The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 24

Chapter 24: BLOODY FOX

Iris couldn’t hide her curiosity at the palm size rock in her hand, she felt that nagging feeling again, the same feeling that enveloped her when she found her first magic stone.

Would this rock contain a magic stone as well?

Iris had never been to the mine site before this, therefore, she was shocked and overwhelmed by the knowledge that she could find it quite easily. She felt that intuition everywhere around this area.

Some were easy to find and they had a weak pull and the others were so hard, being buried deep down in the ground, or inside the mountain rock, you needed to dig deeper into the mountain to find them.

She was amazed by this new knowledge and was thrilled to know why she had this tingling feeling whenever she touched the magic stone.

Therefore, when she found a magic stone without anyone seeing, she hid it inside her rag-like dress. Her heart was thumping wildly. She could feel the cold stone against her stomach.

Magic stones had no use for a shifter like her, but then she was born as a runt, probably there was finally something useful that she could do with this useless body.

Iris looked around to make sure that no one saw her hiding such a precious stone and then started to dig around for another stone to exchange it for some warm soup and a piece of meat.

It would be so nice to have a warm meal after so long.

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Cane was accompanying his uncle, King Aeon, who had arrived just a few hours ago. They had a pleasant lunch together, but the Queen, Della, didn’t want to have Aria at the same table as her, knowing she was a lowborn and not from a privileged family.

Therefore, Cane had to dismiss her.

Aria’s face fell, but she did her best to keep her temper in check, after all this was the royalty that they were talking about and they couldn’t act rashly, it wouldn’t bring any benefit to this pack and Cane if she started throwing a tantrum at things like that.

That was something that she couldn’t afford.

Thus, with the fakest possible smile on her lips, she resigned herself and returned to her bedroom, her heart was so heavy, she was enraged.

From one look, Cane knew what she was feeling, but he would deal with her later.

"You have done a great job, my nephew, taking back what belongs to you," King Aeon said on their way hunting near the Goffa mountain. They were on the horses, while the queen stayed behind and had Aliana, the beta’s sister, accompany her.

"Yes, I am glad, I managed to free my people." If Cane was mad at the king’s statement, he didn’t show it on his face, as he kept his expression impassive.

How dare this man talk that way to him when he didn’t do anything at all to help him in time of need? The way he called him ’my nephew’ repulsed him, but then, there were a lot of things that repulsed Cane recently and now this only got added to the never ending list.

"I see you have a beautiful mistress, I am glad that you can finally let go of your mate," King Aeon spoke without batting an eye. He missed the way Cane gripped the reins of his horse until his knuckles turned white when he mentioned his mate. "Is there something that you want to tell me?"

King Aeon stopped the horse and then looked at Cane. His dark eyes met his, but even so, the king was frustrated to know what was going on inside his head.

"It is you, my uncle, who came to see me. I want to know what brought you here." Cane had to bite his tongue when he addressed King Aeon as his ’uncle’, but holding onto something so trivial such as that wouldn’t bring him anywhere.

On the other hand, King Aeon seemed pleased with the way Cane addressed him, the same way he did. He smiled at him indulgently, as if he was staring at his own little brother.

"You have done so well and proved to all the people in this continent that bad experiences couldn’t break the spirit of a true leader."

Bad experiences? All of that whipping, rape, torture and hellish life for more than ten years, he classified it as a bad experience?

The guards from the Howling Wolf pack, who heard that, tried their best not to scoff in front of this senile King, for he could have their heads at a snap of his fingers.

But, the way the King belittled what they had gone through made them seethe in anger inside. They felt no respect for this King whatsoever.