The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 51: I WILL ESCORT YOU TO THE ALPHA

Chapter 51: I WILL ESCORT YOU TO THE ALPHA

"Why do you have scars?" All of a sudden, Iris changed the topic, as she looked Cane in the eyes. She was still clutching onto his sleeves.

"Your father gave them to me," Cane replied bluntly.

"They must be so painful."

"They are."

"Will the scars heal?"

"I don’t think so."

The night indeed made you vulnerable and let you say things out loud that you would never admit when it was bright. The obscurity softened your heart.

"Too bad. You have a warm soul." Iris frowned slightly when she read what he said.

"I no longer have a soul." He had sold his soul in exchange for the freedom of his people. There was nothing left of it anymore.

"Yes, you do. You have the warmest soul, but you are in so much pain." Iris blinked her eyes, it seemed it wouldn’t take long before her sleepiness took over. "Your beast is in pain. You have so many scars."

Truthfully speaking, Iris had more scars than Cane, since the only scar that he had was on his face, while the other injuries had healed completely.

"The only scars that I have are on my face."

However, Iris shook her head meekly. "I am not talking about your face. I am talking about your soul. Too bad, you are in so much pain... what my father and brother had done to you must have been painful..."

And after that, Iris closed her eyes and fell asleep.

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The next morning came and Iris found Hanna beside her. She was trying to wake her up, but in the mildest way possible, which made it hard to tell whether she was trying to shake her body to wake her up, or she was simply caressing her back.

"You need to wake up, miss Iris," Hanna said softly, she looked almost apologetic when she spoke. "You need to get ready now."

Iris was still trying to gather her composure, as she looked at Hanna and didn’t know what she was talking about. Why did she need to get ready? Did she read it wrongly?

But then, as if Hanna understood her puzzlement, she started to explain it to her.

"Alpha Cane wants you to go with him to see the king and the alphas before they leave." Hanna then picked up a glass of herbs from the table and made her drink the bitter medicine.

"I know that it must be painful and uncomfortable for you, but you have to toughen up." Hanna wiped her eyes. What choice did they have?

She was in tears to see her missy being hurt again. She was still a little bit feverish right now, but she could go see them off if she exerted some effort.

And after that, Hanna explained a few things to Iris to keep her from falling back asleep. She told her that the alpha allowed her to enter her former bedroom and take one of her pretty dresses for her to wear later.

Thus, Hanna chose her favorite yellow dress, which she loved the most.

"You must miss your dress. You rarely wear the dress because you thought it was so pretty, now I will make you look even prettier, okay?" Hanna looked cheerful, since she wanted to brighten up her mood. "Do you feel better now?"

"Yes." Iris was exceptionally quiet, she didn’t look like herself at all.

"Great!"

The healer seemed to go extra miles under the order of the alpha, unlike when she treated Iris before, helping just enough to keep her alive, she didn’t even use her healing power at that time.

"Come, I will help you to get dressed and then comb your hair. You need to put on some makeup too and then you will look perfect!"

This was one thing that Hanna loved to do.

Iris got off the bed slowly, as Hanna led her to sit down in front of a mirror before she started working on her.

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The king called for alpha Cane as he was set out to leave this afternoon. He asked him to stroll with him around the lake that he saw two days ago.

Cane came and both of them walked alone, away from people, as their personal guards stood a little bit faraway, so there would be no way they could hear their conversation from such a distance.

This place was beautiful with a huge lake and packed with trees on the other side of it, while the velvety grass looked so green.

"I heard there was an attack of the monsters in Goffa mountain around a week ago?" King Aeon spoke to break the silence between them, since Cane was not much of a talker.

"Yes. But there is nothing to be worried about. That’s something common to happen in the mining area," Cane replied lightly.

However, his mind wandered to the past, to the things that happened near this lake a few years ago. The things that alpha Gerald had done to him.

One night, during his fourth year of slavery, alpha Gerald told him to shift into his beast and drugged him, which left him paralyzed. He stayed in his beast form, but couldn’t do anything.

He couldn’t attack him because he held Jace, Amee and Ethan hostage, as he told him that he would cut their throats if he did something that would threaten his life.

Alpha Gerald’s men had knives pressed to their throats. It only needed a simple mistake on his part and those people would die.

In the end, alpha Gerald kept drugging him in his beast form and let him stay in this exact lake area for a few days. Cane was not sure what happened, but Jace and Ethan managed to make a deal with the alpha and made him stop drugging him.

When Cane woke up, he was already in the infirmary, Amee was by his side, crying for him.

Later, Cane learned that Jace and Ethan agreed to kill someone in order to make Alpha Gerald stop drugging him, because he was going to die if he kept doing that. His beast could be affected as well, as he stayed in his beast form for so long.

