The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 61: AN ANGEL

Chapter 61: AN ANGEL

Aria got irritated when she heard about what happened to Iris last night. The reason for her annoyance was that she was trying to look good in front of other people by helping them out in their time of need.

But on the other hand, Aria was too shaken up from that attack and had locked herself in her bedroom. She ran to the underground shelter when she heard about the monster attack and stayed there with the others.

She had been staying in her bedroom, recovering from the shock, but out there, Iris was trying to play luna with everyone.

She was glad that someone snapped at her and put her in her place, but the fact that she helped them didn’t sit well with her.

Therefore, today she forced herself to get out of the bed and helped around the tent, though she was so reluctant to look after these people and she had been talking about how Iris didn’t come today because Avid had made her pretense fall.

However, they said Iris’ absence was because the alpha ordered her to go to the mines.

And here she was again...

"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!?"

Iris flinched when she was reprimanded openly in front of so many people. She didn’t like to be the center of attention, especially in this kind of situation.

"Go away!" Aria said loudly and viciously. "Nobody wants you here!" She looked around her and was satisfied because she had gathered a lot of attention. "Do you really think that by helping us now you can make us like you!?"

Iris looked around her and the fierce gazes that they sported her made her panic. So much hatred and hostility radiated from them and she found herself hyperventilating.

In order to not escalate the situation, Iris decided to go from the scene. She came here because she wanted to help them, but it seemed her presence was not welcomed at all.

However, that was a wrong move, since Aria didn’t want to let it slide. She got the audience and the attention that she wanted, this was a perfect place to humiliate her.

If she couldn’t torture her, at least, she could make people hate her even more. They needed to remember how they lost their families and how their lives were in the past ten years.

"I am not done yet!" Aria grabbed her arm and turned her around. Her grip was so strong. She was a shifter after all, thus it was not easy to free herself from her. "Do you really think you are the luna and now you are trying to act like one!? Do you really think we have forgotten what your father had put us through the last ten years?! How many times do we have to grieve like this because our family, friends, and mates were killed by your cold blooded father and brother?!"

Aria knew how to stir the situation, she rode the grievances of the people here, who lost their precious ones during the attack a few nights ago and channeled it to their former hatred and grievances of what they had to endure, the unfairness and abuse that they suffered under the hands of alpha Gerald and Mason, also the five alphas.

It didn’t take long before the situation became so tense as they started cursing at Iris. They vented out their sadness, sorrow and hardships on her, since it was easier for them to have someone to blame for all the misfortunes that they had to suffer.

And Iris was the perfect target.

"She is pretending to be nice to you because she wants to get your sympathy! Do you really think she is doing this out of the kindness of her heart?!" Aria felt enthusiastic to feel the negative emotions from the people around her. She could use this to make them rally behind her. "Do you really believe that she has kindness in her heart?! She is the daughter of Alpha Gerald, the very same person that enslaved us for a decade!"

Iris tried to free her hand from Aria’s grip, but she was too strong and she felt like she bruised her wrist by now with how strongly she held her.

But then, she felt sharp pain on her shoulder, she shrieked and found out someone had hurled a rock at her.

"Your father killed my mate!" A young man glared at Iris. He was the one who had hurled the rock at her. "How can you still be alive and well?!"

And then another rock hit Iris’ forehead this time. "Your brother killed my son!"

And that one reaction caused a series of reactions from the people around them, as they did the same thing, they picked up rocks and hurled them at Iris.

Seeing how the situation escalated, Aria felt ecstatic. Her eyes were so bright when she finally took a step back and watched how people around them hurled rocks at Iris, while shouting their grievances.

They were not mentally stable, as they had to lose their family members or had their precious ones injured, thus it was easy to provoke them and make them direct their hatred at Iris.

"Your brother raped my daughter!"

"Your father killed my entire family! You should have died along with your father!"

"Go to hell with your wicked father!"

"You are a useless bitch! You should be whipped until you die!"

"I don’t want to breathe the same air as you!"

"You will never be our luna!"

"Even after your father died, he still tortured us! You are not a luna for me! Go to hell!"

"Why should you torture the alpha by making him take you as his luna!? You don’t deserve him!"

"You should be quartered like what your father did to my father!"

There were so many insults and curses that were thrown at Iris, but there were more rocks that were hurled in her direction.

