The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 43

Chapter 43: THE AMOUNT OF PAIN

Cane heard the creaking sound of the door and saw Iris staring at him with a complicated expression on her pale face. She lowered her head and fiddled with her fingers, not knowing what to do.

For a moment, Cane just stared at her with a stoic expression. He still had not yet decided what he was going to do with her now that the situation became even more complicated than he intended it to be.

This gave him another headache to kill his brain cells over.

"Come here." Cane narrowed his eyes when he saw she didn’t move an inch and then remembered that she couldn’t hear him. He waved his hand to beckon her over.

Iris saw the movement from the corner of her eyes and walked toward him slowly. She was mortified when the alpha raised his hand and wrapped his fingers around her neck, as his eyes darkened to see his mark on her skin.

At this moment, Iris still did not realize about the mark on her. She thought she was bitten by the monster and the fact that she might be marked didn’t even cross her mind.

However, Cane saw it and he was not happy at all to see his mark on her. His enemy’s daughter. Gerald’s laugh kept ringing in his head, sounding like he was mocking him all over again for marking his daughter. He would roll over in his grave, laughing over how stupid he was.

"Ma- master..." Iris held his hand when his fingers tightened around her neck. He was trying to choke her and the realization made her panic, especially when she could see the hostility in his dark eyes.

With his strength, he would be able to crush her neck easily.

Iris gasped for air, but her airway was blocked and she started to claw at his hand, leaving marks there, but it healed within a second. He didn’t feel any pain from it. Not even in the slightest.

And when Iris’s face turned red and the pain became more unbearable, as she thought she would die from strangulation, Cane finally let her go.

Her legs became so weak, as she dropped to the floor, coughing fervently.

Her neck was in pain and her ears kept ringing. She gulped the air greedily to fill her empty lungs, but then she coughed even harder. Her whole body was trembling in fear.

Iris wanted to move away from him, yet she couldn’t bring herself to do so when she didn’t have strength to stand up or even carry herself away.

She flinched and whimpered when Cane hunkered down in front of her. His eyes were still emotionless, watching her in pain. He waited until Iris stopped coughing. It took a long time for her to be able to breathe normally.

Cane pinched her chin to tilt her head up, so she could see his face and read his lips, for he had a question to ask. "What were you doing in that hut?"

That was not an unpredictable question, since Iris knew that he would ask about it sooner or later, but she doubted that he would accept her answer.

"I- I heard a howl."

Cane narrowed his eyes. "You can’t hear."

Iris knew he wouldn’t believe that, because she didn’t believe it either. It had been years since the last time she heard anything, aside from her own voice in her mind.

"But, I heard it." She insisted. She didn’t know what kind of lie that she could offer. So, it would be better if she told him the truth, since Cane looked like someone who would be able to sniff a lie from miles away. "I heard a howl and followed the sound of it."

"Why?"

Iris could understand why it was hard to believe her explanation, if she were in his shoes, she wouldn’t believe herself either. Why would she follow the sound of that howl? Normally, the first instinct that came to your mind was to run away from such an unknown howl.

Howls like that must be coming from a beast and someone like her, a runt, who knew nothing about protecting herself, should seek for a shelter, not the other way around.

Iris tried to explain herself the best way she could, but she knew it was not convincing enough for Cane.

"Do you know what happened to you then?" Cane’s voice became so much darker now.

Iris nodded. "Yes..." her voice was small. It was filled with dread when the events of that night rushed to her mind once again. She still remembered how she thought she would die when the monster pounced onto her and shifted back into its human form.

"What have you seen?"

Iris swallowed, but it hurt her throat tremendously. She felt like she was eating sand that grazed her gullet.

"A... a monster, chained to the wall with silver chains and then..." She avoided his intense gaze when she spoke again. "I saw the monster shift into its human form before he bit me..."

Her whole body was trembling when she remembered that moment. That was the most terrifying moment in her life, aside from when Mason whipped her when he was drunk.

"And then? What else?" His voice was akin to glaciers.

"The monster..." Iris lowered her head, she was so afraid to say this out loud. "The monster shifted into a man and it was you..."

"I don’t know what else happened... I- I lost consciousness..." Iris was still visibly trembling, especially when Cane grabbed her hand all of a sudden and forced her to stand up, he dragged her to the other side of the room. _{freēwēbηovel.c૦m}