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-”

he chuckled and stared back down at me. He leaned in even closer. “I don’t care about any of that anymore. If I’m doomed to

wall and turned away slightly.

would take me… so I could see my Cora

again.”

from uttering a 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 wasn’t his biologically, but

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

Intors

shifted and became almost cruel, dangerous. He wasn’t Asher Collins, not right now. He was the

I managed to say quietly. “All-of Wegalla knew of her. She’s infamous-”

cut me off. “I know you are. You know far too much about her than anyone else. I keep finding you in the same places she lingered

and my recent actions, and his drunkenness had only furthered his boldness. I knew he wouldn’t stop questioning me until I came up

I

I was trapped.

do you care so much about her?” I shifted the subject from myself. “Coral Felix

he cut me off, ignoring half of my statement. My frustration grew exponentially, but before I could utter another word, the Alpha King

took me by surprise. I struggled underneath him and tried to

quivered and my body

in and

and a chill ran through me.

I begged timidly. “Please.”

pulled away for a moment but maintained his hold on

not what you wanted, Ca ssandra?” he asked in a tone that 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 me. And I want

by any means. I wanted him more than words. could express, but not like this, not when he was so inebriated

wrong in so

his lips against. mine, a

my mommy go!”

curled into

toward Finnick, my cheeks heated

assured him quietly when I reached