The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 394: THEIR INTERACTION

Chapter 394: THEIR INTERACTION

Cane had expected the King to come, or at the very least, himself to be summoned back to the capital city, to be questioned about the execution of the five alphas, but he thought it wouldn’t be this fast.

Since people from the Holy Kingdom would arrive, Cane assumed the King would receive them first before he took care of the matter in the south, since time would be so tight to travel back and forth. Moreover, there were a lot of problems within the royal court surrounding the new crown prince’s appointment.

But, as it turned out, Aeon made a hasty decision. This move didn’t feel like him... Cane could feel how out of character his plan to visit the south was. If it was the King that was in charge, he would have focused on the matters involving the court first.

The King didn’t even show himself when the Howling Wolf pack was dragged under the Blue Moon pack control to avoid people’s wrath over the power shift.

"The King is coming?" Iris moved in her seat uncomfortably. Cane said they didn’t need to return to the pack until the woman gave birth to the baby those people assumed was his. "Why?"

"Because of the execution of the five alphas," Cane replied lightly. He stared at Iris and closely studied her expression.

"Or, is it because he wanted to see his future grandnephew?" Iris couldn’t help it, her voice sounded so bitter. She felt this suffocating feeling again, where she couldn’t control her anger and this showed on her expression.

Cane extended his hand and caught her hand that pulled at her hair nervously. "Something is in your mind?"

"Nothing." Iris freed her hand from his grip and stared out the window, indicating she didn’t want to talk anymore.

Silence befell upon them until they arrived at their destination and as usual, Cane helped Iris get off the carriage and kept her close to him.

"We will walk from here, because the carriages couldn’t go through this road," Cane informed Iris after he squeezed her hand to get her attention.

Iris looked around, there were a few warriors carrying boxes after boxes and she recognized them as the former warriors of the Riverside pack, with a warrior from the Howling Wolf pack being the person in charge of them.

Some of the warriors waved their hands at Iris, as they came here along with the Gamma and the Red Claw pack entourage.

Iris smiled at them. She recognized all of them. There were around ten warriors who came here from the capital city as the rest stayed behind with Aderan.

On the other hand, Jace frowned to see the interaction between the warriors and Iris. Ethan had told him what happened during their time in the capital city, but knowing the Gamma, as he had this tendency to exaggerate things, he didn’t believe him right away.

Yet... what was this?

Cane walked ahead with Alpha Dristan and Koda, while Iris and Hanna walked side by side behind them. Thankfully, Hanna had prepared a simple dress for this muddy road, so it would be easy for her to move around.

Along the streets, Iris could see many people staring at them with curiosity while children hid behind their parent’s backs. They tensed up when Cane and Alpha Dristan walked past them, since their presence as alphas was so strong.

Hanna nudged Iris to get her attention. "I was like them, miss, before you found me." She smiled at her with tears welled up in her eyes. "Thank you."

Iris smiled back at her. "Thank you for staying with me all this time."

They walked further, it was a small entourage with a lot of boxes in the end of this not so big group while the Alpha walked upfront.

Iris saw Will, walking beside four warriors, while carrying one of the boxes, making sure they did their job well and then glanced at Hanna.

"How is it between you and him?" Iris asked in a small voice.

Hanna glanced at Will and looked so gloomy. "Nothing," she mouthed. Her eyes dimmed and Iris could see the deep sadness in her eyes.

Hanna couldn’t stop crying when she was finally reunited with her, thinking Iris had been kidnapped by the lycan and she would end up going missing like Prince Vemion, she felt so relieved to see her safe again.

On the other hand, Iris felt bad because she was fine all this time, but she couldn’t tell her about that.

"Why?" Iris asked again, wanting to know more.

"I don’t know. He didn’t want to talk to me, but he kept protecting me when we were attacked by monsters. I know he asked a few warriors to look after me, but why doesn’t he want to talk to me directly? Did I do something wrong?" Hanna ranted, she felt annoyed, sad and frustrated. She didn’t know what went wrong between them.

"Oh, Hanna... I am sure he will come around."

Hanna shook her head sadly. "I don’t even know if I want him anymore. I think I am on the verge of giving up. He didn’t want me, so why would I want him?"

"Of course, he wants you. It’s just his brain is not braining at this moment."

Both Iris and Hanna were shocked to hear Ethan’s voice above their heads all of a sudden, because they were too engrossed in their conversation they didn’t realize the Gamma had been eavesdropping.

"You can’t give up. If it’s not you, who else could knock some sense into his mind? He needs someone to tell him how wrong it is to ignore the person who cares about you." Hanna and Iris frowned to see this sudden intervention. "What?" Ethan looked confused to receive such a look from them.

"Since when have you been here?" Hanna asked sullenly.

"What? Am I not allowed to join?"

"Why do you want to join in a conversation between two women?" Redmond chimed in as well, which made the two of them start bickering again.

Not too far, Jace was dumbfounded at their interaction.