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 choked

And

her expression grew serious. “Finnick is perfectly safe. He’s back at

vision grew cloudy with tears as memories

and the cave crashed over

it. Now, I’m serious, take a deep breath. Doctor’s orders. You’re in pretty rough shape and I don’t want

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

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

crossed Marley’s

Anemond brought you here,” she replied with a roll of her eyes, and she let out a small sigh.

gasped in surprise.

had found me?

supposed. Before I’d lost

possible I hadn’t hallucinated

repeated back quietly. I attempted to sit up, but the effort sent another pang of pain through my chest, so I laid back

night,” Marley remarked. “When he explained the situation to me, he sounded like he was going to bite my head off or something.”

in confusion. “What do you mean?”

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 being said… What he did really changed my opinion of him.”

I asked in surprise and

you so carefully. He helped

“Wow,” I uttered.

handle the whole thing, but he wouldn’t let anyone else into the clinic the entire

I

escorted me back to my

about the idea of the 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

was

Marley said. “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

to readjust myself in bed, my shoulder cried out in

have to be careful,” she urged. “You’re going to stress your body out if you keep moving around.”

I

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

is it?” I wondered even though I was scared of the

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

is sprained.”

My eyes widened.

heal. Now, I’m gonna take a look at

“Okay,” I agreed.

from me and got to work immediately.