Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 60 Mysterious box

CA SSANDRA

“I got the test result, Ca ssy!” Becky exclaimed with excitement as she rushed into the lab the next day. I’d been half-asleep at my desk and close to nodding off when my assistant walked in, and I quickly regained my composure so she wouldn’t notice just how exhausted I was.

Between the encounter with Asher and the situation with the snake in the garden, I’d gotten very little sleep and was feeling a little ghostlike.

“Oh?” I managed to say, and I swept my long hair out of my face and pulled it up into a high bun. “What does it say?”

Becky glanced down at the stack of papers in her hand and quickly, her excitement turned to concern.

say?”

“Becky?” Lprompted her again when she didn’t say anything. “What does it

“It says it wasn’t Udosyn,” she said quietly, and her lips curled into a frown. “And it wasn’t the same venom that we’d extracted from the vipers that had bitten Prince

Marco and the Alpha King.”

This time, it was my turn to frown.

No matter what happened around here, it always seemed to be incredibly complicated and confusing.

I considered the information for a moment as Becky handed me the results. If the vipérs had been raised by someone, as I’d suspected, we would have found Udosyn in this one’s body. But the results on the paper said otherwise. The facts simply didn’t line up with my hypothesis.

“Can you check to see if the venom matches with any possible venom in the

records?” I asked.

headache was beginning to build and all I wanted was to go back to sleep. But this was something that couldn’t wait. We had to uncover the mystery of this string of viper attacks before the next one struck.

was grueling and required so much attention

from leaving my

aloud.

nose.

from her research and pushed her glasses up the bridge of her

for royal healers. I

lie. Becky was incredibly intelligent and hard-working. She often surprised me with just how much she knew about different subjects and she spoke about them so passionately. Her heart

a prestigious family. Anemond was nothing if not nepotistic and uppity when it came to those who were

healers.

when he’d appointed me to the position. There had

wasn’t fair. Becky deserved to work in a position

day, I’d be able to sway Asher into making her

healer.

found my mind wandering. Between Asher and

and interrupted

called out and she gestured to the papers with the lab, results. “I have some bad

I murmured as I looked her way.

are none of these beasts. related to anything? Or even to each other? I don’t

“Even though we were deep into the woods, we hardly ever encountered

as she sat down in her chair. “I don’t get it. Where did these snakes come

this snake hunt was taking my energy away from it. I only had so much allotted time to solve the mystery and I didn’t want to waste any time. Finnick and I needed to leave Anemond behind for good and the only way to do that

a thought crossed

book the last time I

worth a shot,” Becky said with a shrug. “We could take all of the help

up from my desk and gathered up a could

I