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?

I asked, and my lower lip trembled as I

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

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

and my vision grew cloudy

bear and the cave crashed over me.

fine. He’s a little bruised but that’s it. Now, I’m serious, take a deep breath. Doctor’s orders. You’re

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

I wondered, and my eyebrows creased together. “And how did I get back here in the

strange look crossed Marley’s

eyes, and she let out a

in

Collins had found me?

lost consciousness, the last face I remembered seeing was

hadn’t hallucinated

up, but the effort sent another pang of pain through my chest, so I laid

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

“What do you

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 and she nodded.

and he handled you so carefully. He helped me get you down on the table and made sure you were comfortable as

“Wow,” I uttered.

Marley agreed, and she shook her head slowly. “I wouldn’t have 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

I

escorted me back to

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

was so strange.

Ca ssandra. It was like he was a completely different person than he’d been when we were taking care

shoulder cried out in pain, and I let out a soft cry. Marley immediately reached out and

to stress your body out if you

I

of the pain. It was

is it?” I wondered even though I

an apologetic look. “The bear’s claws scratched your stomach up

is sprained.”

My eyes widened.

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

“Okay,” I agreed.

from me