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

afraid I won’t

hear me out, Ca ssandra,” Kaleb pleaded in an

lips curled into a frown. “What do you mean? How so?”

first, but then they began to progress and they became more

asked, and my

forearms. “All along here. Just like the headaches,

I gasped.

Black marks.

the same disease that plagued Wild Crawler and

Kaleb’s

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

Emmett aside. I needed to act like

him as I leaned forward. “And how?”

returned from the battlefield. Back then, Yurene was

to die, but then, he recovered almost overnight. It seemed to be a miracle. But

marks began

I wondered and Kaleb shook his head.

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 wish for my people to suffer as my

to wrap my mind around all of this. If the disease had appeared in the North years ago, why didn’t it spread instantly to Wegalla? And Emmett… how did he know about the disease and how to treat it? This

asked. “Could you recognize what he used to treat

“But none of the healers in Yurene could figure out what it is. I didn’t bring it with me

territory and I needed

all. As far as I knew, Kaleb’s father could

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