The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 666: BLACK RAIN AND DARK SKY (8)

Chapter 666: BLACK RAIN AND DARK SKY (8)

Aliana was speechless by how fast Lou changed his tune when it came to Iris. She knew he wouldn’t harm her, but this was unsettling.

"Three magic stones. Two if you have fire magic stones." Lou stretched out his hand, as if he was asking for a candy.

"Wait here." Aliana went to the other side of the room to get the magic stone from the crates that Cane had gifted to Iris. They had sent some of the crates that contained valuable things to this pack beforehand.

In one of the letters, Cane asked about Lou and instructed Aliana what she needed to do if the merchant showed up.

It was not only Grace, Cane must want to see Iris too, but he couldn’t leave his spot for long to make a round trip between the campground and the Bloody Wolf pack. The situation was very crucial there and they needed him in person.

"What happened with her?" Lou growled when he saw Iris was so pale, she was sleeping peacefully, but one could tell there was something wrong with her, though Penny said her vitals were fine.

Aliana looked over her shoulder and quickly got the magic stones she needed and returned to Iris’s side. "Don’t touch her." She swatted Lou’s hand before he could touch the luna. "Here the magic stones that you need."

Aliana took three earth magic stones for him to use. "Create the portal, we need to call Grace immediately."

However, instead of doing what Aliana told him to do, Lou played the magic stones between his fingers. "You know what? I really don’t appreciate the way you talk to me. If you really needed my help, you should talk nicely and respectfully, that’s very basic thing to do when you asked for a favor to someone else." This time, Lou’s voice was deeper and darker. He was annoyed to be ordered around and that was what Aliana had been doing to him.

"You don’t want to help her?" Aliana hardened her jaw.

"Don’t put words into my mouth. I never said that. I only asked for a basic thing, being courteous will not kill you, Aliana."

"Could you please create the portal, sir Lou? We need to save our luna, it will be very generous of you to help us in time of need like this and your help will be very much appreciated."

Lou was right, being courteous wouldn’t kill her, so why would Aliana argue with him over this petty thing?

Now Lou got what he wanted, but somehow he didn’t like the sound of it, especially when Aliana gave up so fast without any argumentation anymore. This was annoying.

Scoffed. Lou stood up and started to create the portal begrudgingly. Why every argumentation with the Howling Wolf pack member always left him unsatisfied?

"Wow..." Aliana gushed when she watched the portal was being created. "I have never seen a portal before."

"Not all the magic user has the ability to make a portal, only those who unique, powerful and ingenious, also smart one, who can do it."

Aliana narrowed her eyes. "Did you just praise yourself?"

Lou shrugged his shoulder and then entered the portal, Aliana followed his steps and it felt surreal to be in different place by only a blink of an eye, because right now, she was inside a tent and she was sure, this was Cane’s tent, since she could sense his scent.

Thankfully, before she needed to look for the alpha, Cane walked inside and saw the two of them.

"Nice to see you again." Lou raised his hand, but Cane walked out for a second to talk with someone. "It doesn’t kill him to say ’nice to meet you too’, right?"

"Wait for Grace." Cane walked past Aliana and Lou, and entered the portal just like that. He didn’t even greet them or anything.

"What is that?" Lou blinked his eyes. "I have never seen someone as disrespectful as him in my entire life!" He couldn’t believe after all he had done and what Cane had put him through, he ignored him?!

"We need to wait for the healer!" Aliana grabbed Lou’s arms to stop him from entering the portal too. She wanted to give the alpha some alone time with the luna without the interruption of this merchant.

"Why should I wait for the healer here? I will wait from the other side!" Lou complained, but Aliana didn’t budge.

On the other hand, Cane didn’t waste a second of his chance to see Iris. The moment he saw his mate, he knew, he couldn’t believe the report that Aliana sent to him that she was fine. She was completely not fine at all!

She didn’t look fine in his eyes!

"Iris..." Cane came closer and carefully cradled her body. He missed her so much. He missed her scent and everything about her. It was very unbearable without her. If it was not the craziness of the situation that managed to distract his mind from thinking about her and their baby, he would have shifted into his beast and rushed back here the moment he heard she fell unconscious.

Cane kissed her forehead, but she was unresponsive. Whatever was happening to her now was definitely due to her meeting with that creature that looked like Alan.

"Iris..." Cane nuzzled her cheek and kissed her nose, but the only consolation that he could get was the fact she was still breathing. He wanted to shake her body awake and see her beautiful blue eyes.

Cane cradled her in his arms and felt her heartbeat against his chest, as he put his hand over her stomach. He didn’t put all the weight down on tummy and a stressful crease appeared between his brows.

