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?

where’s Finnick?” I asked, and my lower lip trembled

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

a breath,” Marley urged, and her expression grew serious. “Finnick is perfectly safe. He’s back at

stammered, and my vision

the cave crashed over me.

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

and took a long, deep breath. A few

who saved me from the bear?” I wondered, and my eyebrows creased together.

crossed Marley’s face.

she replied with a roll of her eyes, and she let out

in surprise.

Collins had

a little sense, I supposed. Before I’d lost consciousness, the last face I remembered seeing

possible I hadn’t hallucinated after

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

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 mean?”

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

I asked in surprise and she

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 and made sure

“Wow,” I uttered.

have sent a guard to handle the whole

surprising,” I

escorted me back to my

part of me was grateful that he’d intervened and

all was so strange.

House. It was so strange, Ca ssandra. It was like he was a completely different person than he’d been

strange,” I said. When I tried to readjust myself in bed, my shoulder cried out in

to stress your body out if you keep

I

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

how bad is it?” I wondered even though I was

an apologetic look. “The

is sprained.”

My eyes widened.

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

“Okay,” I agreed.

the covers away from me and got to work