Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 88 Take her place

CA SSANDRA

As I fought to catch my breath and make sense of all of this, Lancel spoke up

and called out to the man.

“Release the Alpha King’s wife,” he pleaded carefully, and he raised his hands as if in surrender. “We can reach an understanding, but only if you let her go-”

“An understanding?” the man scoffed, and he shook his head slowly as he held tightly onto Adalyn. “There’s nothing to understand. There’s no way you’re going to handle this peacefully. I know I’m dead anyway, so I may as well just take her with

me.”

He gripped onto her even tighter still and dug his claws further into her arm. Adalyn whimpered as trails of blood poured down her skin. My eyes welled up with

tears before I could stop them. This was cruel.

As much as I detested Adalyn, she didn’t deserve this.

“Do you like that, baby?” the man laughed as she writhed under his hold. “Huh? Keep squirming and I’ll do much worse. Trust me, I have all kinds of ways to hurt

you.”

“The king won’t let you get away with this,” Adalyn blurted out bravely.

The man laughed again, and the cruel sound of it was almost enough to send. me to my knees.

“Sure, whatever you say, gorgeous,” he mocked her. “I don’t see him around, do you? Besides… I don’t care what happens to me. All I want is the taste of one of the beautiful women in Wegalla before I go…”

He leaned in close and pressed his lips against Adalyn’s neck. She cried out in disgust at the vulgar display, but as she tried to shift her body away and break free,

the man’s claws dug into her neck. Blood began to spill onto her collarbone and my stomach turned a little at the sight.

keep continue to struggle, I’m going to have no choice but to press in a little deeper.”

Adalyn cried out in pain. She instantly stopped moving, but her

No one wanted to do anything out of fear for Adalyn’s safety, but

openly sobbing. I had no idea why no one was escorting the young boy to safety. My heart ached for him. He didn’t

twisted man wasn’t going to get away with all of this.

anything to say about it.

stood between me and the circle of

I blurted out as I took another step closer.

around to stare at me, and the corridor fell

a brave one, do we?” he mocked me. “Who the hell are you?”

the royal healers,” I retorted as I squared my shoulders. “The one who arranged the meeting, in fact. If you want to know anything about the vipers, you should let Lady Adalyn

think I’m st upid enough to believe that? I

out the poisons that were created by the greatest sorcerors in the world. No, I won’t be deceived again. It was a nice

correct after all. He knew about

book in the library?” I asked him. “And

box?”

man huffed

talk to the king. I don’t need to

lip and tried to shove down the frustration that was growing within me. Adalyn’s neck was bleeding pretty profusely. Someone needed to intervene before she lost too much blood. Her amber eyes were glazing over already. If we

could lose consciousness.

took a deep breath. He could insult me

instead!” I blurted out. “Please, just let

man called out, and then he laughed. “What nonsense are your babbling on about now?”

go,” I stated again, only louder this time. “You say you want an audience with the king? Well, that’s not going to happen if you kill his wife. You want to speak with him so badly? Take

you hold some kind of significance, more so than her. What makes you think the king would

eyes on me. Even Adalyn managed to stare at me in surprise.

“Are you trying to suggest the king is

if he was amused by

his private healer. I mean more to him

seem to understand.”