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?

my lower lip trembled as

words. “What’s going on? Is he alright? And how did I get here in the

Marley urged, and her expression grew serious. “Finnick is perfectly safe. He’s back at the Pack

I stammered, and my vision

bear and the

He’s a little bruised but that’s it. Now, I’m serious, take a deep

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

wondered, and my eyebrows creased together. “And how

look crossed Marley’s face.

a roll of her eyes, and she let out a small sigh. “He was the one who found you out in

in

had found me?

sense, I supposed. Before I’d lost

I hadn’t hallucinated after all?

attempted to sit up, but the effort

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

“What do you

me to get to 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

surprise and she

she explained. “You were passed out cold, and he handled you so carefully. He helped me get you down

“Wow,” I uttered.

believed it if I 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

I remarked.

had personally escorted me back to

Alpha King being 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

was so strange.

It was so strange, Ca

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

“You’re going to

I

I suddenly became aware of the rest of the pain. It was there in my

how bad is it?” I wondered even though I was scared of the answer.

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

is sprained.”

My eyes widened.

“You’re going to be just fine. It’s just gonna take some time to heal. Now, I’m

“Okay,” I agreed.

covers away from me and got to work