The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 930: MANIPULATION AND THE TRUTH (3)

Chapter 930: MANIPULATION AND THE TRUTH (3)

"Leane..." The name escaped Cane’s lips. He didn’t think he would ever see her again.

For a moment, he was startled. He even forgot the fact that everything he was seeing right now was not real. That the woman before his eyes was not his real destined mate.

The look in her eyes. The way she bit her lip, how she tried not to cry and also how she didn’t even try to reach him like the other two impostors he had met, making everything about her felt surreal.

Instead, Leane was trying to get away from him, she kept her distance from him. Her arms wrapped around her belly protectively and when Cane looked down he saw her pregnant belly, just like how the last time he saw her.

She was as pregnant as her last moment before they slashed her stomach opened and took their son out of her.

This sight, this memory, were still be his worse nightmare until now after the death of his daughters and Iris’s depression.

He started to believe that the pregnancy of his mate was akin to a curse for him. Because everything went so wrong, so fast. If it was not for Amee and Iris, who convinced him maybe he would ask his mate to do the most horrendous thing and lris might never forgive him just like how he would never forgive himself... just like right now.

" Why did you let them do this to me?" Leane asked, her voice was quivering. "Why didn’t you do anything to help me? Why did you let them take away our firstborn? Why didn’t you do something? Why?"

Cane was lost for words, there was nothing he could say in front of Leane, even now he was still trying to deal with the guilty feeling he had in his heart.

He was being thrown away by the guilt of his failure to protect them. That was not his fault. Cane was well aware of that, but sometime what you felt not always in sync with the logic you had.

In his mind, he should be able to do something to protect them, to save their lives. If he didn’t do a certain thing, the result would be different and they might still live right now.

If he did a certain thing, he might not lose them. If he was a little bit smarter and was well aware of his surroundings and could read the situation better, he might be...

The word ’what if’ was killing him slowly. It was like a slow acting poison that corroded his logic and snatched him away from logic and reality.

"How can you just watched and didn’t do anything, cane? Did our son and I mean nothing to you? How could you, Cane?" Leane took a step back, her hands over her belly, as a silent tear, rolled down her face. "You were there when they cut opened my stomach and killed me and our baby in the process."

Of course, Cane knew about that, she remembered the event during the day and his nightmare would remind him if he started to forget. He kept the memory alive.

Cane felt ill because by seeing Leane before his eyes, he felt like he was being in that moment again, lived in his worse memory and there was nothing he could do to change it, especially when blood started to stain Leane’s dress.

The color of dark red oozed out of her stomach, as it under her beautiful white dress, her stomach was being cut opened again.

"I saw you, Cane. I saw how happy you are with your new mate. I can see how ecstatic you are when you learned about the pregnancy..." Leane cried at this point, her whole body was trembling. " How can you forget about me and our baby? How can you forget about us?"

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Rei stared at Iris with so much hatred in his eyes. He was kneeling down, breathing heavily.

"How can you betray me? How can you run away from me after everything that I have done for you? Don’t you love me?"

Iris felt disgusted by the look of him and what he said. She didn’t want to draw a conclusion so fast, but any idea that came to her mind, didn’t sound pleasant at all.

" I have given you everything and I can give you the world..."

At this point, it was unclear, whether Rei was talking to Na, or Iris’s mother, or he was talking to her. He didn’t look right, as if he turned crazy and he only went deeper and deeper, plunging into the darkness.

Rei lifted his head and looked at Iris dead in her eyes. His skin was peeled off and you could see his flesh underneath. His black blood looked very thick, as if he was melted instead of bleeding.

Iris’s surrounding faded away and then disappeared. There was no house here, but instead, they were inside a very gloomy hall with torches on the wall, illuminating the room.

What was this? Was this an illusion? Or the one before?

"What have you done to my mother?" Iris asked. " What did you do to her?"

Iris took a cautious step closer toward him, she was curious about her origin and her mother’s story, but she wouldn’t let her curiosity harmed her and her babies.

The little lights around her were the only thing that kept her mind sharp and beware of her surrounding. They gave her more light to scour this strange place.

Rei tilted his head and a vicious smirk appeared on the corner of his lips. He didn’t even bother to hide his Craziness and his obsession toward Iris, Na.

" I did everything to keep her by my side. I keep her soul alive, so I can find the right vessel for her. My precious, Serafim."

Right at that time, Rei suddenly stood up as he tried to charge toward her, despite the fact it could end his long existence.

