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

going on? Is he alright? And how did I get here in

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

he h-hurt?” I stammered, and my vision grew cloudy

bear and the cave crashed over me.

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

took a long, deep breath. A

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

strange look crossed Marley’s face.

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

in

had

made a little sense, I supposed. Before I’d lost

possible I hadn’t hallucinated after

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

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

in confusion. “What do you

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

asked in surprise and she nodded.

explained. “You were passed out cold, and he handled you so carefully. He helped me get

“Wow,” I uttered.

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 let anyone else into the clinic the entire time I was taking care of your injuries. Then he

surprising,” I

me

small house, but the other part of me was grateful that he’d intervened and helped Marley get me home safe. That meant

all was so

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 person than he’d been when we were taking care of his son.”

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

urged. “You’re going to

I

became aware of the rest of the pain. It was there in my abdomen, my

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

an apologetic look. “The bear’s claws scratched your stomach up pretty badly, and your shoulder

is sprained.”

My eyes widened.

gonna take some time to heal. Now, I’m gonna take

“Okay,” I agreed.

away from me