Iris wanted to leave the scene, as she felt blood oozing out from her head, but someone would pull her back to the center of their attention again, they would kick her and throw more rocks at her.

Her body was in so much pain, she was barely able to breath, as she curled herself on the ground. And when she felt someone kick her stomach so hard, she wanted to vomit her guts.

"Go die! All of the people here will be happy to see you die!"

Iris couldn’t even cry for help, her ears were ringing and her whole body was aching so badly. Someone even stepped on her fingers and used their heels to crush them. The pain was unbearable.

She came here to help, but why did they hate her so much for something that she didn’t do?

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Hanna went to fetch a bucket of cold water when she heard a commotion from afar, but she didn’t hasten her steps because she was carrying the bucket.

"Let me help you." Will suddenly came over and then carried the bucket for her.

"Oh, you don’t need to do that," Hanna politely rejected his advances and immediately tried to get the bucket back, but Will insisted.

"It is fine, you are helping people here. I should be able to help too."

"You are the alpha’s personal guard, you are already helping enough by protecting the alpha, because the alpha will protect his people," Hanna said, but she didn’t try to take back the bucket, because Will made it clear that he would be the one to carry it over.

Both of them were walking side by side toward the tent now. Though there was a commotion near the tents, they chatted a little bit, because they didn’t think much of it.

"Why are you here? I thought you were with the alpha?" He and Aderan would be often seen with the alpha and now Aderan was out of the pack, Will should stick to alpha Cane, right?

"The alpha is in his bedroom, he ordered me to call for your missy," Will replied.

Somehow, they slowed down their steps to have a longer conversation with each other. "But, Miss Iris went with gamma Ethan this morning to the mining site."

"Yes, I have been there, but gamma Ethan said that he had sent her back an hour ago. I checked in her room but she didn’t return there. I saw you, so I thought you would know where she is."

Hanna gave some thought to it before she remembered where her missy could be. "I think she is in the tent. She must have arrived when I went to fetch the water, that’s why I didn’t see her."

"Why she is in the tent?" Will frowned, as far as he knew the tents were filled with the victims of the attack and the dead bodies of the warriors and villagers, who died during the attack.

"She is helping there."

"Helping?"

Hanna threw him a look and then sighed deeply. "You will not believe me even if I said that she helped the warriors, who were poisoned by brinetallon’s venom. She changed their bandages and wiped their bodies, so their fever wouldn’t go too high."

"What? She did that?"

This time, Hanna was annoyed, she let her annoyance slip through her tone. "Yes. She did that and yes, she is kind. She is nothing like her father and brother."

Will was having a hard time believing that and for Hanna, it was a normal reaction she got every time she told someone how different Iris was from her father and brother.

They would stop mocking and cursing at Iris in front of her, but it didn’t stop them from hating her for her father and brother’s sins.

And now, seeing how upset Hanna was, Will tried to change the conversation. He would see it for himself whether Iris was there to help or not, though he was still skeptical about it.

"I have not yet thanked you for what you have done for me that night," Will said. He looked a little bit awkward, because he didn’t know how to phrase his words nicely.

That night. Hanna knew what night that he was talking about, because that was the first time she met him.

"You don’t need to thank me," Hanna said timidly, as she lowered her head. "I didn’t do much."

"No, you did so much, or else, I will not be here talking to you now." Will then continued. "I remembered that was the best food that I have ever eaten." He chuckled wryly. "And if it was not for your medicine, I would have died. I am so grateful to you that you found me."

"Your words are heavy."

That night was the night when Will was raped by ten savages, he could barely stay alive at that time and just like what he said, if it was not for Hanna, who found him half dead that night and brought medicine for him, he would have died, because he was bleeding so much and didn’t have any strength, nor did he intend to strive to be alive.

"No, I still remember you crying and telling me that everything will be alright. The slavery will end soon and I need to be strong because the alpha is still fighting the bad alpha." Will remembered what she said vividly, as if it happened yesterday. "You told me to not give up."

Hanna was stunned, she barely remembered what she said that night because it was only a cliché thing and words of empty motivation, the only thing in her mind at that time was; she needed to keep him alive.

"I was so hopeless and no longer wanted to live, it was a miracle that I could pull through that night." Will then turned his head and then looked at Hanna warmly. "And that miracle came in the form of you."

Hanna lowered her head even more, feeling bashful, but also uncomfortable.

"You looked like an angel to me at that time."