The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 692: BLACK RAIN AND DARK SKY (34)

Chapter 692: BLACK RAIN AND DARK SKY (34)

The next day, Iris agreed to see the baby, even though she was barely sleeping, she would wake up every hour and looked around her, as if she was looking for something, but also dreading to see it at the same time.

Cane would be there to comfort her every time she woke up, which meant, he didn’t have any rest too. Yet, he was being extremely patient with her anxiety throughout the night.

The next morning, if you could say so, since the sun still had not yet appeared in the sky and Iris started to wonder if they would eventually lose track in time, she woke up and felt horrible, her appearance also looked horrendous when she saw her reflection on the mirror.

"I look awful..." Iris said, as Cane braided her hair to meet with alpha Colter and the other. This small thing that he did for her had become their peaceful moment, which was a rare thing to have, seeing their situation right now.

"You look perfect, Iris," Cane said, as he gave her a kiss on her cheek and finished braiding her hair. There was no ornament to adorn her bride, but she was already beautiful in his eyes without any of those things.

"Is there... any news?" she asked in small voice.

"I will tell you right away if there is any news from the south." Cane helped her to stand up and took her hand. "Let’s go."

Iris leaned against him, she felt her steps were so heavy when in actuality, it was her heart. She wanted to curl herself on the bed and do nothing, until she got the news that everyone was safe, that Aliana, Joel, Celia and Haco were fine.

However, Cane was right, there was nothing they could do to help them there and here, they needed to do what they could.

"We can postpone this if you are still not feeling well." Cane caressed her cheek when they walked in the corridor. Despite that was what he said, but he could see the determination in her eyes. She was going to go through this no matter what and he was right about that.

Iris shook her head. "You said it, time is the essence." She didn’t want to waste her time. More people could die if she kept worrying something that she couldn’t control. At the very least, she understood what Cane meant when he said they must do whatever they could do and worrying about what they couldn’t control, later.

"You learn so well," Cane said, there was a tinge of proudness in his voice, as he put his arm around her waist and opened the door to the nursery room, where baby Vemion was currently sleeping.

Inside the room, alpha Colter, Koda and Laluna had been waiting for them.

"Luna Iris!" Laluna immediately greeted Iris warmly, she approached her and was about to hug her, but Iris gave her a small curtsy, which made her held herself back, because she clearly drew a line there.

"Princess Laluna," Iris said. Her mind was a wreck now and the last thing she wanted was to be touched by people she didn’t like and Laluna was on the list.

Laluna was taken aback, but then she regained her composure quickly and adjusted herself very well after Iris’s subtle rejection. "I am glad to see you here, are you okay now? Alpha Cane told me that you were sick."

The way she put it, as if Cane had told her personally, making it sounded more... intimate and Iris was sick of it.

"Yes, I am sick, I am very sick," Iris said, there was a layer of coldness in her voice, which Cane managed to pick up. He caressed her back to ease her anger, because if these morons knew what she was capable of doing, they wouldn’t even think to provoke her at all. "That’s why, can I see the baby now?"

Iris had enough with these shameless women. From Aria, Nala to Sofia and now it was Laluna. Not to mention Aria apparently comeback from her death and became a thorn in her flesh and a problem in the future, since whatever or whoever that brought her back from the afterlife, wouldn’t be a good news.

And now, Laluna tried to insert herself as well.

Why these women were eyeing her man? Why they couldn’t find another man? Why they wanted what belonged to hers?

It was a great effort for Iris not to surrender to a temptation to squeeze her wolf spirit and the way Cane touched her helped her a lot to keep her mind clear.

"Oh, I heard that you are able to hear now!" Laluna looked excited. "Is that true? You can hear me now? you don’t need to read other people’s lips to know what they are saying?"

"Yes," Iris replied curtly and her voice hurt her ears.

"Laluna, let’s not to waste our time and luna Iris’s energy with small talk," Koda said wisely, reading the situation so well. The luna was mad and they couldn’t afford it when they needed her help.

"Oh, right." Laluna nodded. She went to the crib and pick up her baby. The baby was very small, swaddled in a tight blanket. He must be almost one year old now.

Iris’s heart shattered when she saw the baby, pursing his lips that had turned dark and curled his little fingers, his face was pale, as if there was no more blood in his veins. The baby was breathing heavily, as if it could be his last moment.

It was so cruel, the curse was very cruel to torture an innocent baby in such way. At this point, death was a mercy.

Cane held Iris’s hand and squeezed it gently, reminded her of their aim and she couldn’t falter now.

"Sometime, the baby will be in so much pain and didn’t stop crying and sometime, he would have nosebleed and panted heavily. The baby is barely sleeping, unless he is very exhausted." Laluna caressed her son’s cheek. "Just a few hours ago, he has an episode and now, he is sleeping because too tired of crying."

Iris gritted her teeth, as she let go of Cane’s hand and stretched out her hand, asking for the baby and Laluna handed baby Vemion over.

She was not so great of holding a baby, but Cane had taught her when she took care of the baby from the orphanage that he saved. Now, she wondered if the baby survived. At the same time, Iris thought of her own baby too and her heart ached so bad, as if there was this invisible hand that squeezed her heart so tight when she fixed her eyes on the baby.

For a long while, Iris didn’t say anything, she only stared at the baby and felt the warmth from his little body. The way he was breathing and how painful it was.

"So... how is it, luna Iris?" Alpha Colter asked carefully, as he came closer to see if the curse on the baby miraculously disappeared, but baby Vemion still looked the same. There was nothing change. This made all of them frowned.

Was she able to lift the curse?

Iris stared at the baby for a few more second, her expression was unreadable and for the nth times, Cane was curious of what she was thinking, because there was a moment like this, when he couldn’t even figure out what was going through his mate’s mind.

And after another two minutes passed, Iris handed back the baby to Laluna.

"Can you lift the curse?" Koda asked, he was being impatient now Iris had put them in tension. She could just blurt out the answer, but why she put them in unnecessary suspense?

"I can," Iris said curtly, she lifted her head and met with Koda and alpha Colter’s eyes and all she could see was greediness.

Their eyes lit up, beaming in happiness like a child was given a lot of candies, they started to sing their praise on her, until Iris spoke again.

"But, there is something I want." Iris kept her face straight, her eyes didn’t betray her when they tried to figure out what she aimed.

"Sure, luna Iris. What do you want?" alpha Colter, but he tried to hide his annoyance under his smile. "We will give you what you want, as long as you can save the future king, we will be in your debt."

The last statement was a bullshit, they were that kind of people, who always forgot their debt.

"I want the diamond white tiger," Iris said bluntly. "I saw the diamond white tiger when you saved him from Alan’s secret underground room and has been very interesting with the creature. It said, his tears can turn into diamond."

Alpha Colter and Koda were stiffened. The diamond white tiger was their precious possession, it was a pain in the ass when they could take the creature back to their pack and now Iris wanted it.

"If diamond that you want, I will give you all the diamond that we have," alpha Colter tried to haggle his way.

"What kind of diamond you want?"

"I have stated what I want, I don’t want anything else," Iris said impatiently. She was about to turn around when alpha Koda tried to hold her hand, but stopped himself when he caught the sight of Cane’s eyes.

Seeing how they couldn’t persuade Iris, they turned to Cane and it was Laluna, who tried her luck first by talking to the alpha in her pitiful voice.

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