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 for the men to wake up, Rayden asked us

watched a bunch of soldiers rush to the checkpoints,” he explained as he rubbed his neck. “I was so worried about you

to find the right words to say. How could I summarize

doomed,” Helene spoke up, and

all eyes fell to

“What does that have to do with the fire? I don’t

explained. “He was trying to kill Ronald and his accomplices, but they

‘somehow”,” Helene interrupted boldly. “It was magic. I saw

“Stop, Helene. Things have been complicated enough. We

For now,

out

too keen to let

go

but nodded anyway.

Asher finally spoke up.

out. “We

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need a plan.”

“Your Majesty, it’s good to see sorry for not

you.

I’m

with a nod and when Rayden softened, he continued speaking. “Where is the Alpha

the castle earlier today,” Rayden replied. “He should be waiting for us with a

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

when Helene, Rayden, and Rayden’s men obediently did the

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

was shocked. Both us and the other guests stared on in shock

couldn’t see what was happening. He buried his face in my neck

the other gates are the same,” I whispered as my eyes scanned the

one will be able to leave this place tonight. I’m

It didn’t 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 and maintaining control of this country. This fight

past

few

wanted to pull my hair out at the very idea. I’d seen more violence in the months than any person should have and I yearned for a

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