Alpha Gerald knew how to use people. He would target Cane, since people around him would offer themselves willingly for him to show some mercy on their alpha.

That fact was funny to alpha Gerald, also all the more reason for him to find crueler methods to make the most out of it.

"What are you going to do with the warriors of the Blue Moon pack? You know that they don’t want to pledge their loyalty to you," king Aeon said. "Do you need my warriors to help stabilize the situation?"

"You don’t need to bother. I can handle it." Letting the king get involved in any form or shape would be utterly foolish of him. He would rally his people at the right time.

King Aeon looked at Cane, but he couldn’t read what was in his mind right now.

And after that, he talked casually about the children that he would have later, which was a sour spot for him.

"I will love to be your children’s godfather," King Aeon guffawed. "One of my mistresses is pregnant and I think she will give birth during your visit with your new luna, you shall stay back and see the baby."

"I will be honored." The answer that Cane gave to him was curt, but polite, so he couldn’t find any fault in it.

"You need to find more mistresses, since you are the last heir of the Howling Wolf pack," King Aeon said sagely.

Usually, people in high rank or from privileged families would have at least five to eight mistresses, while they had a house full of slaves that they liked, a number of whom could reach thirty to forty.

"I am saying this, just in case something happens to you." King Aeon patted Cane’s back.

"I will keep that in mind." Cane didn’t falter. He looked like the lake, the surface of which was so calm, but you wouldn’t know what kind of monsters that resided at the bottom of it.

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"See? You look so beautiful!" Hanna said cheerfully after she was done with Iris.

Even though she didn’t look very healthy, her complexion was better with the makeup that Hanna put on her.

The yellow dress felt so good on her skin, especially after wearing those cheap and rough fabrics, it felt heavenly.

Iris didn’t know that having beautiful and nice dresses was such a blessing until now.

Yes, her life was not great, but at the very least, she had a beautiful bedroom, a comfortable bed and so many nice dresses. They never starved her either.

Excluding the fact that her brother would punish her by whipping her or locking her up in the attic and also not allow her to go out of her bedroom to meet people, her life was not that miserable.

"You have grown up into a beautiful lady. I really hope your life will be filled with joy and happiness." Hanna teared up again to see the young girl that she cared for since she was little, and now had grown up into a beautiful woman.

The color of her dress enhanced the color of her auburn hair. Right now, she looked dazzling with her red hair gleaming under the sun.

Not long after that, someone knocked on the door. It was Will.

"The entourage will leave soon, you need to come with me to meet the alpha and see them off," Will said from behind the door. "Are you ready?"

It was Hanna, who replied to Will that they would come out now. She tapped Iris’ shoulder and told her it was time for her to leave.

Both of them walked out of the room and Will was slightly taken aback to see Iris. She looked beautiful in that dress and more so when Hanna did a little magic with her curly, auburn hair, which didn’t look unkempt anymore. Since it was hard to take care of this type of hair, Iris would look like she had a nest on her head every time she didn’t tie her hair neatly, which was also the appearance that she went for recently to cover the mark on her neck.

"I will escort you," Will said and with that, Hanna needed to stay behind, while Iris walked with Will by her side.

And as usual, he didn’t slow down to keep up with her, which forced Iris to half run to catch up with him.

"Can you slow down, please?" Iris grabbed his arm to stop him from walking away, she didn’t want to step on her dress and fall on her face.

Will frowned, but he saw Iris was panting to be able to follow his pace. Her face was bright red. Though he was grumbling something that Iris couldn’t figure out, he slowed down his pace, which Iris was grateful for.

After that, they walked around ten minutes to the main gate, where Cane had been waiting for her, while in the distance the entourages were getting ready for their departure.

Cane saw her coming, but his expression didn’t change at all. His scars gleamed under the sunlight.

Iris remembered what she had said about Cane’s scars, but she couldn’t comprehend why she talked like that in the first place.

Once Iris was in front of him, he spoke only two words. "Follow me."

Iris followed him gladly, she slightly lifted her dress, because she didn’t want to make a fool of herself by stumbling forward.

Meanwhile, Cane didn’t walk as fast as Will, thus there was no need for Iris to be worried about tripping on her own dress. She walked half a step behind him.

"Iris!" King Aeon guffawed when he saw Iris walking side by side with Cane. He smiled brightly, which was so weird for Iris, since not so long ago, he watched her being humiliated calmly.

And what mortified Iris the most was the fact that they had seen her naked in the welcoming party. Though the worst didn’t happen that day, it still felt so strange that they acted like nothing happened, since she was the luna of the pack now.

Hanna had explained to her about the whole thing, she told her how she was the luna now and Iris could understand why Cane made such a decision.

"Your highness..." Iris said, as she bent her body slightly.

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