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 I

And how did I get here in

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

my vision grew cloudy with tears as

bear and the

that’s it. Now, I’m serious, take a deep breath. Doctor’s orders. You’re

took

my eyebrows creased together.

strange look crossed Marley’s

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

gasped in

Collins had found me?

lost consciousness, the last face I

hadn’t hallucinated

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

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

“What do

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, but he was intense, to say the least. That

I asked in 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.

“Wow,” I uttered.

to handle the whole thing, but he wouldn’t let anyone else into the clinic the entire time I was taking care of your injuries. Then he carried you

surprising,” I remarked.

escorted me back to my

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

all was so

“We made sure you were 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

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

to stress your body

I

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

it?” I wondered even

it’s not great,” Marley replied, and she gave me an apologetic look. “The bear’s claws scratched your stomach up pretty

is sprained.”

My eyes widened.

“You’re going to be just fine. It’s just gonna take some time to heal. Now, I’m gonna take a look at your stomach and

“Okay,” I agreed.

covers away from me and got to work immediately.