The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 543: THE PEACEFUL NIGHT

Chapter 543: THE PEACEFUL NIGHT

Nala knew this merchant was a little bit... out of ordinary, but his sense of humor was something that she couldn’t comprehend at all. His jokes could be so dark and he would say them with a straight face, which would make the other people think he was serious about what he was saying.

"How can I take that as a joke? Who would make jokes like that?" Nala felt her heart almost stop beating.

"I would."

Nala took a deep breath and stared at the little bottle in Lou’s hand, which he played between his fingers. "What is that?"

"Hair tonic," Lou replied nonchalantly, as he leaned his back against the pillow and raised the bottle in his hand, as the light from the luminous pearls glinted off of it.

"Lou!"

"For your breasts. So, they will get bigger. They are too small for my liking."

"Lou!" Nala felt so embarrassed. No one had ever talked like that about her.

Finally, Lou shifted his attention toward Nala and tilted his head, as he dropped the bottle back into her hands. He looked lazy and bored. "This is for your scar. This is very expensive, so if you break it, I will send you to a brothel to work in order to pay me back. Don’t throw it away again."

Nala looked so hurt with the way Lou threatened her, but it was not something that she couldn’t endure. She had gone through worse and if she could say, the way she lived in the palace was no different from a brothel. The only difference was; the men there were of high status, but their morale was on the same level as those men, who came to the brothels.

That was why Nala was genuinely attracted to Alpha Cane. Despite her mission from the King, she really wanted to know why the Alpha didn’t even take a second glance at her or any other woman.

However, when she heard Alpha Cane got another woman pregnant, she started to think that man was not as loyal as she thought he would be.

"I don’t want to wear that red cloak, I want the other red one," Lou said and then pushed the chest back to Nala, telling her to put it back where she picked it up. "Don’t make a noise, I want to sleep."

Lou turned his back to her and closed his eyes, still naked. His skin was so pale for a man, as if he had never been exposed to the sunlight for too long. Without the cloak, he was actually quite skinny for a man and had no muscles, since he was not a shifter and didn’t do physical labor.

However, surprisingly, he was pretty strong despite his appearance, Nala couldn’t even get away when he held both of her hands down by using only one hand.

"But, all of your cloaks are red," Nala said, yet received no answer. He must have fallen asleep.

Sighing, Nala took the chest and put it back on the table. It was so heavy! And then stared at the little bottle with the ominous liquid, she opened the lid and smelled it.

She scrunched her nose because the smell was so strong and she was still suspicious this was poison.

But then, Lou spoke casually. "That’s not for you to drink, you need to apply it on your scar. Don’t drink it if you don’t want to die."

Now Nala was speechless. Why wouldn’t he say it earlier? What if she had tasted it? This merchant was too much!

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"Are you sleeping?" Sofia asked Redmond in a small voice. It was in the middle of the night and she couldn’t fall asleep, because her back was literally killing her.

Before when it happened, Redmond would press a hot towel against her lower back and it helped, though his nonstop complaints would give her a headache, she thought she could endure his rambling.

"What do you want?" Redmond asked, he didn’t even open his eyes, as he turned his body to the other side. He had been sleeping on the couch every night and refused to sleep on the same bed with Sofia when she suggested it.

’I am used to moving around so much in my sleep, I don’t want to kill the baby in case I hit and kick your stomach by chance.’

That was what Redmond said while grumbling about how uncomfortable the couch was.

"My back is in pain again, can you help me?" Sofia asked, grimacing because she was having a hard time doing anything the bigger her stomach got. She got tired so easily and this was so frustrating. "Redmond..." she nudged his arm. "I can’t reach my back..."

"Why are you so annoying?!" Redmond glowered, but he actually got up and went to the kitchen to boil water.

Seeing that, Sofia bit her lips to prevent herself from smiling. She was still in denial that the baby in her stomach was not the Alpha’s, but recently, she didn’t object to the idea of Redmond being the man who slept with her that night.

This man was so harsh and every time he spoke, he was either grumbling or saying something annoying, but he would find a way to make her feel better and help her with this pregnancy, even though he found this troublesome.

Redmond was not an alpha and was a mere warrior from the Blue Moon pack, but even at his worst, he was way nicer and more helpful than Alpha Gallot had ever been.

Back in the Moon Dew pack, once a mistress got pregnant, the Alpha would stop visiting them, since he couldn’t get physical with them, Alpha Gallot would only come when they gave birth. If it was a son, he would probably spend some time with the baby, but if it was a girl, he wouldn’t care much, until they were five or six years old, where he could play father with them.

"Take off your dress," Redmond said harshly, as he held the warm towel in his hand.

"You can ask me nicely, you know." Sofia’s smile fell, but she took off her dress in front of him, which made him groan.

"Damn it! Why is there no brothel here?" Redmond grumbled. "You should ask Maria to sleep over and help you with this, I am not comfortable seeing you all naked."

"What? A naked pregnant woman makes you uncomfortable?" Sofia hated it when he mentioned going to a brothel.

"Because I am horny!" Redmond carped.

Because the pack didn’t have any brothels, he couldn’t vent his frustrations and Jace had been keeping his eyes on him and deflecting his moves whenever he tried to get one of the Howling Wolf pack’s women to his bed.

Redmond couldn’t comprehend how those men could stay celibate for such a long time. Was there something wrong with their minds?

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"You killed Mason," Cane stated lightly, as he traced his fingers mindlessly on her back.

Both of them were lying on the bed, savoring this moment without saying anything, but it was already enough. They felt content by only being so close to each other, as if their hearts could be in peace no matter how chaotic the world would be tomorrow.

Iris didn’t answer that, but she buried her face in his chest, feeling guilty for some reason.

"Did you kill him by killing his wolf spirit?" From the information Cane gathered from Grace, it was a sudden death. The external injuries were not the cause of it. It was almost like he simply met his demise naturally.

Iris still didn’t say anything, she curled her body, as if by doing so, Cane wouldn’t notice her there, but her silence was a solid answer for Cane.

However, when Cane didn’t say anything anymore, Iris lifted her head and stared at him. "Are you upset that I killed him?"

Cane shook his head. "Why would I be?"

"You kept him alive for a reason..." Iris thought there was a reason why Cane kept Mason alive, probably there was a secret or some question that he wanted to ask him, but she ruined it.

"I kept him alive because I don’t want him to have an easy death. I hope you made his death so painful. Death is an easy way out for someone like him," Cane said truthfully.

Iris thought about that for a while. "I wish I didn’t kill him right away..." she muttered under her breath and this made Cane chuckle. "What?"

"I have never thought that I will have a discussion about killing someone with you one day." Cane pulled Iris closer, as if he wanted to be one with her. "I can’t even say this is progress."

"Is it bothering you that I killed someone?" Iris killed Jemma indirectly by letting Will deliver the punishment, but with Mason, it was different. She killed him with her own hands.

"No." Cane stared into her deep blue eyes. She was genuinely worried about the way he perceived her. "I am glad you can make your own call and it doesn’t bother you as much."

As much as Cane wanted Iris to stay pure and naïve, he knew it wouldn’t do any good for them in the long run. In a way, he felt like he had corrupted her.

"Cane... actually..." Iris tried to find the right words to tell him about her feelings. "I felt a little bit... satisfied when I killed him. I felt liberated... Is it normal for me to feel this way? I even went ahead and thought of doing something horrendous to Kellan as well," Iris admitted, feeling a bit shameful.

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