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.

and I handed the papers back to her. I pinched the bridge of my nose between my fingers. A 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

job was grueling and required so much attention and patience. Becky had both, but she’d never

from leaving

aloud.

nose.

looked up from her research and pushed her glasses

passed the examination for royal healers. I suppose it just wasn’t

words hit my ears, I knew they were a 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 and her mind were in it, so why

her books, a thought entered my mind. Becky wasn’t from a prestigious family. Anemond was nothing if not nepotistic and uppity when it came to those who were appointed to higher-up positions. Of course, a young

healers.

Asher when he’d appointed

to work in a

able to sway Asher into making her a

healer.

found my mind wandering. Between Asher and Kaleb, I had a lot on my mind and all I wanted was

and interrupted my daydream.

ssandra?” she called out and she gestured to the papers with the lab,

murmured as I looked her

the viper isn’t matching up with anything,” Becky said bleakly, and she let out a small sigh. “I don’t understand. How are none of these beasts. related to anything? Or even to each other?

head throbbed. “Even though we were deep into

sat down in her chair. “I

about Asher’s illness and this snake hunt was taking my energy away from it. I only had so much allotted time to solve the mystery and I

crossed

Becky. “I found an interesting book the last time I was in the library. I wonder if it would be

with a shrug. “We could

up a

I