ASHER
When Cassandra Keller arrived at my study for the health check the next day, I was still thinking about Adalyn’s accusatory words. I wasn’t stupid enough to fall for the claim that the healer was somehow entangled with the king of Yurene. There was no way she had anything to do with him.
I knew Adalyn’s words had come from jealousy.
And yet, I couldn’t help but consider Kaleb. The way the king from the North treated Cassandra bothered me greatly. There was something there in the way the tall, foreign man studied her. There was an affection that I didn’t like, one that even now, I couldn’t deny.
But a spy? No. There was no way that the beautiful healer I’d plucked all the way from Wild Crawler was an operative.
“Is everything okay?” she asked me quietly.
“Sure,” I remarked simpl
