The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 68

Chapter 68: A FEEBLE TRUST

"What would you do if he pledged his loyalty to you? With such power in your hands, what will you do?" Cane asked her point blank.

"What can I do with such power?" Iris asked him back. "If you think I want to take back this pack, I can assure you that’s not in my mind. I don’t even know what to do with my life, let alone with a whole pack."

Cane didn’t give any response to her statement and Iris found it hard to have a conversation with him whenever he had a conversation with himself in his mind.

"May I know what you will do with two packs in your hands?" Iris asked gingerly. Something about him intrigued her, she wanted to know more about him.

Cane didn’t make all the people in the Blue Moon pack slaves like her father did. To be honest, from what Hanna told her, people in the Blue Moon pack actually liked him more as their alpha even though he only stepped up to the position just a bit over four months back.

One could imagine what kind of misery that they had to go through in Alpha Gerald’s reign, despite them being the members of the Blue Moon pack itself.

Cane only punished those who were at fault, the privileged families who abused their power and the wicked people, including those warriors, who refused to bow down to him.

Iris waited for Cane to answer her, but he didn’t say a word, in the end, she changed her question. "What do you want me to do with the former warriors of the Blue Moon pack? Do you want me to accept their loyalty?" Iris looked at him warmly. "At the end of the day, they belong to you even if they pledged their loyalty to me now."

Cane held her eyes. He was standing next to the bed with his arms folded in front of his chest and from where Iris was sitting down on the bed, he looked so huge and terrifyingly cold.

"I have told you I have no desire for power." Iris shrugged her shoulders. "But, I want something in return."

Cane’s jaw ticked when he heard this. Of course, she would want something in return. She would look for benefit, just like her father. It had become a habit of him to not think of alpha Gerald and his children in a good light.

However, Cane immediately realized how wrong that way of thinking was.

"What do you want?" He asked in a gruff tone.

Iris averted her eyes for a moment before she spoke again. "I don’t want to get hurt anymore. I don’t want to be in pain."

Cane could understand that, but wasn’t that a plain and naïve request? Didn’t she realize what all of this was about at all? Should he explain to her more in detail?

He hated it whenever he had to talk with someone that needed a lengthy explanation to understand.

However, Iris’ request was as simple as that.

"I want your protection and your word."

Cane narrowed his eyes. Everything he had to face was always complicated, so it was hard for him to believe that her request was so innocent.

"I don’t want to be hit, I don’t want to be whipped, I don’t want to be hurt again. If you can protect me from being in pain, I will help you with whatever you need me to do," Iris said earnestly, she was genuine with her words.

"Is it true?" Cane finally spoke again.

"What?" Iris tilted her head, confused about what he was talking about.

"Why did you do that for my people?"

Ah. Iris realized that they had changed the topic now.

"Why won’t I when I can help?" Iris asked him back. "I would help if I could."

"By getting whipped as punishment?"

"If I can save even one life by getting whipped, I think it’s worth it."

That was a brave answer, but he didn’t think that he would hear it from someone spawned by Alpha Gerald. "It is still hard to believe that an evil person like Alpha Gerald has a daughter like you."

Iris chuckled lightly. "Probably I took after my mother. People said my mother was a good woman. Unfortunately, I don’t remember her much, because she died when I was just a year old."

"Is your mother luna Nera?"

"Yes, do you know her?" Iris was surprised, she looked excited to hear his reply.

"Not really. I was only an ignorant boy when she was still alive," Cane replied lightly, he sat down on the edge of the bed. "I heard she was a good luna. She fed the poor and people loved her."

"Yes, that’s what I heard too." Iris was a little bit disappointed that Cane didn’t know much about her mother and heard the same thing as what people always told her. "I know this is meaningless, but I apologize for what my father and brother had done to you and your people."

"Do you want me to forgive your father?"

Iris immediately shook her head. "No. Of course not. I feel bad because there is nothing much that I can do."

"Stop it there," Cane grunted. He didn’t want to have such an emotional conversation with her or talk about what had happened. This had gone too far from his original intentions. This young woman managed to distract him. "How can I trust you with sole control over the former warriors of the Blue Moon pack in your hands?"

Iris held his eyes for a long moment before she replied to that. "Just like how you trusted that the food I sent was not poisoned. You trusted me when you didn’t know me for years, but why can’t you trust me now?"