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”

a moment and then nodded.

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 hoped he would continue

began to rise from the couch, but Kaleb stopped me before

he smirked. “Now that that’s handled, I will

it were an obvious next destination. “Don’t you remember?

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,

in decline agreed chalchs terms,

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needed to comply

touch made

Unlike Wegalla, where all of the prisoners were held captive underground, Yurene seemed to prefer

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

I saw ahead of me. An entire hallway of prisoners, lifeless in their wards. It was nearly impossible to tell if they were alive or dead. The stench of excrement and decay permeated the air, and as we

corridor, and once we reached the end, we stepped into a large room. I recognized it at once as a laboratory. An empty bed was set up in the center and three

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

aside and exchanged a few words with her. I didn’t

Anubis today,”

his lips turned downward into

happened? Raven gasped, and the king rolled his dark blue eyes.

or any information about her,

shrugged. “Roxy will be

before he dul, he made one last request to Raven. “Please escort Cassandra back

Kaleb left without another word.

as much information as possible. This place seemed

me. This will be an

lie on that bed. It

don’t the socess insisted with a wave of her land. That bed

and then realized