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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as solemnly as she did before but instead, she giggled and shook

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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 her weirdness, and I longed for the day

her and learn all

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

I began to understand what

cun ning but that wasn’t the whole truth. It was true that she had a horrible personality. She saw others as her gu inea pigs and had no respect for life. But on the other hand, she

to work with anyone and stay anywhere as long as she had a chance to

to believe

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

to finish and then raised an

you and your king are in

she was blunt with her words, she

long-forgotten fact. He’d never mated with Adalyn and he made it clear that he had no intention to do so. She was

the consequence was, Asher would be my

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I took his arm and pulled him in

sleep with Erika tonight,” I whispered. “I want you to

moment, blinking his gray eyes at me in confusion. To his credit, we hadn’t been intimate since Lila and Finnick had seen us

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sure?” he asked.

courage and then