The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 587: WHY SHOULD I?

Chapter 587: WHY SHOULD I?

It was a letter from Joyce again, asking whether Iris could come and get the children out of the capital because the royal guards and warriors became more and more violent. The monsters appeared in the capital city more often now, but the royal warriors didn’t do anything about it, unless something happened in the palace.

Because of that, while the people tried to defend themselves, the sorcerers in the capital city tried to create barriers for their safety.

Many people died and those who tried to flee from the capital city were killed brutally. The children were afraid, the orphanage was not safe anymore after Trion and the others had left.

Thankfully, Trion taught them how to send letters by hawks secretly, so the guards and warriors around the city wouldn’t notice it, but Joyce and the other children must be very careful about it and they couldn’t send letters as often as they wanted.

At the end of the letter, Joyce wrote; please, help us, luna Iris...

Her handwriting was so bad, it was almost like her little hand was shaking out of fear and helplessness, begging Iris to come and save them.

Iris stared at the letter with mixed feelings. She said nothing, but from the look on her expression, it was not that hard to tell what was in her mind right now.

"We can’t go to the capital city yet," Cane answered the unspoken question. He pulled Iris closer and patted her back, as if he was trying to abate the turmoil inside of her.

The most frustrating thing was; Iris knew that. She understood their situation and knew Cane couldn’t magically take the children away from the capital city, especially when the orphanage was located so close to the palace.

Cane had been trying to avoid the power struggle in the palace and because Alan was on the throne now, things wouldn’t go well with them. Once they were in his hands, there was no way Alan would let them go, unless they died.

You could start to imagine all the horrendous things that might happen to the people, who were loyal to Cane, once Alan got a hold of the alpha.

What happened to those people that were tortured in the underground of Alan’s palace, was only a glimpse of what he was going to do to people, who stood by Cane’s side.

They couldn’t even enter the capital city, let alone save those children.

At least, not yet...

Tears streamed down Iris’ face silently, as she tried so hard to suppress her emotions. She was so angry. She wanted to kill those people in the palace, especially Alan. If she could, maybe half of Cane’s problems would disappear too.

She wondered how many wolf spirits she could kill if they marched to the capital city at this instant. She didn’t feel tired when she helped the warriors of the Howling Wolf pack to fight those mutineers. Maybe she could kill as many shifters as she liked.

The idea enticed her...

For a moment, that was the only thing in Iris’ mind that could soothe her anger.

"You need to be cleaned up, let’s think about this matter later." Cane moved his body slightly away from Iris and scooped her into his arms. He could see how she was crying without sound and kissed both of her cheeks, but he didn’t tell her to stop crying. She needed to vent it out. It was fine for her to cry in front of him.

On the other hand, Iris wrapped her arms around Cane’s neck and let him take care of her. This was not the first time he bathed her, more so, it was his responsibility, because he had exhausted her to the point she didn’t have any energy left to take care of herself.

Reading the letter made Iris feel even more depressed and now, she was not only physically tired, but mentally as well.

Thankfully, this time Cane didn’t try to pull anything, as he simply cleaned her up and asked someone to change the bedsheets, so when they were done, the bed was ready for them.

After that, Iris didn’t eat much, even so Cane didn’t push her to eat more like he usually did. He only reminded her to finish Grace’s concoction, because he didn’t want her to risk her health with a lot of things that were going on and what they would face in the future.

After the letter from Joyce, a week went by uneventfully, there was nothing worth noting aside from the new moon that happened on their second day they were here.

But, Iris was there to keep the lycan in check. She cuddled the cursed creature to sleep and even though the beast was not happy, he didn’t dare to wake her up, in the end, he accepted his fate to be cuddled the whole night.

While Cane was busy with the matters with the Diandem pack, Iris was busy training the lizard how to reach a certain place, so she could send letters to somewhere far away. She kept trying to figure out how this creature worked.

Iris also checked on Joel and Zale, both of them made great progress.

Joel could walk now and he had been so eager to start his training again, but Grace told him to give it a few more days, while Zale really impressed Zephyr.

"Zale has a good instinct and attitude to read the situation." Zephyr stood in front of Iris in the corridor. It was only the two of them, while the rest of the warriors were running some errands for their luna and Aliana went to see Grace to ask for medicine, because Zale hurt himself when he practiced with a silver dagger. He was still young, thus his healing ability was still developing.

From what they knew, Zale was only eleven years old now. Four years younger than Joel.

At this moment, Zale was inside Zephyr’s bedroom, as he stayed in the same room with him, instead of sleeping next to Lil Thing, but occasionally, he would go to play with the bear, since the other warriors were so old and they were busy doing things more important than paying attention to him.

"He is a hunter, it’s easy for him to track something down, maybe because he used to hunt when he was still in the Silver River pack." Zephyr laid out all the details of his observation on Zale, because Iris had told him that she wanted to know all the details. "He will become a great warrior within a few years."

Iris listened to all of that and felt so proud about Zale’s progress, even though he was only with them for only a little bit more than a week.

"Thank you, Zephyr, please look after him." Iris didn’t want Zale to be bullied by the other warriors and it seemed, Zephyr understood that, as he gave a stern warning to the other warriors not to bother the boy. Ethan did the same without Iris asking him.

The gamma was impressed by how bold the young boy was, but he was still too busy to ’play’ with him, since the alpha had been killing him with a lot of work and without Oliver, Ethan was really miserable to finish all the assignments.

"Luna," Zephyr called Iris, he looked a little bit hesitant to say his next words.

"Is there something else you want to tell me?" Iris tilted her head, she leaned her back against the wall, as she stared at the end of this corridor, where she could see a lot of warriors were on training.

"There is something I want to ask you." Zephyr decided to go ahead with his question, because it would be difficult to find such an alone moment with the luna again.

Iris turned her head and shifted her attention toward the warrior. "What question?" She frowned and prepared herself for the question.

Zephyr tried to find the right words to say, but the words blurted out of his mouth before he could think about it properly.

"You must have heard what we were talking about you when we thought you couldn’t hear us, but why didn’t you tell the alpha about it?"

This question had been plaguing his mind. Occasionally, the other four would discuss it and wait for the punishment from the alpha, dreading what kind of punishment they would get. Whether it would be their last night to be a warrior or keep their lives.

However, after weeks passed and nothing happened, they became curious and confused.

It was very obvious that the luna had not yet told the alpha about what they said, but the question was; why? Why didn’t she tell him? They should admit their words were not the nicest, especially when they gossipped she was barren.

The alpha couldn’t be the one with the problem, even though they knew what happened with him, because he managed to get Sofia pregnant.

The pack had been so worried the rumor could be true that the alpha turned infertile after the torture he had to endure in Mason and Gerald’s hands.

But, their worries immediately vanished when they saw Sofia was really pregnant with the claim the alpha was the father of the baby in her stomach.

Keeping the real father of the baby in Sofia’s stomach as a secret, he did not only fool the people out there, but also helped calm the members of the Howling Wolf pack.

That was what Cane aimed for.

"Why should I bother to tell Cane?"

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