sofia begged, and she offered the Alphal King an apologetic expression and a small bow. “We-”

Asher raised his hand, and the Luna immediately froze in place and shut her

mouth.

“Wait, “Your Majesty’?” Marley whispered. “Oh, holy shit.”

Her expression was awestruck. Clearly, she’d realized who had been addressing us, and her cheeks darkened until they were the same color as Sofia’s.

“Shh,” I whispered as quietly as possible. Luckily, neither Sofia nor the Alphal King seemed to hear us.

Instead, Asher released a huffy sigh.

“Are these two qualified, Sofia?” he asked, and his gray eyes bore into mine intensely. “My son deserves the utmost care, and I will not allow him to be treated by anyone who doesn’t know what they’re doing.”

His… son?

heard him

Gareth and Sofia’s worried expressions. The boy was the son of the Alpha King, and heir

or

best healer in our Pack. If anyone can

King’s eyes continued to study me

in a

in my chest as if

ready to burst forth as I stared back at Asher. It’d been five years since I’d seen his handsome face, and my entire body felt like it would explode from the sheer emotion of it all. I never thought I’d see him again, yet here he was, standing before me with the same gray eyes I’d peered into with all my love so

away as I stared back at him. While the years. and likely stress of his position had aged him slightly, he was just as handsome as he was back then. His dark hair fell to his shoulders in soft waves and his skin was perfectly tan and clear. He was muscular yet lean,

Asher Collins was still the

ever seen.

mine, and I was no longer his.

Ca ssy?” he addressed me directly. He leaned in closer as if to examine me, and it took all of my effort to keep

clue of my past identity, but I knew in

distorted my voice, and taken my

is?”

all

I

longer the same woman I

“My name is Ca ssandra Keller, Your

King paused for a moment.

asked, and when I didn’t answer, he clarified. “Healer,

a moment, I considered being humble, but his stern expression told me I –

such as the one your son has

in a low voice that sent a chill down my spine. “Let’s see what you can

Still, I took a long,

to the boy’s bite without first identifying the viper. Different snakes have different venom, and the severity of his injury will depend on the breed and

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