The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 30

Chapter 30: HER INSTINCT

Cane had never heard of someone who was able to find magic stones easily, the way Iris did, especially when it came to a rare stone like the one that she kept.

Probably she didn’t realize it yet.

Cane had been in these mines for years, of course, when he was not being tortured by Gerald and Mason. The mining site was another form of torture for him, thus he was familiar with various kind of magic stones. The darker the color, the stronger the power it held.

And it was rare to find a dark blue stone like she did.

In ten years of slavery and working in mines, he was pretty familiar with various stones.

"Find it," Cane said, as they stopped in the middle of the site. "Find more magic stones."

"Pardon me?" Iris blinked her eyes, she didn’t miss what he was saying, but she surely didn’t believe that. Just because she could find one easily, it didn’t mean that she could find more anytime she wanted.

However, Cane thought she failed to read what he was saying, thus he approached her with long strides and pinched her chin to tilt her head, so she could read lips clearly.

"Find the magic stones," he enunciated every word clearly and watched how she nodded her head as fear filled her blue eyes. She did not even reach his shoulder and her body was so skinny, as if a small gust of wind could blow her away.

Cane let her go and watched her stumble. She was at a loss, as she looked around her and pulled at her hair nervously. She glanced a few times in Cane and Aderan’s direction, just in case they were talking to her, but also because she was afraid they would start feeling impatient or agitated.

In the end, Iris walked slowly toward the last spot that she dug in today, hoping she could feel that strange pull again, while the two men followed behind her.

She clutched her chest to calm her thumping heart because it was hard to catch that tingling feeling when she was trembling in fear like this. And so she stopped walking and took a deep breath. She looked around her and let her instinct guide her feet, which led her to the eastern part of the mining site, where they dug deeper into the mountain and created a few tunnels.

There were three tunnels that they dug, which were still active and produced magic stones occasionally.

"I think... it is inside there..." Iris said, pointing her finger at the second tunnel.

"Go."

"Inside?" Iris blanched when he told her to go inside, but Cane didn’t reply to that silly question of hers. "I- I will find one again in a different place." Iris didn’t want to go inside. It was so dark and she hated being in a dark place.

Being in the dungeon for a week was already bad enough for her, even though she still had dim light from the torch. But inside the tunnel was completely dark and she couldn’t see anything.