Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper novel Chapter 88

Chapter 88 Take her place

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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 b*dy 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.

The man grinned. “Oops. How clumsy of me. Tell you what, darling, if you keep continue to struggle, I’m going to have no choice but to press in a little deeper.”

He pushed his claws in further to prove his point, and Adalyn cried out in pain. She instantly stopped moving, but her face grew even paler. She looked like a corpse, she was so colorless.

I looked around the room. This was intense, 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.

Beyond me, Prince Marco was openly sobbing. I had no idea why no one was escorting the young boy to safety. My heart ached for him. He didn’t deserve this. No one deserved anything like this.

Suddenly, anger flooded through me. This sick, twisted man wasn’t going to get away with all of this.

Not if I had anything to say about it.

I pushed past the few people who stood between me and the circle of guards. and cleared my throat.

“Hey, you!” I blurted out as I took another step closer.

The guards whipped around to stare at me, and the corridor fell silent. The man let out a laugh.

“Oh, we have a brave one, do we?” he mocked me. “Who the hell are you?”

“I’m one of the royal healers,” I retorted as I squared my shoulders. “The one who arranged the meeting, in fact. If you want to know anything about the vipers, you should let Lady Adalyn go.”

The man scoffed. “Do you think I’m st upid enough to believe that? I know this is

all a trap. There’s no way you mo rons could have figured out the poisons that were created by the greatest sorcerors in the world. No, I won’t be deceived again. It was a nice try, healer, but you’re going to need to do better than that.”

So my suspicions were correct after all. He knew about the Ewonmiams.

“Why did you steal the book in the library?” I asked him. “And what was in the