The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 223

Chapter 223: SHE WAS CAUGHT RED HANDED

"Don’t meet with him." Cane looked her in the eyes. "Don’t talk to him again. Stay away from him."

The Alpha looked very serious when he said that and Iris thought he was warning her because Lou could be a potential trouble for him and their pack.

"Okay." Iris nodded, but then explained about her meeting with Lou. "It was not me who went looking for him."

Cane didn’t say anything about that, nor did he give any response to it. He just nodded and then shifted his attention back to the scenery outside of the small window of this carriage, deep in thought again.

Iris fell silent after that. She really wanted to know what was in Cane’s mind, so did all the people around him. It was always a mystery how his mind worked.

Soon after their conversation ended, they arrived at the King’s palace. Cane went out of the carriage first and helped Iris to get down, as he offered his hand, but once she had steadied herself, he let her go and walked ahead, while she and Hanna followed behind him.

However, Hanna went away all of a sudden, as if she received an order or something, but Iris couldn’t ask what it was, thus she just followed Cane back to their bedroom.

She didn’t know why Cane took her to their bedroom when she was supposed to go to the East palace to try on a few dresses for the ceremony and the new year party tonight.

"Cane, I think I need to go see the seamstress since the situation has calmed down," Iris said once they were inside the room.

But, Cane only nodded at the sofa and told her to sit down.

Confused, Iris sat down on the sofa before she saw him sitting across from her, but he didn’t do anything else. He just leaned his back and closed his eyes, seemingly asleep, but there was no way he could sleep right now.

His silence only confused her even further. What did he mean by telling her to sit down here, while he was trying to sleep? Did he want her to watch him sleep? That didn’t sound right...

Iris stared at him, his brows knitted together and his scar looked ghastly, it made him look ferocious, almost like he was always in a bad mood. He didn’t hide his scar or try to do something to heal it and from what Iris observed in Cane, it was so rare for him to look at himself in the mirror, honestly, it seemed like he always avoided it.

Iris remembered what Redmond said, and his words brought back the memory of Cane assaulting her, but then, she couldn’t help but feel bad for him at this moment. It was such a complicated feeling that she had for her mate, not to mention her feelings were being influenced by the mate bond that they shared.

Probably because Iris stared at him too long and intensely or because he heard something that woke him up, but he opened his eyes abruptly, which startled Iris and she immediately lowered her gaze, fiddled with her fingers, feeling embarrassed because she was caught red handed staring at him. _{freewebnovel.cσ๓}