Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 92 His mate had been pregnant

ASHER

I raised my eyebrow and stared at the man. A tidbit of information? He truly must have believed in what he had to say. Either that or he was a master of deceit. Regardless, I knew I had no choice. I had to take the bait.

I had to know about Cora.

“Fine,” I said, and I crossed my arms. “What do you have to say?”

The imposter cleared his throat. He seemed just as surprised as I was that I’d agreed to hear him out. He took a second and then began.

“Even back then I found the girl to be quite pitiful,” he remarked. “She looked so innocent. But there’s nothing I could do about that. It was a shame, really.”

My stomach turned as I pictured Cora. From his tone, I could tell she had probably been scared.

I wanted to strike him down.

What had they done to her?

“Get to the point,” I demanded.

“I’m getting to the point, young Alpha,” the imposter said with a wave of hist hand. “I’m simply saying that she was pitiful. She seemed so innocent, so precious. Well, innocent enough, seeing as she was the daughter of such a serious criminal. She was likely tied into their business, so I can’t help but wonder how naive to it all she truly was-”

“Get to the point!” I shouted, emphasizing every word.

The man laughed, and before I knew what I was doing, I lunged forward and

reached through the bars. I grabbed his neck and yanked him forward until his chest smacked against the bars.

“If you keep talking nonsense, I’ll end your life now,” I threatened. “I’m serious.”

Despite the danger of my hands around his neck, he maintained eye contact with me and didn’t

a minute,

revealed. “She

turned on its axis.

as the weight of his words crashed down on me. My

Cora was pregnant.

with my

for something to brace myself on as my chest heaved. I’d never felt shock like this before and for a moment, I thought I

didn’t mean to end two lives,” the man spoke again, and he rubbed his neck. His skin had turned bright red from my chokehold, but I didn’t care about that. I couldn’t care less

stammered as a lump formed in my throat.

“It could have been an excuse after

“Please,” I murmured.

so very violent,” the man sighed. “Vicious, really. I would

My inner wolf was going to take control if the man

turned away from him and fought to regain control. My nails had already. sharpened into claws, and I could feel

of silence. My tone must

the man from

intense

I finally had an ounce of control, I took a long, deep breath,

the man quietly, and when I turned back to

had drank a cup of poison before the fire was set. Even if she’d managed to escape, she wouldn’t have survived.

and ran out of the dungeon. I nearly lost my footing up the stairs, and as

one person I wanted to

Ca ssandra Keller.

really Cora. And the fact that Cora had been pregnant before the inferno only further proved my theory. She had a son, after all, one who was around

surprised to see me rush by so quickly, but I couldn’t stop and explain. My mind was racing just as fast as

I tried to figure out the rest of the story. The imposter had said that Cora had consumed an incurable poison. Is that why her appearance had changed? Ca ssandra and Cora looked nothing alike. Was that a side effect of the poison?

identity?