The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 677: BLACK RAIN AND DARK SKY (19)

Chapter 677: BLACK RAIN AND DARK SKY (19)

Cane was speechless with what Iris was trying to imply. Her face scrunched in anger, but in his eyes, she looked adorable when she couldn’t contain her anger and maybe... jealousy? Cane couldn’t help, but smiling.

This was his first genuine smile after such horrible encounter with Aria and alpha Gallot. He wanted to get angry with his gamma, but who he was to be mad with the presence of his pregnant mate?

"You let her get close to you and stab you?" Iris asked fiercely. There were a lot of absurdity that had happened in the past few months, of course, she was surprised by the fact Aria was still alive, but it seemed her level of shock had increased. "Why are you smiling? Are you very happy to see her?"

"Are you jealous?" Cane blurted it out, which made Iris immediately clamped her mouth, realizing how inappropriate her reaction was. "Answer me, are you jealous?"

"I- I am not..." Iris stuttered. Her brows scrunched, she was being stubborn now. "I am really not."

"Okay." Cane agreed easily, smiling, which made his word was not very convincing.

"I am really not jealous." Iris emphasized every word, but the more she denied it, the clearer it became.

"I am... I am angry! I am angry because she stabbed you and you let her did it."

"Iris." Cane cupped her face, she was clearly angry and... jealous. "You are the only person I allow to stab me, have you forgotten that?"

Cane allowed Iris to stab him if Lu was being inappropriate with her. He couldn’t stand the thought someone else touched her, not even that cursed creature by using his own body.

"But, you allowed her to stab you." Iris was being childish right now, even she herself had to admit that the moment that statement left her lips, yet she was being stubborn at the same time.

"I kicked her." Cane wanted to kiss her lips, but Iris moved away from him. She didn’t want to be distracted by a kiss, he always did this, but Iris had learned her lesson.

Iris blinked her eyes. "You did?"

Cane tried again and this time, Iris didn’t reject his advance. The thought of Cane actually kicked Aria, seemingly pleased her.

Slowly, the alpha laid his mate down, carefully hovered above her body and caressed her neck, down to her chest, squeezed her breast, which was a little bit more plumpy, it felt so right in his palm.

"Ehem." Ethan cleared his throat. "Can I... bother you two for a while? I come with the healer." The gamma took a great interest to the ceiling, while he blocked the door, saving the healer from the sight inside the bedroom.

Iris squeaked when she heard Ethan’s voice and immediately turned her body to hide herself. It was embarrassing, thankfully, she was still having her dress intact.

"Comeback later," Cane said gloomily.

"No. No." Iris pushed Cane aside slightly. "Y- Your wound... the healer has to see the wound." Red color tinged her cheeks when she tried to get up from the bed and smoothened her hair. "Let the healer comes, Ethan."

"Are you sure?" Ethan asked, his tone was teasing. "Okay, okay." He raised both of his hands when Iris glared at him. He took a note; Pregnant woman had a short temper.

The healer entered the room and then checked on Cane’s wound. She was surprised that the wound started to heal. Without the black magic that tainted the wound, there was nothing much she needed to do.

"The alpha will be fully recovered tomorrow," The healer informed them with confidence. She was around the age of Grace and had this almond shape eyes with shoulder lengths hair and a gentle smile.

"Thank you..." Iris said gratefully when the healer said she was going to leave after she casted a spell on Cane’s wound, so he could recover faster.

"Oh, right..." The healer stopped in her track before she left the room. "Please, don’t engage in intimate activity for tonight. It will slow down the recovery."

Iris lowered her head, hiding her red face, while Cane didn’t say anything and Ethan chuckled. "Hear that!" the gamma said. "No intimate activity!"

"Where is Lou?" Cane asked Ethan, while Iris helped him to put on some clothes. "He needs to bring her back to Bloody Wolf pack."

"I am not going back," Iris said sternly. "I am going to stay here. I don’t want to go back."

