The next day Cane received two important letters: one each from the Red Claw pack and the Celestial Moon pack.
Alpha Colter from the Red Claw pack informed him that the Serafim had heard about Iris’ healing ability and wanted his mate to meet her in person. The alpha’s letter came with a side note from Koda, where he asked Iris’ help to heal his great grandson because the Serafim failed to break the curse on the baby and if it continued any longer, they were afraid the baby wouldn’t make it.
After all, this little Vemion was the rightful future sovereign of this continent. Their opponent wouldn’t let him live for long.
On the surface, it would appear like Alpha Colter seemingly giving Cane a heads up about the summons from the Serafim, but there was no doubt it was Koda, who had suggested the idea to the Serafim and urged her to see Iris in person.
More so, if the Serafim couldn’t heal his great grandson, he must be clinging onto any hope he could find to save him. In this case, unfortunately, they heard what happened to Joel. It was predictable, since what happened to the young warrior created a little bit of uproar among the warriors, as they overjoyed for him.
Cane was not really happy with the letter. He could ignore Alpha Colter, since he owed himself a lot, but with the Serafim in the picture, it would be a bit difficult. Cane couldn’t take the risk of making an enemy out of the Holy Kingdom, unless it was necessary.
Meanwhile, the letter from the Celestial Moon pack mentioned about the recent aggressive monster attacks. The attacks became even more frequent and it was overwhelming, especially when the royals saw them as their enemy too, because they housed Prince Kellan and protected him.
Alpha Derick asked for help. He didn’t think the Celestial Moon pack would stand the vicious attacks by the monsters and the royals at the same time.
"Tell Alpha Derick to hand over Kellan to the royals," Cane said to Ethan, his voice turned deeper and darker. He didn’t even want to write the letter himself.
"You have suggested the same thing again, Cane." Ethan reminded him. "This is not the first time Alpha Derick asked this favor. He has sent similar letters a few times already." Though the wording was different, the gist of the letter was still the same.
"Then he should know what my answer will be."
"You will lose the Celestial Moon pack if you don’t help them." Ethan narrowed his eyes. "Or do you want to cut ties with Alpha Derick? He is your father’s old friend. You know how close your father was to him."
"And then he didn’t help us for a whole decade of our slavery," Cane stated it in a matter of fact tone.
"You know they have been battling with the monsters for their whole lives and Alpha Derick couldn’t send his warriors to help us. More so, it was too late for them." The distance was so great, in that case, they wouldn’t be able to come in time to be of any help to them.
"Not even a single person to check on his old friend’s family and pack?" The simple question shut his gamma up.
Sending a whole bunch of warriors would be hard, but sending a spy to check on them wouldn’t be that hard, right? After all, he had ten years to try and come up with something to give them a tiny bit of hope they needed in their darkest times.
Ethan said nothing, he understood what Cane meant by that. Tactfully, he didn’t pursue the matter further and did what he was told. He sent the same reply that he had written a few times, since the request from Alpha Derick was still the same.
The gamma didn’t hold any grudge against Prince Kellan, but he thought this was the best solution that should have crossed Alpha Derick’s mind, this should be his first option when the matter related to the monsters and the royal family had gotten out of hand.
The Alpha should have given up Prince Kellan to the royals in order to save his pack and Cane couldn’t send his people to help because he was stuck with taking care of all the southern packs, which was not a lie.
The next day, the letter from the Serafim arrived and the gist of it was what Cane had predicted. Iris was summoned to see her because the Serafim was wondering how a runt like Iris could have any healing ability.
"Tell them to come down here, because the luna is not in good health and can’t take a long trip down to the west. The conflict between the Red Claw pack and the Golden Light pack will make the journey too dangerous for her."
Ethan grimaced when he heard that. "This is the Serafim we are talking about, is it alright to straight up refuse her?"
They were in the training ground, Cane was overseeing the training of the three packs’ warriors, as this was their first time to train together.
The Howling Wolf pack warriors and the Bloody Moon pack warriors had bonded on their way to the Diandem pack, but the warriors from this pack seemed a little bit standoffish to accept that their pack had been taken over by a different alpha.
Ethan frowned, the next words were difficult for him. "Oliver’s remains have arrived in the pack, Kaz gave him a proper burial." There was still a lump in his throat every time he talked about Oliver. It would always bother him that they parted ways on bad terms. freewёbnoνel.com
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