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.

what, darling, if you keep continue to struggle, I’m going to

out in pain. She instantly stopped moving, but her face

than I could bear. No one wanted to do anything out of fear for Adalyn’s safety, but the longer we stood around, the worse things were going to get.

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

flooded through me. This sick, twisted man wasn’t going

had anything to say about it.

me and the circle of guards. and cleared

blurted out as I

whipped around to stare at me, and the corridor fell silent. The man let out

he mocked me. “Who the hell are

the royal healers,” I retorted as I squared my shoulders. “The one who arranged the meeting,

st upid enough to believe that? I know this is

in the world. No, I won’t be deceived again. It was a nice try, healer, but you’re going to need to do better than that.”

my suspicions were correct after all.

the library?” I asked him. “And what was in the

box?”

man huffed

talk to the king. I don’t need to waste my time on

neck was bleeding pretty profusely. Someone needed to intervene before she lost too much blood. Her amber eyes were glazing over

she could

could insult me all he wanted. I wasn’t

blurted out. “Please, just

he laughed. “What nonsense are your babbling

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

some healer?” he sneered. “You speak as if you hold some kind of significance, more so than her. What makes you think the king would even

would,” I said evenly, and suddenly, I felt a crowd of eyes on me. Even Adalyn managed to stare at me

trying to suggest the king is in love with you or something?”

as if he was

I am his private healer. I mean more to

seem to understand.”