The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 539: THE PAIN AND TEARS

Chapter 539: THE PAIN AND TEARS

What Joel said snapped them out a little bit, as Dyne tried to tell Iris that it was not appropriate for her to do so to Joel. After all, he was a young man and was not a child.

More so, touching someone else’s legs was something that was extremely inappropriate to do for someone with high status like Iris.

"Luna, you need to stop this, you can’t touch his legs. It is not right for you to lower yourself to..." Yet, Zephyr stopped mid sentence swallowing whatever words he was going to say when Iris simply threw him a dagger look, as if telling him to shut his mouth.

Receiving such a fierce look, no one of them dared enough to speak again, leaving Joel to deal with his dreadful feelings.

"Please, stop it, Luna..." Joel was way more concerned about the fact Iris touched his legs rather than these mysterious little lights that surrounded his legs now.

His legs were done for, whatever the Luna was doing to them, wouldn’t make it even worse, right?

On the other hand, Iris tuned out Joel’s protests and how hard they stared at what she was doing, as she focused on the little lights she had created. She could feel Joel’s wounds and they were so severe.

Even Grace’s healing power couldn’t help, let alone any medicine and herbs that Joel had been consuming ever since he got injured, in hopes it would help with his healing ability.

However, the power that Iris had was different...

Sweat started to drip from her forehead, as she tried to control her lights. It was so difficult, as she slipped a few times. Only after ten minutes had passed did she start to get a better grasp of them while Joel wouldn’t stop pleading with her to stop.

The problem with Joel’s injuries was they were covered by a few traces of curse, since their enemies were under the influence of dark magic, that was also why, his healing ability got all messed up and if it was not for Grace’s healing power and the herbs he consumed, Joel’s legs would have gotten even worse than this.

However, those two things didn’t help with his recovery.

Therefore, the first thing that Iris had to do was to purify the dark magic within his system, which was not a difficult task for her to do so, since she was able to do it without even thinking of what to do, it just happened, just like how she purified those dark magic stones that Haco created and told her to practice on them to do the vice versa; not to purify the dark magic stone, which until now, Iris couldn’t do.

Therefore, once her lights touched the traces of dark magic, they were instantly purified, which helped her tremendously, since she was still trying to figure out what she needed to do next. She did all of this based on her instinct alone.

However, the side effect of it was, she became extremely tired an hour later. Once she had purified all the traces of dark magic within Joel’s system, she looked pale as sweat drenched her dress, until the fabric stuck to her skin uncomfortably.

Meanwhile, all of them kept waiting, still dumbstruck by the magical things happening before their eyes. They had never seen this kind of magic before.

Staring at the lights, weirdly, gave them a sense of security and calmness.

"Wh- what now?" Kian asked, he tried to push down Asher’s head so he could get a better look at the inside of the room, as the four of them poked their heads from behind the door.

What now?

That was the same question that Iris wanted to ask. What now? After she got rid of all of the traces of dark magic, what would happen now?

Iris stared at Joel’s wolf spirit, but there was no significant thing that happened. The wolf still looked so weak and fragile.

"Luna, are you done? What have you been doing?" Eron immediately approached Iris and helped her to sit down on the only chair in this room. He looked curious, but at the same time, concerned about Iris’ condition, since she looked so pale.

Iris wiped her sweat and then stared at Joel, who looked like he almost lost his soul. "The Alpha will kill me and you will be in trouble if he knew you touched my feet, Luna."

Iris ignored that comment. She would have been dreadful if someone told her Cane would kill her a year ago, but not anymore. The thought of Cane killing her almost sounded ridiculous in her ears.

"How do you feel?" Iris asked Joel, she leaned her body forward and stared at his legs again before she looked at his expression. "Can you... move your legs?" She was not sure about this question.

Would it take more than one time for Iris to do it or no matter how many times she had done it, it would just be a waste of effort? She didn’t have any idea how to answer that.

Joel stared at his legs, his eyes filled with concentration, but after some time, he shook his head sadly. "I am sorry, Luna. I am sorry to disappoint you," he said in a small voice. "I tried, but I can’t move my legs."

This young warrior felt so bad when it was actually Iris, who had failed him, as if he didn’t try harder.

The atmosphere in this room became somber instantly, they felt dejected with the result since they felt some hope that something miraculous could happen earlier, but now, it was a sealed deal. There was nothing they could do to save Joel’s legs.

This fact hit Iris so hard. She really tried her best to hold back her tears. The fact that she gave them hope and then failed them made her want to vomit.

The room felt so depressing and the silence that stretched was very heavy.

However, out of nowhere, Zephyr shuffled toward the bed and stood near Joel’s legs, as he scratched his left calf.

"Ah!" Joel screamed in pain when he felt that and watched blood drip from his calf, but soon after that, the wound healed pretty quickly. "What are you doing?"

"You can feel that?" Zephyr asked.

Only then the realization hit him. Grace had told Joel that he couldn’t feel his legs anymore because they were literally dead, but of course, the healer phrased it in a better way, so it wouldn’t sound so horrible.

That was also the reason why his wounds couldn’t heal, because his healing ability around his legs had been completely ruined, since his legs were ’dead’.

Yet, Joel could feel the scratch, no, Zephyr actually clawed at his calf and drew blood from it, but then the wound healed and he could feel the pain.

"I... I can feel that..." Joel felt the words stuck in his throat. "Do it again!" He said in a trembling voice.

"You want me to claw you again?"

"Yes, deeper now." Joel’s whole body was shaking with this realization. It had been days since the last time he could feel anything on his legs and just a moment ago, he was struggling to come to terms that this would be his life from now on. "Do it!"

"You want me to make a deeper incision?" Zephyr raised his brows, but the impatient young warrior wanted him to do it desperately.

"Do it! Do it!" Joel felt his heart beating in his throat when he watched how Zephyr made a deeper incision and the pain shot to his brain, but despite the pain, he felt elated. "I can feel it! I can feel it!" Joel exclaimed as he watched the wound start to heal. "Luna! I can feel it!"

Joel still couldn’t move his legs, but for him to be able to feel them was already great news.

"Luna! Luna! Luna! You did it! I can feel my legs! I can feel the pain!"

"Asher, call Grace to come here and check on him!" Zephyr immediately took over the situation, as Iris started crying. She covered her face with both of her palms, while Eron stood by her side and tried to calm her down.

"Oh." Asher snapped back to reality and then nodded. "Right away." He then rushed toward the orphanage, where Grace could usually be found at this hour.

"Luna! I can feel it!" Joel cried, he felt so overwhelmed when he could gradually feel his legs again. It felt like his legs had started to be part of his body again. "Luna! Thank you! Thank you!"

Joel kept calling Iris, his voice sounded so cheerful and full of life, he was so grateful and Iris could hear the genuine feeling every time he called her name.

Iris wiped her tears and when she saw Joel crying, she was about to hug him, to offer some comfort, she was too emotional right now and thought of Joel just like those little children in the orphanage, because he looked like them at this moment, as he sobbed so hard.

However, Zephyr immediately inserted himself between them and hugged the young warrior first before Iris could do that.

"Let’s hope this will be good news," Zephyr said, as he patted Joel’s back.

They just needed Grace’s confirmation, whether this was a hope that they really needed or it was only a false alarm.

Soon after, the healer came, but this time, she came with the Alpha as well, since he had been looking for his mate.

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