The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 331

Chapter 331: THE TENSION IN THE AIR

King Aeon said nothing, he let his dense son speak on his behalf, as he fell deep in thought. It was not that he was not aware of the gravity of this situation, nor that he didn’t know the dead witch. After all, this was part of his plan.

However, he couldn’t wrap his head around the appearance of the dark wisp. What was that? Was all black magic like that? He had seen Cyan use black magic a few times, but he had never encountered the appearance of such a horrifying dark wisp. Did something go wrong when the dark witch tried to curse Cane to break the mate bond?

Cyan was not here, thus it was hard for Aeon to confirm this. The only important thing to him right now was; did she succeed in breaking the mate bond? Damn that witch if she died without providing any contribution and instead creating more complications for him! What a useless piece of shit.

"There is no need to check whether the black magic came from him or not! All of us are the witnesses! We saw how the black smoke came out of his body!" Alan was infuriated because none of them backed him up and his father didn’t help him immediately. What was he thinking? Would he forsake him again?

"That’s ridiculous!" Ethan was enraged, he was on the verge of charging forward and ripping that useless mouth of Alan! He really wanted to kill this moron! "That’s because he was cursed!"

"Or maybe because he was the one who used black magic!"

"Shifters can’t use black magic, you idiot! Did you skip all of your classes?! That’s common knowledge!"

All the royal warriors and guards, along with the people around the King, gasped, hearing what Ethan had said. They knew what Ethan said was true and how idiotic Alan could be not even knowing such common knowledge, but it was not wise to cuss out the Crown Prince out loud, especially in front of the King.

"Impudence!" King Aeon roared. His face turned so red. He felt so humiliated, he knew how stupid Alan’s argumentation was, but it was not something you could say out loud recklessly without any consequences. "Guards! Arrest him!"

This time, all the guards rushed forward to catch Ethan and the Gamma was ready to shift into his beast. He had endured humiliation from Alan and he couldn’t care less about death anymore. After all, he didn’t come to the capital with the thought he would make it out alive.

His anger radiated throughout his whole body, as he glared at the warriors that rushed toward him.

"Back off," Ethan said through his gritted teeth, as he pulled Iris behind him. He was thankful and also quite surprised when Iris stood up by his side to hold their ground and fight for the Alpha, but there was a limit to what they could do and this time they had reached a dead end.

"Ethan, don’t..." Iris clutched onto his arm, she didn’t want him to die. Cane had taken great pains to get him pardoned, but now they went back to square one. "Apologize now."

"Over my dead body," Ethan hissed icily. There was no way he would apologize for pointing out the truth.

On the other hand, Aderan stepped forward, he stood beside Ethan, he was also ready to shift into his beast, he wouldn’t let the Gamma fight their enemy alone.

And right at that time, from behind them, Redmond and Trion joined the party.

The fight abruptly stopped, Ethan felt it again, the same sensation whenever Cane pressed down his beast and forced him to shift back into his human form. How could he manage to do that when he looked so exhausted?

"We need to investigate this matter further!" King Aeon said. He was startled to see how Cane stopped the fight with only one word, but he was not the only one who could feel such strong authority that rolled off the Alpha’s voice.

"My brilliant king, are you trying to say that I can use black magic, even though I am a shifter?" Cane raised his head, his eyes a glimmering mess of golden color, the signature eye color of those with royal bloodline. His beast surfaced, even when he was still in his human form. "I am sure you are wiser and way more ingenious than our insensitive crown prince to ignore such common knowledge."

Wise, ingenious, brilliant... Cane used all nice words to call the King, but Aeon felt like the Alpha was cussing him out instead.

"After all, my gamma had explained this just earlier." Cane was still in a sitting position, on the ground, but they felt like he was sitting on a high chair, while they all listened to him. "Shift!"

The four beasts took a few tentative steps back and then shifted into their human form again. Aderan and Trion stood on Cane’s left side, while Ethan and Redmond fell back on his right.

"The witch, who has cursed Princess Osana is dead, isn’t this the right time to figure out who the actual perpetrator is?"

"What do you mean?" King Aeon was confused. He knew for sure that the dead witch had nothing to do with Osana’s curse.