Chapter 60 Mysterious box

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“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.

my fingers. A headache was beginning to build and all I wanted was to go back to sleep. But this

grueling and required so much attention and patience. Becky had both, but she’d never been a healer before, which I found, curious.

stop the question from leaving my

aloud.

nose.

research and pushed

just never passed the examination for royal healers. I suppose it just

me with just how much she knew about different subjects and she spoke about them so passionately. Her heart and

and uppity when it came to those who were appointed to

healers.

royal healer had looked at Asher when he’d

fair. Becky deserved to work in

I’d be able to sway Asher

healer.

by quickly. I wasn’t making any sort of progress and I found my mind wandering. Between Asher and Kaleb, I had a lot on my mind and all I

cleared her throat and interrupted my daydream.

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

murmured as I

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? I don’t understand what’s

offered as my head throbbed. “Even though we were deep into the woods, we hardly ever encountered vipers like this.”

in her chair. “I

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 didn’t want

crossed my mind.

library,” I whispered to myself and then I turned to Becky. “I found an interesting book the last time I was in the

said with a shrug. “We could take all

from my desk and gathered up a

I

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