The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 622

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Chapter 622: THE CALM BEFORE STORM (5)

Cane spent hours staring at his sleeping mate, as a lot of things swirled in his mind. He caressed her hair, cheeks, nose, lips, her shoulders and her stomach... unsure what to expect.

And when he kissed her lips, Iris woke up, she opened her eyes sleepily.

"Did I wake you up?" Cane nibbled on her neck and Iris moaned in delight. She pulled him closer to her and mindlessly initiated the sex, like she used to do lately. She lusted after him even more in this past few days.

This time, Cane did it cautiously, it took so much effort for him not to lost his control even for a second and hurt her. There would be a moment when they were on the throes of passion that he couldn’t hold himself back and unintentionally hurt her, though it didn’t last long before he regained his self control back, but he couldn’t afford it this time.

Because, what if...

Expectation, hope, could kill you more than you realized, therefore, he wanted to take precaution. Not only for her, but also for himself.

There was this gnawing fear in inside him, what if he misinterpreted the sign and became delusional because he read thing too deep.

On the other hand, Iris fell asleep after their passionate moment, she looked exhausted, but satisfied, as she curled herself on the bed, while Cane looked after her.

The alpha took it upon himself to clean her up, he wiped her body, but his eyes lingered on her flat stomach a little bit longer.

Iris only woke up when Cane fed her dinner and drank her concoction, after that, she literally passed out until the next morning, where she found Cane was still by her side.

Because of how busy he was, Iris used to wake up and see Aliana the first thing she opened her eyes, but to see her mate, it was a pleasant surprised.

"Cane..." Iris snuggled into his arms and rubbed her face against his chest happily with her eyes closed. She was about to fall asleep again, but Cane kept her awake.

"You need to wake up, you ate only little last night." Cane played with her curls between his fingers and kissed her forehead lightly. He liked her scent, because it brought peace to his mind.

As if on cue, Iris’s stomach started to grumbling, she frowned and nuzzled him. "I am sleepy."

"But, you are hungry."

"Hm."

Cane rubbed her back and Iris mewled, she started to rub herself against him and this wouldn’t do. It was a wonderful feeling for having your mate lusted after you, but the alpha was not going to tire herself out, especially when she was not thinking straight at this moment.

Iris whimpered when she didn’t get what she wanted and Cane pulled away from her. She opened her eyes and frowned.

"Come on, you need to take a bath, after that we are going to have breakfast with the merchants."

Iris blinked her eyes when she heard that. "You are going to take me?" Her blue eyes lit up when Cane nodded.

However, he told her that she was going to stay in the room like yesterday, while he was having a meeting in the other room. She felt miserable whenever he was away, but even if she was not in the same room with him, knowing he was nearby, it helped to reduce her misery.

"Up." Iris raised both of her arms, asking Cane to pick her up. "I am tired..." she said sheepishly. She was not sure what happened with her, but she became annoyingly clingy toward him. She tried to stop her impulsiveness, but she couldn’t help it.

Thankfully, Cane was being extremely gentle and patient with her, as he obliged without even changing his expression. He picked her up and took her to the bathroom, where he spent extra effort to wash her hair, while she fell asleep again.

"Why I can’t open my eyes? I feel very sleepy..." Iris yawned. She had slept throughout the night and even earlier than her sleeping time, but even so, she still felt sleepy and exhausted.

"You can sleep again once you ate your breakfast." Cane dried her hair and after that styled it. It had been a while, since he did it and he enjoyed spoiling her like this.

Iris yawned as answer and Cane chuckled to see her rubbed her sleepy eyes.

Inside the carriage, Iris would sit on his lap and talked about a few random things that she learned from this pack, also suggested a few ideas about the alcohol tea, in which Cane listened to it carefully. He liked some of her idea and definitely would make Lou did exactly that.

Maybe it was not all about her random thoughts and the way she was thinking, but it was simply how he loved to hear her voice and watched how his timid mate could be a chatter person. She was rather snarky and emotional recently.