The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 60: HELPING OUT THE PACK

Chapter 60: HELPING OUT THE PACK

"Are you sure she is Gerald’s daughter?" A young woman approached Grilla, as she stared at Iris. "Or is she just pretending to be nice?"

Grilla shook her head. "I don’t know," she replied in a small voice, but she intended to look at her closely.

Meanwhile, Iris was not aware of what they were talking about, she only thought that they were mocking or cursing her for being there, which she was already used to and now, she only focused on what she was doing.

Attentively, she removed the bandages and cleaned up the rotten flesh and applied ointment, before she bandaged the wounds again. She had done it thrice before, so the fourth time was much easier for her.

However, the fifth man stirred and opened his eyes. Iris was surprised, but offered him a smile. She just put on ointment and only needed to bandage him again, but seeing he woke up, she offered to give him a glass of water, thinking he must be thirsty after being unconscious for so long.

Iris swiftly washed her hands and poured a glass of water for him.

"Here, you must be thirsty," Iris said warmly, as she brought the glass close to his lips, but to her surprise, he swatted her hand away, which caused the glass to shatter on the ground. It attracted attention from the people around, some patients stirred awake because of the disturbance.

"DON’T TOUCH ME!" The man roared in anger, the way he looked at her, as if he was going to kill her, made Iris jolt and stand up. She took a few steps back out of fear. "Don’t touch me, you monster!"

The last thing that he knew was; he was fighting a monster and got injured, only to wake up and see the daughter of alpha Gerald. His mind was racing back to the days of his slavery and he couldn’t control his emotions, despite his body aching all over.

It was a fact that nobody would ever get over what happened on those dark days.

"GET OUT!" The man screamed and became even more ferocious when Iris didn’t move.

It was not that she didn’t want to go from there, but she was too afraid to move, her body didn’t want to cooperate with her, her leg was cut when he pushed the glass to the ground, but she didn’t feel the pain, she was stunned.

"Come here," Grilla said, as she pulled Iris away, out of the tent, while the others tried to calm the man down.

Once they were outside, the cold night breeze hit her face and it made her able to breathe again. Iris was hyperventilating without her knowing it.

Grilla gave her a glass of water to calm her down, which she ended up finishing in one go. She felt slightly better now, but the panic was still there.

"I- I didn’t do anything to him... I just gave him a glass of water." Iris was afraid that Grilla would think that she was trying to harm the man, without that accusation alone, she had been hated enough.

"I know, I know..." Grilla said in an attempt to calm her down, because she was stuttering now. "That man is named Avid. He had it hard in your father’s reign, so the sight of you must have triggered something in him."

"Wh- what happened to him?" Iris knew that she shouldn’t ask. Nothing good would come out of this and even if she knew, there was nothing that she could do to change other people’s views of her.

Grilla sighed deeply. "Your father used his parents, his siblings and himself as bait to lure the monsters out, but he was the only survivor. He watched his family get killed and he couldn’t help them."

The guilty feeling as a survivor was something real, which you couldn’t simply put aside and her father had this penchant of making other people feeling helpless and desperate, making them lose all hope that they had, shattering even the tiniest bit of light for them to live on.

Thus, it would be their minds that died first before their bodies followed.

"Go and take a rest. I can’t let you in any longer, but if you still want to help, I can put you somewhere." Grilla watched how Iris was crying silently, she wiped her tears roughly, so she still could read what she said. "Now go back and rest."

The sight of her crying like this didn’t settle well with her. It shook the whole image that they had built around her, since it would be Gerald’s shadow that shrouded her every time they looked at this young woman.

Iris nodded and wiped her tears again, before she muttered a ’thank you’ and then walked away toward the pack house.

She sniffled on her way to her bedroom. She really wanted to know why her father and brother were so cruel as she had to bear the brunt of something that she didn’t do now. They hated her for what they had done.

The path ahead of her was slightly blurry because of tears, yet because she had been living in this place for twenty years, it was not hard for her to find her way around.

When Iris entered her bedroom, Hanna had been waiting, she looked worried and Iris felt bad to make her feel that way.

"I will prepare a warm bath, okay? You will feel better after that," Hanna said. She didn’t ask what happened, because she could see how distraught Iris was right now.

After that, she prepared a bath for her missy.

At least, Hanna was right about one thing; after taking a bath, Iris felt slightly better and easily fell asleep, but her nightmares still troubled her.

Early in the morning, she was woken up by Hanna, who told her that Ethan was waiting outside the door, he said that they needed to go to the mines.

