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

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

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

and my vision grew

the bear and the cave crashed over

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

took a moment for the information to sink in, and when it did, I heeded my friend’s advice and took a long, deep breath. A few minutes later, when I was in a calmer state,

the bear?” I wondered, and my eyebrows creased together. “And how

crossed

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

gasped in

had

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

it possible I hadn’t hallucinated

sit up, but the effort sent another pang of pain through

the night,” Marley remarked. “When he explained the situation to me,

“What do you

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, but he was

I asked in surprise

you,” she explained. “You were passed out cold, and he handled you so carefully. He helped me get you down on the table and

“Wow,” I uttered.

own eyes. He could have sent a guard 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

I

escorted me back to

King being in my small house, but the other part of me was grateful that he’d intervened

was so strange.

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

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

urged. “You’re going to stress your body out if you keep

I

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

even though I was scared of the answer.

great,” Marley replied, and she gave me an apologetic look. “The

is sprained.”

My eyes widened.

time to heal. Now,

“Okay,” I agreed.

from me and