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-”

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

against the wall and turned away slightly.

he murmured. “I wish it 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 did he really care so little about the boy

turned back to me and narrowed his

further. “You must know her. I can see it in your eyes, Ca

Intors

Asher Collins, not right now. He was the

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

know far too much about her than anyone else. I keep finding you in the same

there, frozen. I hadn’t been careful enough, it seemed. Asher 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 came up with an

I

I was trapped.

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

statement. My frustration grew exponentially, but before I could utter another word,

motion was so forceful that it took me by surprise. I struggled underneath him and tried to push

and

leaned in and kissed my ear.

truth,” he whispered, and a chill ran through

stop,” I begged

pulled away for a moment but maintained his

and he lessened the space between us. “I can tell by your heartbeat and the look on your face that

words. could express, but not like this, not when he was so inebriated and intense.

in so many

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

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

and headed toward Finnick, my cheeks heated with

quietly when I reached his side. “I promise-”