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

instead. I asked some of the questions I knew she would be able

possible I wasn’t a fan of manipulation, but I was learning that here in this Northern country, it was necessary to

sunive

moment, her

very complicated” she said carefully, seemingly more prudent this time, as if she were weighing her

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

and

physical

I repeated

infected with the pesu korp then, youth. Meanwhile the scholiest Black Marks quickly.

they deteriorate

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her in disbelief, unable to contain my shock at the

Between us, I doubt if Emmett Keller was actually able to make something so potent. I’ve never understood why Kaleb was so persistent in trying to replicate it if there was no evidence of its existence. Anyway, I’ve done my best and I don’t think Kaleb should expect more,

her lips curled into a smirk, and I took a moment

Immortality.

unheard of,

seen many things that should have been impossible. Was there some merit in what Inferno

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

players to be shifted about to further their ongoing agendas and

part in the situation. I wished I could meet him in my dreams again and tell

for

I wouldn’t be able to get clear answers from him. Besides, I’d attempted to reach him for days, even weeks, to no

of these things, I noticed that Raven was studying me. Her lovely blue-green eyes nervously observed me. as if she wanted to