Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 82 Let’s open the box

CA SSANDRA

Even though I wanted to tell Asher everything and reveal what the king of Yurene and I had spoken about after Margaret had left the room, Kaleb had asked me to keep the details of our conversation a secret. I couldn’t betray anything about his father’s illness, not when he’d been kind enough to save me so many times.

And besides, there was no way I could even remotely mention Kaleb’s offer to join him in the North. There was no possible way Asher could understand that, not even a little bit. Hell, I couldn’t even understand it myself, not when there was so much going on.

The snake pit.

Adalyn.

The encounter with the Alpha King in his chambers last night…

I certainly couldn’t say anything after last night.

I could hardly stand to be in the same room as Asher. His proximity to me was far too much already that I could barely handle this health check without losing my mind.

Was he still thinking about it as much as I was? Still thinking about me, the way I’d wrapped my legs around him, the way I’d quivered under his touch? Did he spend the night as I had, dreaming about what could have been if Prince Marco hadn’t walked into the chamber and interrupted us?

Pull yourself, together, Ca ssandra, I chastised myself. I couldn’t succumb to those thoughts, not now.

I half-expected the Alpha King to get upset with me for not betraying my encounter with Kaleb, but he didn’t. He simply sank back into his chair and closed

his eyes. I had the sense that a headache had arrived, so I decided not to push too

far.

I worked in silence for a while, taking notes, measurements, and different details of Asher’s health. Just as he’d mentioned, it seemed like the disease was in fact progressing. I wished I had more research on the subject to tell me how this was going to play out, but at the end of the day, it just wasn’t there.

him, but this new mark on his

anything more about the vipers in

mine,

of them were new or ones that she recognized as non-lethal and

were a few others we didn’t know about.”

about them in our books. She wrote down

it? I wonder what can be done about it all? We can’t risk any more viper attacks around here. We only have so many healers, and I don’t want

“Right,” I agreed.

check and began to pack my supplies away neatly. As ! made sure everything was in its proper place, my mind wandered, and suddenly, a thought appeared.

strange box in

do you know anything about the box in the

asked, and his

and then I clarified. “The one in the

room?”

still didn’t seem

know of any such box,” he said, and he pinched the bridge of his nose between

I said. “It’s got a large lock on the top. I asked the librarian what it was, but she had no recollection of it either. She said it’s been sealed for the entirety of her

But I’m afraid I don’t know anything about it. Why, what does

possibility that I could be wrong,” I said slowly. “But I think, Your Majesty, that the box might be related

now you’ve lost me entirely. Catch me up to speed about whatever key details

about everything I’d uncovered in the royal library. I explained the Ewonmiams and the sorcery, every last thing I’d read about in the books.

reached the part about Wegalla being built to fight the Ewonmiams and stop sorcery,

never heard anything about that,” he remarked. “I was

us were,” I said as I shook my head. “I think it’s an

about the poisons they’d produced, and that although they’d been

could find out more about the poisons, I