Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 69 North King’s request

CA SSANDRA

A gasp escaped me, and for a moment, I swore I was about to faint. My head spun and a huge knot formed in my stomach.

Had I heard the king correctly?

Emmett? My Emmett?

“I was devastated to hear that Emmett had passed away,” Kaleb continued without ski pping a beat. “But now I’ve found you. I thought it was a coincidence that your last name is also Keller, but then at the banquet, you said you were from the Wild Crawler Pack. Does that mean…”

His question trailed off and I knew I had to finally speak.

“Emmett was my husband,” I confirmed.

Kaleb nodded solemnly. “I figured as much.”

The room fell into silence as I processed all of this new information. Emmett had been to Yurene? He’d never mentioned he’d been to the North even once. In fact, most people in Wegalla never spoke about the North in general. Why had he gone there in the first place and what brought him to the former king of Yurene in the first place?

The room begin to tilt and I had to steady myself for a moment to keep from. swaying. Just when I thought I was past all of the secrets and mysteries, I was being dealt another.

Kaleb studied me but gave me a little bit to think about everything. I appreciated his patience, but I struggled to find the right words to say. I couldn’t betray too much. It would seem strange for a wife to know so little about her husband, though I could simply pass it off if I needed to.

Most importantly, I needed to find a way to convince Kaleb that my going to his country wasn’t a good idea.

“I’m not as talented a healer as Emmett was,” I said softly. “I want to help, but

I won’t be

me out, Ca ssandra,” Kaleb pleaded in an equally gentle tone. “The disease is… strange.”

could protest further, my lips curled into a

first began to suffer some headaches. They were few at first, but then they began to progress and they became more frequent. His

and my eyes began to

forearms. “All along here. Just like the headaches, they were few at first and then multiplied. Deep black marks.”

I gasped.

Black marks.

was the same disease that plagued Wild Crawler and

Kaleb’s

grew alarmed at the sudden sound, and his lips parted, but he didn’t say anything else. He waited patiently with

all thoughts of Emmett aside. I needed to act like

was your father infected?” I asked him as I leaned forward. “And how?”

to grow the black marks after he returned from the battlefield. Back then, Yurene was fighting against a small

Everyone thought he was going to die, but then, he recovered almost overnight. It seemed

marks began to appear.”

anyone else experiencing symptoms?” I wondered and Kaleb

lamented. “Which is not a bad thing, of course. The disease is dreadful and only grows more awful with time. But I worry that if left untreated for much longer, it may spread to others in Yurene and become something of an epidemic. I do not

the North years ago, why didn’t it spread instantly to Wegalla? And Emmett… how did he know about the disease

asked. “Could you recognize what he used to

frowned. “But none of the healers in Yurene could figure out what it is. I didn’t bring it with me or else I’d ask you to study it right now

territory and I needed to tread

considered it all. As far as I knew, Kaleb’s father could have been the first one infected with the

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