The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 595: DARK THOUGHTS

Chapter 595: DARK THOUGHTS

Iris approached Cane and then sat on his lap, as he handed her a small, blue pocket. She opened it and found a few small balls inside.

"What is this?" Iris asked, picked one small ball and smelled it. It didn’t have any smell, but when she was about to lick it, Cane stopped her.

"It’s poison," Cane said. He took the small ball and put it back inside the blue pocket. "But, it’s not fatal until you mixed it with a certain food."

"Poison?" Iris widened her eyes. "Why did he give me poison?"

However, instead of answering her question, Cane stared at her.

"Cane?" Iris frowned when she received such intense look from him. "What is it?"

"Haco said you ask for it," Cane blurted it out, because that was what the sorcerer told him. "Now, I want to know why do you need poison?"

Cane could see a flicker of a complicated thought in her eyes, as she remembered something.

"Haco told me that you asked him to make a certain poison that couldn’t be detected. He didn’t remember the detail of it, but it stuck in his mind and he only felt the obligation to make it." Cane took the small blue pocket from her hand. "Iris, why do you need poison for?"

The alpha didn’t seem to mind when he learned his mate was a little bit violence with an elaborate poison, but he only wanted to know why she wanted a poison in the first place more so, for whom that poison she intended to give.

Iris lowered her head. "I didn’t mean to ask Haco to make me a poison..." she said in small voice, she didn’t think what she said at that time stuck with the sorcerer. It did make sense now that Haco had been working on this for as long as she remembered, so this was what he did when he fiddled with the herbs...

"Hm?"

"I was... not in the right mind at that time and only blurted it out because I feel so down."

Cane adjusted her position on his lap and pinched her chin, so she could look at him. "Tell me, what is it."

"I..." Iris bit her lip, she looked like she was going to cry. "I swear Cane, I didn’t mean it. I was only rambling at that time because Haco was not himself and I thought he wouldn’t remember what I said. I swear I was not serious with what I said and I only vented out my frustration."

Sometime, when you felt so low and was very frustrated, your mind went so wild and all you wanted was to get it out of your system, talked it out, until you felt better.

However, her thought was so dark at that time and Iris was afraid to talk about it to someone else, therefore, judging Haco condition and how he would forget whatever she said, since he was not really himself, Iris thought it would be fine if she vented it out on him.

She didn’t mean it. She was not serious when she talked about it, she even forgot about it if it was not for Cane’s reminder and how he surprised her with this poison.

"I swear, I didn’t mean it, Cane..." Iris gritted her teeth, feeling very guilty to even have such kind of thought.

"Iris." Cane stopped her rambling by kissing the tip of her nose. "I trust you. Now, tell me what happened?"

Iris was hesitated for a while, because she didn’t think this was something she could talk about, but she was also aware that Cane wouldn’t drop the topic until he got the answer.

"Sometime... recently, I have this dark thought..." Iris gulped down with difficulty when she tried to elaborate her way of thinking when this dark thought came to her mind. "I can’t stop it... it just came to my mind..."

Cane listened to her patiently, as Iris tried to string her words coherently to tell him what was in her mind. She kept saying she didn’t mean every violence thought that kept appearing in her mind at the end of her each sentence. Her words jumbled up because of how nervous she was, while Cane caressed her tensed back to keep her calm.

"... at that time, I felt like I want to kill him." Iris was shaking when she finally admitted it.

"Who is ’him’ do you mean here?" Cane kept his tone even.

Iris gulped down with difficulty to shallow back her nervousness. "...Oliver," she said in a whisper. "I hated it when she blamed me for the lycan inside you, I hated it with the way he looked at me, I hated it when he told me how I ruin your life, I hated it when he said I am not good enough for you that I will never be a good mate and..." Iris was a little bit hesitated when she said the last one. "...Aria is better than me."

After that painful day when they lost so many warriors because lady Cyan launched an unexpected attack on the Howling Wolf pack, Oliver had been very hostile toward Iris. They encountered each other several times and he would always whisper such hateful words to her.

Iris had never said anything about it to anyone, because she was afraid to be judged and deep down, it started to get into her head that what he said was right. Everything was her fault and she hated herself for it, for thinking that way when she knew she didn’t do anything wrong.

But, the way Oliver kept reminding her how she was not good enough and how hateful she was, it reminded Iris of the way Mason always spoke to her. How he demeaned her and how helpless she was.

It started with that and it spiraled into a dark thought that frequently would come to her mind whenever she was triggered, especially when she learned she held such power to kill every shifter who wronged her.

The temptation became so great recently, more so after she got a taste to kill a lot of shifters during the attack from Silver Warrior in the Silver River pack.

"I wanted to kill him, but I didn’t want anyone to know about it. I was thinking if I killed him with this kind of poison, people would think he got food poisoning and no one will suspect me."

Therefore, the time when she asked Haco to make an elaborate poison that would only react after you ate a certain food, she had this vicious scheme in her mind.

"The thought just came to my mind, Cane, but I don’t mean it..." Iris looked down, she felt so embarrassed to even have this kind of thought. "I didn’t think Haco would remember that."

That was why, he had been fiddling with the herbs.

Actually...

It was such a well thought scheme, something that Cane would immediately approve if someone suggested such idea to him, in a certain situation. It was very cunning and using poison had never crossed his mind, since this method usually used by woman to poison their love rival. It was a common practice among the mistresses to use this method.

However, for men, they used to use different tactic.

"I felt so bad when I heard Oliver’s death, because I don’t feel sad at all... I feel relief and I feel so bad for having such feeling. I am sorry..."

Still, it came as a shock for Cane when the idea was from his sweet mate. He didn’t know her mind could be so dark. She was not like this. Did the hatred from his pack member had changed her so much? It must have affected her more than she showed it to him if she was having such cruel thought to kill Oliver and even had it planned, though it was a raw plan, but it was a brilliant one...

"I am sorry. I didn’t know what I was thinking... I thought Haco would never remember it."

Iris felt so afraid, she didn’t dare to see Cane’s eyes. Would he be disappointed on her? Would he judge her? Would he hate her and felt so disgusted with the way she was thinking? He must have felt like he had been fooled. He thought she was so innocent and pure, but actually she had this devilish thought...

"I am sorry, please don’t hate me..."

"Stop apologizing to me, Iris." Cane pulled her closer, as he cradled her in his arms, while she curled herself and cried. She felt so bad about herself. "If I hate you for having such thought, you must not want to breath the same air as me if you know what is in my mind, Iris."

Yes, it shocked Cane to learn Iris had such thought, but it was obviously not enough for him to hate her. If anything, it eased his guilty conscience for what he had done to Oliver.

"You need to be crueler than that for me to even think to hate you, even so I still want you," Cane said gently.

Iris cried even harder when Cane said he still wanted her, because she always thought no one wanted someone like her, she was never enough. Oliver said it to her, which confirmed her thought.

"It’s okay." Cane kissed the top of her head, while Iris cried her heart out. "Tell me whenever you have such dark thought, okay, maybe I can use them in my plan."

"Cane!"

How he could tease her at time like this?!

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