Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 238

CASSANDRA

It wasn’t a joke.

I knew it in my bones

Raven’s expression had given it away the moment she’d been caught.

The storm clouds that had plagued my mind felt as if they’d cleared away, and the puzzle pieces felt as if they’d been pu together.

Mind control.

Sorcery.

Weapon.

That’s what Kaleb wanted, to turn the poor, diseased people into his weapon. Though it sounded utterly insane, this speculation seemed more plausible as Raven fidgeted and kept telling me what she had told me wasn’t a fact.

“I shouldn’t make jokes like that,” she said, her tone jittery and nervous. “Roxy would kill me if she’d heard that.”

The dark-haired sorceress offered me a dry smile, and for a moment, I debated on pestering her further, but instead, I decided to bide my time. It was best to go along with things for my safety, so 1 offered Raven a smile back.

“Don’t worry,” I assured her warmly. “I know you were kidding, Raven.”

She nodded and seemed to soften up a bit. “If you want to know more about the research, Cassandra, you could ask Kaleb Without his permission, I’m afraid I can’t share very much with you.”

I wanted to laugh but forced myself to keep a straight face. As if merely asking the king of Yurene would be enough for him to let me know what he was doing here in this prison tower. Surely, Raven thought we were far closer than we were, or else she would know better than to suggest something like that.

entire time. Once she finished, she placed the tube of blood in a device I’d never seen before.

some of the questions I knew she would be able

Inferno and Black Marks? I wondered, and I made sure to sound as innocently curious as possible I wasn’t a fan of manipulation, but I was learning that here in

sunive

question for a moment, her

complicated” she said carefully, seemingly more prudent this time,

body physically. In fact, it’s supposed to enhance

and more. vital”

physical

repeated bark

infected with the pesu korp then, youth. Meanwhile the scholiest

they deteriorate

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mean immortal?” I asked as I stared at her in disbelief, unable to contain my shock at

someone immortal… theoretically. It’s just an assumption since no one has actually seen Inferno or used it. Between us, I doubt if Emmett Keller was actually able to make something so potent.

lips curled into a smirk, and I

Immortality.

of, but also impossible. It seemed that the only thing in the head of these men in power was

been impossible. Was

the secrets I had to keep. I felt like a pawn on Emmett and Kaleb’s chess table, with Asher and the

all we were to them? Pawns and players to be shifted about to further their ongoing agendas and lust for power?

life I’d wanted for myself, and as I pondered the web that we’d all become tangled in. I thought of Emmett and his part in the situation. I wished I could meet him in my dreams again and tell him that I knew what he’d done. I wanted to confront him

punished for

see Emmett in my dreams again, I wouldn’t be able to get clear answers from him. Besides, I’d attempted to reach him for days, even weeks, to no avail. I

Her lovely blue-green eyes nervously observed me. as if she wanted to make sure that