"Watch your mouth," Ethan warned Oliver when he heard what he mumbled. He took him away from Iris and Cane, so they could have the discussion peacefully.
"Is there something wrong with that?" Oliver asked, his expression showed how much he disliked the fact that the Gamma stood up for Iris. He still couldn’t find in his heart to accept Iris as the luna of the pack.
Every time he saw her, he would feel like Gerald and Mason laughing at him derisively all over again. He couldn’t even stand the sight of her.
"Are you serious right now?" Ethan’s usual cheerful self was nowhere to be seen, as he glared down at the warrior before him. "You still harbor that hatred? You hate her that much even after knowing what she had done for us? Knowing how much she had to suffer at the hands of her own father and brother?"
"What she had done for us couldn’t offset the fact she is Gerald’s flesh and blood. It is only a matter of time before she shows her true colors." Oliver gritted his teeth. He didn’t intend to have this quarrel with the Gamma, but the words slipped from his mouth and he couldn’t take them back.
Fortunately, it was only Ethan, who heard him, since the Gamma was standing right next to him.
"What do you mean by true colors? Hasn’t she shown you already?" Ethan asked sternly. "She is beautiful inside and out. I like all her colors."
"You can’t force your opinion on me," Oliver retorted.
They should end this conversation right then, before it escalated into a whole new argument, but unfortunately, they were too riled up.
What those royal warriors told him kept ringing in his ears. The way they taunted them for taking their torturer’s daughter as someone they must respect.
’Do you think you have freedom now? How delusional! How can you be free when you have to respect Gerald’s daughter? You don’t have any dignity left to make her your luna. After all this time, you are still slaves!’
Those royal warriors taunted and mocked them saying things along those lines.
Many warriors were triggered, some of them, who had started to accept Iris became angry again and Oliver was among those people. His hatred ran so deep, he couldn’t help it.
"No, I indeed can’t force you to like her, but you need to keep your hatred in check. No matter what, she is our luna." Ethan’s expression turned very serious.
It was a little bit disturbing if not rare to see someone as laid back as Ethan being very serious like right now. He looked like he was ready to fight Oliver off if he were to say something out of the line again.
But then, his own hatred seemed to have blinded the warrior completely as he didn’t know when to stop.
"She will never be my luna."
"Watch your mouth, warrior."
"Someone like her doesn’t deserve to stand side by side with the Alpha." Oliver literally growled at Ethan, which made the warriors around them turn their heads and watch this heated argumentation. "Do you really think she is that innocent and kind? Did you forget that she is the one who gave out the order to kill Jemma?"
Oliver knew the reason why Jemma was dead, but he couldn’t care less about the other details as his focus was on the fact it was because of Iris that the young maid met her demise.
"Will was the one, who had beaten her to death," Ethan hissed viciously. "If you want to protest, you can go back to the pack and question him!"
"Yes, under whose order did he do that? Knowing how much Will cared for Hanna, that woman that you respect as your luna must have known he would kill her, even so, she still went ahead with the execution!"
"Why do you care so much about that young maid? Did you like her?" Ethan sneered and Oliver became so angry with the way he mocked him. "If I have someone who has done everything Hanna did for Iris, I would not have stopped at lashing the person who hurt them to death. I would have shredded them into pieces so no one would dare to do the same thing again to my person!"
However, Ethan’s answer only pissed Oliver more...
On the other hand, Iris and Cane were having an even more heated argument, as she was so desperate to make Cane change his decision to leave this pack behind.
"There is nothing we can do, Iris. I have told you before about this and explained it clearly," Cane said sternly. He knew there would come a day, where Iris would let her feelings rule her view on things and affect her decision and the same was happening now...
Iris knew, she understood, but the look in Nolu’s eyes and how he wished for them to stay a bit more broke her heart so badly. What she understood didn’t sit well with her conscience.
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