The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 543

Chapter 543: THE PEACEFUL NIGHT

Nala knew this merchant was a little bit... out of ordinary, but his sense of humor was something that she couldn’t comprehend at all. His jokes could be so dark and he would say them with a straight face, which would make the other people think he was serious about what he was saying.

"How can I take that as a joke? Who would make jokes like that?" Nala felt her heart almost stop beating.

"I would."

Nala took a deep breath and stared at the little bottle in Lou’s hand, which he played between his fingers. "What is that?"

"Hair tonic," Lou replied nonchalantly, as he leaned his back against the pillow and raised the bottle in his hand, as the light from the luminous pearls glinted off of it.

"Lou!"

"For your breasts. So, they will get bigger. They are too small for my liking."

"Lou!" Nala felt so embarrassed. No one had ever talked like that about her.

Finally, Lou shifted his attention toward Nala and tilted his head, as he dropped the bottle back into her hands. He looked lazy and bored. "This is for your scar. This is very expensive, so if you break it, I will send you to a brothel to work in order to pay me back. Don’t throw it away again."

Nala looked so hurt with the way Lou threatened her, but it was not something that she couldn’t endure. She had gone through worse and if she could say, the way she lived in the palace was no different from a brothel. The only difference was; the men there were of high status, but their morale was on the same level as those men, who came to the brothels.

That was why Nala was genuinely attracted to Alpha Cane. Despite her mission from the King, she really wanted to know why the Alpha didn’t even take a second glance at her or any other woman.

However, when she heard Alpha Cane got another woman pregnant, she started to think that man was not as loyal as she thought he would be.

"I don’t want to wear that red cloak, I want the other red one," Lou said and then pushed the chest back to Nala, telling her to put it back where she picked it up. "Don’t make a noise, I want to sleep."

Lou turned his back to her and closed his eyes, still naked. His skin was so pale for a man, as if he had never been exposed to the sunlight for too long. Without the cloak, he was actually quite skinny for a man and had no muscles, since he was not a shifter and didn’t do physical labor.

However, surprisingly, he was pretty strong despite his appearance, Nala couldn’t even get away when he held both of her hands down by using only one hand.

"But, all of your cloaks are red," Nala said, yet received no answer. He must have fallen asleep.

Sighing, Nala took the chest and put it back on the table. It was so heavy! And then stared at the little bottle with the ominous liquid, she opened the lid and smelled it.

She scrunched her nose because the smell was so strong and she was still suspicious this was poison.

But then, Lou spoke casually. "That’s not for you to drink, you need to apply it on your scar. Don’t drink it if you don’t want to die."

Now Nala was speechless. Why wouldn’t he say it earlier? What if she had tasted it? This merchant was too much!

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"Are you sleeping?" Sofia asked Redmond in a small voice. It was in the middle of the night and she couldn’t fall asleep, because her back was literally killing her.

Before when it happened, Redmond would press a hot towel against her lower back and it helped, though his nonstop complaints would give her a headache, she thought she could endure his rambling.

"What do you want?" Redmond asked, he didn’t even open his eyes, as he turned his body to the other side. He had been sleeping on the couch every night and refused to sleep on the same bed with Sofia when she suggested it.

’I am used to moving around so much in my sleep, I don’t want to kill the baby in case I hit and kick your stomach by chance.’

That was what Redmond said while grumbling about how uncomfortable the couch was.

"My back is in pain again, can you help me?" Sofia asked, grimacing because she was having a hard time doing anything the bigger her stomach got. She got tired so easily and this was so frustrating. "Redmond..." she nudged his arm. "I can’t reach my back..."