The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 63

Chapter 63: SHE IS NOT BREATHING!

"Step forward, anyone who has been hurt by her!" Hanna looked at them one by one. "I WILL HELP YOU STONE HER IF THERE IS ANYONE THAT CAN PROVE IT TO ME THAT SHE HAD HURT YOU! STEP FORWARD!"

"Why didn’t she help us in the beginning?" There was this sudden question among the crowd. Hanna turned around and came face to face with a young man around the same age as Will.

Hanna felt her heart would burst into pieces, she was overwhelmed with this emotion. She wanted them to understand, she wanted them to know what Iris had done for them desperately. She was afraid that her words would not be clear enough and they would turn deaf ears again.

But, she kept speaking what was in her mind. She stopped thinking and kept speaking whatever that came to her mind.

"She knew how much you have suffered at the hands of her father and brother! She was only ten years old when you were enslaved by alpha Gerald! What can a ten year old girl do for you!?"

That was right. Iris was only ten years old when they became slaves in the Blue Moon pack.

"Just like what you have heard! Everyone knows how much alpha Gerald hated her because she was born as a runt!"

Everyone in the crowd visibly lowered their head. Hanna was right. It was not even a secret that alpha Gerald and Mason didn’t like her because she was a useless runt and she rarely made an appearance because the two of them were ashamed of her.

And then, Hanna made a sudden move that they didn’t expect at all, leaving them speechless.

Crying, Hanna ripped the back of her dress and showed something to everyone present there; the ghastly scars on her back.

Though her body was covered in blood now, all of them could see the horrible state of her back. Something that they couldn’t even imagine at all.

"Look at this! Look at what her brother had done to her!" Hanna stood up and threw a vicious glare at them. She looked like she was going to shift and attack them all. "LOOK AT THIS CLEARLY AND TELL ME THAT SHE HAD NOT SUFFERED UNDER THEIR CRUELTY!"

A loud gasp rippled among the onlookers. Most of the women could only look at Iris’ back once and they didn’t have the heart to look at her twice. They felt shameful.

"She got beaten up every time she got caught trying to feed you all and steal medicine! She was whipped for that! And here you are?! Stoning her to death!? HOW DARE YOU?! You should be ashamed of yourself! YOU ARE THE MONSTERS!" Hanna screamed painfully until she was hyperventilating. "EVEN MONSTERS WILL KNOW HOW TO THANK THE PERSON THAT HELPED THEM!"

These feelings were too much for her.

The crowd grew silent, as the women started to cry while the men could only clench their fists. It was not only them that had suffered.

It was not Iris’ fault whatever that had happened to them and she had never done anything to harm them. They couldn’t imagine someone hurting their own flesh and blood like Alpha Gerald and Mason. Both of them should be left to rot in hell! They felt ashamed.

And the fact that all of them had been helped by Iris through Hanna made it even more worse. Guilty feelings started to creep into their hearts.

If Iris had been beaten and whipped because she had helped them, it meant, every scar on her body was because of them while it was really true for her new wounds after what they had done.

"Not even once! Not even once did she hurt you! Not even once did she agree with what her father and brother had done to you!" Hanna balled her hands into tight fists. She needed to control herself because she didn’t want to cry now. She must let them know the truth first. "Step forward, whoever thinks she has harmed you! I will help you stone her if it’s true!" She dared to say this because she knew a hundred percent that Iris had never done anything to them.

How could she do something when she was barely out of her bedroom, except for sneaking out at night occasionally?

"Do you really think her father and brother hated her just because she was born as a runt?! They excluded her because she is nothing like them! Her brother would whip her every time he found out that she sneaked around to prepare food for you! He had beaten her whenever he found out what she had done!

"Did she stop, though? NO! She never stopped doing that! Even when her back was bleeding from all the whipping, she didn’t think of stopping!"

Iris knew that her brother wouldn’t kill her. No matter how much her father didn’t care about her, she was still his daughter and she still had some value. It was always Mason who would punish her by beating and whipping her, while alpha Gerald didn’t care much as long as she didn’t die.

"She saved me when I was nothing but a slave!" Hanna shook her head. "No. Even a slave still had a higher rank than me at that time! I was being tortured to death but she saved me! She kept me by her side!"

She remembered how little Iris rushed toward the people that were beating her and pushed them away from her. Thankfully, the guards that came with her were able to bring them out of the chaos alive.

It was her fortune, because that happened on a rare occasion when Iris was allowed to step out of the pack house.

Hanna had been beaten, about to be sold as a sex slave because her parents left so much debt, since the tax was so high in this pack. Both of her parents died and she was alone. She thought that would be her life from then, but no, Iris came to save her. _{freewebnøvel.com}

Hanna was fifteen at that time.

"She is not a monster! She is not evil like her father and brother! SHE IS NOTHING LIKE HER FATHER AND BROTHER!" Hanna felt so tired to tell them this.

All of them looked regretful.

So did the guards, who didn’t do anything and just watched what they had done to Iris.

However, Hanna didn’t care about their REGRETS. It was not her that they had to feel sorry for or apologise sincerely.