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

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

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

vision grew cloudy with

the bear and the cave

Marley shook her head. “Finnick is perfectly fine. He’s a little bruised but that’s it. Now, I’m serious, take a deep breath. Doctor’s orders. You’re in pretty rough shape and I don’t want you to hurt yourself further.”

and when it did, I heeded my friend’s advice and took a long,

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

strange look crossed Marley’s face.

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

in surprise.

had found me?

Before I’d lost consciousness, the last face

possible I hadn’t

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

from him in the middle of the night,” Marley remarked. “When he explained the situation to me, he sounded like he was going to bite my

confusion. “What

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,

I asked in surprise and she

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

“Wow,” I uttered.

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

I remarked.

had personally escorted me back to my

strange 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 safe. That meant more to me than I could express, even if

all was

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

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

going to stress your body out if you

I

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

is it?” I wondered even though I was scared

Marley replied, and she gave me an apologetic look. “The bear’s claws scratched your stomach up pretty badly, and

is sprained.”

My eyes widened.

time to heal. Now,

“Okay,” I agreed.

from me