Meanwhile, Iris narrowed her eyes, the look on her face hardened, as if she readied herself for the face off, but suddenly Elder Dandolf appeared and he pulled Rei away before he destroyed himself and let his anger and devastation consumed him further.

"You need to stop this." Elder Dandolf put a distance between him and Iris, while still tried to hold Rei back from his intention for a self destruction.

Iris scoffed when she heard that. "Stop this?" She glared at the elder. "Do you really blind? Can’t you see that he was the one, who created this whole mess?"

Elder Dandolf didn’t answer Iris’s question, because he was having a hard time to stop Rei from coming after Iris.

"You don’t know what kind of sacrifice he had done to look for you. You don’t know his pain," Elder Dandolf said in a deep and stern voice, but Iris didn’t care about that.

"Do you want to say that he had gone through a lot of trouble to get what he wanted? Even though he had to sacrifice someone else?"

Elder Dandolf gritted his teeth. " Only if you knew what he had to endure..."

"I am sure that I will hate him more than this if I knew more about what he had done." Iris ended his sentence. " Where am I? What actually is happening right now?" Iris demanded an answer from Elder Dandolf, while Rei was writhing in pain. It seemed, the agony just registered in his mind.

However, in Iris’s eyes, all she could see was a way to hurt him. He was made of black magic and at this point, Iris could purify him and ended his life like what she had done toward Aria.

Basically, the two of them were the same. She was contemplated of a way how to grot to Res and finished him off.

Iris wouldn’t take a risk to endanger her children in the future when Rei Would be a great threat for them.

But, what Elder Dandolf told her next, shocked her completely.

"Do you even know who is your fathe?" Elder Dandolf asked a retorical question, but before he could talk more than this, Rei had vanished from Iris’s sigh along with Elder Dandolf.

From the look of it, Rei had used his remaining power to prevent Elder Dandolf from revealing the truth. He was only an inch away from giving out an idea toward Iris about what kind of event that happened surrounding her birth and origin.

Without the two of them, Iris was alone in this empty main hall. She looked around her and felt this strong black magic came from a certain direction.

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Cane stared at the miasma that kept fuming red smoke from the gap on the ground. The fissure was bigger than any poisonous miasma he had ever encountered while Leane was standing there, basking in the poisonous smoke, looking very pregnant.

" If you really care about me and our baby, then you will come with us without any hesitation." Leane looked at him bitterly. " I see. You chose her. I am right when I said that you have forgotten about me. I am right that you don’t even want to see me."

Cane didn’t budge from his position. He could bring himself to kill Aria and Itis without hesitation because he was sure, they were the impostors.

But Cane couldn’t bring himself to do the same toward Leane, even when he knew she was not real. Maybe deed down, he was being reminded of his foolish pray during the slavery, when he prayed so hard to meet with her just for one more time.only for once.

Yet, everytime he saw her in his dream, it would be when those bastards opened her stomach to get his son out of her belly and the only word he could say was him pleading with them to stop. Their sickening laugh and gut wrenching cry from Leane, calling his name over and over again.

"Come here, Cane. Come with me and our firstborn. Come with us. I know this life is so hard on you. Just let it go and come with me. Everything would be fine and easier." Leane stretched out her hand, asking Cane to take her hand and came with her. "There will be no more pain."

No more pain. was that even possible? But, the idea was very enticing.

Cane took a step closer and then another step to reach Leanne’s han, but before she could grab her offer, someone had hugged him from behind.

Cane was startled, but when he turned around, he saw lois was hugging him so fightbly, her curls were messy and he frowned.

Was this another ilussion?

However somehow, when Iris lifted her head and looked at him with a pair of blue eyes that he was very fond of, he knew almost immediately that it was his mate.

"What are you doing!?" Iris was screaming at him, she looked so scared. "What do you think you are doing?"

"What?" Cane still didn’t realize what Iris was talking about until he turned his head toward the direction of Leane and the poisonous miasma. Only then he knew that if Iris didn’t stop him in time, he was realy going to kill himself.

Meanwhile, Leane was no longer there.

Instead, he found himself was standing in front of a burning fire. The flames licked his skin, it was really crazy that he didn’t feel anything until now.

The red smoke that he thought came from poisonous miasma was actually came from the flames.

Out of instinct, Cane immediately scooped Iris’s body into his arms and carried her away from the flames. "What happened here?" Cane put her down in a safe place and then looked around.

"Manipulation. Rei used manipulation on us." Iris was still clinging onto Cane. She was afraid, she was going to lose him if she let go.

Cane narrowed his eyes. "Where are they? What actually is happening?"