The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 172: A LESSON FOR ARIA

Chapter 172: A LESSON FOR ARIA

Before Jace could hear the explanation from Cane about what he was going to do regarding the matter with Ethan, someone interrupted them.

Jace didn’t need to turn around to know who that was, because her scent was the first thing that hit him. He closed his eyes, trying to rein in his anger.

In the beginning, the Beta didn’t think much about it, but it didn’t take long for him to feel frustrated and now he was so angry because of the interruption.

"You can at least knock on the door," Jace said when Aria walked past him, but the woman just threw him a glance and strode toward Cane nonchalantly.

They were inside the study room, though there was no guard before the door, Aria must know Cane was inside. If not her, who else could enter his study room, a place where the Alpha would hold important meetings, without permission, or even a knock on the door.

"There is something important..." Aria was about to talk to Cane, but the Alpha looked at her coldly.

Aria had done this countless times and this definitely was not the first time for Cane to remind her to knock on the door.

It was a very basic thing and it had nothing to do with status or anything, but Aria seemed very confident to forget about it every time she entered the room. She didn’t even put an effort into remembering that.

"Go out and knock on the door and don’t enter until I give you permission," Cane said coldly. He didn’t raise his tone, nor did he word it viciously, but it was enough to make Aria stop in her tracks. She was dumbfounded.

"I am sorry, I forgot, but this is an important matter..." Aria tried to explain herself, she stuttered, but Cane was firm with his stance.

"Don’t come in without permission."

Jace remained silent on the side, he was quite surprised to see Cane being finally fed up with this attitude of hers. It was a simple thing that they could overlook if they were only talking about trivial matters, but when you were in the middle of something important and got interrupted, it was a normal thing to be very pissed off, especially when this happened constantly.

"I..." Aria wanted to retort, but then she bit her lips and walked back to the door. She closed it and knocked on it, but there was no answer from inside.

Aria knocked again, but she didn’t get the permission, thus she needed to wait until Jace came out.

"No, there will be no war," Cane continued from where he left off, as if there was no interruption in the first place and Jace was glad that he finally taught Aria some discipline, so she could learn not to do that again.

After all, it was common sense to do.

"So, what will you do about it? By making the King wait for a long time, you are really testing his limits. You’ll make things even worse, if you march to the palace under his wrath." Jace sounded very anxious about the unknown.

It was not because he was afraid of the King or anything, it was simply because Cane refused to explain things.

If they really would go to a war against the Crown, he wouldn’t step back and would fully support him, despite the result. But right now, he couldn’t help feeling anxious with a lot of questions in his mind and this guessing game about what Cane might do, simply drove him insane.

"I am waiting for news from Nexus," Cane said.

Ethan had told him everything about the six spies of Cane’s father they met during their journey, though the Beta condemned them for disappearing in time of need for years when the pack had fallen, albeit there was not much they could do to fight against a whole Blue Moon pack, he couldn’t deny that they really needed to build the chain of information again. It was a vital point.

"What news are you waiting for?" Jace narrowed his eyes.

"Something that can threaten my uncle."

Jace chuckled when he heard Cane calling King Aeon ’my uncle’, because it sounded like he was mocking him instead.

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"Miss, you need to see this! Come here! Quick!" Hanna’s face was red, her eyes lit up and she was very enthusiastic, which made Iris unable to refuse her when she finally dragged her out of the bedroom, after she holed herself up in there for three days straight.

She had been very gloomy during these few days and Hanna couldn’t stand her being so sad like that.

"Where are we going?" Iris was panting, as she tried to match her pace with Hanna’s, but she was too fast for her.

"We need to go faster, or else, we will be late," Hanna said, as she turned her head toward Iris, while they were running.

"Late for what?!" Iris felt like she was about to cry again when her lungs started burning, but she didn’t get the answer from Hanna and she didn’t have any other choice but to run with her.

Hanna literally dragged her along, looking very impatient.

They went through the main hall, the front yard and then the small woods next to the pack house. It was so cold this morning, but for the first time, Iris didn’t feel the chill, because sweat started to form on her forehead, as she tried to run alongside with Hanna.

After whizzing past several trees, they finally reached a cleared area, where Iris could see Ethan and Ania scooting down near a mound.

Hearing them coming, both of them whipped their heads in their direction and waved their hands frantically, asking them to run faster.

Iris was lightheaded, she was out of breath and felt like she was going to collapse at any given second.

Ania then stood up and excitedly rushed toward Iris, she took her other hand to make her move faster. Iris felt very frustrated when they rushed her like this without saying anything.

"Come here! Quick! You are going to miss this!" Ania chirped.

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