The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 505: TAKING A BREAK

Chapter 505: TAKING A BREAK

"Okay," Iris said in defeat, as she stared at Cane’s back. He returned shortly after he ordered someone to bring her food and medicine over, and sat down on the foot of the bed, away from her, this made Iris’ heart sink. "Cane, I am sorry..." She put away the blanket and approached him. "What should I do for you not to be mad at me again?"

Cane said nothing. His jaw clenched tightly, but his eyes were fixed on Iris. He looked like he wanted to go off on her again, but in the end, he sighed deeply and pulled Iris into a hug. He rested his head on her shoulder, as he cradled her again like he did last night.

"I am sorry, my emotions are all over the place," Cane said. He breathed against her skin, filling his lungs with her scent. He saw how many warriors had fallen because he didn’t expect Lady Cyan to pull such a scheme. He was blindsided and he felt he could do better. At the very least, he should have sensed it.

However, Cane was completely clueless. He didn’t expect this move from Lady Cyan at all. Not to mention for her to actually expose herself and openly kill a few crucial people like Alpha Dristan and Sir Elijah. She was so unpredictable.

He failed. His plans had been ruined and he had to start from scratch. Lady Cyan had not only blown away her own identity, but also all Cane had worked hard for. All his schemes, all his plans were useless now.

He needed to think of how to handle the situation quickly, or else, it would backfire on himself.

Watching all of his dead warriors, people who had been with him for decades, die made it even more real. That was the evidence of his failure, an undeniable proof of his incompetence.

He had done everything he could, but it was still not enough...

Consequently, when he found Iris passed out on the floor while no one noticed it until an hour later, where something gravely horrible could have happened, knowing how easy she was to fall sick, it pushed all the wrong buttons inside him.

"I promise I will take care of myself, so you will not worry again." Iris caressed his head and she could hear how he sighed deeply and then released his hug. He stared at her deeply. His anger seemingly had subsided.

"I will always be worried about you." Cane leaned over to kiss the tip of her nose. "But, I will appreciate it if you keep your promise."

Iris nodded vigorously. "I will." Her face lit up a little bit. Her curls looked so messy, but she was still as beautiful as ever in his eyes.

Not long after that, Amee came in with her meal and medicine.

"I am so happy you are awake now. I was worried it would take you days to wake up," Amee said in a worried tone. It was well known that Iris would take days to recover once she fell sick, but her body recovered rather quickly this time around thanks to Grace’s concoction.

But of course, she couldn’t rely on that, since the tonic was made of a dozen water magic stones and the only place they could think of to find the water magic stones was the black market.

Probably, that was why Cane wanted to get his hands on the Moon Dew pack and also started a collaboration with Lou, the merchant.

"Thank you, Amee, you can leave," Cane said.

Amee pursed her lips. "Seriously, Alpha, I barely spent three minutes here and you are already chasing me away." Amee clicked her tongue. She was clearly not happy, but she smiled warmly at Iris and told her to rest more. "Alpha, don’t think of doing anything with her, she needs to rest."

Iris blushed, it gave a little bit of color to her pale face. "No, we will not do anything." But then, she stopped herself because it sounded even weird when she defended Cane.

Meanwhile, the Alpha ignored Amee’s remark and started to feed Iris instead. "Eat, you promised to finish your food."

Iris frowned. "When?" She didn’t think she promised to finish her food, but then Cane was already stuffing her mouth. "Ah, rosemary leaves?" She pointed at a rosemary leaf on top of her soup.

This leaf was hard to find in this part of the continent, thus they wouldn’t use it unless it was really necessary.

"Hm. You like it."

"Yes." Iris brightened up, but then she tilted her head. "How do you know?" She frowned, she didn’t think she had ever mentioned it to him before and no matter how observant Cane was, there was no way he would know such an unimportant thing.

"I know everything about you, now eat more."

Probably it was only her feeling, but Iris felt Cane was a little bit arrogant when he said it, yet, Iris was too tired to read deeper into it, thus she chose to enjoy her meal instead. The soup tasted better in her mouth.

Once Iris was done, Cane insisted for her to stay inside the bedroom and take a rest.

"If you still want to go tonight, I don’t want you to step out of the bed," Cane said sternly, since Iris was adamant to go to the funeral that would be held in the middle of the night, as they would bury the fallen warriors.

Someone then knocked on the door and two warriors entered the room. One of them was carrying a pile of documents that Cane had to check, while the other carried over secret missives that had been gathered from all of the spies he had. He needed to keep tabs on what happened, especially in the capital city.

The two warriors glanced at Iris and immediately left the room.

"Have people found out about the death of the King?" Iris asked, as she crawled over to rest her head against Cane’s chest, while staring at the report he was reading.

"It has not yet been made public, but the other packs’ spies have caught wind of it, yet they couldn’t confirm it," Cane answered her question and let her read as well. "Koda must be on his way to the Red Claw pack to gather his men."

"What if Lady Cyan reaches the palace first? Do you think she will make Alan the King?" Iris frowned, she couldn’t imagine that stupid and arrogant prince as the King.

Cane contemplated for a while. "Probably. I still do not understand why Cyan is very adamant to make him the next in line."

"Maybe because he is the only son of hers."

"Do you think that’s the only reason?"

Iris snuggled closer to him and wriggled her body to find a more comfortable position. "No. But, I can’t think of another reason, even so, I don’t feel that’s her reason at all. She seems to hate her own son."

"Why do you think that she hates her son?" Cane played with her hair mindlessly, as he listened to what she was thinking.

"I can see it in her eyes. That’s the same gaze my father always gave me." Therefore, Iris could tell for sure about it.

Cane said nothing and kissed the top of her head.