The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 54

Chapter 54: HOW CAN YOU HAVE AN AFFAIR WITH THE QUEEN?

Ania’s mother while trying to give birth to their second child, along with the baby, thus it was only Stone and Ania right now. It was so hard to live as a single father, especially when this was not their former pack.

Most of the members of the Howling Wolf pack had returned to their land, since this place brought back a lot of bad memories. Only a few had stayed here, while most of them were warriors who stayed behind to stabilize the situation, as there were still many warriors from the Blue Moon pack who caused trouble every now and then.

However, to see Ania smiling and even laughing like that was so rare. After the death of her mother, she became very quiet and always played alone. She didn’t even interact with the children her age.

All of Stone and his wife’s family had died during the slavery, thus they only had each other, which made him have complicated feelings to see how his little girl was so comfortable with the daughter of their tyrant.

He helped Iris that night because he didn’t want to owe her anything since she had helped Ania during the monster attack. Whatever Iris’ intention at that time was, Ania could have died by now if she was left alone.

But, it didn’t mean he had softened his heart toward the girl.

"I will see Redmond by myself, three days from now," Cane said. "Regarding the magic stones, we will find a solution for that." His eyes fell on Iris, who was having a good time with Ania. He didn’t know what they were talking about, but Iris made it look so easy to make the little girl laugh. "You can leave."

Stone lowered his head and resigned himself. He approached Iris. His face didn’t show how disturbed he was by the sight before him, but at the very least, he was not as snappy as before when he asked for Ania.

"See you again," Ania said cheerfully, as she hugged her father’s neck and both of them walked out of the bedroom.

Iris smiled and waved back at her, until the door slammed shut behind them and she had to face Cane again. All of the anxiety that she pushed to the back of her mind hit her hard because she didn’t know what Cane wanted by calling her here tonight.

Slowly, she walked closer to approach the alpha, but he seemed to be in the middle of writing something, thus she stood there silently, without making any noise. Instead, she stared at the dark sky through the window behind the chair Cane sat on.

After around five minutes, Cane put down the quill and fixed his attention on Iris.

"Sit."

Iris complied with that curt order and sat down in front of Cane, she fiddled with her fingers, but she kept her head up, so she could read his lips, she didn’t want to upset him by missing the question.

"I want to know what exactly happened that night," Cane cut straight to the point and when he mentioned ’that night’, Iris immediately knew that it was the night he turned into a lycan. The cursed shifter.

Actually, Iris had told him everything and didn’t leave anything in her explanation, but since Cane asked her to say it again, she didn’t have any other option but to comply with his order.

Iris started to explain what happened, about the night of the welcoming party, how she had fallen asleep and then woke up to eat, then going to the kitchen to put down the empty plates and how she heard the howling in the distance, meeting him and then passing out when he bit her.

She recited everything once again and didn’t miss anything.

After Iris said all of that, she remained silent, waiting to read what he wanted to say, as he was in a deep thought right now.

"Tomorrow is the new moon," Cane said and Iris knew that was the time when he would turn into a lycan. Time passed so fast, it had been a month since she got his mark. "I want you to be there in the hut again with me."

Iris didn’t believe what he had said. She thought she read his lips wrongly. "Pardon me?"

"I want you to stay in the hut with me tomorrow night," Cane repeated what he said calmly, as if he didn’t ask Iris to sacrifice her life, putting herself in danger by being with a lycan that lost all its rationale.

"But..." Iris gulped so hard. "... are you planning to kill me?" That was the only thing that she could think of right now, because she almost died the last time she went there. It was a miracle that she could survive that night, considering how brutal he was when he marked her.

Cane furrowed his brows when he heard the question. "No."

"But..."

"I will be chained."

"You broke the chains last time," Iris stated in a matter of fact tone.

"They will be doubled now."

"But, you broke the wall as well."

"It has been built again."

Iris lost the argument at this point and even after her concerns were answered, she still panicked to know that she would stay with him again in his lycan form.

If she knew that she would end up being marked that night and find out a deadly secret about Cane, she would never have followed the howling sound, but now, Cane was actually asking her to do that again.

"This is not a request, this is an order. I’m just letting you know it beforehand."

What Cane meant here was; no matter what Iris decided or thought right now, it didn’t matter, because it was the alpha who called the shots here.

"Rest and return around this hour tomorrow," Cane said, as he started to pick up his quill again.

No. Iris didn’t want to be the monster’s bait. She could die this time. "May I know why I have to go? At least, can you tell me why you need me there?"