The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 520: PREPARATION TO THE SILVER RIVER PACK

Chapter 520: PREPARATION TO THE SILVER RIVER PACK

I could spend hours talking to you and it only feels like a handful of moments. And I know that life can be difficult and challenges get in the way, but with you, life feels effortless. It feels like the struggle is worth it. Just to see you at the end of the day. When I am with you, the sadness goes away.

*** Pillow Thoughts; Courtney Pepperneil ***

It was not easy for Cane to deal with this feeling of fear. Those blissful moments were just that, momentary. Then he noticed Iris’ exhausted face and how some parts of her body were bruised. The color irritated him. He was afraid something so bad had happened to her.

But then, if she could survive their previous intimate times when he had not been careful enough, she would survive this, too. This consolatory thought was not really helpful, because it irked him even more to be reminded of something that forever would be engraved in his mind and heart.

"You don’t need to be worried, Cane. I am only a little bit tired," Iris said, as she stretched her arms out.

Cane carefully leaned closer and rested his forehead on her shoulder, as they hugged each other. In this position, it was obvious that he didn’t put all of his weight on her.

"How do you feel?" Cane asked after some time passed. He licked the bruise on her neck, which was the result of him biting his mark on her skin.

"I feel... good," Iris cleared her throat. "How do you feel?"

Cane stopped licking her bruise. "Awful." He started to communicate his feelings now, though it was not the answer that Iris anticipated.

"What?" Iris pushed him slightly away from her, so she could look at his face. He still had this emotionless expression, but his eyes were so gloomy, as if there was a storm brewing inside him. "Did I... was it that bad? I told you I didn’t know what to do."

Cane was speechless, he was mad because the outcome was not what he wanted it to be. Iris got hurt. But here she was; thinking she didn’t perform well enough. Who cared about that?

"Iris, you can play dead and lay down still like a plank for all I care." Cane’s voice was very stern. "I will not complain and still find you attractive."

Iris blushed. What was that supposed to mean? "Is that a compliment?"

Hearing the question, Cane chuckled. He laughed more nowadays, too, even with the tragedy that struck his pack and how they were in this dire situation. She still managed to crack him up, even when he was upset and frustrated.

The way she blushed, the way she asked him timidly while trying so hard to look nonchalant, but failing miserably. He liked this side of her and how he would find her ogling at him with fascination at times.

Cane was not sure what she found so attractive about him. But he could see the way she loved him fearlessly. She wanted to try everything for him. She stretched her boundaries and tested her limits for him. She endured everything... the pain, the agony, the hardship that came when she chose to be with him and here she was; still staring at him with adoration in her eyes.

He was a monster, but still, she came closer to him undauntedly.

It was surreal to have this woman in his life when he thought he wouldn’t fall for anyone anymore. But here he was, succumbing to her presence and unable to let her go.

It started with her giving him the Blue Moon pack, but it ended up with him giving her his whole heart.

There was nothing much, though. His heart was not pretty, after all. It had been broken and shattered into a million pieces, but by some miracle, it was still beating and now, it beat for her...

"You did nothing wrong," Cane said softly, he grabbed her hands and kissed her knuckles solemnly. "I am disappointed, because in the end, I still hurt you."

"No, you didn’t." Iris was adamant. She felt uneasy when she thought Cane wouldn’t try it again with her. Well, she only said she was sore, but she didn’t complain...

Cane chuckled again, he could see how eager Iris was to prove that she was fine, when the evidence was all over her skin.

"You need to eat more and rest." Cane kissed the tip of her nose and stood up right in time someone knocked on the door to deliver Iris’ meals and medicines.

After her stomach was full and they talked about Cane’s next step, Iris fell asleep again. She snored softly, looking all content, as she rested her head on his lap. Cane checked on a few reports, while caressing her head.

Iris slept all the way through the afternoon and only woke up before dinner time. She felt better as her soreness had decreased significantly. It must be because Cane dutifully applied the medicine when she was sleeping, since it should be reapplied every three hours.

Iris felt so embarrassed, but there was this beautiful smile on her lips. She liked when Cane paid attention to her.

The next day, they discussed leaving for the Silver River pack. As usual, Jace would stay behind and be in charge of the pack, while Ethan would come with them, so would Redmond, which meant, he would probably not be able to be there when Sofia gave birth to his firstborn.

The thought of it gave him mixed feelings.

"I don’t care about the baby," Redmond grumbled every time he thought about the matter. "Women give birth every day. It’s not like I can do anything about it anyway." He gulped down the entire bottle and slammed it on the table, as he left the money and walked back home.

Sofia had toned down her nastiness a little bit now. Though Redmond was not sure what the cause for her change of attitude was, it was nice not to have to fight with her every single moment they were in close proximity. She also made Maria stop arguing with him, which helped Redmond a lot, because he was on the verge of bashing that old woman’s head against the wall for bothering him so much.

"I heard you are going with the Alpha and the others to the other packs," Sofia broke the silence between them when they were having their dinner. Maria dutifully cooked for her and supplied everything she needed, since she was not allowed to step into the pack house.

The old woman was still thinking the Alpha would come to his senses once the baby was born, thus she didn’t bother him so much, especially when she was not able to see him, even when she tried so hard to do so.

With everything that was going on in the pack, the problem with Sofia didn’t look so important again in the eyes of most of the pack members, as they had a lot of things to deal with. More so, when their alpha didn’t even pay attention to this pregnant woman. They started to question the baby’s origins as well. Now that Kaz was not in the picture to rally people behind him to worship Sofia, she slowly drifted to the back of their minds.

"Yeah," Redmond answered curtly, as he ate his food, while Sofia played with it, seemingly not feeling any appetite.

"How could they bring you with them when you are part of the very pack that had attacked them? They still trust you?"

Redmond frowned and stopped eating when he heard the question. "If you are still clueless about what is going on and what is going to happen, I will educate you a little bit here," he said in a light tone.

Sofia pursed her lips. She knew she was not that bright when it came to the state affairs or reading the power struggle between men over territory and whatnot, but it vexed her when Redmond pointed that out in a not so very nice way. Still, she didn’t curse at him.

"Cane is the only alpha in the south now. With the power struggle in the capital city and how those people fought for the throne, he is going to unite all the seven packs in the south under his command. Soon, there will be no more individual packs in the south, only one and he will be the Alpha." Redmond was not really good at explaining, so he only blurted out the common things that people had predicted when they read the shift in power.

Therefore, what he told her was just common knowledge that had spread among people.

"More so, if they still bothered me with the fact that those traitors came from the Blue Moon pack, I can remind them I have killed most of my comrades and I will do the same if they didn’t shut their mouths up."

Redmond then ate more aggressively, he was irritated to be reminded of that and Sofia didn’t try to engage in a conversation with Redmond again.

It was not that she wanted to upset him, she only wanted to have someone to talk to, but she didn’t know the safe topics to discuss...

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"What do you want?" Cane asked Haco, as the sorcerer came to visit him in the study room. His expression looked troubled, which told Cane there must be something important he wanted to tell him.

Meanwhile, Iris was sitting next to Cane, doing her own thing. She had been learning about medicine with Grace and Ardand for the past few days.

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