Not long after, Grace came with Lou and Aliana. The merchant saw the gesture, but he didn’t think much of it, he was currently upset because now Grace also knew he was a magic user.

He had kept this secret for decades and within less than a year, a handful new people knew about it. Great!

"How is she?" Cane and Lou asked at the same time, which irritated the merchant, but the alpha simply didn’t care.

"She is fine, everything is fine." Grace emphasized the word ’everything’ because Lou was there. "There is not supposed to be a problem with her."

"That’s what Penny said," Aliana recalled.

"But, why she is not awake?" Cane put Iris on his lap, he cradled her possessively, the sight of them irritated Lou, he wanted to leave the room, but he also wanted to make sure Iris was fine and want to know what happened with her too.

Grace creased her brows, she thought about it more carefully, as she checked on her more thoroughly now and it took more than ten minutes before she spoke again.

"Yes, her body is fine, but..." Grace frowned. She tried to find the right word to say.

"Just say what is in your mind, you tensed up the situation for no reason," Lou said, annoyed because Grace put them in tension by not spilling what she knew.

The healer glared at him. "I feel like there is something obstruct the flow of her power..." Grace took a deep breath and ran her fingers from Iris’s forehead down to her neck and then to her heart. "With her newly found ability, she has been learning about healing ability and every magic user and healer has this flow inside their body, which we called as mana, but I can’t say what I feel of her is mana... it something different from mana and the flow of it is obstructed."

Lou listened carefully to this. As far as he knew, Iris’s parent was shifter and how could she end up with the flow that only magic user and healer had? Shifters couldn’t give birth to magic user, unless one of the parents was a magic user or a healer, the baby wouldn’t be born with it.

It was something that you were born with, not something that you could alter or obtain when you grew older.

"Alpha, you know from the beginning that her body is not responsive to my healing power, so this is not something that I can fix." Grace shook her head. "More so, I am not familiar with this flow inside her body. It is very different from all the magic users or healers that I know."

"Let me see," Lou said, he moved closer, but Cane swatted his hand away when he was about to touch his mate. "Seriously, Cane. It’s not that I will do something inappropriate to her in front of you." He might do something inappropriate behind him, though. "I am not a healer, but I am a magic user, so stop being so annoying."

Cane glared at him, but in the end, he let Lou held Iris’s hand, the sight of him was very unsettling, it was almost like what Lou was feeling when he saw Cane held Iris intimately.

Yet, only after less than twenty second, Lou cursed under his breath.

"Damn it!" The merchant threw a dagger look at the alpha, as if he just murdered his family. "You impregnant her!" He snarled at Cane, as if it was a sin that Cane should be ashamed of. "She is pregnant?! All of you know about this?!" Lou looked around and immediately realized how stupid he was for that question. "Of course, all of you already knew about this."

"Keep it for yourself, or I will be forced to shut you up permanently." Cane didn’t even raise his voice when he said that, but you knew he meant it and that was not a simple threat.

"You don’t need to threaten me. It’s not like you can keep it a secret forever." Somehow, Lou’s mood took a nose dive. He was so mad and unsettling to learn about this. Why would she want to be pregnant with his child? He is not even handsome to begin with! Not to mention how bad his personality was! It was not like she could ensure, the child she gave birth to, would completely take after her, right?

"I am going to keep it as long as it needed." Cane fixed his eyes on Lou. "Do it and tell what you found."

And once again, Lou had to listen to what Cane ordered him to do without him realizing it. He took Iris’s hand and held her a little bit longer, because he liked how her skin against his. Now, he noticed this. He had never really touched her before, or holding her hand like this, aside from their short time in the palace, they had never been close.

Yet, Lou’s melancholic thought was cut short when Cane slapped his hand away, as if the alpha knew, this merchant only took advantage of his mate.

"What is it?" Cane asked, there was no warm in his tone at all.

Lou wanted to growl at Cane, but the look in his eyes, told him not to provoke this man right now, because he went all alpha with him and an alpha didn’t entertain any disrespect or ’friendly’ complain.

"Just like what Grace said. She has different flow than those magic users and healers." Lou straightened himself. The blue clothes that he was wearing made him itchy. "But, it makes me think of something..."

"What?"

Lou didn’t immediately say it, as he intentionally kept them in tension.

"Just say what is in your mind, you tensed up the situation for no reason," Aliana threw the same sentence that he said to Grace earlier, which made the healer smirked and obviously the merchant was not happy about it.

"There is only one person, who has different flow and the way how to handle the magic." Lou gave Cane a suggesting look.

"The Serafim."

"Exactly." Lou frowned. "But, why she is related to the Serafim, though?"