Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 56 He needs alcohol

ASHER

“What’s the matter, Asher?” Adalyn demanded as she followed me into my study. “What exactly has gotten into you tonight?”

I fought back a groan as I approached one of the leather couches in the corner. Alcohol had plagued me just a little and my head swam with a mixture of drunkenness and agitation.

“Nothing is wrong,” I sighed as a heavy exhale escaped me “Go back to the banquet, Adalyn. I just need some time alone-”

“Time alone?” Adalyn repeated back in confusion and she shook her head. “Time alone for what, Asher? We have guests downstairs to entertain, in case. you’ve forgotten. We’re supposed to be welcoming the king of Yurene and his diplomats. I don’t think this is making too great of an impression of Wegalla.”

“Don’t tell me what I’m doing wrong,” I managed to say as my head pounded angrily. “I’m fully aware of what’s going on down there. I don’t think our guests care if I step away for a moment-”

“I bet Ca ssandra Keller cares,” my wife blurted out, and I whipped around to glare at her.

“What the hell is that supposed to mean?” I challenged her.

“You seem to care a little too much about that healer and what she thinks,” she

seethed, and she crossed her arms against her chest. “I don’t understand what’s going on with you. You’ve never lost control like that in public, not ever. What was that little outburst in the banquet hall about?”

As Adalyn’s golden eyes shot daggers in my direction, I couldn’t help but wonder if she was right..

Did I care too much about Ca ssandra Keller and her whereabouts?

don’t care for the king of Yurene,” I remarked as I fought to find an explanation. “Something about him doesn’t sit right with

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should go back to the banquet,” I advised her with a wave of my hand. “I’ll

me off, and she took a step toward me. “I would rather stay

going to reach out toward me, but I rebuffed her. Adalyn’s red-painted lower lip trembled and for

her chin slightly.

back that woman because she’s a capable healer,” she said. “But I have a feeling that there’s more to the story than that. I think you’ve either crossed a line or you’re

I murmured and then I turned

a simple conversation, Adalyn threw a fit and tried to play at my emotions by bringing up Marco. Sometimes,

kind of way to assure her or cast aside these. accusations. But tonight, I

often asks me why we don’t live together,” Adalyn pressed when I didn’t respond, and when I

wants to know why his mother and father aren’t close, why we don’t stay in the same room. To be honest, I don’t quite understand either, Asher…”

words. All I could focus on was the pounding in my head and the soreness of my limbs. Finally, I rubbed my thumb

Marco,” I said. “He’s a grown-up now. He

“I don’t understand why you forget that sometimes.

anyone else, I may have softened. But my heart had hardened toward Adalyn a long time ago.

married,” I

Wegalla and why haven’t you taken me as your mate? Marriage

my own in a real sense. We’d had the

mattered.

years ago, after my engagement to Cora had been cut off, everyone had wanted her to be sentenced to death. Adalyn’s father was the one who’d insisted that if Cora didn’t die after her family had been sentenced,

would believe that I had forgotten Cora altogether and -leave her alone completely. That would buy me some time to investigate and try to

that this plan was to help out her best friend Cora. If we didn’t get engaged and pull