Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 247

ASHER

In less than an hour, I had regained enough strength to be able to move. With Kane’s assistance, I careful position and climbed out of the cot, though my knees wobbled when my feet hit the ground. My stepbroti with his arm, and I clung on tightly for balance.

“You okay?” he asked me, and when I offered him a small nod, he nodded back. “Good. Take a deep breath. We don move swiftly. Take all of the time you need.”

Though I wanted to rush out of the tent and go straight to the sorceress, a lingering sense of numbness remained in my limbs. It was as if they had fallen asleep, and the feeling was quite unpleasant.

I grimaced as I tried to shake it off, and then frowned further still when it didn’t work. I took a breath as Kane instructed and then began to walk to the entrance of the tent. Kane dropped his arm but followed suit in case I fell.

Once we were outside, Kane led me down the path, and once we reached our destination, my eyebrows shot up. We were in the camp where the sorceress had been kept.

At my orders, the magic-wielding woman was brought to us. Kane, Silas, two other soldiers, and I stood on either side of her to keep her from escaping.

The pretty sorceress appeared pale. Her skin had almost bluish undertones, and her eyes were lifeless and vacant. According to Silas, she hadn’t eaten or drunk, nor had she uttered a single word. The spiteful expression she’d once worn had disappeared since I’d lost consciousness. Instead, the woman seemed weary and exhausted.

“The soldiers hadn’t allowed her to rest or sleep,” Kane explained quietly as I studied her. “Every few minutes, they force her to take a walk, which makes her even more tired than she already is.”

I nodded, and it wasn’t until she noticed me that she lifted her chin with eagerness. Though she still clung to exhaustion, her eyes trailed over me and her lips pursed, as if she were studying me. Yet, she still said nothing.

Kane took a step forward. He rolled his shoulders back and then offered her a smooth smile.

“You must be famished and thirsty,” he remarked to her, his voice silky like an interrogator seducing answers from a stubborn prisoner. “We’re willing to let you go… but only if you tell us what we want to know. The way I see it, you’ve already betrayed your king by telling us about Cassandra… so why not tell us more?”

his efforts. The more Kane spoke, the more determined her expression grew, as if she was proud of ignoring his attempts

graceful, and as he walked over to the sorceress, it was clear that his tactics weren’t going to be anything like Kane’s. His golden eyes were

was unlike Kane’s

snarled quietly, and then he went into detail about his intended methods. I had to

Silas wasn’t bad at playing the role, the sorceress saw through him right away. She let out a contemptuous snort and remained

studied her for a moment and then stepped away. Once he was back in place, he

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was more than ready to

bored by this useless interrogation, and then I rolled

like she doesn’t know anything else,” I remarked. “Since her

the ground like it was a piece of trash.

the poor girl when you

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fate, but when she caught sight of the badge I’d dropped, her face changed completely. Her expression froze and disbelief and shock filled her bluish-green eyes. She looked up at me

though it was quite tempting. I couldn’t give myself away,

I raised a

when you said her accomplice abandoned her?”

of faux sympathy as he played along. “Her accomplice had arrived not too long ago but was discovered by our soldiers. The man said he would do anything not to get caught or imprisoned. So, he agreed to give her up. He’s going back

shouted. “He wouldn’t give