They stayed in the east city for two weeks, but it was the best and meaningful two weeks for all of them and it would be the core memories for the children.
There was a bad day, where Cane didn’t recognize his family, but even so, he looked comfortable to be surrounded by them. He would listen to Zaya when she read for him and watched how Zander and Zenith bickered. He found that their bickering was amusing.
"Who are you?" Cane asked Iris politely when he woke up one morning when Iris was sleeping by his side.
Without missing a beat, Iris wrapped her arms around his body and snuggled closer to him. She was still sleepy. "I am your mate." She kissed his cheek and Cane would hug her back without further question.
But, there was also time when Cane went missing and all of the royal warriors were searching the entire city. Zander was the one, who found out that their father was not at the inn and in his panic, he didn’t think of another option.
Meanwhile, Iris knew where exactly Cane was, since she could sense everyone in this continent. Her mate was in one of the bookstores and when she went there, she found Cane was staring at bookshelves, reading every title of the book.
"What are you doing here?" Iris asked him gently.
"He has been there for an hour and stared at the bookshelves," the owner of the bookstore told Iris, but then she recognized the queen’s auburn hair and immediately knelt down. "My queen!"
If the woman was the queen, then the man was the king, without a doubt!
The owner didn’t immediately recognize Cane because he was wearing hoodie that covered his face and also with the fact that not many people had seen the king in person.
While the queen used to appear in public and meet with people, especially during the drought to distribute food, the king would work behind the scene.
"Can you give me some alone time and tell the warrior out there that I am here with my mate?" Iris requested the bookstore owner politely.
"Yes, yes, yes my queen!" the owner immediately retreated and did what she was told.
Meanwhile, Cane only stared at Iris before he answered the question, he looked unfazed by the brief interaction between Iris and the owner.
"I am looking for a book," Cane finally answered Iris’s question. He then turned around to inspect the bookshelves again.
"What book?" Iris walked closer to him. "I can help you to look for it."
"The book that my mate has not read yet." Cane traced his finger on the books’ spine. "She read a lot. I lost track what book she had read..."
Iris smiled at him. She knew that Cane kept on tab with what book she had read, so he could buy her more whenever he went out of the continent, or found some book that he thought she would be interested.
But, with his current condition, it would be hard for him to remember those thousand of books that she had read during the two decades they were together.
Still, it warmed Iris’s heart to know Cane did remember her, though he didn’t recognize her right now.
"What about this one?" Iris pointed out one of the books and Cane looked over, but he shook his head.
"She had read that one," Cane said and he was right. Iris had read the book.
"Oh, okay, let’s find another one." This time, Iris didn’t try to deceive him and seriously look for the book.
However, Zaya barged in and immediately hugged Cane from behind, she cried because her father disappeared all of sudden.
Cane was stunned, but when he saw his daughter, a bright smile appeared on his lips. "This is my daughter." He hugged the little girl.
Not long after, Zander and Zenith joined them, Cane recognized his sons as well.
"Looking for a book for your mother," Cane said when they asked what he was doing here.
"What? But..." Zander furrowed his brows, but Iris put her finger in front of her lips.
"Let’s find the book," she said.
And they spent the rest of the afternoon to look for a book that the ’king’s mate’ had not yet read with the help of the queen, until he was tired and they went back to the inn.
But, there was also a good day too when Cane remembered everything. From the day their twin daughters were born, their twin boys and then Zaya.
Abby couldn’t help, because she was not able to find anything that could help with Cane’s case, not to mention this was an extremely rare case and probably only happened to Haco and Cane, since the lycan shouldn’t have exist in the first place. freeweɓnovel.cøm
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