Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 282

CAS SANDRA

Asher approached us silently, and once Helene stepped away from me, I glanced at Rayden, who was rubbing his shoulder with an unpleasant expression on his face.

“What happened?” I asked him directly. “Where are your people, Rayden?”

Rayden rolled his eyes at Helene. “Ask her. She’s responsible for what happened.”

I frowned. “What do you mean?”

The Alpha of Wild Crawler gestured around the area. I peered over the bushes and noticed several people were lying on the ground, clearly unconscious. When I turned back to Helene, she simply shrugged nonchalantly.

“I saw this man and the others sneaking around the grounds with a large wooden box,” she answered, her eyes watching Rayden suspiciously. “I supposed they were planning on taking something out of the castle, so I used some tricks.”

“What tricks?” I asked as fear swelled within me. I could see the men’s chests rise and fall with their breathing, so it was obvious they were still alive, but that didn’t mean that Helene hadn’t done something lethal to them. The necklace weapon she’d gifted me proved that she was capable of plenty, and besides, I was still a little hesitant toward her after the way she’d acted around Ronald,

She had been under his spell for a good deal of time, and while she seemed fine now, I was still cautious.

“I wasn’t going to fight against so many men alone, so I used some drugs to make them pass out,” Helene answered calmly. Her tone was so casual that it was a little alarming, and I fought the urge to groan.

Instead, I glanced at Rayden, who very much didn’t appear to be drugged.

“What about him?” I asked her as my eyes trailed over my friend from Wild Crawler.

that he’s your

“I needed at least one conscious man to negotiate with,” she answered. “So I gave him an antidote. And then you walked over here: Is it safe to say friend? You seem quite worried about him.”

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I sighed and then nodded.

Though I’d been initially cautious, Helene seemed to have recovered from her state of hysteria. She was speaking calmly and seemed to be making sense. But now we had a bunch of unconscious allies around us that needed to be roused at once. We needed all of the manpower we could muster if we were going to leave Yurene for good.

“I’ll keep my promise to help you get out of here, but I need these men in order to carry out the plan,” I said. “Can you wake them?”

Helene let out a small gasp of happiness and then nodded quickly.

work administering the antidotes, and as we waited

rubbed his neck. “I was

struggled to find the right words to say. How could

spoke up, and Ronald

fell to

that have

trying to kill Ronald and his accomplices, but they managed to escape

Helene interrupted boldly. “It was magic. I saw it with my

her a glare. “Stop, Helene. Things have been complicated enough. We can our

late For now, we

out

didn’t seem too

go

but nodded anyway.

Asher finally spoke up.

are all awake,” he pointed out. “We should be good

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need a plan.”

“Your Majesty, it’s good to see sorry for

you.

I’m

about it,” Asher assured him with a nod and when Rayden softened, he continued speaking. “Where

should be waiting for us with a

and then turned to me. “I suppose we return to Erika. We need to take advantage of the commotion

men obediently did the same, we left the area surrounding the bushes

everyone was in place, we observed the gate. A bunch of guests were running toward it, hoping to leave the castle, but it was soon made obvious that no one was allowed to leave. One of the guests tried to forcer through the checkpoint without permission and was shot immediately. Based off his attire, the guest seemed to be a high-born from one

and the other guests stared on in shock as the high-born man fell to the

he couldn’t see what was happening. He buried his face in my neck again and I

wonder if the other gates are the same,” I whispered as

likely,” Asher replied, much to my dismay. “No one will be able to leave

matter. The cousins likely knew the other had tricks up their sleeves and we were all collateral. They didn’t care about us. They just cared about killing each other

past

few

very idea. I’d seen more violence in the months than any person

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