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

on? Is he alright? And

safe. He’s back at the Pack House

I stammered, and my vision grew cloudy with

and the cave crashed over

head. “Finnick is perfectly fine. He’s a little bruised but that’s it. Now, I’m serious, take a deep breath. Doctor’s

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

from the bear?” I wondered, and my eyebrows creased together. “And how did I get back here in the first place?”

look crossed Marley’s

she replied with a roll of her eyes, and she

in

Collins had found me?

I’d lost consciousness, the

possible I hadn’t hallucinated after all?

effort sent

from him in the middle of the night,” Marley remarked. “When

frowned in confusion. “What do you mean?”

and she sat down on the chair beside me. “Well, 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 to help you,

surprise

he arrived at the 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

“Wow,” I uttered.

have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. He could have sent a guard to handle the whole thing,

I remarked.

personally escorted me back to

about the idea of the Alpha King being in my small house, but the other part of me was grateful

all was so strange.

comfortable, and then he left. for the Pack House. It was so strange, Ca ssandra. It was like he was a completely different person than he’d been when we were taking

my shoulder cried out in

to stress your body out

I

became aware of the rest of the pain. It was there in my abdomen, my arm,

it?” I wondered even though I was scared of

great,” Marley replied, and she gave me an apologetic look. “The bear’s claws scratched your stomach up pretty badly, and

is sprained.”

My eyes widened.

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

“Okay,” I agreed.

from me and got