Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 64 Old Beta’s request

ASHER

“Your Majesty, you have to put that vicious, wicked healer in jail!” Linda Moses declared in a shrill voice that sent a shiver down my spine.

She and her husband stood in front of my desk, their eyes filled with wrath as they awaited my answer.

I exhaled deeply. In the last few hours, I’d heard two versions of this story. Ca ssandra Keller had said it was Adalyn who’d threatened her and spilled the acid on her arm, while Adalyn had insisted that it was actually Ca ssandra who’d spilled

the acid.

Deep down, I knew whose version was more likely and trustworthy, but trust had nothing to do with it. The situation was much more nuanced than that.

“Adalyn should not have entered the laboratory,” I said as a headache began to plague me. “Everyone in the palace knows not to go in there, and the guards. informed me she was told quite explicitly to stay away-”

“That doesn’t matter!” Linda blurted, and then her cheeks flushed scarlet and her eyes fell to the desk. “Your Majesty.”

“It does,” I pressed. I could have pushed further and chided her for her insolence, but instead, I sighed. “Besides, Ca ssandra Keller has been confined to

her chambers for the foreseeable future.”

“Confinement isn’t enough,” Linda insisted. “Besides, Adalyn told us why she was there. She was simply worried about the viper attacks. She just wanted to make sure that any future bites wouldn’t be an issue for the family-”

of a curing serum is not Adalyn’s business,” I cut her off. “In fact, it’s mine. I hope that Adalyn wasn’t attempting to interfere with that, but I have a feeling

suddenly paled and she shook her head. Her hair flared around

trying to i-interfere,” she said and her lower lip began to tremble. “She was just w-worried a-about M-Marco… All she cares about

fixed on mine. I was a little agitated by his boldness, but I was already in the middle of a tense conversation. The

thorough investigation of the incident,” he said slowly. “I want witnesses, interrogations, any information we can get about what happened in that

leaned back in my seat a little. “We’ve spoken to her and she maintains that

did,” Linda said through her

the healer’s side.”

at the way she was speaking to me, but I

so could her assistant. There’s a strong possibility of bias there and I think that

folded his

a strangely cool tone. “About Adalyn clearly, but most about you.”

going on here?

suspicious of this Ca ssandra Keller

as odd. I don’t like what I’ve heard. With your permission, Your Majesty, I would like to interrogate

There was no way that I would agree to that request, and besides, I knew what Oliver wanted. The Beta had a rat among the royal healers. I had no idea which one it was, but one of them was working for the Moses family under my nose. That was the true reason I’d brought Ca ssandra back in the first place. She was out of Oliver’s control and I could trust her to conduct research

just as he

questioning the Alpha King’s decision?”

immediately and then gave

just worry about you. I want to make sure everything is well with you. You know me. I would do

and I crossed my arms against my chest. “I see. I question. your dedication to Wegalla, Oliver, as you keep challenging me