Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 237

CASSANDRA

Though I was scared to do so. I decided to ask Kaleb if I could get some medicine for Ms. Benn’s daughter. I couldn’t let poor Lila suffer through the symptoms of her illness any longer. The herbs Td given the head housekeeper were enough to dull some of the aches and pains that came with pneumonia, but to be fully cured. I needed real antibiotics.

So, I summoned my strength and then requested an audience with Kaleb. The king of Yurene met with me in the same meeting room we’d conversed in the other day, and when I crossed through the doorway, there was an almost amused glint in his navy blue eyes.

“Cassandra,” he greeted me as I approached the couch and took a seat. “To what do I owe the pleasure of this meeting?”

I decided to skip straight to my request. “I need some medicine. Antibiotics and others. Is that something you could assist me with?”

“Medicine,” he repeated back, and then he raised an eyebrow. “Why do you need it? Are you ailing? Or perhaps it’s for your

son or maid:”

He instinctively leaned back as if I were contagious and I fought the urge to laugh. Instead, I maintained eye contact and then shrugged.

“None

OF

us are sick,” I replied. “The weather and the environment in Vlokwell are so different than Anemond. I want to be prepared just in case our immune systerns can’t handle the sudden change,”

but I wasn’t about to tell the Northern king about Lila and her illness. I didn’t want to cause Ms.

It wasn’t exactly the truth, bi Benn any trouble.

“Raven can cure you of any disease or ailment,” he said with a raised eyebrow

I was forced to think fast on my feet.

“I don’t want to rely on sorcery and magic,” I explained. As a healer myself, I’m more comfortable with the normal methods. of medicine. I do hope you can understand”

stared at me for a moment and then

need, and I’ll have someone arrange a kit for you,” he said. I was surprised he didn’t argue with me, but I was relieved that it wasn’t a fight. I supposed that my agreement to his proposal had sweetened his disposition and

I began to rise from the couch, but Kaleb

fast, Cassandra,” he said, and then he smirked. “Now that that’s handled, I will escort

destination. “Don’t you remember? You have to receive a tull health Pamination. Raven is awaiting us as

telt my heart plummet in my chest. As a healej, I was no stranger to check-ups and medical tests. Hell I’d conducted them a million times. But it had taken me months to come around to feeling relaxed in Anemond’s clume. Yurene was a different story. While I liked Raven a great ded I didn’t ressanly trust her and I wasn’t sure how medicme was practiced here, nor did I know what sort of re lewas being

in any sort of position in decline agreed chalchs terms, and if

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I needed to

though his touch made me deeply uncomfortable, and without any hesitation, we left the meeting room and headed to the

taller than I’d expected. Unlike Wegalla, where all of the prisoners were held captive underground, Yurene seemed to prefer to lock their prisoners in a high impenetrable place.

to the highest point in the prison tower left me breathless. I wasn’t out of shape by any means, there were just so many stairs that my muscles began to

my breath. I froze in place, stunned by what I saw ahead of me. An entire hallway of prisoners, lifeless in their wards. It was nearly impossible to tell if they were alive

laboratory. An empty bed was set up in the center and three researchers

after she rushed over. I accepted the embrace and when we parted ways, I noticed the other two researchers were smiling at me. Despite their friendly expressions, I still felt a little chilled. The laboratory was rather different than Keller’s in Anemond, and I had the

I didn’t hear his

today,” she

Kaleb remarked, and his lips turned downward into a frown.

Raven gasped, and the king

from Roxy or any information about her,

“Roxy will be just

before he dul, he made one last request

agreed, and then Kaleb left without another

managed to stay calm. I carefully looked around and tried to gather as much information as possible. This place seemed scary, but I knew after everything I’d been through. I could handle this exam

be nervous.” Raven assured me. This will be an

to lie on

you don’t the socess insisted with a wave of her land. That bed is for the guinea

and then realized