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.

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

watching Becky. This job was grueling and required so much attention and patience. Becky had both, but she’d never been a healer before,

the question from leaving my lips, I found myself blurting

aloud.

nose.

and pushed her glasses

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

was incredibly intelligent and hard-working. She often surprised me with just how much she knew about

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 woman like her wouldn’t be considered qualified in the eyes of

healers.

the way the chief royal healer had looked at Asher when he’d appointed me

to work in

I’d be able to sway Asher into

healer.

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

and

gestured to the papers with the lab, results. “I

I murmured as I looked

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

Crawler either,” I offered as my head throbbed. “Even though we

all so strange,” Becky remarked as she sat down in her chair. “I don’t get it. Where did these

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 was to

thought crossed my

royal library,” I whispered to myself and then I turned to Becky. “I found an interesting book the last time I was in the library. I wonder if it would be of any

with a shrug. “We could take all of the help we could get.”

gathered up a could of notebooks and some pens.

I