The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 320

Chapter 320: IRIS CAME UP WITH SOMETHING

Iris didn’t want Kellan to take Joyce with him, because she knew what kind of fate he would make the girl to succumb to.

"Cane, please. Don’t make him take her away to the palace," Iris cried.

But Cane said nothing, and waited until she was calm enough. "I can’t promise you anything. There is no definite plan to stop him from taking the girl."

Right now, there were a lot of things going on, Cane was in the middle of his plot and he had to tread his path carefully. If he did something to prevent Kellan from taking the girl from his own orphanage, something he was used to, it would get his attention and the last thing Cane wanted when he was in the middle of the eye of the storm was to startle the snake in the bushes.

The risk was too high and there would be a lot at stake if he alerted Kellan he was against him, since he had a long plan ahead of him for that prince.

"I can’t promise you this." Cane didn’t sugarcoat his words, he explained the risks and what was at stake to her. He didn’t mean to say the girl’s innocence was not important, but they were talking about a whole pack, a whole plot, even their own lives.

Iris bit her lips so hard, she couldn’t believe there was nothing they could do to save the girl. But, on the other hand, she understood why Cane’s hands were tied in this matter.

"This is so wrong..." Iris muttered, she felt like she was unable to save herself again and the girl would live through the nightmare that was now haunting her every night.

"I know." Cane lifted her head and looked her in the eyes, those blue eyes looked so devastated and it bothered him to see how upset she was. "This will not be the last difficult situation you will face if you choose to stay with me."

Iris knew the meaning behind his words.

The next three days, Iris kept thinking of a way to help without causing a hindrance to Cane’s plan, but she was not a mastermind like Cane, she knew nothing about making a scheme or even coming up with a great plot.

Therefore, in those three days, she looked so down while Hanna, who usually was the cheerful one, didn’t look so well either, thus their days inside the bedroom had been very quiet, without Hanna initiating the conversation.

"Hanna, can children in the orphanage read?" Iris asked all of a sudden one fine afternoon, after they had their lunch.

"I am not sure, I don’t think so. There are no teachers to teach them how to read." Hanna tried to remember, as she spent a little bit more time around the orphanage than Iris. "No, I don’t think they can read. The big sisters can’t read either because they are lowborn." And because Prince Kellan didn’t arrange for a teacher, there was no way for them to be able to learn how to read, unless they learned it somewhere else.

Iris lowered her head, she was immersed in her own thoughts. She remembered how Aderan was illiterate as well and every time he sent a report, it would be on a very rare occasion. Most of the time, it would be those spies who would send the report by secret missives. And the report from Aderan would always be composed of symbols. Just one look at it, and Iris would immediately realize it came from him.

Some warriors were also illiterate.

Hanna could read because she taught her. Jace and Ethan could write and read because they were highborn in the Howling Wolf pack, while Will came from a prestigious family, back in the day when Cane’s father was still the Alpha.

But, Trion, Avid and the rest of the warriors... she didn’t think they could read.