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

hear me out, Ca ssandra,” Kaleb pleaded in an equally gentle tone.

lips curled into a frown. “What do you

eyes. “My father first began to suffer some headaches. They were few at first, but then they began to progress and they became more frequent. His skin lost most of its color, and then these strange marks began to

asked, and my eyes began to

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

I gasped.

Black marks.

the same disease that plagued Wild

Kaleb’s

didn’t say anything

pushed all thoughts of Emmett aside. I needed to

him as I leaned

he shook his head. “He started to grow the black marks after he returned from the battlefield. Back then, Yurene was fighting against a small Pack. There was a dispute over

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

began to appear.”

wondered and Kaleb

I know, there is no one else,” he 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 wish for my people to suffer as my father has, Ca ssandra.”

nodded and tried 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

for you?” I asked. “Could

healers in Yurene could figure out what it is. I didn’t bring it with me or else I’d ask

territory and I needed to tread carefully.

my seat and considered it all. As far as I knew, Kaleb’s father could

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