The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 432: THAT’S THE PLAN

Chapter 432: THAT’S THE PLAN

"What do you mean by that?" Haco got this feeling that there was something more to Lu’s words. He hunched his back, waiting for his answer. "Lu, at least, have some decency and tell me what it is. You have used me for five whole decades."

Lu stared at Haco. "You have at least a year more left."

"Why so? Are you being a clairvoyant now?"

"I was extracted from you. You can say I have been your life force for the past five decades, your life force is attached to me." Lu crossed his arms in front of his chest, staring at Haco lazily, while the sorcerer tried to process this piece of information.

"And why is it only my life force that’s attached to you? Why isn’t it vice versa?" Haco was still hoping that Lu just said something nonsense, but then if there was something he really knew about this lycan; he was always true to his words.

"Because I am not even alive, old man." Haco massaged his temple when he got the answer. "Feeling better now you know about it?"

"No!" Haco snapped, but then he sighed deeply and his tone turned a little bit calmer when he talked again. "After you used me for five decades, only now you found time to drop this information that I am finally free from you."

Lu scoffed. "The day you were kicked out of the Holy Kingdom was the best day in your life, admit that." Lu tapped his temple, indicating that there was a time when they shared their thought processes.

Haco scoffed back at him. His grey hair glinted under the sunlight that filtered through the open window, as his wrinkled lips tugged upward. "I think the Holy Kingdom is indeed not a place for me."

Silence ensued as the two of them fell deep in their own thoughts, before Haco threw the same question that he had been dying to know an answer for at him again.

"Was the first Serafim your mate?"

Lu clicked his tongue. He showed an expression which clearly showed him that he didn’t want to talk about this, but the sorcerer was persistent.

"At least, let me die in peace. You will not die again just because you answer a question of mine, you know." Haco knew the reason why Lu died and if the first Serafim was indeed his mate, a lot of things would finally make sense from the history that he read a long time ago.

"Yes, that cheeky woman caused my demise."

Even though that was the truth, Lu still couldn’t bring himself to cuss at her and regard her accountable for his death. His love for her was so deep and he was willing to go through it all over again just to keep his promise to her.

That woman was truly the death of him, but there was no regret.

Thankfully, he didn’t need to be bound to the same stupid promise he made centuries ago, now it was a different lifetime.

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At the forty- seventh lash, Jemma stopped crying, letting out only a small whimper every other second. Her body stopped struggling and at the fifty- two lash, she went still. She did not even make any small sound, still Will continued until the last lash and only then did he stop.

People would see him as a monster now and he didn’t care.

The young, sweet boy that they knew, someone that still had a warm heart even after his slavery days and always looked so peaceful, as he avoided conflict and used to be the pacifist, had now turned into someone else completely.

Will wouldn’t hurt someone if it was not necessary and was very compassionate, but then, here he was, standing in front of the bloodied girl that he whipped to death, feeling nothing. He was broken beyond repair. There was no fixing for him.

Blood soaked the ground and some of it splashed on his chest, face and hair. His hand was bleeding because he gripped the whip too tight.

The whip dropped from his hand and then he walked toward Iris to inform her the punishment had been delivered.

"You may retreat," Iris said and Will immediately resigned himself, all of them knew where he would go. "Release her."

Two guards immediately came forward and lowered Jemma’s still body to the ground. Her healing ability couldn’t keep up with the wounds that she sustained.

"Lu- luna..." One of the guards stuttered, as he rushed toward Iris and knelt down in front of her. He was trembling under Iris’ gaze. "Luna, the girl is... dead." It sounded like a whisper, but all Iris needed to do was to read his lips, so she understood what he was saying.

"Bury her."

And that was it. Iris didn’t even show an ounce of sympathy whatsoever, as she turned around and left the scene. Everyone made way for her, they were extremely afraid of their luna right now, as they tried not to attract her attention and make any mistake in her presence. They felt their dark days creep back in, hovering above their heads. This feeling was almost the same as when Alpha Gerald still ruled over them.

Meanwhile, Iris couldn’t care less about these people.

While people looked afraid of the Luna, Ethan didn’t seem to feel the same. He didn’t find what had happened had any meaning, but still, he instructed the guards to carry the girl’s body to the mountain.

"You want to bury her there?" Jace asked, he frowned to see how nonchalant Ethan was.

"Yes. Next to Aria’s grave. The view is nice." Ethan thought about it for a while. "Do you want to come with me and visit her?"

"No." Jace shook his head. "There is nothing to see. I am not interested in visiting a tomb."

Ethan shrugged his shoulders. He was not really interested in seeing Aria’s tomb either, but like he said, the view was nice and he needed some alone time for himself.

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Will stood in front of the door to Hanna’s bedroom, but he had not yet decided whether or not he wanted to enter. He still had blood on him and was at a loss. He couldn’t think straight, not because he just killed a young girl, who had hurt Hanna, but because he didn’t feel any guilt at all after doing so and deep down, he knew it was so wrong.

But then, after an hour of standing there, Will finally decided to leave. But, at the same time, someone opened the door from the inside and Amee walked out of the room.

"How is she?" Will asked the old lady.

"She will be fine by tomorrow, Grace is with her." Amee gave him a reassuring smile and Will simply nodded politely and walked away, but Amee caught up with him.

"Is that your blood?" Amee asked, pointing her finger at him.

"No."

"I guessed so." Amee nodded in understanding. "Thus, it must be the girl’s blood. I think the Luna will not mind if Grace looks after her too, right?"

"I don’t know." Will hastened his pace, because he didn’t want to talk with Amee.

"Go and change your clothes, clean yourself and come see her." Will didn’t give any reply to that, but when Amee spoke again, he halted his step for a while. "She is looking for you. You know what, Will? You have given her much more pain than the wound on her face with the way you treat her."

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Jace jogged behind Iris, he caught up with her before she entered the Alpha’s bedroom. If Iris could hear, she would have been able to hear the anguished cries from the luna’s bedroom, where Maria was trying to calm Sofia down.

She would cry even more when she learned her personal maid servant had died while receiving punishment.

"Iris," Jace called Iris and grabbed her hand to stop her.

Out of instinct, Iris swatted his hand and backed away, her eyes were on alert, even when she realized it was just Jace, she didn’t put her guard down.

"What is it?" Iris asked, her voice was so calm, it was almost eerie.

Jace looked hesitant and then went to open the Alpha’s bedroom. "Let’s talk inside." He didn’t know how their conversation would go, but he was sure this was not something that other people should hear.

Jace held the door open and let Iris go inside first, where her lizard immediately came to her and snuggled against the crook of her neck, seemingly very happy to see her again, since it was so rare to be inside the room, except for nights, but she didn’t come last night.

"What do you want to talk about?" Iris fished out something from her pocket, it was a piece of meat that she got from the kitchen on her way here and gave it to the little lizard, which couldn’t be considered little anymore.

"I am not saying this because I want to say what you have done is wrong," Jace started carefully, he was trying to find the right words to say, but in the current situation, it seemed there was nothing right. "But, I think killing Jemma will disrupt Cane’s plan."

Iris cradled her lizard in her arms, as she stared at the Beta. The creature was munching on the meat happily, but its eyes were fixed on Jace, as it could sense his anxiety.

"Then what is Cane’s plan?" Iris asked. "Now that I think about it, I am sure he can find a way to let people know the baby is not his, why did he do nothing about it?"

Jace gritted his teeth. "Maybe, that’s the plan, Luna."

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