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

prove his point, and Adalyn cried out in pain. She instantly stopped moving, but her face grew even paler. She looked like a corpse, she was

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 things were going to get.

young boy to safety. My heart ached for him. He didn’t deserve

man wasn’t going to

had anything to say about

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

out as I

whipped around to stare at me, and the corridor fell silent. The man let out a laugh.

he mocked me. “Who the

the meeting, in fact. If you want to know anything

you think I’m st upid enough to believe that? I

in the world. No, I won’t be deceived again. It was a nice try, healer, but you’re going to need to do

my suspicions were correct after all. He knew

the library?” I asked

box?”

huffed loudly.

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

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

could lose consciousness.

deep breath. He could insult me

out. “Please, just let Lady Adalyn

and then he laughed. “What nonsense are your babbling on about now?”

“You say you want an audience with the king? Well, that’s not going to happen if you kill his wife. You want to

as if you hold some kind of significance, more so than her. What makes you think the king would even give you a second

I felt a crowd of eyes on

replied. “Are you trying to suggest the king is

he was amused by my

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

seem to understand.”