The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 141

Chapter 141: SOMEONE WAS HERE

Something was broken and couldn’t be fixed...

Those ten years of slavery truly broke this alpha and his people to pieces, yet they refused to give up. Instead, they were determined to carry these scars for the rest of their life.

They believed in him, that he could bring them out of the slavery and indeed, he did. They entrusted him with their lives and it was a huge responsibility that would drive one to loneliness.

When there were many people leaning on you, you would have a hard time leaning on someone else, even if the weight of everything almost killed you.

That was what the ugly side of bearing responsibilities looked like.

Probably because Iris stared at him too intensely, the alpha opened his eyes feeling her heated gaze. Those eyes were very alert, as if he had not slept at all, which startled her.

For a moment, time seemed to freeze. Both of them just stared at each other and Cane’s dark eyes looked very lucid. Did he even fall asleep earlier?

His arms were still wrapped around her hips and their chests were pressed together, thus she could feel his heartbeat, so could he.

Time seemed to stop and there seemed to be nothing else to think about. They only had each other in their eyes.

But then, Iris saw how his brows knitted together. He was unhappy, maybe because his sleep was disrupted.

Out of instinct, Iris raised her hand and caressed the furrow between his brows with her fingers gently. She thought he would swat her hand away for touching him. She heard he hated it when someone touched him, but he didn’t, instead, this made the alpha lower his gaze.

Iris then became so bold, as she moved her hand around gingerly and patted his head. She remembered she did this that night and Cane fell asleep almost immediately.

She was thrilled, she had never thought that she would be allowed to touch him like this. The feeling was surreal, this was almost like she was facing two different personalities of his.

It was a magical moment, where he allowed someone to be so close to him and let them touch him. A rare moment, when he lowered his guard and showed a little bit of his vulnerable side.

Gradually, his eyes closed and his breathing evened out, as he fell asleep again.

Though this was not the first time that she managed to put him to sleep, Iris was still amazed that she could actually do that.

"I hope you are no longer in pain," Iris said in a small voice and closed her eyes as well.