"What happened to Will?" Hanna asked Ethan, as they followed behind Iris and Cane. The two of them decided to take a walk in the yard before dinner got ready. They would have dinner together with the rest of the children and Prince Kellan. "Why didn’t he write back to me? Is he angry with me?"
Hanna had racked her brains trying to figure out what could have possibly made him angry, but she couldn’t come up with any. They didn’t even have a fight before he started ignoring her like this.
"No, there is no way he is angry with you," Ethan reassured her. "He always talks about you with shining eyes, as if he just swallowed a luminous pearl, but he indeed looks a little bit down lately. It is not just you, he is ignoring everyone else and spends the whole day without saying a word."
Hanna bit her lip, she had heard as much and thought the other warriors were just exaggerating the situation, but after more than four people said the same thing, she couldn’t help but feel even more worried about Will.
"Do you know what caused him to act like that?" Hanna was nervous. She didn’t like this feeling, if she could, she wanted to go where he was, but it was not possible. "Do you know what happened to him during the monster attack?"
"I don’t know... I don’t have any idea what happened during the monster attack." Ethan then pointed to himself. "I was locked inside that damn room, remember?"
"Ah, right..." Hanna just remembered that. She was too anxious, that detail slipped her mind.
"I think the only person who knows why Will suddenly acts weirdly is him." Ethan nodded at Cane’s back. "But, don’t let your hopes go high. Even I myself don’t know how to pry information out of him."
Hanna stared at the Alpha’s back and then at her missy, who was stealing a glance at Cane every now and then, as they walked in silence side by side.
She was so desperate to see Will and talk to him. She had been so restless every time she thought about him, as if something bad would happen. This ominous feeling wouldn’t just go away.
On the other hand, Iris tried to engage Cane in a light conversation, because the Alpha had been very quiet, he didn’t even say anything after he saw her here. Why was he so callous? Didn’t he feel happy to see her? Or at least, relieved? He wanted to see her, right?
"Are you not happy to see me here?" Iris asked bluntly, which made Cane snap his head in her direction, not expecting such a question from her.
Iris furrowed her brows slightly and looked at him nervously. "I am happy," Cane replied curtly, before he shifted his attention to the orphanage building in front of him. It seemed dinner had been prepared as the smell of delicious food wafted in the air.
The appetizing aroma of sizzling bacon was mouthwatering.
"Do you want to see me here?"
"Yes."
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