The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 64

Chapter 64: I WILL NOT GIVE MY LOYALTY TO YOU

"Oh, no!" Grace gasped, as she started panicking. "She is not breathing!"

On the other hand, Hanna was crying. She sat down in a corner of the room, hugging herself. She couldn’t stop crying no matter what. Amee and Grilla approached her to console her, yet she was inconsolable right now.

"Please... please, save her..." Hanna whimpered, with her eyes fixed on Iris’ bloodied face. No... they said she was not breathing now.

"This will not do," Ardand mumbled. He narrowed his eyes. "I can’t get her."

Ardand and Grace tried their best to make Iris start breathing again, but to no avail. Her body was still warm and her heart was still beating, only it grew weaker by the minute.

"Grace!"

Grace could only let go of Iris’ hand as she started to blow air into her mouth before proceeding to do chest compressions, because she knew healing magic could only do so much to help Iris.

She was so desperate to make Iris breathe again, as if her life was hanging on a thread. She wouldn’t be able to live her life without apologizing to her and thanking her for everything that she had done.

She herself saw the whipping marks on her back the last time she treated her, thus she could imagine what kind of pain that she had to go through when Iris helped them, but they hated her so much without knowing about it.

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"People are still trying to know what happened to her," Ethan said, as he stared at Iris’ sleeping face. "They won’t stop coming to wish her well either."

Word traveled fast about what had transpired ten days ago, about what Iris, the wicked alpha’s daughter, had done for them and what she had to go through in their hands because she had helped them.

But the ultimate blow to them was; the ghastly scars on her back.

Those people, who were not there to hear what Hanna said directly or see Iris’ scars, found out about everything she did and showed their gratitude toward Iris. They prayed for her and asked the guards daily about her recovery.

Jace and Ethan, also all the people in the pack house were so surprised to see how those peoples’ hearts changed. They went from hating her being their luna to now cherishing her. They were actually elated at the fact of her being their alpha’s mate.

They went as far as saying that she was their alpha’s second chance mate, that they were destined to be together, and it was fate.

Cane didn’t respond to that in any way.

However, he came to visit Iris in her room every day for the past ten days.

Grace and Ardand managed to make her breathe again, but the injuries that she sustained were too severe and because Iris’ body was not very responsive to healing power, they couldn’t heal her fast enough. They needed to do it conventionally.

"Have they found the herbs that Ardand asked for?" Cane asked Hanna, who was standing next to Iris’ bed. She would be here for twenty four hours and wouldn’t leave Iris’ side if it was not necessary. She would make sure that Iris got her medicine on time and wiped her body. She would inform Grace immediately if Iris got a fever.

"No, they are still looking for them," Hanna replied in a sad voice. She looked haggard, because there was nothing that Amee or Grilla could say to make her take some rest, as she didn’t want anyone to take care of Iris, as though she didn’t believe them.

After what happened, her feelings were valid.

It was painful to see how everything had to turn out like this and now they missed Hanna’s smile. Nowadays, she didn’t even smile, nor did she want to greet anyone that she saw. She was still angry about what they had done to Iris and this made all the people become even more remorseful, including those, who didn’t participate in hurting Iris.

"Tell me if you need anything," Cane said curtly and Hanna bowed her head respectfully before the alpha walked out of the bedroom with Ethan following behind him.

"Don’t you want to meet with Aria?" Ethan asked when they were in the hallway. Cane wanted to look over the last day of the construction of the fort in the mining site. "She has been asking for you."

Moreover, Cane wanted to talk to Redmond. He was supposed to meet with the former warriors from the Blue Moon pack sooner, but with everything that happened, it had been delayed.

"I will see her when I want to see her."

Cane was always so cold, but from his answer, Ethan could say that the alpha was thoroughly upset and disappointed by what the mistress had done.

Based on the report, it was the mistress who had provoked people around the tents, who were grieving over their loved ones, to start attacking Iris.

It was easy to instigate something like it because the seed of hatred was already there.

Cane had already given her a warning when she tried to let those warriors defile Iris the last time, but it seemed Aria didn’t take it seriously and this was another thing why the alpha had forbidden her from coming near him. He didn’t allow her to come to his room, to the training grounds or the mines, those were the places that he frequently visited recently.

"Aderan had arrived in the Celestial Moon pack and met with alpha Derick, the alpha thanked you for the magic stones that you sent." Ethan told him about the letter that he received this morning. They were inside the carriage that would take them to the mines. "Alpha Derick will help you in finding the best sorcerer around his place and lend them to you."

"Hm." Cane nodded.

"The alpha is under the assumption that you will use the sorcerer to install a magical device, to strengthen your defense against the monsters in Goffa mountain," Ethan said.