The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 641: A SURPRISE

Chapter 641: A SURPRISE

Joyce probably nine years old right now, but her body as light as a five or six years old child, she was malnourished and was very skinny, so did the other four children that survived.

Aside from Joyce, there was a year old baby, two little girl around the age of two and seven and also a young boy in the age of five. They were in poor condition.

Cane gave his waterskin to them, in which they gulped it down and finished it.

"I am sorry, it’s finish..." the boy said sheepishly, but Cane simply ruffled his hair, while Lou stood behind the alpha and watched those pitiful and dirty children. He had clamped his mouth and said nothing, but he stayed away from them too, as if he was afraid they would dirty his cloak, yet a complicated feeling fleeted in his eyes.

"I knew it! I told you, right?! I have told you that luna Iris will come to save us!" Joyce said brightly to the other children, she showed her undying fate for the luna, but Cane felt this sharp pang.

No. When he came here, he didn’t have any intention to save them. He also had broken Iris’s heart by telling her saving the children in the orphanage was not his main priority, because there were a lot of things that happened at the same time and he couldn’t spare his time and risk the other plan to come here and save them.

This was not a plan that he had planned. But, in a way, indeed, it was Iris who had saved them. If she was not craving for that Golden Seed fruit, Cane wouldn’t have come here in the first place.

"I can’t send the letter to the luna again, because the hawk didn’t return the last time I sent a letter. I think the hawk was caught by the monster or the mean royal guards."

Cane cradled the baby in his arms, he stared at the poor baby for a while and immediately knew they really need to hurry back, because the baby didn’t look in good condition, his lips had turned purple.

"I only feed the baby with water and any food that I can find... but, the baby doesn’t like it," Joyce said sadly. She had tried her best to take care of the other children, since she was the oldest among them, but even so, she was still nine years old and this situation was too much on her weak and small shoulders to carry.

"You have done a great job to look after them." Cane ruffled her hair and Joyce beamed, but then her eyes turned even sadder.

"Yesterday, I lost my friend when we were out to find something to eat. Monsters caught her..." Joyce cried again. "If she managed to escape the monster, she will survive too. She will be very happy to see you, alpha Cane. She always said that you are not as scary as you look and I agreed with her."

Cane had met with the little girl, but not in a way he wanted to.

Joyce then told him about everything that had transpired in the capital city and with the monster attacks. The first attack to the orphanage, the monsters managed to break the spell that was put around the building by a kindhearted sorcerer, apparently, the spell was not strong enough and there were so many monsters.

The first attack killed so many of them, especially children because they didn’t know how to hide themselves well.

After that, there were fifteen of them, but every day there would be someone, who died when they were out to look for food and the five of them were the last one.

"I thought, we are going to die too, but I believe luna Iris will not abandon us!" Joyce seemed to adore the luna very much.

"She will not," Cane said. It was him, who abandoned them.

They walked out of the building and reached the front yard, where they encountered with Deadeyes again. All the children were freaking out and hiding behind Cane’s back, seeking for protection.

Yet, before Cane could hand over the baby in his arms and shifted into his beast, it was Lou, who stepped forward and dealt with the monster.

It didn’t take long before he killed the monster and its body dropped dead with its head detached from its body, the sight was gruesome, but the children didn’t look as shocked as they thought, it seemed, they had seen worse than this. The fact was unsettling.

"You are a sorcerer..." The young boy stated and Lou approached him, he squatted down in front of him, so they would be on the same eyes level.

"Yes, but this is a secret. No one should tell about it, okay? No one should know." Lou’s expression then turned serios. "Or else, I will send you back to this place."

All of them nodded vigorously. They were afraid of his unnecessary threat, but the two years old girl came forward and tiptoed to give him a kiss on the cheek.

"I will not tell anyone," she said in her crisp voice.

Getting a sweet kiss from the girl, left Lou dumbstruck and speechless. He didn’t like children, okay?! They were annoying and noisy!

Lou cleared his throat and stood up. He then asked more magic stone from Cane. "Give me all of your magic stone," he demanded. "Hey! I have helped you this far, at least, pay me decently," he growled at Cane when he furrowed his brows.

But in the end, Cane gave him all the magic stone with him and the merchant created a portal for them to leave.

"It’s okay. It will take us to a safe place," Cane reassured the children when they looked afraid to step inside.

But, when Joyce took the lead to enter the portal first, the other children followed her step.

"You stay?" Cane asked when Lou didn’t budge from his position.