"Now?" Iris looked around and realized the sky was still so gloomy, which meant she didn’t even sleep for three hours completely.

"Yes. He said he wants you to hurry," Hanna said, sounding almost apologetic because she knew how tired Iris was, but she couldn’t turn the gamma down. "I told him that you will need fifteen minutes to get ready, since you came so late last night."

Iris thanked her and immediately got off the bed and prepared herself. Hanna helped her to braid her long, curly hair, so it wouldn’t get in the way.

"Do you want me to come with you?" Hanna asked out of concern.

"No, it’s okay." Iris had told Hanna about what happened and what she would do later in the mining site. "I don’t think it will take a long time. I will see you in the front yard."

"I heard what happened last night," Hanna said sadly, as she brushed her hair. "I thought you had returned to the bedroom, that’s why I was waiting for you here. I didn’t think that you would change the bandages first. How foolish of me."

"Don’t blame yourself, Hanna. I really thank you for what you have done for me." Iris kissed the back of her hand, which was resting on her shoulder. "I am so happy for you to be by my side."

"You deserve all the happiness in the world, miss." Hanna kissed her head and finished her braid.

"So do you."

And after that, Iris met with Ethan, who looked annoyed because he had to wait for her and only nodded when she apologized.

Both of them then entered the carriage. No one talked during this carriage ride, though Iris could feel his eyes on her several times, as if he wanted to strike a conversation, but he didn’t know where to begin.

However, Iris pretended that she didn’t see anything and fixed her eyes on the road, where houses were severely destroyed and people were busy building their places again.

The money must be enough to cover all of it, albeit it would need effort and time, they would be fine.

Ethan tapped Iris’ knee to get her attention before he spoke. "Since when do you know about your ability?"

Iris tried to think about that. "Since I was put in the mining site. That was my first time there, so I didn’t know before that."

Ethan frowned deeper, as if he was thinking so hard about it. "Do you really think that you can find forty five stones in the mining site?"

"Yes." Iris nodded, he seemed to be in disbelief when she answered this immediately, without even thinking twice, but his expression was really amusing to her.

"How many magic stones do you think are inside the mines?" Ethan couldn’t stop asking. This girl intrigued him and if she could make money for them, it was a great thing, since they couldn’t torture her, because now she was the luna.

Despite it not being official yet, since they needed to go to the capital city and get the blessing ceremony done in the temple, before she could be recognized as Cane’s mate and the luna of the pack, they needed to treat her with a little bit of respect for her title.

"There are many stones there. Maybe hundreds of them..." Iris contemplated for a while, because she was not sure about the exact number.

"Hundreds of stones?" Ethan raised his brows. "You can find them all?"

"I can sense them, I think I can find them."

"What do you sense?" Ethan couldn’t help barraging her with questions, because on the other hand, it was so funny for him as well. Only if alpha Gerald knew that his daughter could find those precious stones so easily, he wouldn’t have locked her in her room and would have put her in the mining site day and night instead.

In the end, they ended up chatting during the rest of their trip to the mining site and Iris was happy that Ethan warmed up to her a little bit.

However, once they arrived, it seemed something snapped in Ethan and he put back his cold demeanor, as if he forgot that he was not supposed to be so friendly with her.

"We are here," he said curtly, as he got down from the carriage and walked ahead. He didn’t even slow down his pace, so Iris had to half run to follow him.

When they entered the mining site, Stone had been waiting for them along with the forty five men that he could gather.

Iris was glad that he looked fine after the attack, but she didn’t see Ania. She glanced around, but couldn’t find the little girl.

Stone noticed that, but he didn’t say anything.

"You can start now," Ethan told her and Iris started to point out the spots she could sense the magic stones at.

It took around two hours for her to point out all the forty five magic stones that were still buried deep inside the rocks.

"How can you do that?" Stone asked, as he handed her a glass of water, which she was grateful for.

Iris smiled warmly at him. "I don’t know, I just knew about it."

Stone scoffed. "At least, you are not as useless as your brother."

Iris didn’t know how to respond to that. Was that a compliment?

After she was done in the mining site, Ethan told her to leave on the same carriage that brought them there, while he would stay behind to oversee the fortress construction.

Iris left and asked to be dropped at the front yard, where she wanted to look for Grilla. She told her to come to her if she still wanted to help, because she couldn’t work in that tent anymore.

However, before Iris could find the old lady, Aria had found her first. She shrieked when she saw her there.

"What are you doing here?!" Aria approached her with long strides, her eyes ablaze with anger at the sight of Iris. "Who do you think you are to be here!?"

The mistress was seething, as if she was going to shift and attack her.

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