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

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

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

that that’s handled, I will escort you to the prison tower “The

nodded as if it were an obvious next destination. “Don’t you remember? You have to receive a tull health Pamination. Raven is awaiting us

in Anemond’s clume. Yurene was a different story. While I liked Raven a great ded I didn’t ressanly

in decline agreed chalchs terms, and if I wanted

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daughter, I needed to comply

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

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

the highest point in the prison tower left me breathless. I wasn’t out of shape by

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 or dead. The stench of excrement and

once as a laboratory. An empty bed was set up in the center and three researchers stood around. One of them was Raven, and she was enthusiastic when

were smiling at me.

words with her. I didn’t hear his opening statement, but

Anubis today,” she said quietly.

remarked, and his lips turned downward into a

king rolled

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

will be

made one last request to Raven.

and then Kaleb left

I was nervous, I 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

me. This will be an

a sale Thope I don’t have to lie on that

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

and then realized