Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 181 Run Now

CASSANDRA

I had never considered myself a fool.

But then again, in light of everything, perhaps I was.

At the very least, I was naive, foolish, and blind. I should have put the clues together long before this moment. It should have been completely obvious from when Asher had mentioned the jasmine tea wasn’t a gift from him but from his brother.

Back then, I had thought that Kane Collins was just considerate. I thought maybe he had just checked with Erika or some other servants who knew I adored jasmine tea and then made an excuse saying it was a gift from Asher just because he didn’t want to pressure me.

Or maybe he just wanted to compensate for what his mother had done to Erika and me. Either way, I hadn’t given it a single thought

But if I’d been more careful and sharper about it all, I wouldn’t have neglected the possibility that Kane might find a clue to my real identity.

The moment that the question left my lips, Kane’s gaze remained elsewhere. He avoided eye contact with me as if he was too ashamed to look at me, but his silence gave me all the answers I needed.

Kane knew who I truly was, or at least the woman I had been.

When and how had he figured it out?

I’d been able to conceal my identity from Asher for so long because my appearance had been altered from that terrible inferno. Whatever Emmett had used to heal my wounds and burns had drastically changed my features enough to conceal my former identity. The only indications of my old self were the green of my irises, though they’d been much lighter back then, and then the sear on my leg. Without that scar, Asher would have taken longer to realize it was me.

So what had Kane noticed that his brother hadn’t?

Was it as Keleb suggested, that Kane had been following me for a while to gather intel? Or had he simply caught on by the mention of jasmine tea? It wasn’t the most common of tea flavors, and everyone who had known Cora well knew that it was her drink of choice.

Asher’s stepbrother, but I couldn’t. This wasn’t the time or place, especially considering how injured he was. The sheer amount of blood loss alone was threatening his life. We needed

act, Kane spoke. He didn’t look at me

Run Now

eyes and his brows furrowed

throat as I tried to make sense of it

Sorry?

Sorry for what?

he sorry for this situation? Or was he sorry for not letting me know that he had long

him to apologize for. I

the matter.

had said about Kane was true. I didn’t think he had some kind of sick, twisted obsession with me. He

kind to me and treated me with respect. He was Asher’s brother, of course, so I had

Kane uttered his apology to

sneered. “You’re a coward, Lord Kane, as well as a fool. I’ve heard the stories they tell about you in this terrible palace. You’re nothing more than a second–rate version of that

my side. To throw insults and snide remarks at a wounded man on the ground was nothing short of cowardly in its

dare this cruel foreign king disrespect the royal family of Wegalla?

I demanded. “There’s no reason to continue down

on with the show, shall we? You seem ready to

eye him

no one else will get hurt. The decision is yours. Of course, I’m not a very patient person, so you need to make your choice

the loss of agency in my own life. After five years, after all that had happened, I was still incapable

looked at our surroundings and grimaced. “This small ward is suffocating, isn’t

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