The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 187: TREASON IS TREASON

Chapter 187: TREASON IS TREASON

Aria was out of her mind if she thought she could overpower Ethan in a physical fight, but she was desperate and couldn’t think straight. She wanted to know what happened to Cane, but the Gamma refused to let her know anything.

And what did he say? The two children in the orphanage had died?

Aria’s mind went spiraling when she heard that. She didn’t mean to kill them. That was not her intention. That was all that sorcerer’s fault! He told her that no one would die, but he went back on his word and simply said; mistakes could happen.

Aria really wanted to beat Dalia up for introducing such a quack to her! This was not how she wanted things to unfold. It was not her plan to kill those three children or endanger Cane’s life! She only wanted his attention and his affection.

She only wanted to get rid of Iris, because she couldn’t stand her. She was the daughter of Alpha Gerald, the very person that had caused countless deaths of the members of this pack and put them in hell for a decade, but right now she had to see how Cane slowly fell for her. She felt he was slipping out of her fingers.

She couldn’t stand Gerald’s daughter getting the very position that she could only dream of. The daughter of the Alpha that had ruined numerous lives. Her life.

Aria remembered every torturous thing that she had to endure and all the humiliation from Gerald, because there were times when she became his favorite plaything.

But now, she had to watch how his daughter got the only person that she wanted, the only person that she would give up her life for. She couldn’t stand it when they went on a long journey together while Cane didn’t even care much about taking a walk with her!

What was so great about Iris?!

Aria struggled under the pressure of Ethan’s brown beast, as he pinned her down on the floor. She was forced to shift back into her human form. She could neither struggle further, nor deny a direct order from the Gamma.

Her low status didn’t allow her to rebel.

"Where is Cane!? WHERE IS CANE!?" Aria shouted at Ethan like a mad woman, as he held both of her arms with one hand behind her back while pinning her front to the floor.

Ethan allowed her to shout and curse at him as she pleased because he refused to let her know anything. This was a punishment for her. Not knowing about someone that you desperately cared for was a torture as well.

Aria’s screams could be heard faintly from outside of this room, even though this bedroom was soundproof. Yet, even the two guards that stood right in front of the door didn’t dare to move an inch.

Without the Alpha, it would be the Beta and the Gamma in charge of everything. They held the highest authority in the pack.

Ethan only let her go after she was no longer trying to fight him and calmed down a little bit, as she laid on the floor, bawling her eyes out.

"This is treason, Aria." Ethan stood up, he stared down at her, as she curled her body. "We knew each other for so long, you have done so much, but treason is treason."

And after saying that, Ethan left her alone inside Cane’s bedroom. Not long after that, two guards came to take her away. She tried to make them talk, but they too kept mum.

Actually, they were not clear about what had happened, they only knew the mistress had committed a great offense and currently, she needed to be locked away.

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"How is he?" Ethan asked Jace who came back from visiting Redmond. The warrior was gravely injured, six of his men died during the direct confrontation with the lycan and now Lyle, Redmond’s second in command, was giving them shit because their leader was bedridden, while Jace failed to find the lycan.

"Alive," Jace replied curtly. Both of them walked toward the training ground. The messenger from the Celestial Moon pack had returned. Cane had been waiting for him. "How do you know it was Aria?"

Neither of them wanted to talk about this, but the topic couldn’t be avoided forever, they needed to address it at one point. The crime was too grave to be ignored.

"Grace said the shard of magic stone must have been put directly. No one will be able to be so close to him without him putting his guard up aside from Aria and Iris." Ethan glanced at Jace. "Neither of us have direct contact with him."

To think about it, that was right, they didn’t really touch each other, because they hated to be touched casually. Aside from occasional shoulder patting, they didn’t really have any physical contact with one another.

"When I went looking for her, she had already left the pack. I thought she would never return." Ethan thought if Aria had really run away from the pack, it would be for the best, but she actually returned.

Jace listened to what he said silently. "About Redmond..." he changed the topic. There were a lot of problems in the aftermath of what had happened and Jace really wanted to kill Aria for it. They all were already tied up, but now she doused them with more problems.

"If he runs his mouth, we need to silence him." That was the fact that they couldn’t refute. Redmond had witnessed how Cane shifted into his lycan form and out of all the people, it was only him who defied to bend his knees and pledge his loyalty to the Alpha.

It was easy to talk to Grace about the secret, because mostly she was too shocked, but once she calmed down, she could understand, but Redmond was an entirely different matter.

Both of them walked toward the training grounds to meet with the messenger, but to their surprise, they saw someone that they knew.

"What are you doing here?"

Aderan had returned.