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.

grinned. “Oops. How clumsy of me. Tell you what, darling, if you keep continue to struggle, I’m

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

to do anything out of fear for Adalyn’s safety,

sobbing. I had no idea why no one was escorting the young boy to safety. My heart ached for him. He

wasn’t going

I had anything

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

out as I took another

and the corridor fell silent. The

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

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

I’m st upid enough to believe

no way you mo rons could have figured 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 to do better than that.”

all. He knew about the

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

box?”

huffed loudly.

“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

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

could lose consciousness.

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

me hostage instead!” I blurted out. “Please,

laughed. “What nonsense are your babbling on

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

“You speak as if you hold some kind of significance, more so than

eyes on me. Even Adalyn managed to stare

suggest the king is in

was

“But I am his private

seem to understand.”