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-”

stared back down at me. He leaned in even closer. “I

the wall and turned

wish it would take me… so I could see my Cora

again.”

mean that, could he? Was he really so willing to die, even when he had a family, a wife, a child? I

turned back to me and

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

Intors

He was the Alpha

Cora,” I managed to say quietly. “All-of Wegalla knew

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

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

I

I was trapped.

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

exponentially, but before I could utter

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

quivered and my body shook.

Alpha King leaned in and kissed my

the truth,” he whispered, and a

I begged timidly. “Please.”

a moment but

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

him more than words. could express, but not like this, not

in so many ways.

but before he could press his lips against. mine, a high-pitched

mommy

His hands were curled into tiny

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

honey,” I assured him quietly when I reached