The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 255: DAMN YOU, CANE!

Chapter 255: DAMN YOU, CANE!

There is enough love in his heart to love every single piece of you.

For the most part, it will not show through romantic gestures.

It will creep through his subtle attempts.

It will be loud in his consistency,

And it will present itself as loyalty.

Many men are lovers who have no clue about romanticism.

-Him; Pierre Alex Jeanty-

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A relationship was like holding sand in your hand, you should hold it delicately, so it wouldn’t slip through your fingers...

And that was how Iris felt when she hugged Cane. She felt he was going to slip through her fingers. His sanity...

Somehow, Iris knew the dark wisp wouldn’t hurt her and it didn’t, because she had touched it the first time she noticed it and nothing had happened to her, thus she didn’t think twice when she rushed over and held Cane.

The Alpha looked like he was going to fall apart and the sight scared her.

Iris was used to seeing Cane as someone that wouldn’t be bothered even if the skies were going to collapse, someone who would be calm enough to meet plot after plot, because he had his own schemes and could handle everything, under his control.

Therefore, the sight of Cane being so vulnerable like this made her heart shiver.

"Cane, it’s okay... it’s disappeared..." Iris said in a soothing tone, as she watched the dark wisp gradually disappear. "It’s fine now."

Neither of them know how it worked, but now they were convinced, Iris’ presence helped with the disappearance of the dark wisp. It was exactly like how she calmed down the lycan and made it more bearable for Cane to go through the new moon. In the same way, the dark wisp must have something to do with the cursed beast.

Iris caressed his back, but he didn’t say anything, thus she tried to free herself from him, but Cane held her so close, he practically glued himself to her with his warm breath teasing her neck, his lips on her skin.

Seeing him like this, Iris stayed for as long as needed, she didn’t say anything and both of them were engulfed in this silence.

Gradually, the dark sky turned a little bit brighter in the east. As the sun was about to rise, it was a beautiful sight to see and Iris wanted him to see it.

"Alpha..." Iris patted his back. Did he fall asleep? "Look, it’s a new day."

It’s a new day filled with new hope...

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"Miss, you need to wake up, you need to eat your lunch, you have skipped your breakfast, I don’t want you to get sick," Hanna said. She had been trying to wake Iris up for ten minutes now.

But, she kept brushing off her hands before curling herself even more inside the blanket. If it was not for her health and her unique condition as a runt, Hanna would let her sleep a little bit longer, seeing how tired she was, but she couldn’t do that.

"Miss, you need to wake up now," Hanna said again with a stern voice, though she realized Iris wouldn’t be able to hear that. "Miss!" She shook her body a little bit harder, until Iris opened her eyes sleepily.

"Five minutes..."

"No, you need to eat and then you can fall asleep again after taking a walk."

Iris pursed her lips to see how stern Hanna’s expression was. Her head was throbbing painfully, she didn’t get enough sleep last night.

She couldn’t imagine how Cane could pull it off. For three days, he didn’t fall asleep at all. How could he manage that and was still alive?

Iris pushed herself from the bed and stretched out her arms to hug Hanna, which made her giggle. She still acted like she was a little child sometimes and this warmed her heart.

"I am glad you are okay," Iris murmured sleepily and Hanna kissed her cheek.

Will found her in that catastrophe and took her to the warrior’s quarters, where she stayed with the other warriors, while he went to check on Ethan.

But, before Will returned, the Alpha went to the warrior’s quarters and told Hanna to go and be with Iris. She stayed with her missy until she fell asleep, yet when she returned, Will had left on another mission. She didn’t have time to see him and Will didn’t find her before he left.

"I am also glad that you are fine. Now, eat your lunch, okay?"

"Ugh... I am sleepy." Iris could barely remember how she ended up on the bed, she remembered that after watching the sunrise with Cane, she rested her head and fell asleep. It was very comfortable and she couldn’t resist her sleepiness.

It must be Cane, who had carried her to the bed and tucked her in, or else, she would have slept on the floor.

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"The Alpha is here, master," Sabian informed Lou. "He is alone."

A flicker of dissatisfaction flashed in his eyes when Lou heard that. Cane really didn’t bring his mate with him and insisted on his lie that Iris was sick when she was perfectly fine. After all, the three of them had met just last night.

"Okay," Lou said callously, but he didn’t get up from his bed, as he stabbed the grapefruit with a fork and put it into his mouth indolently.

The sight made Sabian furrow his brows as he grew anxious because he knew what his master was up to. "Master, don’t you want to meet with him?"

"Nah, he can wait," Lou said nonchalantly. "I am not really interested in meeting him without that red hair."

If Iris was not there, why would he want to meet with Cane in such a hurry? He could wait for another minute... or hour.

However, Lou should know by now that the Alpha wouldn’t play his little, petty games, because five minutes later, a guard rushed into the room to report what Cane had said.

"The Alpha said he will leave if you don’t appear within two minutes, Master," he said in a cautious tone. "He stressed he doesn’t have time to wait."

"Damn you, Cane!"