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?

I heard him

guards around us, not to mention Gareth and Sofia’s worried expressions. The boy was the son of the Alpha King, and heir to the Wegalla Empire.

or

the best healer in our Pack. If anyone can take care of him,

eyes continued to

repeated back in a

in my chest

I’d seen his handsome face, and my entire body felt like it would explode from the sheer emotion of it all. I

to melt 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, and with his arms folded in front of him, I could see the prominent veins that came

years, Asher Collins was still the most

ever seen.

longer mine, and I was no

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

knew in my

distorted my voice, and taken my wolf

is?”

could stare all he want.

I

the same woman I once was.

replied politely. “My name is Ca ssandra Keller,

King paused for

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

humble, but his stern expression told me I – needed to be confident in

and bites such as the one your son has

that sent a chill

softened slightly, but not enough to appear friendly. Still, I took a long, deep breath, and then

a shiver. “But it will be difficult to find the cure to the boy’s bite without first identifying the viper. Different snakes have

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