Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 193 Far too late

KALEB

I leaned over to hold Cassandra’s shoulder as she lost consciousness and nearly fell from her chair. As I steadied the beautiful healer and swept her long, copper curls away from her lovely face, the smile disappeared from my face.

I had regarded this tale with amusement and thought Cassandra would do the same. I hadn’t expected her to pass out. I wasn’t sure if it was the stress of the matter or what, but her skin was pale and she sat limply

in my arms.

She remained breathing, though, so I wasn’t too terribly worried about her.

A few seconds later, Anubis stepped into the room without knocking. His lips twitched at the sight of me and the healer, and then his dark eyes flashed with amusement.

“Who knew you were so gentlemanly?” he stated with a cruel smirk, and then he walked across the room and took a seat in the chair opposite us.

“What do you want?” I uttered as I held her steady. Her chest rose and fell lightly as she breathed, and for a moment, my mind was fixated on making sure she was alright, though I knew logically, that she was just fine.

“I came to tell you that everyone will be ready to depart in an hour, Your Highness,” Anubis answered.

I nodded in response but said nothing.

“You’ve changed,” he continued as I pulled Cassandra closer to me. She had begun slipping and I didn’t want her to hurt herself in the process. “Though you’ve denied it, it’s clear as day. Of course, that isn’t a bad thing. Being soft is a good quality in a powerful king.”

I glared at him sharply as irritation swelled through me. “What do you mean?”

“I don’t understand why you’ve done all of this,” he remarked, and he pinched the bridge of his nose between his fingers. “Telling her a story, trying to appear as a good man to her, all of these things. What’s the point? You could have reached your goals much earlier if you hadn’t tried to play “soft“. And now, you see, the result is the same. You still have to force her to come with you.”

irritation flashed through me. “I don’t see the point of what you’re saying. Anubis. Who cares how I handled things? I don’t recall asking you

pressed. “When I decided to serve you all those years ago, you were a soft man. If that’s what you’ve decided to become…. I might

at him coldly and debated reaching across the

treason?”

Far

point. But I’m wondering why you’re treating this healer so differently from the others. Why do you want

working some angle. I couldn’t care

my words and leaned forward.

whim. You’re calculated, prepared, and always ready for the next step forward.

down at Cassandra. Thankfully, she was still fast asleep, but had she been stirring even just a

it wasn’t just

enough. Leave us. Make sure that everything

arranged,” Anubis replied in a bored voice. “Discreetly, of course, so that no attention was

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again,” I said impatiently, and my eyes narrowed at him. “I don’t want any potential

tone seemed to be firm enough to get a reaction from the dark–haired man,

began to head over to the door, but he stopped just short of it and turned back to look

said with a raised eyebrow. “Consider it carefully. If you’ve started developing feelings toward the healer, you’d better smother

toward.”

wait for me to answer and left the room. The moment that the door closed behind

Was I behaving out of

it came to speaking with her. I was a king, of course. I didn’t need

was lying in his

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