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

She instantly stopped moving, but her face grew even paler. She

room. This was intense, more so 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

me, Prince Marco was openly sobbing. I had no idea why no one was escorting the young boy to

wasn’t

if I had anything to say about

stood between me and the circle of guards.

as I took another

the

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

shoulders. “The one who arranged the meeting, in fact. If you want to know anything about the vipers, you should let Lady

I’m st upid enough to believe that?

out the poisons that were created by the greatest sorcerors in the world. No, I won’t be deceived again. It was a nice try, healer, but you’re going to need

suspicions were correct after all. He

library?” I asked him.

box?”

huffed

of these questions,” he practically growled. “You know what, I’ve changed my mind. I want to talk to the king. I don’t need to waste my time on some lowly healer who doesn’t even understand

that was growing within me. Adalyn’s neck was bleeding pretty profusely. Someone needed to intervene before she lost too much blood. Her

could lose

deep breath. He could insult me all he wanted. I wasn’t

me hostage instead!” I blurted out. “Please, just let Lady Adalyn

called out, and then he laughed. “What nonsense are your

the king? Well, that’s not going to happen if you kill his wife.

king care about some healer?” he sneered. “You speak as if you hold some kind of significance, more so than her.

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

girl,” the man replied. “Are you trying to suggest the king is in

as if he was amused by my words.

said calmly. “But I am his private healer. I mean

seem to understand.”