Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper novel Chapter 58

Chapter 58 He’s drunk

CA SSANDRA

I was half-asleep when I heard a loud knock on the door. Startled, I sat straight up in bed and caught my breath.

My eyes flew to the clock. It was nearly three in the morning.

Who was at my door this late?

“Who’s there?” I called out just loud enough to not wake Finnick. Luckily, my boy fast asleep and snoring lightly.

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When I didn’t get an answer, I pulled myself out of bed and headed toward the door. I was nearly halfway there when I heard another series of knocks. They were more forceful than the first and I felt a mixture of fear and irritation.

I opened the door and when I did, my lips parted in surprise.

It was Asher.

I was about to ask what he was doing here at this hour, but before the words could escape me, the Alpha King rushed into the room, closed the door, and then cornered me against the wall. His steel gray eyes bore into mine with intensity and his breath was hot against my face.

He smelled heavily like liquor.

“Are you drunk?” I asked as my b*dy trembled.

He’simply stared back at me. “What do you care?”

Frustration bloomed within me and I broke eye contact for a moment to collect

myself.

“I don’t,” I blurted out bravely. “But consuming any bit of alcohol, especially in excess, will only further your disease-”

“My disease,” Asher repeated back in a mocking tone and then he chuckled and stared back down at me. He leaned in even closer. “I don’t care about any of that anymore. If I’m doomed to perish from it.”

He steadied himself against the wall and turned away slightly.

“In fact…” he murmured. “I wish it would take me… so I could see my Cora

again.”

It took all of my effort to keep from uttering a sound. No… he couldn’t mean that, could he? Was he really so willing to die, even when he had a family, a wife, a child? I knew that Marco wasn’t his biologically, but did he really care so little about the boy that he was willing to leave him fatherless?

Asher turned back to me and narrowed his eyes.

“Did you know Cora?” he uttered, and before I could say a word, he pressed further. “You must know her. I can see it in your eyes, Ca ssandra. You know more than you’re letting on. Tell me the truth.”

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His tone shifted and became almost cruel, dangerous. He wasn’t Asher Collins, not right now. He was the Alpha King and he was giving an order to a lowly subject.

“Everyone knew Cora,” I managed to say quietly. “All-of Wegalla knew of her. She’s infamous-”

“You’re lying,” Asher cut me off. “I know you are. You know far too much about her than anyone else. I keep finding you in the same places she lingered in, in the same clothes… something isn’t adding up here.”

I stood there, frozen. I hadn’t been careful enough, it seemed. Asher was beyond suspicious of me and my recent actions, and his drunkenness had only furthered his boldness. I knew he wouldn’t stop questioning me until I came up with an explanation.

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I was trapped.

“Why do you care so much about her?” I shifted the subject from myself. “Coral Felix died five years ago. Why can’t you let her go-”