Chapter 64 Old Beta’s request

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“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-”

mine. I hope that Adalyn wasn’t attempting to interfere with that, but I have a

and she shook her head. Her hair flared around her and her eyes widened.

just w-worried a-about M-Marco… All she

but I was already in the middle of a tense conversation. The last thing I needed was for this to escalate further when I was feeling so weak and stressed

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

Ca ssandra’s assistant, Becky,” I pointed out, and I leaned back in my seat a

did,” Linda said through her sniffles. “She’s clearly lying

on the healer’s side.”

at the way she was speaking to me, but

a strong possibility of bias there and I think that

posture and folded his

Majesty, I worry,” he stated in a strangely cool tone. “About Adalyn clearly, but most

urged. What was going on here? What did the Beta mean?

this Ca ssandra Keller and her origin and intentions,” he

what I’ve heard. With your permission, Your Majesty, I would

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

me just as he did the others.

Alpha King’s decision?” I

Beta shook his head immediately and then gave me a small

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

Wegalla, Oliver, as you keep challenging me

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