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.

clumsy of me. Tell you what, darling, if you keep continue to struggle, I’m going to

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

more 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.

was escorting the young boy to safety. My heart ached for him. He didn’t deserve this.

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

anything

me and the circle of

out as I took

the corridor fell silent.

we?” he

who arranged the meeting, in fact. If

st upid enough to

rons could have figured out the poisons that were created by the greatest sorcerors in the world. No,

all. He knew about the Ewonmiams.

book in the library?”

box?”

man huffed loudly.

mind. I want to talk to the king. I don’t need to

Adalyn’s neck was bleeding pretty profusely. Someone needed to intervene

she could lose

took a deep breath. He could insult me

instead!” I blurted out. “Please, just let

and then he laughed. “What

Well, that’s not going to happen if

would the king care about some healer?” he sneered. “You speak as if you hold some kind of significance, more so than her. What makes you think the king would even

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

to suggest the king is in love with you or

he was amused

private healer. I mean more to him than

seem to understand.”