The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 691: BLACK RAIN AND DARK SKY (33)

Chapter 691: BLACK RAIN AND DARK SKY (33)

Despite how nonchalant Cane was, there was no way he didn’t know how Ethan’s feeling toward Aliana, it was crystal clear for anyone to see.

And for the reason why Iris took Ethan inside the bedroom, it was very easy to guess, she must want the gamma to feel the movement of the baby, since she was very excited to have this experience. After her little bump, the movement of the baby must have solidified her status as a new mother, to really feel the new life inside of you grew was a happiness that one couldn’t describe into words.

Even though Cane was not really thrilled with the image of his mate was being touched by another man, but it was only his possessiveness that was talking, it was completely absurd to think the two of them would step out of the line.

Ethan was a brother figure that Iris didn’t have and it was safe to say the gamma saw her the same. It was also Ethan, who treated Iris nicely in the early day she became the luna of the pack.

"I hope there will be no misunderstanding after this and it will be helpful if you are not spreading such trashy rumor."

"I will not do that!" Laluna answered quickly.

Cane nodded. "I believe you can handle the servants of yours, because if there is a negative rumor in the future about my mate and my gamma, I will not take it lightly. Any defamation to the luna will be punished with death sentence, I am sure you are familiar with that law."

This must be the first time for Cane to talk in long sentence with Laluna, but the more he talked, the more scarry he became and once the alpha left, Laluna breathed greedily. She didn’t realize she had been holding back her breath.

Cane went straight to the bedroom and find Iris was curling her body on the bed, crying. Carefully, he approached her, but when she felt the bed dipped because of his weight, Iris turned around and threw herself at him the moment she laid her eyes on him.

Cane wrapped his arms around her body and eased her to sit on his lap, as she cradled him and buried her face against the crook of his shoulder, hugging his neck tightly.

"Cane... they died... Asher and Reed died..." Iris cried her heart out. She was not particularly close with the two of them, but they spent time together a lot ever since they left from the Howling Wolf pack and they became her personal warriors.

They couldn’t be said in a good term, but Iris could feel it when they started to warm up with her and slowly accepted her, though they had not yet apologized to her when they were alive, but they did apologize when their spirit came to her.

They apologized for the way they treated her and how they wished they could have a longer time to protect her and meet the baby, unfortunately, they were not blessed with the opportunity...

"Cane, I don’t want them to die... I don’t want them to die... can’t you stop the battle? So, no one will die?" Iris cried her heart out, her heart shattered to know very well this wouldn’t be the last for her to lose people she cared, someone close to her.

And now, Aliana, Joel, Haco and Celia were in danger too, if they didn’t find them in time.

Meanwhile, Cane could only offer some comfort to her, as he caressed her back gently and tried to ease her pain.

He wanted this to end too, he had lost so many people, but the number would only increase by time, since the battle just started.

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"You are going to kill me..." Lou curled himself on the muddy ground, panting heavily. This time, he didn’t care about his red cloak and how he dirtied himself, he was barely able to lift his finger. He must be crazy to agree with the gamma to create this portal.

He just recovered, but now his mana had depleted again.

However, Ethan couldn’t care less with him, as he started to search for Aliana’s location. Iris said, Aliana and the other were buried under the rubbles of heavy rocks, but there was no exact location about where they were right now and from what Ethan learned, Aliana was injured badly after she fought two royal warriors.

"Hey! Don’t leave me!" Lou growled, he watched Ethan disappeared from his sight. He couldn’t believe he actually helped this ungrateful shifter, who left him alone in this dark place... where he was? A dessert? The sky was so dark like usual and droplet of black rain cascaded down. "Huft! I really should have listened to Sabian for not getting myself involved with the alpha from the Howling Wolf pack."

However, it was too late for Lou to regret that, more so, he couldn’t ignore the temptation to be close with his mate.

"Will I die here? Those people from the Howling Wolf pack really toyed with me!" Lou grumbled. He turned his body and faced the gloomy sky and let the rain washed his body, until he heard a few steps came closer to him.

"Are you the merchant?" One of them asked.

"I think he is the man that gamma Ethan mentioned, he is wearing the red cloak," the other replied.

Lou opened his eyes and saw the knights from the Holy Kingdom, he recognized them immediately because of the armor they were wearing.

Fine. It seemed Ethan was not really ungrateful, he actually sent someone to fetch him.

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It took a long time for Iris to finally calm down, the only comfort she got was because none of Aliana, Haco, Joel or Celia’s spirit came to her, which meant, they were still alive.

However, because of that, Iris was dreading every second of it, she felt like her world would crumble the moment she saw one of them.

"Ethan will find them," Cane said, as he cuddled his mate. He skipped dinner and asked the servants to bring food to the bedroom, he also told alpha Colter and Koda to postpone the meeting until tomorrow because Iris was sick and he needed to accompany her. "You need to eat."

Iris shook her head. She didn’t feel like eating when she felt very unsettling with this situation.

"If you don’t eat, you will starve the baby too," Cane said. This was the last resort. He didn’t want to blackmail her by using their baby, but right now Iris was not in the condition where she knew what was good for her.

With that was being said, Iris sniffled and nodded. She had been crying for hours now, she wanted to stop feeling sad because she didn’t want to harm the baby, but she couldn’t and when she was not able to do so, she became upset again and cried even more. This was akin to a vicious circle, which she couldn’t stop.

Cane help Iris to eat and coax her to eat more when she wanted to stop.

"At least, finish your milk..." Cane kissed the tear that rolled down from her blue eyes.

Pursing her lips, Iris gulped down her milk and hugged Cane again, looking for comfort. She straddled him and buried her face on the crook of his shoulder, this was a comfortable position for her. Feeling his mate’s warmth and how their hearts beat in the same rhythm.

"Iris, can we talk about another thing?" Cane asked gently.

He waited until she completely stopped crying and was a little bit calm down now.

He knew she was still emotional, but there was nothing they could do and Ethan had gone to the Riverside pack with Lou, the gamma would do his best to find them.

Worrying about it wouldn’t help at all, more so, they were here for a reason and Cane couldn’t postpone the plan because of this. There was another urgent matter that needed their attention.

"Hm..." Iris nuzzled against his neck.

"Is it possible for you to check on the baby?" Cane leaned his back against the headrest of the bed, while caressing Iris’s back, drew mindless circles and played with her hair.

Iris was silence for a while, she knew the baby that Cane meant. "If I can heal him. I will heal him." Her voice hardened.

Cane had asked her to not heal the baby, but now she was pregnant, she couldn’t imagine if she were in Laluna’s position and someone would toy with her child’s life.

Iris lifted her head and stared at Cane with determination. "If I can heal the baby, I will heal him." She repeated what she said earlier. "I don’t know what is your plan with the baby, but I can’t live with the guilty feeling of not saving him." She didn’t want to have any discussion about this.

But, to her surprised, Cane actually agreed with her. "Okay." He kissed the tip of her nose. "You look surprised," he stated."

"You agreed?" This was a surprise for Iris because Cane did not usually change his plan easily, unless he had another plan in his mind.

"With one condition."

She had guessed it as much, but if Iris looked deeper into it, she would realize how much Cane had adjusted his plan to accommodate her.

"What... is it?" Iris asked carefully, afraid to hear what he was going to say.

"I don’t want you to cure the curse immediately. There is something I want from them. Something you want..."