Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 77 Her explanation

CA SSANDRA

I gulped involuntarily and searched my mind for the right words to say. The scar on my inner thigh? I knew the mark all too well, but I’d never expected Asher to see

How had it come about? Had I been undressed for the royal healers? Had he stayed here to watch Erika change my clothing?

I felt a little violated, but at the same time, there was a strange feeling knowing that Asher had seen my body like that.

As I trembled, a puff of air came out of Asher’s nose. He lifted away from me and the air suddenly grew a little colder around us. The Alpha King seemed to be suppressing a laugh, but his lips were still curled into an amused expression.

“I didn’t mean to see it,” he revealed. “I wasn’t purposefully looking there. But your maid let out a small gasp when she noticed it and I was worried that something was wrong, so I went to check.”

Suddenly, the smile left his expression and he studied me seriously.

“Ca ssandra, where did you get such a scar like that?” he asked, and my heart pounded in my chest.

The truth was going to be too impossible to explain.

The scar that ran all the way up my inner thigh had come about when I was Cora.

It had been my first time entering the hunting zone of the forest. I’d been extremely nervous but also incredibly excited. Unfortunately for me, I’d been too excited to really pay attention. Little did I know, there’d been a notice placed. outside of the forest that mentioned the traps that had been set within the hunting

zone. The traps were meant to capture some of the many beasts that lived within the woods, one that would bring harm if they made it out of the forest.

been too careless to read the notice. I was too preoccupied with my excitement for the hunt to

into the hunting zone and found myself running at full speed when I suddenly tripped. I flew through the

traps.

had been incredibly deep, so much so, that despite a werewolf’s natural ability to heal, a long,

sustained my burns and then been treated by

of it that I rarely thought about it. But now…

of me back then. He’d even kissed it before, when we were young and deeply in love. I’d always been so self-conscious about the scar, but he’d told me that it was beautiful. That I was beautiful. His voice back then had been so sincere and kind that I truly began to accept

to give into the impulse and stand on top of this bed and announce that I wasn’t in fact Ca ssandra Keller, but actually Cora Felix. I wanted to proclaim that I was once the woman he’d vowed to share his life with and watch his face light up when he realized it

my real identity

was ready to

But I couldn’t.

from revealing

one was Finnick. I couldn’t risk his safety any more than I already was. There was too great of a chance that he would get hurt.

did my best to remain calm. I had to play this a certain

prompted me with narrowed eyes. “Are you going

answer me?”

came up with an excuse. “Sort of. It’s a story not worth getting into, honestly.

you

around such a ssandra,” he

around such a simple question?”

I gulped.

said carefully, and after I glanced at the ground, I stared directly into

Asher repeated back, and his

I

an