The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 857: COMMITING CRIME

Chapter 857: COMMITING CRIME

Iris spent her time with Cane, just laying next to him and stared at the two tiny lights that had been with her since the beginning. These two lights had been accompanying her and another source of her strength, aside from Cane.

She stayed there until she heard a knock on the door, which was none other than Ethan, informing her that they had moved Arella and the three little girls to the room next door and Grace was looking after them.

"I will be right there," Iris said from inside the room and pushed herself up from the bed. She stared at Cane’s sleeping face and kissed him tenderly on the tip of his nose, like he did to her. "I will be back quickly, be good, okay?" Iris chuckled to herself because that was the line Cane used to tell her if the role was reversed.

One positive note that she could get from Cane’s condition was; she could kiss him as she liked without him caught her. But, of course, she liked it most when he was awake. She missed him...

After that, Iris went to the room next door. Grace was there too, so did Aliana, as she tried to talk with the little girls, but they refused to speak. They looked mortified when Ethan came with Iris and huddled together.

"Luna," Grace greeted Iris and then told her about Arella’s condition. "The poison was made by Haco. I am not sure what he put inside. I think he put some dark magic too." Grace was a healer, she couldn’t do much if it was about dark magic, she was almost clueless when it came to it.

"Okay, I got it." Iris looked more reserved than usual. It was understandable after what she had gone through and what they had to face right now.

"Luna, I don’t know what happened to them, but I can’t make them speak. They look terrified, I think part of it because of the battle. They are still shocked." Aliana approached Iris and Ethan.

The battle must be horrified for little girls like them.

"I can’t understand why Kellan took these little girls with him in the campsite. What the use of them?" Ethan frowned, he stared at the pitiful girls, but they became even more trembling in fear. Aliana then stepped forward to block his sight.

"Don’t stare at them like that. They are more scared to men." Aliana noticed this, but thinking it was because the warriors were mostly men and that was the reason why they were scared of them.

Ethan frowned, but he stopped staring.

Iris then shifted her attention to the three little girls. She knew what they had gone through and felt this rage within her heart. She felt this urge to march to Winter Moon pack and find him.

"Can you leave us alone?" Iris asked them to leave the room. These little girls wouldn’t speak no matter how hard they tried. She knew that feeling, she had been there too.

Ethan, Aliana and Grace nodded and left the room, leaving the luna to deal with the children, somehow their luna was good with little one.

Once it was only her inside the room, Iris approached the three girls and then sat down on the floor with them, didn’t have any care if it would ruin her dress.

"I am Iris, what is your name?" Iris asked softly. She didn’t try to get close with them, neither she touched them. They didn’t want to be touched.

They didn’t answer her and look at her suspiciously...

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Abby was fine now, Liam was already here, but the relationship between them didn’t feel the same. There was this tense whenever they were alone and most of the time, Liam would try to avoid being alone with her.

There was this big problem that they should discuss, but neither of them wanted to talk about it, yet they couldn’t pretend like everything was well and nice, because as time went by Abby wouldn’t be able to hide the bump on her stomach. She was showing faster than Iris. Her face was swollen and it was noticeable.

Abby happened to ask about this to Grace and the healer said, every pregnancy affected the mother differently and in Abby’s case she looked a little bit chubbier, though with her dress on, you couldn’t tell that she was pregnant.

And what Abby dreaded happened when elder Rose mentioned this one afternoon.

"You look different," Elder Rose said. "Sit down."

The two of them had just discussed about Abby’s health and where she had gone when everything went down. How could the luna handle everything when it was her duty as the Serafim.

And more and more disappointment from Elder Rose that Abby had to swallow.

Her disappointment could be heard from the way she talked, the way she sighed and the way she looked at her and every time she did that, Abby felt this dagger in her heart. Reminding her of how useless she was.

"What is it, Elder Rose?" Abby asked, felt uncomfortable with the way she scrutinized her body. Her eyes were sharp enough to make her cowered.

"Abby, tell me the truth." Elder Rose held her hands tightly, as both of them sat down on a chair inside her bedroom.

"What should I tell you? I have told you everything that you wanted to know. About the lycan, about the luna, everything..." They had been talking about this for days, even Elder Xarex and Elder Dandolf had asked her the same question in separate occasion.

"You are still a virgin." That was not a question, but Elder Rose wanted to emphasize the word for Abby to understand the importance.

"Wh- what do you mean?" Abby tried to swat her hand away, but instead, Elder Rose placed her palm against her stomach. "Elder Rose!" Abby stood up and moved away from her. "What do you think you are doing?!"

Elder Rose stood up too. She gritted her teeth and wished this was not right. After all, she was the one, who gave birth to Abby. She had gone through three pregnancies and she knew exactly how she was in her early stage of the pregnancy. That was what she felt about Abby.

However, she tried so hard to deny it, yet Abby’s reaction didn’t help.

"Tell me now." She gritted her words. Her eyes were ablaze with rage when she approached her daughter that kept trying to avoid her eyes. "Are you pregnant?" She didn’t beat around the bush and the word sounded more like an accusation, as if Abby had committed a great crime. In a way, she did.

"Wh- what do you mean?" Abby was mortified. She tried her last attempt to deny it, but elder Rose called Ian. He was one of the Serafim’s holy knights.

"Tell me what you told me yesterday," Elder Rose commanded him sternly.

Abby knew, her other three knights were eyes and ears for the elders, that was why she was only close with Liam and Cedric, since the three of them were childhood friends and fought to have them as her holy knights. That was the only time when she insisted on something.

The elders couldn’t deny Cedric and Liam because the two of them were the best knights, thus they gave them to her.

Still, there were three more knights under their influence.

Ian glanced at Abby briefly before he spoke. "The Serafim has been vomiting every morning and she asked for the healer from the werewolf pack to come, but I am not sure what they are talking about."

Ian then listed more detail about Abby’s activity or anything that he deemed was out of ordinary.

"She... I think the Serafim had her last period was around two months ago." Ian knew to that detail, which was very humiliated for Abby.

The other three warriors didn’t seem to engage with her a lot, but their observation skills were top notch.

Hearing that, Abby started to pick on her nails again, she gritted her teeth. Her body was trembling, she was not sure whether it was fear or anger.

"Call a healer here!" Elder Rose roared. She was enraged. They paid close attention to the Serafim’s health, they knew how Abby’s body, even more than herself. "Not the one she called before. Find another healer!"

Abby’s heart sank when she heard that. There was no way out now.

"Yes, Elder Rose," Ian said, as he went away to get the order done.

The room was very quiet, it was terrifying. You could hear the sound of laughter from the children out there, it sounded so nice and warm, but what happened inside this room was the opposite.

"Do you want to confess now?" Elder Rose asked. She still wished Abby was not stupid enough to make this mistake. "Tell me that you are not stupid enough to not know what is right and wrong."

Abby kept her mouth shut, but tears trickled down from her eyes, which was more than an answer for Elder Rose.

The elder approached her and landed a harsh slap on her cheek. She didn’t need a healer anymore. She knew this girl so much, she could read her like an open book.

"You are not only a disappointment, but also a stupid girl!" Elder Rose hissed viciously. "Who is the father? Whose baby is that?!"

Abby lowered her head, she stared at the floor, her vision was blurred because of her tears.

"Is that Cedric?!" Elder Rose growled.

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