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?

lower lip trembled as

he alright? And how did I get here

serious. “Finnick is perfectly safe. He’s back at the Pack

I stammered, and my vision grew cloudy with

the bear and the

but that’s it. Now, I’m serious, take a deep breath. Doctor’s orders. You’re in pretty rough shape

my friend’s advice and took a long, deep breath. A few minutes later, when I was in a

my eyebrows creased together. “And how did I

strange look crossed

Anemond brought you here,” she replied with a roll of her eyes, and she let out a small

in

had found me?

Before I’d lost consciousness, the last face I remembered seeing was Asher’s.

possible I hadn’t hallucinated after all?

repeated back quietly. I attempted to sit up, but the effort sent

him in the middle of the night,” Marley remarked. “When he explained the situation to me, he sounded

confusion. “What do you mean?”

he was extremely angry. He was super short-tempered with me and ordered me to get to the clinic-to help. I totally understand the urgency, and I would have rushed there in a second anyway

in surprise

clinic, he was so gentle with you,” she explained. “You were passed out cold, and he handled you so carefully. He helped me get you down on the table

“Wow,” I uttered.

it with my own eyes. He could have sent a guard to handle the whole

surprising,” I

escorted me back to

in my small house, but the other part of me was grateful that he’d intervened and helped Marley get me home safe. That meant more to me than I could express, even if the idea of

all was so

was so strange, Ca ssandra. It was like he was a completely different person than he’d been when we were taking care of his son.”

I said. When I tried to readjust myself in bed, my shoulder cried out in pain, and I let out a soft cry. Marley

have to be careful,” she urged. “You’re going to stress your body out

I

I suddenly became aware of the rest of the pain. It was there in my abdomen, my arm, my head…

I wondered even though I was scared of the

gave me an apologetic look. “The bear’s claws

is sprained.”

My eyes widened.

It’s just gonna take some time to heal. Now, I’m gonna take a look at your stomach and make sure nothing is bleeding,

“Okay,” I agreed.

shifted the covers away from me