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-”

down at me. He leaned in even closer. “I don’t care about any

wall

he murmured. “I wish it would take

again.”

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 did he really care so

turned back to me

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

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

say quietly. “All-of Wegalla knew of

far too much about her than anyone else. I keep

recent actions, and his drunkenness had only furthered

I

I was trapped.

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

he cut me off, ignoring half of my statement. My frustration grew exponentially, but before

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

and my

Alpha King leaned in and kissed

and

stop,” I begged timidly.

for a moment but maintained his

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

wasn’t wrong by any means. I wanted him more than words. could express,

so many ways.

kiss me again, but before he could press his lips against. mine, a high-pitched voice called out

mommy

see Finnick standing there in his pajamas. His hands were curled into tiny

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 like this, in this kind

I assured him quietly when I