The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 22

Chapter 22: NEW MOON

"The new moon will be in five days from now and there will be a lot of people," Jace reminded him. "The king and the five alphas. The new moon will be the night after the welcoming party. Do you think you can go through it?"

Cane was silent for a while, then stared at his surroundings. Before his pack had fallen and their slavery days began, he had visited Blue Moon pack with his father twice, since they were neighboring packs and shared some natural resources, like the mining area.

Especially after ten years of slavery, he knew this pack quite well. This pack was almost like a ’second home’, in a very horrible way to him.

"I will." There were no more words that Cane said after that as he listened to other reports from Jace.

They were still trying to find the remaining three men that managed to escape from their sneak attack the other night and from what Ethan learned, they were still trying to get Mason out of the dungeon. They wanted to gather their power again to counter attack them, but their chances were so slim.

They walked until late in the evening.

And when they arrived at the pack house, Aria had been waiting for Cane. She was inside his bedroom preparing evening tea and snacks.

"Alpha, I heard you went to the town," Aria said, her eyes lit up at the sight of Cane, a soft smile caressed her lips, thinking of the seductive dress she was wearing beneath her cloak.

Seeing that, Jace resigned himself, because he didn’t want Aria to throw him a glare, kicking him out with her sharp eyes. This woman could be very mean when it came to Cane’s attention.

"I will see you tomorrow, Cane," Jace said.

But, Cane stopped him. "Call Ethan, we need to talk about the pack house in the Howling Wolf pack. I heard there is a problem there."

"But, you need to..." Aria immediately interjected.

"Not now, Aria," Cane said, he didn’t raise his voice, but she knew that this was not up to debate.

"The king will be here tomorrow, Aria," Jace told her, before he provided her with a brief explanation, since Cane wouldn’t do it. "It is so sudden and the king will arrive four days ahead of schedule."

Aria frowned. "Why is he doing that?"

"I don’t know, he is the king, he can do whatever." There was sarcasm in Jace’s voice, since he didn’t like that man. He closed his eyes and ears when they were forced to slave away ten years and now he wanted to be involved? That was so silly...

"I need to talk about important things," Cane said, as he walked past Aria. He squeezed her shoulder lightly and then sat on his chair.

"Okay," Aria said in a small voice, she looked disappointed. "Make sure you drink your tea, Cane."

"Hm." Cane started to open a new scroll in front of him. "I will."

Aria knew that he wouldn’t drink it, but she was wise enough not to argue with him. And so she walked out of the room with Jace, who was ordered to find Ethan.

"When will we go back to the Howling Wolf pack?" Aria asked, as both of them walked down the corridor.

"We need to settle things here first. This pack lost its leader, after all."

"Why do we need to take care of this pack?" Aria didn’t have a good memory of this pack, just like the other people.

"If we don’t, those people out there, who are still very loyal to Alpha Gerald, will gather power and it will only be a problem for us in the future if we don’t get rid of them now."

"I don’t mean that. I mean, we can kill them all."

"It’s not that easy, Aria."

Aria was clueless about strategy, she wanted for them to suffer and killing them all was the only solution in her mind. Only a few people are exceptions. They needed to torture them the way they had done to them in the past.

Meanwhile, other aggressors were mostly the alphas from different packs. So, it was almost impossible for them to take revenge on, since their statuses were too high.

"I don’t know about that, but I will be happy if we can torture Gerald’s children. He will be turning over in his grave if he knows we gave his son and daughter to the savages and let the guards rape them."

Jace could understand Aria’s anger, all of them shared the same feeling, but right now, the situation shifted and the problem that they were facing was akin to treading in dangerous ground, one wrong move and they would be thrown back to slavery, since this pack was still vulnerable. This was what Cane had been working on the past two months, since he sat in the alpha position.