The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 572

Chapter 572: SOMETHING THE HEALER COULDN’T HEAL

Being stared at like this and knowing how she had interrupted their discussion, Iris felt an urge to apologize and back away at once. The door was right behind her and all she needed to do was to turn around and leave.

But then, she would lose her chance to talk with Cane...

"Uhm... Can you leave us for a while?" Iris asked timidly, trying so hard to look firm, but failing obviously. "P- please..." She was very nervous.

She became even more depressed when those three warriors turned to their alpha, waiting for him to say something about the order from their luna.

Iris assumed Cane would ask her to leave. It would be embarrassing, but she could understand if Cane did that.

However, the Alpha wouldn’t put his luna in such a position. He wouldn’t intentionally embarrass her.

"You heard the Luna’s order," Cane said after a long pause, as he stared at Iris’ defeated expression, a result of herself thinking he would turn her down.

Only then, Iris could sigh in relief. Even her shoulders visibly relaxed a bit.

Hearing what the Alpha said, the three warriors immediately left the scene. Even they could feel the heavy atmosphere that shrouded their alpha and luna. They knew the two of them were not on good terms, because of what happened the other day.

And somehow, they wished the two of them would be able to fix their problem soon, because recently the Alpha was very scary. It always looked like he had this murderous aura around him lately and that was too much for them.

"What do you want, Iris?" Cane asked. Surprisingly, his voice was so gentle. Iris thought he would snarl at her for being defiant again and interrupting him with his warriors.

What should I say? I am sorry? Why did you ignore me? Are you still mad at me?

Iris had been thinking about what she was going to say when she met Cane again, but now, she was not sure what to say anymore. Her throat tightened and her eyes welled up with tears, as she became very emotional.

"If there is nothing you want to say, I will leave." Cane didn’t even use the door behind Iris, though it was closer. Instead, he turned to use the door behind him to avoid her again. He didn’t even want to be in close proximity with her.

What had gone wrong? Was he that mad? Like, mad mad, very mad with her? What could she do to fix it?

Out of desperation and not knowing what to do, instead of talking and starting to explain why she was there, Iris yelled at him.

"Cane! Stop right there!" Iris shouted at him out of impulse, when she saw how Cane was going to leave.

This managed to make Cane stop and glance at her over his shoulder in disbelief. "First, you defied me and now you are ordering me around?" His tone was so dark, it was laced with perplexion. Did he give her enough guts to be this bold with him?

Iris bit her lip, she felt like her body was getting smaller under his intense gaze. She didn’t dare to raise her head and chose to stare at the ground beneath her feet instead. She waited, thinking Cane would start to scold her or something, but instead of doing that, the Alpha simply resumed walking away from her.

"Cane, wait!" Iris hastily raised her head and chased after him. She knew if Cane really wanted to walk away from her, he could do that in a heart beat, she couldn’t physically hold him back.

Therefore, out of desperation, Iris tried to reach Cane before he could walk out of this greenhouse. Her plan was very simple: she would clutch onto him with all the strength she had and wouldn’t let him go until he agreed to talk to her and stop ignoring her.

However, it was very unfortunate for her that her short legs didn’t want to cooperate. Her feet tripped on something on the ground and she stumbled. She lost her balance and her head hit one of the racks, which caused all the pots to fall.

Iris shrieked when she realized those pots would fall on her and immediately closed her eyes in fear. Not only the pots, but the rack was about to collapse as well. She braced herself for the pain, but the next thing she felt was someone pulling her forward as her face got pressed against a sturdy chest. She could hear the rumbling groans from inside his chest and also the sound of broken pots around them.

It was scary, but Iris knew it was Cane who was holding her tightly, protecting her from her own clumsiness.