Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

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Chapter 81 A taste of jealousy

When Ca ssandra Keller arrived at my study for the health check the next day, was still thinking about Adalyn’s accusatory words. I wasn’t st upid enough to fall for the claim that the healer was somehow entangled with the king of Yurene. There

was no way she had anything to do with him..

I knew Adalyn’s words had come from jealousy.

And yet, I couldn’t help but consider Kaleb. The way the king from the North treated Ca ssandra bothered me greatly. There was something there in the way the tall, foreign man studied her. There was an affection that I didn’t like, one that even now, I couldn’t deny.

But a spy? No. There was no way that the beautiful healer I’d plucked all the way from Wild Crawler was an operative.

“Is everything okay?” she asked me quietly.

“Sure,” I remarked simply.

She spread her supplies out on my desk and then got to work. As she poked. and prodded me, my mind began to wander until I finally slipped back into reality. Ca ssandra was engrossed in her work. I watched her closely as she made notes about my blood pressure and then moved on to the next task with ease.

I wanted to make small talk, but I had the sense she didn’t want to speak with me at all after what had happened between us in my chamber yesterday. What could I say, and what could I do about it all?

A sigh escaped me before I could stop it.

“You can sit closer,” I said-softly.

Ca ssandra looked up from her notes and seemed taken aback by the offer.

“Excuse me?” she asked as her brow furrowed.

closer,” I repeated myself, and then I took a breath. “I promise, I won’t touch you if you

nodded. She scooted in a little closer, but I could tell from her body

to apologize for what she did. There was no reason why she should have shown up to your chambers and tried to seize you. Her guards had no reason

it was true. I’d always wanted to send Margaret away, and now since my father was gone, there was really no reason for her to remain in

somewhere else.

I’d been too lax with her. I needed to punish her for what she’d attempted

my laboratory. I understand why Margaret

to say something in response but didn’t know

us where Ca ssandra had asked

Adalyn, and

in my heart grew stronger.

was the one that stopped Margaret,”

and tucked a lock of her

Ca

she said.

little bit more. Why wasn’t she sharing any of this with me? Did she really trust me so little and the king of Yurene

about?” I asked her directly as

then her eyes fell to the ground.

some salve from his country to soothe my burn. I don’t know if he’s sent any to Lady Adalyn, but the

Adalyn last night,” I said. “At her family’s estate. She said

stopped making notes in

shook a little, but she managed to

that, Your Majesty,”

coming from her lips. They were too cold, too courteous, too/polite. As absurd as it seemed, they almost felt like an insult coming