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.

man grinned. “Oops. How clumsy of me. Tell you what, darling, if you keep continue to

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

than I could bear. No one wanted to do anything out of fear for Adalyn’s

Marco was openly sobbing. I had no idea why no one was escorting the young boy to safety. My heart ached

This sick, twisted man wasn’t going

if I had anything to say about it.

the few people who stood between me

I blurted out as I

and the corridor fell silent. The man let out a

we?” he mocked me. “Who the hell are

one who arranged the meeting, in fact. If you

think I’m st upid enough to believe that? I know this is

out the poisons that were created by the greatest sorcerors in the world. No, I won’t be deceived again. It was a nice

correct after all. He

in the library?”

box?”

man huffed loudly.

of these questions,” he practically growled. “You know what, I’ve changed my mind. I want to talk to the king. I don’t

bleeding pretty profusely. Someone needed

she could lose

a deep breath. He could insult me all

out. “Please, just

out, and then he laughed.

with the king? Well, that’s not going to happen

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

crowd of eyes on me. Even Adalyn managed to stare at me in surprise.

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

as if he was amused by my

private healer. I mean more to him than

seem to understand.”