The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 55

Chapter 55: WHO SLAPPED YOU?

"What is it?" Ethan was completely clueless. The gamma was not sure, but the alpha and Iris seemed to be avoiding the table, while Aderan seemed to have sudden interest in the bookshelves around them, despite being illiterate. "What books did you bring here?"

Ethan stretched out his hand and took one of the books. As he read it his expression darkened. He lifted his head and then looked at Iris, who was perusing other books and then back at Aderan.

"Why don’t you go and check the warrior’s dormitory?" Ethan asked.

"Why should I go to the warrior’s dormitory?" Aderan didn’t get it, there was nothing to look at in that place. If anything, that place was the least concerning place in this whole pack house.

"Go," Ethan said, this time more firmly, until Aderan got what he meant. He wasn’t asking him to go to really check on that place. He just wanted him to go from this library.

From the looks of it, the gamma found something in the book which upset him greatly.

"Okay." Aderan knew when to yield. Ethan was an easy going person, but something got broken inside of him during their slavery days and once he was out of control, even the alpha would have a hard time taming him.

Once Aderan walked out of the library and closed the door behind him, Ethan immediately stood up and approached Iris. The personal guard didn’t know about the curse on their alpha.

"What do you mean by this?" His voice was slightly hoarse, but his eyes were sharp and they were staring straight at her, which made her flinch and instinctively take a step back. "Did you look for information about the alpha’s condition?"

"I- I just want to help." Iris didn’t know why the gamma looked so mad.

"How can you help him?!" Ethan hissed viciously and even though Iris couldn’t comprehend his tone, she could see the hatred oozing out of his being. "Do you really think reading these books can help with his condition?!"

Ethan was reminded once again why the alpha chose that path to free their people and it was all because of the father of the girl before his eyes. Now his anger was hard to curb.

"But, there is a way to help him..." Iris replied in a small voice, she hugged the book in her hands, but she didn’t dare to lower her head. If she did, she would miss what he was saying.

However, it was Cane, who spoke first.

"Serafim?" Cane finished reading the lycan part and closed the book, as he fixed his attention on Iris, but his eyes glazed over for a second before Ethan backed off from her, which gave her some space to breathe. "Divine power?"

"Yes, that’s what was mentioned in the book," Iris answered nervously. "There is a cure for the curse."

Iris then went to the table and took a different book. She flipped the pages quickly, as if she had read that book a few times already and knew what she was looking for.

"Here, read this." Iris pointed at a paragraph that said the divine powers would be able to counter any dark magic, the stronger the Serafim was, the more she would be able to do something unimaginable.

There were a few more descriptions about what a Serafim was capable of doing, but that was not so important for them right now to read.

"I think a Serafim can do it." Iris then took another book and let Cane read the important parts. She looked so eager to help, though there was not much that she could do. "There is a cure for the dark magic that you used."

"Do you have any idea what kind of dark magic that he used?" Ethan asked Iris, he leaned his back against the table with his arms folded. His jaw hardened as he didn’t look pleased at all.

Iris shook her head. She didn’t know much about dark magic, she only heard about it once or twice, but didn’t really understand it.

The only thing that she knew was that the last battle between her father and Cane happened so fast. It only took Cane and his people less than a day for them to be able to penetrate the pack house and assassinate the alpha, which made the Blue Moon pack’s order crumble, since Mason was not much of a warrior. He knew nothing about strategy or how to fight.

Mason’s incapability was striking especially when he was caught easily and the warriors from Blue Moon pack lost their leader.

During that time, Iris stayed inside her bedroom with Hanna, until Cane tore down her bedroom door and gave an order to his warriors to bring her to the dungeon.

Blood was everywhere and that was the goriest scene that Iris had ever seen in her entire life.

"Do you know where Serafim lives?" Ethan looked at her with his critical gaze. "She lives on another continent, in the Holy Kingdom, and unfortunately, the two kingdoms are not on good terms right now." Ethan didn’t stop at that. "And do you know how to go to the Holy Kingdom and meet with Serafim? It will take you a week long journey to reach there."

Iris kept silent and let the gamma say whatever he wanted to say and only when he stopped speaking did she speak again.

"But everything is doable, right?" Iris was right, but that was not the point of this whole conversation. "If you really want to cure his curse, we need to try it no matter how small a chance it is."

Ethan squinted his eyes dangerously at Iris, which made her move closer to Cane out of instinct. It was weird for her to think that Cane was her safe place, but she did it out of instinct.

"Maybe your father didn’t need to attack our pack and enslave us." Ethan said that through his gritted teeth, but then he turned his head and started seething at the closed door.

Iris couldn’t say anything to refute that fact. She didn’t mean for that to happen and now she only wanted to help.

Ethan was being cruel to her for a baseless reason.

But after that comment, the gamma didn’t say anything and just watched how the interaction went between the alpha and Iris.

"I need more information on this," Cane said, as he handed the book in his hand to her. "No need to sneak out to the library and report everything to me."