The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 385: ’ACCIDENT’

Chapter 385: ’ACCIDENT’

Though Iris was used to Cane taking her hand or dropping his hand around her waist whenever they walked together, right now, there were a hundred pairs of eyes on them! They didn’t even hide their surprise to see this show of affection from the Alpha toward his luna.

Iris was a little bit uncomfortable with the way they stared at them, but when she glanced at Cane, her mate was unfazed. He didn’t seem bothered by it in the slightest, as he led her toward the carriage. He helped her get inside and Jace went with them, as the Beta sat down on the coachmen seat, leaving Oliver and Sir Elijah as the people in charge for the distribution of food.

Jace looked like someone who just swallowed a bear’s heart, as he was dying of curiosity at this turn of events. It was out of character for Cane to show such deep affection.

Meanwhile, inside the carriage, Cane handed Iris a loaf of warm bread and a waterskin that contained warm milk.

"Eat." He said to Iris and started to read his secret missives.

Iris stared at the bread, it was too big for her to eat all by herself, thus she tore off a piece and extended her hand, bringing the piece of bread to Cane’s mouth.

Cane was surprised by the gesture and looked at her questioningly.

"You need to eat too, you have not yet eaten anything," Iris said and then added. "This bread is too much for me."

"I am reading," Cane said simply and pushed her hand away, as he started to read his secret missives again, but Iris brought the piece of bread to his mouth again. This time, she nudged his lips with it.

If something had changed about her, it would be that she had become a little bit bolder. There was no way she would be this persistent a few months ago.

"You don’t need to use your mouth to read your letters," Iris said, nudging the bread against his lips again.

"Are you going to feed me?" Mirth danced in his black eyes when he said that.

"I am trying to help you," Iris corrected him.

For a moment, Cane said nothing and only stared at her, which made Iris frown, but when she was about to protest, he bit into the bread in her hand and continued to read. He allowed her to do as she pleased.

With that, the carriage fell silent once again, but the two people inside, seemingly content with this serene atmosphere, continued doing their own things.

From the secret missives Cane read, he learned a few things that happened in the Red Claw pack, the Celestial Moon pack, the capital city and the other four packs in the south.

At the same time, when they distributed the food for people in the Riverside pack, Cane had sent his men to the other packs to do the same thing. Under the name of the King’s special emissary, he moved some warriors to do the job, while their betas and gammas couldn’t do anything about it, as they knew it would put them in great trouble if they intervened with the work of the King’s special emissary.

Getting his hands on the golden stamp was the best outcome Cane could get out of all the trouble the King had put him through.

But what surprised him was how Aderan wrote him a letter, instead of drawing symbols like he used to do, since he was illiterate for as long as he knew. Though his handwriting was a little bit hard to read, it was way easier to understand than to interpret his drawing.

With a lot of things that were going on and his mind being occupied with a lot of schemes, he didn’t pay attention to this small detail, but Iris picked up where he was lacking.

Of course, he knew it was his mate’s doing.

He paid no mind when he was informed about how Iris taught them and the children in the orphanage how to write and read, as he counted that as Iris doing something to pass her time, but now he could see how it helped.

While Cane took care of the threats around them and the people who had wronged them while trying to bring their packs back under their control, his mate was looking after his men.

"You need to eat more," Cane said, as he caught Iris cheating with the size of bread she gave him. She would give him a bigger piece each time, while she ate like a bird.

"I am eating," Iris mumbled, suddenly interested in the scenery outside.

Hearing that, Cane said nothing and continued to read. Iris thought he had dropped this trivial matter, as she continued to give him bigger pieces of bread.

But, when Cane opened his mouth this time, she could feel his warm and rough tongue licking the tips of her fingers, which made her jolt in surprise, but the Alpha seemed not to notice that.

Iris felt her face turn bright red, yet she thought it was only a coincidence, but that small coincidence reminded her of their kiss last night and this made the tips of her ears and neck turn even redder. Her lips were still swollen from all that and Cane helped her put some ointment on this morning.

However, when the same thing happened again, as Cane ’accidentally’ licked the tips of her fingers for the second time, Iris was not sure whether he did it on purpose or not, but she couldn’t protest, since Cane looked quite unbothered and acted like nothing big happened.

It would be so embarrassing to bring this up, thus Iris didn’t give the bread to him as often.

This one hour trip was filled mostly with silence, but when they finally arrived, Jace looked confused to see how red Iris’ face was when she got out of the carriage.

"Are you sick, Luna?" Jace asked out of concern.