Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

ASHER

Chapter 65 News from Kane

I rubbed my temples and tried to remain calm. I was spending more and more time in my study these days to stay away from those who wanted to incite more. trouble or drama around me. I needed to stay relaxed, but the disease was affecting me more and more lately.

Heat spread through me as my head pounded and I could feel sweat building up. I rolled the sleeves of my shirt up and when I did, I winced in surprise. The mysterious black marks had been growing significantly, and now there were some blooming up on my forearms. I wanted Ca ssandra to check up on them, but since she was confined to her chambers, my health check would have to be delayed.

I hadn’t expected any of this to happen. It wasn’t my fault was it? Kane had. warned me beforehand and told me that Adalyn was jealous of how I treated. Ca ssandra. I knew that she was wrathful and hell-bent on destroying the healer.

But what I didn’t understand was how I felt about the ordeal and furthermore, how I felt about Ca ssandra.

All my life, I’d been someone who was always in control. I knew what to say, how to say it, and how to keep things from escalating beyond their means. But ever since, I’d met Ca ssandra, my sense of control had started slipping.

Seeing Ca ssandra’s bandaged hand and finding out that Adalyn had wounded her made me furious beyond imagination. I wanted to inflict punishment upon my wife like no other. There was even a small part of me that wanted to kill her.

I’d only felt this intensely protective over one person before.

Cora.

A thought crossed my mind. It was crazy and nonsensical, but the moment it entered, I couldn’t push it away.

What if Ca ssandra Keller was Cora?

Could she be?

inferno, the charred remains of Rosepetal, and the other evidence, I’d never believed that Cora had really perished in the fire. So what if there was some way she

familiar with Ca ssandra the first time I saw her, why I wanted to see her all the time,

crazy. I knew that. But no matter how much I wanted to push it away and pretend I’d never entertained it,

ssandra Keller had looked so much like Cora at the banquet last night. The way the dress hugged her curves was all too familiar. I’d known that dress anywhere. It was the same Cora had worn to a

her by someone, and if so, who was it? How did they come about an article

were interrupted by a knock on the door. I let out a small groan. I wasn’t in any condition to be entertaining any more guests today.

out as I rolled the sleeves of my shirt back up. I couldn’t risk anyone seeing the black marks that

your stepbrother, Your Majesty,” one of the guards called out from the other side

me?”

I sighed. “Enter.”

into the room and smiled at

he greeted me as the door closed behind

his short journey.

I suspected he went somewhere

the visitors

would be a good chance for them to get to know. the royal family. But Kane had left just before the Northerners had arrived. Margaret

it mattered much. I was grateful my

remarked simply. “Now, what

perched in the chair in front of me and studied me closely. His violet eyes. were narrowed in concern as they scanned every inch of me. “If you don’t mind me saying so, Asher, you’re looking a little worse for wear. In fact… you look like you’ve aged quite a bit. I can see some gray hairs on

about those,” I muttered

you are,” Kane pressed.

that. He didn’t push the issue further but

ssandra Keller in that mysterious laboratory,” he remarked as he fiddled with the glass instrument. “I got all of the details from various sources on my way here. I must