The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 17

Chapter 17: THE MONSTER

'Because I don't want to hurt you.'

What Cane said kept ringing in Aria's mind. Her body was aching all over, but she was still able to feel the pleasant feeling of her releases, the way Cane took pleasure from her and the other way around.

Cane had never been gentle with her, but she didn't complain, she liked it when they were together and she could do something for him that no one else was able to do.

She felt they shared something special between them, which no one could understand. If it was Iris in Aria's position right now, she would have died already.

A soft smile tugged on the corners of her lips.

"He doesn't want to hurt me..." Aria kept repeating the words and then curled her body to sleep in the room next to the alpha's chambers, the place where she could take a rest after Cane was done with her.

She wanted to be as close as possible to him.

"He is concerned about me." Aria bit her lip and remembered the way Cane touched her.

Meanwhile, Grilla was cleaning up the mess that they made. The sheets are stained with their releases and her blood.

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Iris felt her brain was boiling from all the heat, her vision was blurry and her breath kept hitching. She was exposed to the sun from noon until sunset. It felt almost like hell.

Calluses started to form on her palms because she dug the hard ground all this afternoon and was only fed a piece of hard bread and a bottle of water. It was barely enough for such hard labor.

Those who complained would be kicked and have to receive harsh punishment. People die in this place every day, but there will always be someone new here.

It seemed, the current alpha had managed to swipe most of Mason's supporters and made them work to death in these mines, if they managed to escape death punishment that was.

"Don't you know that I am a close relative of the former beta! I come from a prestigious family!" One of the men shouted, as he threw the hard bread on the ground and shattered the glass in his hand.

Iris jolted and moved away from that commotion, because she saw there were a few slave trainers that came his way.

She recognized the man, he was indeed a cousin of the former beta during her father's reign, but right now, he was no more than a slave.

With the drug that they fed them and the anklet on his leg, he couldn't shift into his beast and it was nearly impossible to escape from here.

"Good! So, you are the dirty blood of that beta!?" One of the slave trainers landed a hard punch on his face. "Should we rip his throat so he will not make noise and start to work?" He contemplated with his four fellow trainers.

"Yeah, cutting his tongue will be nice, so he will not be able to complain."

"It is so funny to see how they complain about this kind of work."

Right.