"There is something I want to investigate." He was still pissed when he learned the magical device didn’t work. He needed to know what was wrong with his baby. Yes. His creation was his baby! He wouldn’t be nice if someone was messing up with his baby!

Cane nodded and didn’t ask further, as he left the sorcerer there and entered the portal with the children.

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Kellan entered the throne room, where he met with Dexter, the head of the royal sorcerer, just like he had expected.

They always told him the king summoned him to come to the throne room, but for the third time, it would be Dexter, who was here. He didn’t know what he wanted from him, as they spent most of the time in silence. The head sorcerer would ask a few questions and then didn’t say anything again, before he sent him away.

Those questions were only trivial questions, but this time, it was different.

Dexter actually approached Kellan and put his hand on his shoulder, as his eyes fixed on him. Kellan was crippled and he was helpless, but he didn’t fear death as much as Alan. He had his own pride for not begging for his life, because it was very humiliating.

Yes, he was cunning enough to find a way to survive, but he wouldn’t resolve to begging anyone.

"Do you want to be able to walk again?"

Silence fell heavily inside the throne room when Dexter asked the question. It came out of the blue and Kellan was not sure he heard him right.

"Pardon me?"

"Do you want to be able to walk again?" Dexter repeated the question. His tone was calm and he looked unperturbed, as if he was asking about the weather.

"What do you mean with that?" Kellan narrowed his eyes. He felt like it was a trap, but the thought of being able to walk again incite something inside him, though the possibility was close to none.

"You heard me." Dexter put away his hand and stood straightly before the only prince that survive the massacre.

Dexter himself was still curios why Decratic spared his life and now this.

"How?" Kellan was on alert, he narrowed his eyes. There was no healer that could heal him, neither his healing ability could do that, but now this sorcerer could help him?

In that case, there was only one possibility.

"Is it... dark magic?" Kellan knew he had guessed it right. He didn’t look as surprised when he scoffed disdainfully. "I should have expected that you are practicing dark magic. How naïve I am."

They had met a few times and Kellan would have this weird vibe from him, not to mention with the rumor around about how lady Cyan was actually a dark witch, she used dark magic, of course, the person she had chosen would practice the same thing.

Dexter straightened his back and turned around. "I want you to meet with someone."

Kellan frowned even harder when he heard that. Who else, he wanted him to meet? Their conversations were all over the places at this point.

And without waiting Kellan’s answer, a young boy, around the age of thirteen to fourteen appeared inside this throne room. His body was lean, exuding his youthfulness.

For a moment, Kellan was confused, why there was a young man here, but then upon closer look, he was gobsmack.

"Alan?"

No. He was not Alan. He was very young, almost like Kellan was watching Alan in his youthful time, though this young man was not him, but the similarity between him and Alan was eerily the same.

He walked casually across the room to approach Kellan on his wheelchair, while a smile tugged on the corner of his lips. He looked harmless, but Kellan knew better not to put his guard low.

"Hello, Kellan."

Even their voice sounded the same.

What the hell was going on here?!

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Iris was woken up when she felt someone kissed her shoulders, neck and her cheeks. She didn’t need to open her eyes to know it was Cane. She stretched out her arms and pulled him closer to her.

"How do you feel?" Cane asked when his mate pulled him for a kiss. She nibbled on his lips sleepily, which made her looked very adorable.

"I feel better now," Iris said, she opened her eyes and saw her favorite person. He seemed to have just taken a shower and water was still dripping from his hair. He smelled so nice, but more so, his presence brought peace in her heart. She felt the butterfly in her stomach fluttered its wings when Cane kissed her back.

"I can’t find the Dragon Seed fruit," Cane said and Iris immediately pushed away his face lightly to stare at him in confusion. "You told Aliana that you want to eat that fruit last night."

"Really?" Iris didn’t even remember that.

"You forgot?"

Iris tried to think about it for a moment. "I remembered I talk something before I fell asleep, but I don’t remember what I was talking about." Iris cupped his face with both of her palms and stared at him with a grin. "Were you looking for the fruit because Aliana snitched on you?"

"Not really."

"Liar."

Cane sighed helplessly when he heard that. "Good then if you don’t really want the fruit, because I can’t find it, but I think I found something that will interest you more."

"What is it?"

"Get up and eat your breakfast first before I show you."

"Is it a surprised for me?" Iris was elated, whatever surprised that Cane would give to her, it would be the first time he actually had this gesture.

"Hm."

Iris excitedly pushed Cane away. "Where is my food?" she forgot they were in the middle of a tensed situation, because the moment they were together, she felt there was nothing else matter. "I am famished."