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.

“Oops. How clumsy of me. Tell you what, darling, if you keep continue to struggle, I’m going to have no choice but

to prove his point, and Adalyn cried out in pain. She instantly stopped moving, but her face grew even paler. She looked

This was intense, more so than I could bear. No one wanted to do anything out of fear

Marco 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

me. This sick, twisted man wasn’t going to get away

if I had anything to say about it.

the few people who stood between me and the circle of guards. and cleared

blurted out as I took another step

the

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

“The one who arranged the meeting, in fact. If you want to know

think I’m st upid enough to believe that?

sorcerors in the world. No, I won’t be deceived again. It was a nice try, healer, but

correct after all. He knew about the

in the library?”

box?”

man huffed

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

pretty profusely. Someone needed to intervene before she

she could

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

me hostage instead!” I blurted out.

he laughed. “What nonsense are your babbling on

Well, that’s not going to happen if

sneered. “You speak as if you hold some kind of significance, more so than her. What

suddenly, I felt a crowd of eyes on me. Even Adalyn managed to stare at me in

you trying to suggest the king is in love with you or

if he was amused

his private

seem to understand.”