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-”

cut her off. “In fact, it’s mine. I hope that Adalyn wasn’t attempting to interfere with

her head. Her hair flared around her

she said and her lower lip began to tremble. “She was just w-worried a-about M-Marco… All she cares about is the

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

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

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

said through her sniffles. “She’s clearly lying

on the

shot up at the way she was speaking to me, but I chose to ignore

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

folded

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

going on here? What did the

of this Ca ssandra Keller

about her strikes me as odd. I don’t like what I’ve heard. With your permission, Your Majesty, I

which one it was, but one of them was working for the Moses family under my nose. That was the true

just as he did the others.

King’s decision?” I

immediately and then gave

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

I remarked, and I crossed my arms against my chest. “I see. I question. your dedication to Wegalla, Oliver, as you keep challenging me at every turn. Do you think I’m unfit to make decisions of my own?”

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