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-”

I cut her off. “In fact, it’s mine. I hope that

head. Her hair flared around her and her

her lower lip began to tremble. “She was just w-worried a-about

to cry, meanwhile, Oliver Moses’ eyes remained fixed on mine. I was a little agitated by his boldness, but I was already in the middle of a tense conversation. The last thing I needed was for this to escalate further when I

slowly. “I want witnesses, interrogations, any information we can get about what happened in that

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

said through her sniffles. “She’s clearly lying

on the healer’s

at the way she was speaking to me,

so could her assistant. There’s a strong possibility of bias there and I think that there’s more to the situation than

folded his hands in his lap.

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

on here? What did the Beta mean?

suspicious of this Ca ssandra Keller and

odd. I don’t like what I’ve heard. With

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

as he did the others. But

the Alpha King’s

and then gave me a small bow of respect.

worry about you. I want to make sure everything

question. your dedication to Wegalla, Oliver, as you keep challenging me at every turn.

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