The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 573

Chapter 573: MY APOLOGIES

Iris kept hugging Cane desperately, as if he was going to disappear if she loosened her arms around his neck, still crying.

"Let Grace check on your wounds, okay?" Cane sighed deeply. He leaned his back against the wall, sitting on the bed with Iris on top of him. She was glued to him, so close, he could feel her beating heart against his chest. Her scent engulfed him and he couldn’t help but feel so relaxed.

He missed this scent, he missed holding her so close, he missed her...

The past three days, he couldn’t sleep well, his nightmares returned without her by his side. Not only was Cane only able to sleep for just two to three hours at nights, but during the days, he had to suppress the lycan as well, as the black wisp kept appearing every now and then. The lycan became so restless and agitated for not spending enough time with her.

"No!" Iris whimpered.

"You are hurt."

"You are the one who hurt me..."

Cane gave up. He stopped his attempts to push her away, instead he hugged her and caressed her hair and back, soothing her anxiety.

For a long moment, they stayed like that, without saying anything and just enjoying each other’s company, because heaven was when the two of them were alone, forgetting their miseries and troubles of the world out there for a moment.

"Let me see your wound," Cane said when Iris finally calmed down enough and stopped crying. "Or else, it will leave a scar."

Reluctantly, Iris raised her head and stared at him with swollen eyes, her face was so red, especially her nose, which Cane kissed gently. He kissed her swollen forehead too and Iris flinched.

"Painful?"

"It’s nothing compared to the pain in here." Iris pointed a finger at her heart. "You keep ignoring me and it hurts me so much. I feel like someone stabbed me with a rusty dagger and twisted it viciously. I want to apologize for the way I acted that day. I know I was at fault, but you didn’t give me a chance at all. You hurt me so much, you said you will not hurt me intentionally."

Iris couldn’t help it, she poured her heart out in order to make Cane understand how miserable she was in the past three days, so he would know how she felt. She was used to talking about her feelings openly and now she put in so much effort to let him know how much she regretted her actions that day and how sorry she was for challenging his authority in front of his people.

What she did was not acceptable in this continent, as a woman, you should oblige the man in your life. That was how this world worked. It was unheard of for a luna or any mistress, no matter how favored they were, to challenge the man that owned them.

"I am sorry, I am truly sorry..." A silent tear fell on her cheek and Cane leaned over to kiss it. "Forgive me..."

"Iris," Cane called her name softly, but firmly. "In the future, I don’t want you to challenge my order again," he said. "If I say you go left, you will go left. If I tell you to go, you must go, no questions asked. Even if I ask you to leave me behind, you need to do it without turning back, understand?"

Iris frowned. She didn’t like the sound of the last sentence. "How can I leave you behind?" She was unhappy and Cane knew she would focus on that part.

"Because I want you to be safe. I don’t want people to judge you. If you want to disagree with me, do it behind closed doors. I will always take your opinion into consideration, but never disagree with me in public. I don’t want to be forced to discipline my own luna."

It was a tradition in this continent, women didn’t have a voice in regards to men’s decisions and no matter how much Cane favored Iris, challenging him in front of his people wouldn’t look good on the two of them. Cane didn’t want there to be a single negative word about Iris if he could help it.

He knew firsthand how a rumor would start and that kind of stuff could ruin your reputation and put you in a damaging and disadvantageous situation.

"Okay," Iris said in a small voice, but then she added. "Now I can protect myself, you know." She couldn’t help but brag about how she killed a lot of enemies during the last attack by the Silver Warriors. "I squeezed their wolf spirits and your warriors could kill them easily."

"Our."

"Hm? What?"