Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

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Outside of the scientific research I’d conducted with Becky back in Anemond, I had known nothing about wielding magic before the fire in the main building at Vlokwell. When I cast the spell to put out the blaze and control and deflect the bullets from Kaleb’s soldiers, I acted completely on instinct. There had been no incantations, no rituals, just pure adrenaline.

I didn’t know what to expect when I ordered Raven to show me how to use these new powers, but I hadn’t realized it would be so difficult.

As she taught me, using sorcery required willpower, physical energy, strong belief, and determination. To practice certain forms, one needed to believe in what would happen next and be determined to make it happen. It was all bizarre and for someone like me, who had always thought magic powers were merely a fabricated story, practicing sorcery was a challenge.

After half a day of attempting different spells and techniques to no avail, I was ready to give up entirely. Still, Ravenworked insisted that since Emmett’s soul contained both strong willpower and energy, I could use magic properly regardless.

The dark-haired sorceress hadn’t asked me why I needed to practice magic so urgently, but I assumed she already knew by the way she hinted around it. Raven made it a point to mention that she wasn’t an expert in using magic for fighting, but Roxy was. She said if I wanted to get better at fighting, I’d better look for her sister instead.

At the mere mention of Roxy, Raven looked a bit dejected but refused to say outright that she missed her twin. In any other circumstance, I’d have felt bad for her, but the sorceress twins had been a thorn in all of our sides for so long.

During one of our lessons, I muttered something to myself quietly in frustration, and Raven’s face went pale.

“So, what are you going to do to me?” she wondered, her face uncharacteristically serious. “Burn me alive until I’m nothing more than ashes? Like what I did to you?”

“You will be imprisoned in Wegalla,” I answered without missing a beat. “I don’t believe in sentencing a person to death, but you will be detained for your crimes, Raven.”

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expected her to react as solemnly as she did before but

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even worse than death,” she said, and the glint in her bluish-green eyes was unnerving. On anyone else, it would have seemed like her humor and tendency to ramble as a coping mechanism, but I was fully convinced that Raven was utterly insane. There was no other explanation for

endure her

her faults, I had to admit that Raven was a good teacher. Strangely, she was enthusiastic about

began to understand what kind of a person she

was just evil and cun ning but that wasn’t the whole truth. It was true that she had a

Kaleb died or if Yurene was crushed. She was willing to work with anyone and stay anywhere as long as she had a chance to discover new things about magic. I

began to believe her more

about the method to remove poison from Asher’s body. I mentioned what Emmett had told me, that mating would be the ultimate cure. I asked her if that

and then raised

he would lie to you,” she remarked. “After all, if you and your king are in love

with her words, she was right. What could

fact. He’d never mated with Adalyn and he made it clear that he had no intention

up my mind long ago. Whatever the consequence was,

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me and said goodnight, I took his arm and pulled him in closer. He seemed surprised

is going to sleep with Erika tonight,” I whispered.

my arms around his neck and pressed my body against his. Asher studied me for a moment, blinking his gray eyes at me in confusion. To his credit,

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courage and