The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 594: HER CONSCIENCE COULDN’T ACCEPT THIS

Chapter 594: HER CONSCIENCE COULDN’T ACCEPT THIS

If the Serafim couldn’t lift the curse, it meant Iris would be put under unnecessary attention if she managed to do it.

All souls in this realm knew the power of the Serafim and how her power was so different from the magic user. She had the purest soul and power from all, but if the current Serafim couldn’t lift the curse from the baby and Iris actually could do the thing that a Serafim couldn’t, it would bring attention to her, which was something Cane didn’t want.

The power that Iris held grew stronger after the provocation from lady Cyan, it almost like the shield had been broken and the stream of power that had been held back came to the front. Iris was still learning how to handle it and with Haco current’s condition, it didn’t help much with her progress and it seemed, she needed to figure it out on her own.

Yet, Cane was not sure how the Serafim and the Holy Kingdom would react if Iris could save the baby from that dark curse.

"Cane, this is a baby," Iris looked conflicted. She understood what Cane was worried for, but her conscience couldn’t stand it. She couldn’t bring herself to ignore it.

"Yes, and that the baby that has been cursed, but the Serafim couldn’t do anything about it." This was not about moral, but more about a conflict of interest.

Iris took a step back, as she was thinking so hard. She had been warned about a potential situation like this and she got the first taste of disagreement upon such situation when they were in the Silver River pack.

Iris knew it would be so hard if she wanted to keep walking with Cane in this path and she was willing to do it. But it seemed, it was harder than she expected. She had overestimated herself.

The question was; how far Cane could go?

"Cane, you promised me you will not harm innocent people, children..."

Iris needed space, as she took another step back and Cane didn’t try to crowd her with his presence. He gave her time to think and process her feeling.

"I was not the one, who cursed the baby."

Technically, that was true, Cane didn’t harm the baby, he only was not willing to help. He didn’t want to expose Iris’s ability more than this. Even now, Cane was still contemplating his decision to get the Holy Kingdom involved in this situation.

Only if he learned about Iris’s ability sooner, he would be more careful to get the Serafim joined in this mess. At that time, he only thought about the lycan within him and the risk was only on him, but it seemed, he had put Iris in danger more than he did himself.

"Cane..." Iris wanted to speak, but she couldn’t find the right words to say.

"You have promised me, Iris." Cane reminded her again and Iris knew he was right. "We still don’t know whether you can heal the baby or not." Cane offered a compromise to ease her guilty feeling.

"But, if I can, I still can’t help the baby, right?"

"Yes." Cane nodded and his honest answer didn’t help at all.

"Cane, if the baby died, it would be my fault." Iris lifted her head and stared at Cane. He hated it to see her like this, but he was firm with his decision.

"If the baby died, the blame would be on me."

Iris pulled her hair anxiously, her habit whenever she felt uncomfortable. "Cane, I feel like I am dying."

Cane took a step closer and Iris didn’t move away from him, so he closed the distance between them and hugged her carefully. He didn’t say anything and listen to what she was saying about how awful she felt.

Iris wished she couldn’t heal the baby, so she could feel less guilty, but then it didn’t make her feel better either.

They stayed like that for a while with Cane held her tightly, as if he was trying to keep her whole and not to fall apart.

In a perfect world, the baby would live and survive, but unfortunately, this world was not like that. The baby wouldn’t be suffered in the first place, if it was the perfect world, he lived in.

At night, Iris was having trouble to fall asleep and Cane put more effort to help her relax and get comfortable. Only after past midnight, his mate finally could close her eyes and her breathing became even, though there was still this small crease between her brows.

When Cane was about to sleep, there was this knock on the door, which alerted him. He immediately got off the bed before the noise woke Iris up.

"What is it?" Cane asked darkly, he closed the door behind him and found Haco was pacing back and forth.

"I am sorry, alpha, but the sorcerer wanted to see you, he said there is something important he needed to tell you." One of the warriors said in apologetic tone.

Cane Dismissed the four of them and Haco approached him, the old sorcerer mumbled something under his breath, as if he was repeating something, in order not to forget about it. His memories started to deteriorate pretty fast recently.

"What happened?" Cane asked when Haco stood in front of him with worried expression. He was two heads shorter than him, only slightly taller than Iris.

"I need to tell you something important before I forgot about it again," Haco said hastily. "Don’t cut me off, don’t ask question and just listen. Do it after I am done because probably I will never remember about it again."

The sorcerer was well aware of his condition, that was why he didn’t waste his time to come to Cane despite it was being so late at night and demanded the warriors to knock on the door to call him out, or else, he would create more commotion to get the alpha’s attention.

That was why, despite their fear to disturb the alpha and luna’s rest, they clenched their teeth and knocked on the door.

"Say it." Cane’s annoyance had disappeared, now he looked very serious, as if he was going to talk about an important deal.

"There is a forbidden scripture that I had read when I was in the Holy Kingdom about the swords Iris saw in her dream and the one that the Serafim showed her," Haco started.

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"Why I can’t cure the baby?" Abby stared at the gloomy night sky, it reflected her mood so well. From the look of it, there would be storm tonight. "This Serafim’s power is for nothing." Abby was so upset of herself because she couldn’t do anything about the baby even when she wanted to.

She had exhausted herself and had to be bedridden for a day, but there was no improvement from the baby. In the beginning, she could ease the pain a little, but now it seemed her power didn’t have any affect on the little one.

The more she was trying, the more she disappointed on herself and now she could see how alpha Colter, Koda and princess Laluna looked at her differently, even though they didn’t outrageously mistreat her or disrespect her, but she could feel it.

"You don’t need to worry," Liam said gently, he sat down next to Abby and peck her cheek.

Like usual, it was only the two of them alone inside this bedroom. From the outsider perspective, among the other five knights, Abby was closer to Liam, but only a handful of people, who knew what actually happened behind the close door.

"The curse must be the strong one. If you can’t destroy it, no one can."

Abby looked conflicted, her bright, red color hair looked like fire, but her face was so pale like ghost. She leaned her head and rested against Liam’s shoulder.

"I feel so useless, Liam," Abby said in small voice. "I am not as strong as my mother and I can see the disappointment in her eyes when I don’t grow up to be a strong Serafim like her."

"Serafim Rose was only worried about you, she is not disappointed in you," Liam reassured her.

"You don’t need to say such nonsense, I can see how she wished it was my healthy older sister, who took the role." Abby frowned. "I wished the same thing."

"I don’t agree with you." Liam cupped her face between his palms and looked at her deep into her blue eyes. "If you were not the Serafim, I will never have a chance to see you."

Abby smiled softly. "You are the best thing that happened in my life, Liam." She kissed him softly, but he deepened the kiss by holding her firmly.

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Iris opened her eyes and she was surprised to see Cane was still by her side, usually it would be Aliana, who greeted her.

"Good morning," Cane said, as he pecked her lips, but Iris immediately moved away and covered her mouth.

She was embarrassed, worried about her morning breath, but Cane simply didn’t care about such trivial thing.

"You are still here."

"You are not happy?"

Iris pouted her lips and immediately went to the bathroom to clean herself.

"Iris, Haco came by last night." Cane had been waiting for her to wake up to talk about this. Thus, once she returned from the bathroom, he brought up the topic. "He talked more bout the sword and he also told me to give you this."