The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 1000

Chapter 1000: BONUS Chapter: WE WILL BE FINE

"I am proud of you since the first time I saw you and I still do now." Cane ruffled Zander’s hair. He watched how his son struggled with the thought of this huge responsibility.

"I don’t know how to be a king."

"I don’t know either," Cane replied.

"Father, you made a history. You and mother saved this kingdom from calamity and people worshiped you." Zander was desperate. "From south to north, people will only talk good thing about you."

Zander dreaded the thought that people would compare him and his father, but more importantly, he didn’t know what he was doing if his father didn’t tell him what to do. He was at lost.

"Look." Zander waved his hand at their surroundings. "You built everything from the scratch. You know what to do, but I don’t even know what I am doing here."

"Son." Cane placed his hand on his shoulder to stop him from breaking down even more. "I didn’t do any of this out of duty. I want to be a king because I realized only with power I can protect the people that important to me."

Zander pressed his lips, his habit whenever he was being frustrated and had a hard time to compose his words.

"You are powerful father."

Cane shook his head. "I am not. I am far from that." He stared at the distance. "If I am powerful, I wouldn’t have lost your twin sisters."

Zander fell silent. He knew the story about Rora and Chrystal, their mother told them about their twin sisters, who were only a year older than them.

"I almost lost your mother too. More than once." Cane tilted his head and looked at his son. "I am not powerful, but I will do anything to protect the people that I loved, that’s how I know what kind of path I am going to take."

Zander still didn’t say anything, but he lifted his head and looked at the distance. He watched how quiet the night was.

"You don’t need in hurry to figure it out. You are going to figure it out one day."

"What if I can’t be like you?" Zander turned his head and looked at his father. "What if I chose different path from you?"

"As long as you did it because you wanted to protect the people, do it." Cane smiled at him. "I chose different path from my father too."

Zander fell into silent again.

"Things changed, Zan. The choice that I made today, might not be the best decision when you wanted to follow it in the future. The opportunity and chance that I have today, might be very different from yours.

There is no textbook of how to be a proper king. As long as you became a decent man, you are already half way there."

Cane hugged his firstborn. He remembered how small he was when the first time he held him and his brother in his arms, but right now, sixteen years had passed and they turned into great young men.

Zander hugged his father back tightly.

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The protection around the king and his two children were very tight and all the people gathered on the side of the street to see a glimpse of them.

"Oh, the daughter looks exactly like the queen!"

"Yeah, and the son is a splitting image of the king, aside from his blue eyes and his curly hair!"

"Princess Zaya is so adorable!"

"I wondered who would be the lucky girl to be the destined mate of prince Zander!"

"I heard he has a younger brother."

"I heard they are twin."

"Yes, I think the queen gave birth to twin."

"No, the queen gave birth to the older one a year prior."

"No, that’s their twin sister, who died during the war, the queen gave birth to twin boy after that."

"That’s not what I heard."

Most people in the east city came from the other continent. They came here to get an opportunity to do business and trade and Cane welcomed them all, since he really needed to raise the population of the continent. Afte the war, more than seventy percent of the shifters died, even now, their number was still not significant compared to the people from outside of the continent.

The elder people suggested to bring back the old tradition, to have mistresses for men, in that way, it would help to raise the number of their population.

But, Cane shot down the suggestion with disgust.

"Father, we will stay in that inn again, right?" Zaya asked, the three of them were inside the carriage and his daughter looked more cheerful to see so many people and attractions.