Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 64

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-”

curing serum is not Adalyn’s business,” I cut her off. “In fact, it’s mine.

her head. Her

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

was a little agitated by his boldness, but I was already in the middle

want witnesses, interrogations, any information we can get about what happened

leaned back in my seat a little. “We’ve spoken to her

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

on the

up at the way she was speaking to me, but I chose to ignore it and looked

could be lying,” the Beta said. “And so could her assistant. There’s a strong possibility of bias there and I think that there’s more to the situation than

folded

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

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

ssandra Keller and her origin

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

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

play me just as he did the others.

King’s decision?” I

Beta shook his head immediately and then gave me

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

against my chest. “I see. I question. your dedication to Wegalla, Oliver, as you keep challenging me at every turn. Do you think

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