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.

continue to struggle,

in further to prove his point, and Adalyn cried out in pain. She instantly stopped

intense, more so than I could bear. No one wanted 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 didn’t deserve this. No one

sick, twisted man wasn’t going

had anything to

me and the circle of

as I took another step closer.

at me, and the corridor fell

we?” he mocked me. “Who the hell

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

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.”

suspicions were correct after all. He

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

box?”

huffed loudly.

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

bleeding pretty profusely. Someone needed to intervene before she

could lose consciousness.

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

blurted out. “Please, just let Lady

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

Well, that’s not going to happen if you kill his wife. You want to speak

you hold some kind of significance, more

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

replied. “Are you trying to suggest the king is in love with you

if he was amused by my

calmly. “But I am his private healer. I mean more to

seem to understand.”