Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 11 Alpha King found her?

CA SSANDRA

When I awoke, my vision was blurred, and my head swam with incoherent thoughts. As I fought back the dizziness, my eyes began to adjust, and images of the Moon Goddess and the Holy Moon appeared.

For a moment, I stared at them and wondered if this was the afterlife.

Had the bear managed to take my life? Was I… dead?

Suddenly, the room came into focus, and I recognized the mural I’d painted on my ceiling long ago. I wasn’t dead. I was in my bedroom, tucked tightly into bed.

How had I gotten here?

Suddenly, I felt the soft touch of a warm hand on my arm. When I glanced over, I caught sight of Marley.

“Oh Ca ssandra,” she gushed in pure relief, and her pale green eyes glittered with tears. “You’re awake!”

It took me a moment to register everything. I blinked a few times and then I smiled up at my dear friend. “H-hi, M-Marley.”

The effort of speaking hurt my throat, but I was so relieved to see her that it

didn’t matter.

“I was so worried, Ca ss,” Marley continued on, and she wiped a tear from her cheek. “So extremely worried.”

She then took my hand in hers.

“I’m sorry to scare you,” I managed to say. I wanted to comfort her further, but when I attempted to squeeze her hand, a sharp pain shot through my entire body.

When I winced, she pulled her hand away quickly.

“Oh, Ca ss,” Marley uttered, and her eyes widened. “I’m so sorry, that must have

hurt!”

“It’s… it’s okay,” I said through the pain, and then a thought crossed my mind.

Where was my Finnick?

I glanced around the room, but my son was nowhere to be found. Panic flooded through me, and my heart rate increased exponentially. Had he made it out of that cave? And how had I ended up here anyway?

Finnick?” I asked, and my lower lip trembled as I

“What’s going on? Is he alright? And how did I

her expression grew serious. “Finnick is perfectly safe. He’s back at the Pack House with the Alpha and Luna. They’re taking good

vision grew cloudy with tears as

the bear and the cave

is perfectly fine. He’s a little bruised but that’s it. Now, I’m serious, take a deep breath. Doctor’s orders. You’re in

and took a long, deep breath. A few minutes

wondered, and my eyebrows creased together. “And how did I get back here in

crossed Marley’s

eyes, and she let

in surprise.

had found

I supposed. Before I’d lost consciousness, the last face I remembered

I hadn’t hallucinated after

found me,” I repeated back quietly. I attempted to sit up, but the effort sent another pang of pain

surprise to get a call from him in the middle of the night,” Marley remarked. “When he explained the situation

“What do you mean?”

the clinic-to help. I totally understand the urgency, and I would have rushed there in a second anyway to help you, but he was intense, to say the least. That being said… What

surprise and she

clinic, he was so gentle with you,” she explained. “You were passed out cold, and he handled you so

“Wow,” I uttered.

hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. He could have sent a guard to handle the whole thing, but he wouldn’t let anyone else into the clinic the entire time I was taking care of

surprising,” I

Collins had personally escorted me back to my

King being in my small house, but the other part of me was grateful that he’d

all was so

and then he left. for the Pack House. It was so strange, Ca ssandra. It

my shoulder cried out in pain, and I let out a soft cry. Marley immediately reached

to stress your body

I

of the pain. It was there in my abdomen, my arm, my head… I was a

how bad is it?” I wondered even though

she gave me an apologetic look. “The bear’s claws scratched your stomach up

is sprained.”

My eyes widened.

some time to heal. Now, I’m gonna take a look at your stomach

“Okay,” I agreed.

the covers away from me