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”

for a moment and

of medicines you 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 hoped

to rise from the couch, but Kaleb stopped me before

smirked. “Now that that’s handled, I will escort you to the prison tower “The prison tower?”

nodded as if it were an obvious next destination. “Don’t you remember? You have

them a million times. But it had taken me months to come around to feeling relaxed in Anemond’s clume. Yurene

wasn’t in any sort of position in decline agreed chalchs terms, and if I

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head, and then Kaleb held his hand out to me. I accepted it, though his touch made me deeply uncomfortable, and without any hesitation, we left the meeting room and headed

than I’d expected. Unlike Wegalla, where all of the prisoners were held captive underground, Yurene seemed to prefer

by any means, there were just so many stairs that my muscles began to ache

of prisoners, lifeless in their wards. It was nearly impossible to tell

large room. I recognized it at once as a laboratory. An empty bed was set up in the center

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,

her. I didn’t hear his opening statement, but I saw the dark-haired

today,”

and his lips

happened? Raven gasped, and the king rolled his dark

about her, so he went to look for her,” he said.

“Roxy will be

but before he dul, he made one last request

Kaleb left

carefully looked around and tried to gather as much information as possible. This

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

lie on that

socess insisted with a wave of her land. That bed is for the

and