Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 242

CASSANDRA

When I awoke. I couldn't move. I tried to stretch my limbs and make sense of
where I was, but it was impossible. I felt as if I was tightly bound to a bed,
strapped down with no hope of excipe. It was dark, so I couldn't tell for sure, but I
wondered if maybe I was in the bed that I had seen in Raven's lab in the prison
tower.

My breath was so thin that I felt as if I could die at any second. My body was
burning, a horrible, aching feeling that I never wanted to experience again. It was
almost like I had returned to the inferno in Rosepetal. Maybe I had never truly
been saved at all, and everything that had happened to me past the point of the
blaze was nothing more than a mere hallucination before death.

Suddenly, I felt my inner wolf groan. A painful groan, followed by anger.

“Why have you been so weak and cowardly?” she growled at me, her voice fierce
like Cora’s. “Where has your warrior’s spirit gone?”

She then scolded and cursed me. “You aren't this person. You aren't a weakling.
You're a daughter of Felix, not some small. sniveling common wolf. So, why are
you acting like this?”

I wanted to speak to reply back to her and tell her what had happened to me, but
I couldn't. I didn’t have the strength to do so. My body was completely numbed,
though my mind was clear. If only I could call out to her with my thoughts and
reassure her. tell her that deep down within me, I was the same warrior I'd
always sworn to be. I'd tell her that even though I'd merely served as a healer
since the blaze had taken my life from me, that hadn't meant that I wasn't a
fighter.

But then again was I still a fighter?

Had 1 cast aside my warrior instinct in favor of surviving?

Suddenly, my wolf appeared before me. Her thick, plush fur was snow white, her
body was muscular and strong. Her eyes were the same green as mine. My wolf
form was just as beautiful as it had always been

I admired her for a moment and felt a longing in my soul. Seeing her again was
like coming home.

My wolf stopped cursing and shouting and simply glared at me with her glowing
eyes.

must fight now, she insisted as she took a step toward me. “Fight for our mate,
our country, and our future You cannot hade in the shadows and be a coward
anymore”

Suddenly, I heard the sound of a machine a series of fast beeps accompanied by
voices in the far distance.

Sure I wasn't sure if I was dreaming or not. I couldn't tell it had opened my eyes,
though I knew I probably hadn't.

I saw my soundings

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Then, I heard Kaleb. “Stop this. This is too much, Raven,”

“This is what has to be done if you want to get it.” she argued. “I won't lose this
opportunity, Kaleb. You should trust me

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Then, there was a screech I didn’t know what happened, but the space was filled
with horrified gasps and angry mumbles Suddenly, I felt someone lift my body,
holding me away from the bed, but the moment I rose from the mattress, my min
went blank again, and I slipped back into oblivion.

When I finally woke up. I wasn't in the lab, but I wasn’t in my own chambers
either. I was in a large room with a high ceilir that had an elaborate mural of the
Moon Goddess upon it. I stared at it for a moment in wonder and then I heard
Kaleb's

voice.

“You're awake,” the king of Yurene stated, his tone lacking any sort of emotion

I moved slightly and turned my attention away from the mural. Kaleb was
standing not too far away, his navy blue eyes unamused as they regarded me.

I opened my mouth to speak, but my throat was too dry. Kaleb immediately
grabbed a glass of water from a table and brought it to me. As I carefully sipped
from it, I regained some of my energy.

I suddenly remembered that when I'd fainted, I was on Ronald's terrace. Would
that make Kaleb suspicious? Did this mean that our alliance had been exposed?
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I expected Kaleb to question me, to demand that I confess, but instead, he asked
me nothing. He took a seat on the chair beside me and leaned forward.

“You fainted because you aren't used to the weather in Viokwell,” he assessed.
“You've been exhausted these days. I may have pushed you too hard, and for
that, I'm sorry Cassandra.

He rose from his chair and stared down at me. His golden brown hair fell loosely
over his shoulders and gleamed under the light that streamed in from the
window. He was dressed more casually than usual, and I was surprised at the
sight of him. Despite his cool demeanor, he seemed fairly calm, if not bored. His
expression didn’t seem like one of anger or betrayal.. so had he not suspected
anything after all?

“I had Raven check your condition and you're fine, though I didn’t send you to
your room because I didn’t want to worry your son Kaleh revealed. “The last thing
I wanted was for him to get upset over nothing, though I wouldn’t blame him.
He's been under much stress, as you so clearly have been.”

Though part of me thought it was incredibly considerate that the Northern king
had considered the feelings of my son, a lump formed in my throat as the rest of
his statement settled in

So, it wasn’t a hallucmation? Were the machines, the tubes, all of it were they
real? Had it been real? Were the researchers studying me, probing around, and
trying to push me to some sort of extent?

I simply nodded, unable to do much more.

My mind continued to spin in circles as I tried to understand what exactly had
happened to nie. Ed supposed that my wolf had been a parafestation of whatever
my bram was trying to sort through, but the rest? What was all of that about?

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