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

the wall and turned

take

again.”

to die, even when he had a family, a wife, a child? I knew that Marco wasn’t his biologically, but did he really care so

turned back to me and

know Cora?” he uttered, and before I could 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 letting on. Tell me the truth.”

Intors

became almost cruel, dangerous. He wasn’t Asher Collins, not right now. He was the Alpha King and he was giving an order to a lowly

managed to say quietly. “All-of

else. I keep finding you in the same

hadn’t been careful enough, it seemed. Asher was beyond suspicious of me and my recent actions, and

I

I was trapped.

care so much about her?” I shifted the subject from myself. “Coral Felix died five years ago. Why can’t you let

ignoring half of my statement. My frustration grew exponentially, but before I could utter another word, the Alpha King pressed his lips firmly against

it took me by surprise. I struggled underneath him and tried to push him away, but Asher’s strength was far

quivered and my body

leaned in and

me the truth,” he whispered, and

begged

away for a moment but

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

could

wrong in so

to kiss me again, but before he could press his lips

my mommy go!”

out of 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

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

when I reached his