The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 322: THE WHITE DAGGER

Chapter 322: THE WHITE DAGGER

This came out as a surprise for Cane. "You are aware you may bump into Kellan there, right? You don’t need to go if you don’t want to."

After learning what happened, Cane improvised his plan around Iris and settled on an alternative way to get the public sympathy, thus for Iris to go to the orphanage regularly was not necessary.

"I know. I will go there when he is not there." Iris flinched when she heard his name being mentioned and this subtle reaction didn’t go unnoticed by Cane.

"He spends five to six days in the orphanage in a week. How do you plan to pay the children regular visits while avoiding him?"

Iris was surprised to read that revelation. She guessed Prince Kellan visited the orphanage often, but not that often... he practically lived there and this made Iris feel even more uncomfortable. How many children did he...

Iris gritted her teeth, as she clutched her dress tightly, her body tensed up.

Cane stared at his mate for a long moment, but when she didn’t say anything, he pinched her chin and lifted her head, so she could read his question. "You have a plan in your mind?"

"It’s not really a plan," Iris said in a small voice. She couldn’t help but compare her measly plan with Cane’s grand ones and felt dejected.

"Let me hear it then."

Iris pursed her lips. "Don’t laugh."

"Why would I?"

Iris couldn’t answer that. The only thing she knew was that she was embarrassed. "I want to teach the children how to read and write."

"Mm." Cane prodded further for her to talk, because he couldn’t see the need for Iris to teach those children how to read and write, but he wasn’t completely against it, he needed more context on what Iris was going to do.

"I want them to be able to exchange letters with me," Iris said. "We will not stay here forever, right? So, when we return to the Howling Wolf pack, I want to still be in contact with them."

This idea sounded very trivial, but in the future, it would help them tremendously, even Cane failed to see it, because right now, the Alpha’s main focus was to get the public sympathy and his mate teaching those children such precious things would look good.

Lowborn people didn’t get enough education, almost all of them were illiterate because writing and reading were two things that were exclusively reserved for the highborns alone.

Since they needed to trade with other people, they could do calculations. Other than that, their knowledge was very limited. They could always be deceived because they were not well educated.

Cane contemplated this. "What about Kellan?" He intentionally mentioned his name, knowing how uncomfortable Iris would be. If she couldn’t even handle the mention of his name, she shouldn’t think about meeting him in person at all.

Once again, Iris flinched. She fiddled with her fingers. "Can’t you take him away?"

"Do you want me to kidnap him?" There was amusement in Cane’s eyes when he heard that. He knew Iris was not serious with her request, it was almost like a passing comment and she realized it was impossible.

Iris pursed her lips. "He is already crippled, it will not be difficult for you to do so." There was a hint of hatefulness when she mentioned Kellan’s disability. "You can take him down easily."

"He is already crippled, you will be able to take him down easily yourself." Cane fished out something from his cloak and put it in her hand. "From what I heard, he can’t shift into his beast."

Iris lowered her head and saw the dagger. This was the same white dagger that Cane gave her the night he told her to stab him if he did something that would hurt her.

However, she handed it back to him, because she didn’t want to do that and be blamed for hurting the Alpha. His people would raise hell if they learned Iris had hurt Cane, unintentional or not

Seeing the dagger, Iris was about to retract her hand, but Cane held it firmly.

"I don’t know how to use it," Iris said honestly. She had never even hurt a fly, let alone stabbing someone.

"For protection," Cane said curtly. When you were hard pressed and in a precarious situation, your survival instinct would kick in and you would do anything to survive, thus it would be better to have something handy in your possession than nothing at all. "I will teach you how."

As a shifter, using daggers was not common, Cane was not great with weapons either, since he himself was a weapon, but he knew a few tricks.

"Okay." Iris nodded. She trusted him.

"You have not yet answered my question, what will you do when he is around?"

"I... I will face him," Iris said hesitantly, without any confidence at all.

Cane caressed her cheek and rubbed her earlobe, which made her squirm. She held his hand away from her ear to stop him.

"Going into a battle without two plans, it’s the same as suicide." Two plans. Cane was talking about a back up plan. "You must learn that."

Iris became anxious when she saw how serious Cane was, but she looked at him attentively.

"When the time comes and you have to stain your hands with blood to survive, do it. The survivors can invent stories of how they lived and the dead cannot refute that statement." What Cane wanted Iris to learn was; as long as you were alive, it didn’t matter what the truth behind the dead was, because stories could be fabricated. "Remember that."

Cane didn’t want her to be so clueless and naïve, though he adored her kindness, she needed to know what she must do and not to survive. Kindness was a good trait, but it was not necessary in this case, especially if it was more than needed.

You needed to be able to draw a clear line between being kind and being a fool.

"Understood?" Cane squeezed her hand that held his.

"Understood." Iris nodded, albeit herself still trying to grasp the meaning behind his words, she scraped the surface of what he wanted her to do. "Oh, right. Earlier, Princess Laluna came and she said, Sir Dwan wanted to see you."

A crafty look flitted past his dark eyes when he heard that. "Okay."

Cane was about to leave, but then Iris held his hand to stop him. "Will you come back for dinner?" She got used to having dinner with him, but recently, he had been very busy. She missed him, but she didn’t want to appear too clingy with him.

"I don’t think I can manage for dinner."

"Oh."

Cane saw how disappointed Iris looked, he hoped she didn’t make it very clear for anyone else to see her emotions, but then, he liked this side of her. He didn’t want to corrupt her, but then the way she took the world needed to change, as it didn’t suit what would come their way later.

"But, I will stay for breakfast tomorrow," Cane added, as he kissed her hand that held his. "I need to leave now." He had made a few people wait because he came here to see her first.

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