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?

to find an explanation. “Something about him

to glare at me angrily. As she continued to watch me, Kane’s words sparked back in my mind. Was

I advised her with a wave of my hand.

step

reach out toward me, but I rebuffed her.

her chin

brought 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 toeing the edge. Whatever the truth is… I think Marco would be very disappointed if you had any sort of

then I turned away.

was no stranger to these kinds of accusations. Whenever a woman even tried to hold my attention, even just a simple conversation, Adalyn threw a fit and tried to play at my emotions by bringing up Marco. Sometimes,

But tonight, I was exhausted. My head was throbbing with pain and my entire body ached.

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

why his mother and father aren’t close, why we don’t stay in the same room. To be honest, I don’t quite

continued on, I began to tune out her words. All I could focus on was the pounding in my

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

understand why you forget that sometimes. We’re

been anyone else, I may have softened. But my heart had

married,” I

your Luna?” Adalyn demanded. “Why am I not the queen of Wegalla and why

her as my own in a real sense. We’d had the ceremony, but I hadn’t recognized her in the

mattered.

that if Cora didn’t die after her family had been sentenced, she’d affect me too much as her mate. I’d constantly feel the pangs

if we became engaged instead, her father would believe that I had forgotten Cora altogether and -leave her alone completely. That would

said that this plan was to help out her best friend Cora. If we