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.

new mark on his forearm wasn’t looking good.

the vipers in the basement?” Asher

opened, and as they stared into mine, I was grateful for the shift in subject.

I relayed. “But many of them were new or ones that she recognized as non-lethal and the ones

others we

little information about them in our books. She wrote down

see,” Asher remarked. “Mystery venoms? That certainly doesn’t bode well, does 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 to risk anyone’s safety any

“Right,” I agreed.

my supplies away neatly. As ! made sure everything was in its proper place, my mind

box in the

you know anything about the box in the royal library?”

Asher asked, and

and then I clarified.

room?”

didn’t seem

pinched the bridge of his nose between his fingers. “Describe it to me.”

got a large lock on the top. I asked the librarian what it was, but she had no recollection of it

“Okay, I know what you’re describing. But I’m afraid I don’t know anything about it. Why,

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

details I appear to be

the

carefully, and once I reached the part about Wegalla being built to fight the Ewonmiams and stop

about that,” he

us were,” I said as I shook my head.

produced, and that although they’d been mentioned, there were few

about the poisons, I