Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 58 He’s drunk

CA SSANDRA

I was half-asleep when I heard a loud knock on the door. Startled, I sat straight up in bed and caught my breath.

My eyes flew to the clock. It was nearly three in the morning.

Who was at my door this late?

“Who’s there?” I called out just loud enough to not wake Finnick. Luckily, my boy fast asleep and snoring lightly.

was f

When I didn’t get an answer, I pulled myself out of bed and headed toward the door. I was nearly halfway there when I heard another series of knocks. They were more forceful than the first and I felt a mixture of fear and irritation.

I opened the door and when I did, my lips parted in surprise.

It was Asher.

I was about to ask what he was doing here at this hour, but before the words could escape me, the Alpha King rushed into the room, closed the door, and then cornered me against the wall. His steel gray eyes bore into mine with intensity and his breath was hot against my face.

He smelled heavily like liquor.

“Are you drunk?” I asked as my body trembled.

He’simply stared back at me. “What do you care?”

Frustration bloomed within me and I broke eye contact for a moment to collect

myself.

“I don’t,” I blurted out bravely. “But consuming any bit of alcohol, especially in excess, will only further your disease-”

at me. He leaned in even closer. “I don’t care about any of that anymore. If I’m doomed

against the wall and

wish it would take me…

again.”

sound. No… he couldn’t mean that, could he? Was he really so willing to die, even when he had a family, a wife, a child? I knew that Marco

to me and narrowed his eyes.

say a word, he pressed further. “You must know her. I can see it in your eyes, Ca ssandra. You know more than you’re

Intors

wasn’t Asher Collins, not right now. He was the Alpha King and he was giving an order

I managed to say quietly. “All-of Wegalla knew of her.

her than anyone else. I keep finding you in the same places she

was beyond suspicious of me and my recent actions, and his drunkenness had only furthered his boldness. I knew he wouldn’t stop questioning me until

I

I was trapped.

care so much about her?” I shifted the subject from myself.

My frustration grew exponentially, but before I could utter another

underneath him and tried to push him away, but

and my body

in and

the truth,” he whispered, and a chill ran through me.

I begged

but maintained his

was both terrifying and utterly sensual, and he lessened the space between us. “I can tell by your heartbeat and the look on

could express, but not like this, not

in so many ways.

could press his lips against. mine, a high-pitched voice called out from

my mommy

the way, I could see Finnick standing there in his pajamas. His hands were curled into tiny fists at his sides and he glared at the Alpha King as if he were much older than

chuckled at the boy and released his hold on me. As I rushed away from the wall and headed toward Finnick, my cheeks heated with embarrassment. No. part of me wanted my son to see me

quietly when