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?

Yurene,” I remarked as I fought to find an explanation. “Something about him doesn’t sit right with me. He’s arrogant, lofty…”

continued to watch me, Kane’s words

back to the banquet,” I advised her with a wave of my hand.

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

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

raised her chin slightly.

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

and then I turned

fit and tried to play at my emotions by

accusations. But tonight, I was exhausted. My head was throbbing with pain

live together,” Adalyn pressed when I didn’t respond, and when I glanced over

father aren’t close, why we don’t stay in the

on was the pounding in my head and

“He’s a grown-up

Adalyn blurted out. “I don’t understand why you forget

I may have softened. But my heart had hardened toward Adalyn

we’re married,” I said

“Why am I not the queen of Wegalla and why haven’t you taken me as your mate? Marriage isn’t enough. I want to be your mate!”

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

mattered.

be sentenced to death. Adalyn’s father was the one who’d insisted that if Cora didn’t die after her family had

appeared with a plan. She told me that if we became engaged instead, her father would believe that I had forgotten Cora altogether and -leave her alone completely. That would buy me some time to investigate and try

Adalyn said that this plan was to help out her best friend Cora. If we didn’t get engaged and pull attention away from Cora, things. would go south.