"Be good, Iris." Cane caressed her head, but Iris didn’t want it. She wanted to stay with Cane. She had been very miserable because she missed him.

"Hm. Actually, he can’t create a portal for a while." Ethan poured a glass of water for himself. "Apparently, he exhausted himself and creating the portal earlier has drained his energy. I took the healer to check on him first and she said he can’t do any magic for at least a weak, or it will ruin the flow of his power." That was why Ethan was late to bring the healer to see Cane, because he thought, Lou’s condition was way more critical.

"Really!?" Iris perked up when she heard that.

"Iris, you look happy to hear Lou being sick," Ethan pointed it out, cackled to see she was beaming with the potential to stay longer with Cane.

"Oh, I am sorry." Iris bit her lip. "I hope he will recover quickly."

"You don’t mean that." Ethan pointed it out again and Iris couldn’t say otherwise, she only mumbled something incoherent. "Anyway, I have sent letter to Aliana, telling her that you are here. We left in hurry, they must be very worry to find you not in the room."

Ethan was right, Aliana and the other seven warriors were searching for Iris like crazy, until the letter from the gamma arrived, in which informed them the luna was with the alpha, but he didn’t divulge where they were right now.

"You can’t tell me to go back to Bloody Wolf pack, because that pack is more dangerous than here," Iris said on the second day she was in the Rosantine Guild. "Lou is still sick, it will be too much for him to create a portal for me to go back."

The corner of Lou’s lips twitched when he heard that. "I appreciated your concern, but why I don’t feel delighted?"

"Yes, because she wants to stay only because of her mate, not because she wants to be close with you," Ethan said it bluntly, which made Dean and Pax laughed.

"I will be safe here."

"Yes, but not for so long." Lou reminded her. They were only waiting for the sign for them to move to the next plan, which would happen soon.

Iris was adamant to stay, she removed herself from the conversation and approached queen Della, who was sitting near the fireplace.

Currently, they were inside Lou’s study room, where he complained because there were so many people here for his liking.

"Queen Della."

"Just Della please."

Iris smiled, she stared at her stomach and felt funny because the two of them were pregnant. This could be said as their first pregnancy and Iris felt comfortable to share her nervousness with her.

"I believe Aderan will do his job well." Iris reassured her because she knew what she had been worrying about. She would feel the same if she were in her shoes.

Right at that time, one of Lou’s people knocked on the door with urgency.

"They are coming, master," he said when he entered the room. "Our man spotted there are around three thousand shifters, some of them are magic users marched toward the Black Market, they are currently crossing the dessert."

Cane stood up and approached Iris and Della. "Go with Dean and Pax." Iris and Della stood up, but Cane held his mate back and kissed her deeply. "Be safe."

"I will." Iris nodded. She then went away with Della, Pax and Dean to the safety place.

Meanwhile, this prolonged black rain and dark sky had gradually showed some negative effect. The plant withered the land was arid and children, who were exposed too often under the rain started to get sick.

With that, Abby needed to come out of her room and healed the children with her divine power, because only that power that worked on them.

It didn’t take long when there were many people lined up in the pack house, bringing their children to be treated by the Serafim.

On that day too, the reinforcement from the Holy Kingdom had arrived, but the problem was, the warrior in the borders started their attack after they concentrated their force against the south, leaving their pack being conquered by Red Claw pack, since they failed to take it back.

Under Arthur’s command, he brought the remaining warriors to retreat to Bloody Wolf pack, made the pack as their fortress, waiting for the Holy Knights to come and now this pack was full of so many people.

The illness appeared on the children first, especially those, who were not shifter, since they didn’t have the ability to heal themselves, but for the young shifter, their healing ability was still developed, they were not as strong as the adult shifter.

And unfortunately, Zale was one of them, since he used to train under the rain. After being exposed for a few times and there was nothing happened, they didn’t think there was negative effect of it, but now such belief was proven wrong.

It didn’t happen immediately, but gradually.