Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 41

Chapter 41 Splendid idea

CA SSANDRA

As I stared back at Margaret, I pushed down my disbelief and tried to keep my face as neutral as possible. Asher’s stepmother’s words were harsh, but I couldn’t let her threaten me.

“Rest assured, I’m being completely honest with you,” I said calmly. “The Alpha King was especially concerned after the viper appeared here at Merliscire, and wanted a thorough investigation done on the beast.”

“Were there any findings?” Margaret practically demanded. The woman’s nostrils flared in agitation, and her mouth pursed as she awaited my reply.

“Yes,” I confirmed, and I made sure to keep my tone as even as possible as leaned forward. “The viper that attacked the Alpha King seemed to be raised deliberately by someone-”

“What does that mean?” she interrupted me, and her eyes narrowed further.

“The essence released in the bite wasn’t venom,” I revealed. “It was an artificial

poison.”

The moment the words left my lips, a strange feeling moved through me. I didn’t regret blurting out the words, but I wasn’t sure how the pair of women would react to it.

Adalyn’s face shifted first and contorted into an expression of shock and.

concern.

“That’s in

she managed. “No one would dare to sneak a poison under the Alpha King’s nose. There’s no way someone in Merliscire would dare.”

Meanwhile, Margaret’s face looked panicked, but only for a single second. She regained her composure quickly and nodded.

agreed. “No one in Anemond would dare.”

with any of this. The older woman’s face was

Had she directed this

put it past her, but I wasn’t sure. If it really was Margaret who wanted to kill Asher,

gain in

into thinking that her son could take the throne, but she wasn’t an idiot. If Asher died, Kane

I’d been ignoring on my plate and raised my knife.

mused as

and Margaret followed suit. We all ate quietly,

little while later, Margaret cleared her throat.

Healer Ca ssandra, and don’t take offense

the way Adalyn and Margaret were acting. This whole encounter was suspicious and strange.

son, Cas sandra?” Margaret changed the

at her wine, I

old,” I

uneasy answering Asher’s stepmother’s question, but it would have been strange for me to refuse to say or

the mention of “five years”, and for a moment, my heart

is six,” Margaret mentioned with a smile. “Since they’re so close in age,

Marco was six years old? I’d assumed that given

the thoughts away. “Finnick is a little shy, but I’m sure he

in the Wild

glass.

Adalyn scoffed rudely as she swirled,

I managed to do it well enough. I wasn’t looking to start a fight with Asher’s wife, but the beautiful,

much better than

me with a calculated expression. “Who takes care of Finnick while

designated her to be a babysitter for me. It’s been a huge

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