The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 342: THE TARGET OF THE ALPHA

Chapter 342: THE TARGET OF THE ALPHA

Iris stared at the hand that was extended to her and took it, while Lady Cyan held her hand firmly. It was so firm, until she frowned when she felt the strength behind it. She didn’t need to hold her hand this strong, as if she was going to run away or something.

Yet, Iris said nothing, as she stared at lady Cyan, but she was smiling at her, not feeling weird about the way she grabbed her hand.

Right at that time, Cane finished talking with Koda, as both of them walked over to Lady Cyan and Iris. The Alpha glanced at their hands, but said nothing about it.

"Alpha Derick has headed to the Crown Prince’s bedroom with my gamma," Cane informed Lady Cyan.

This time, the King didn’t come with them and Lady Cyan was in charge of overseeing the investigation so it could run smoothly and fairly.

"Yes, I am going to take your luna to the second floor too because she seems to sense something up there," Lady Cyan replied and pulled Iris along with her. She walked gracefully and Cane didn’t stop her, as he followed the two women from behind with Koda beside him.

Behind the two men, the head of the royal sorcerers and three more sorcerers ascended the stairs. The old sorcerer’s expression looked ashen when he heard the Luna sensed something from the Crown Prince’s bedroom. Would it be another black magic stone? So, it was true that the witch had joined hands with the Crown Prince, cursed at Princess Osana and created terror in the capital city by playing with black magic and brought the cursed lycan into this realm?

The head of the royal sorcerers was too dense to understand the power play and the trickery among those powerful figures.

Hanna couldn’t go with Iris so she stayed with Trion, who searched the first floor with the other warriors, but Redmond did. However, he kept his distance, as he observed his surroundings and took notes of everything.

The moment they stepped inside this room, they could see several maidservants kneeling on the floor. They were only in their undergarments. Even though this room was warm, they were trembling, seemingly, out of fear to see so many people of high status inside the room, especially Lady Cyan.

"What are you doing? Put your clothes on!" Lady Cyan spoke sternly, as she glared at the royal warriors to take those maidservants out of the room.

Koda glanced at them and frowned. Needless to say, they knew why those women were in that state and could figure out what Alan had been doing to them, but it was not unheard of how people like Alan abused his power and took liberties with women around him.

On the other hand, Iris grimaced at the sight of them, but said nothing, while Cane looked unperturbed.

Iris cut straight to the cabinet near the window and tried to open it, but it was locked. She let go of Lady Cyan’s hand because she felt uncomfortable. Her hand felt so cold, as if she had been spending her time holding an ice cube or something.

"It’s locked," Iris said, as she turned to look at Cane.

"You feel something from there?" Koda asked and Iris nodded.

"My Lady," Koda started, as he shifted his attention to Lady Cyan. "This is part of the investigation, I need to break open the cabinet."

"You can do as you please, Sir Dwan," she said to Koda. "I am here merely to see the whole process and don’t have any intention to shield my son if he is really proven guilty."

It came as a surprise for them when Lady Cyan seemed very cooperative. It made Koda less suspicious of her.

"Excuse me," Koda said, as he walked toward the cabinet and Cane came to Iris, as he pulled his mate closer to him, so she wouldn’t get hurt when Koda destroyed the lock.

Cane’s gesture and the way he protected Iris, even to the smallest detail of his movement around this runt, didn’t go unnoticed by Lady Cyan. She took note of everything. Not to mention how she felt nothing when she touched Iris. What was the deal with this runt?

However, Cane could sense the way Lady Cyan observed him, still his expression didn’t change in the slightest. There was something more to this lady. She was not a mere favorite mistress of the King...

Koda broke the lock of the cabinet right in front of Lady Cyan and stepped aside to let Iris get the thing that she felt ominous about.

Iris immediately went closer and took something from the lower part of the cabinet, it was hidden behind a few statues and when she finally pulled it out, it was actually the same piece of folded white fabric and inside there was something a little bit bigger than the shard of black magic stone.

The sorcerers frowned when they saw this and Lady Cyan squinted her eyes, while Iris gave the item to the head of the royal sorcerers, who opened it and found a ring inside.

Just like other people, Iris was also clueless about the thing inside of the fabric, but when she saw the ring, she was sure it was not made of magic stone, yet she could sense the ominous feeling from it all the same.

Iris glanced at Cane with a questioning look, but she couldn’t ask him outright, because there were a lot of people there.

So, she was not only able to sense magic stones, but the media of black magic as well? Since when Cane did notice this, when even she was not aware of it?

Iris stood next to her mate and grabbed his hand. Cane glanced over at her and brushed her bangs lightly, as a form of comfort, he could see how Iris was dying to ask him a lot of questions.

"This... this..." the head of the sorcerers was trembling when he examined the ring. It took him longer than earlier to determine what that was. "This ring is cursed..." he said.

"If I am not mistaken, that ring belongs to Princess Osana, she wore it during the new year party," Cane said smoothly. That was also how he recognized that ring on Will’s finger on that dreadful night.

Lady Cyan’s face darkened when she heard that, but she kept her composure. "We need to discuss this with the king," she murmured.

Alan.

This alpha’s target was Alan. He aimed for his downfall.

That was the conclusion Lady Cyan drew from this finding. She knew her son and was sure he had nothing to do with black magic. Moreover, the dead witch was her own people, someone that she nurtured by herself and there was no way she would collaborate with Alan without her knowing it.

It was Alan and she got the answer she needed.

On the other hand, Cane’s original plan was not to have Lady Cyan, but the King himself, bear the witness of everything that unfolded here, but it seemed, having this mistress was a better option, especially when she volunteered herself.

At the same time, a royal guard came to inform them of something. "We found something in the underground room."