Iris was sitting on a chair comfortably, while holding Rora. Della just breastfed the baby and they gathered here, though the room was small, but it was comfortable enough for six to seven people.
When Iris heard Abby came looking for her, she understood the Serafim finally made up her mind and she didn’t want to waste their time.
Hanna was reluctant to let her in at first, but then what else she could do when her missy agreed to let the Serafim come into the room.
"Can you leave us alone, please?" Iris said, but she shook her head when Grace wanted to take baby Rora with her before they left. "No, I want to be with her." Holding her baby made her calm and she liked her smell, this little one gave her strength and comforting in a way she couldn’t describe.
All of them left the room and Della closed the door behind her, while Abby stood close to the door, staring at Iris and the baby.
Inside this room, there were only a single bed with two pair of sofas, one cabinet at the corner and a round table. There was no window, so you wouldn’t know what happened outside of the pack house, but the commotion from the main hall still could be heard.
"Alpha Cane was being cruel to his man," Abby said, she used this topic as an icebreaker before they addressed the elephant in the room.
The Serafim walked toward the sofa and sat down, while Iris was sitting on the bed, staring at her baby. Her nose turned so red because she was crying so hard. Rora made a fuss when Della tried to breastfeed her.
"People are talking about how he hurt an old man named Kaz. They said he is the steward in this pack house," Abby said. "Why he did that?"
Iris’s face turned cold, she stared at her baby and remembered how Rora was crying so hard in Cane’s arms.
"I don’t know," Iris replied truthfully, but then she added. "But I am sure, he has done the right thing."
Abby furrowed her brows. "I have never heard violence is the right thing to do."
Iris raised her head. Andelus continent and Ogregon continent were very different. They must be raised differently and in different environment, thus there would be no end if she started talking about ’violence’ with Abby.
"Sometime, violence is needed. You are not going to plan for having a civil conversation with Decratic to persuade him to stop his terror, right?" Iris tactfully brought the main topic, so they could focus on the urgent matter at hand.
Abby was slightly taken aback by how cold and composed Iris was.
"So, what is your plan? How to destroy him?"
Iris had changed so much, the way she talked and how she saw their current situation was not the same. She looked like she could watch someone was being tortured or piles of dead bodies without blinking her eyes at all.
Her heart was stoic and her view was resolute, she had her baby to think about. Losing Crystal changed how she saw everything. Or maybe, it was right to say this past year had been a gut wrenching experience for Iris, where she had to shed her moral and go through a lot of things that hurt her, but losing her baby was the peak of everything she had to endure.
Right now, she couldn’t care less about the Serafim or anyone else, who wanted to hurt her, or cause harm on the people she loved, she didn’t care about her fear, because her greatest fear right now was losing her baby and her mate.
She could endure everything else...
"Promised me one thing," Abby said after a brief silent. She had thought about it carefully, though she was ashamed to voice out her request, but there was no other way to deal with this. "I don’t want anyone to know that you have the first Serafim’s life essence, neither they could learn and know about your divine power."
"You can claim all the glory if we can destroy Decratic." Iris didn’t care about that. For her to be known for having the first Serafim’s life essence wouldn’t do any good for Cane. That information could ruin his mate’s plan for this continent. She didn’t want anyone to know about that anyway. "Now, tell me how."
Rora was making a sound, as she stuffed all of her fingers into her mouth and Iris pulled her little hand away, but the baby was laughing instead. Her voice brought smile to her lips, even in this kind of situation, her baby managed to make her heart filled with warm.
"There is only one way to kill Decratic based on what I have learned in the Holy Kingdom." As a Serafim, it was mandatory for her to know about this, but this crucial information couldn’t be shared with anyone else, even her knights were not aware of the detail of it.
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