The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 594

Chapter 594: HER CONSCIENCE COULDN’T ACCEPT THIS

If the Serafim couldn’t lift the curse, it meant Iris would be put under unnecessary attention if she managed to do it.

All souls in this realm knew the power of the Serafim and how her power was so different from the magic user. She had the purest soul and power from all, but if the current Serafim couldn’t lift the curse from the baby and Iris actually could do the thing that a Serafim couldn’t, it would bring attention to her, which was something Cane didn’t want.

The power that Iris held grew stronger after the provocation from lady Cyan, it almost like the shield had been broken and the stream of power that had been held back came to the front. Iris was still learning how to handle it and with Haco current’s condition, it didn’t help much with her progress and it seemed, she needed to figure it out on her own.

Yet, Cane was not sure how the Serafim and the Holy Kingdom would react if Iris could save the baby from that dark curse.

"Cane, this is a baby," Iris looked conflicted. She understood what Cane was worried for, but her conscience couldn’t stand it. She couldn’t bring herself to ignore it.

"Yes, and that the baby that has been cursed, but the Serafim couldn’t do anything about it." This was not about moral, but more about a conflict of interest.

Iris took a step back, as she was thinking so hard. She had been warned about a potential situation like this and she got the first taste of disagreement upon such situation when they were in the Silver River pack.

Iris knew it would be so hard if she wanted to keep walking with Cane in this path and she was willing to do it. But it seemed, it was harder than she expected. She had overestimated herself.

The question was; how far Cane could go?

"Cane, you promised me you will not harm innocent people, children..."

Iris needed space, as she took another step back and Cane didn’t try to crowd her with his presence. He gave her time to think and process her feeling.

"I was not the one, who cursed the baby."

Technically, that was true, Cane didn’t harm the baby, he only was not willing to help. He didn’t want to expose Iris’s ability more than this. Even now, Cane was still contemplating his decision to get the Holy Kingdom involved in this situation.

Only if he learned about Iris’s ability sooner, he would be more careful to get the Serafim joined in this mess. At that time, he only thought about the lycan within him and the risk was only on him, but it seemed, he had put Iris in danger more than he did himself.

"Cane..." Iris wanted to speak, but she couldn’t find the right words to say.

"You have promised me, Iris." Cane reminded her again and Iris knew he was right. "We still don’t know whether you can heal the baby or not." Cane offered a compromise to ease her guilty feeling.

"But, if I can, I still can’t help the baby, right?"

"Yes." Cane nodded and his honest answer didn’t help at all.

"Cane, if the baby died, it would be my fault." Iris lifted her head and stared at Cane. He hated it to see her like this, but he was firm with his decision.

"If the baby died, the blame would be on me."

Iris pulled her hair anxiously, her habit whenever she felt uncomfortable. "Cane, I feel like I am dying."

Cane took a step closer and Iris didn’t move away from him, so he closed the distance between them and hugged her carefully. He didn’t say anything and listen to what she was saying about how awful she felt.

Iris wished she couldn’t heal the baby, so she could feel less guilty, but then it didn’t make her feel better either.

They stayed like that for a while with Cane held her tightly, as if he was trying to keep her whole and not to fall apart.

In a perfect world, the baby would live and survive, but unfortunately, this world was not like that. The baby wouldn’t be suffered in the first place, if it was the perfect world, he lived in.

At night, Iris was having trouble to fall asleep and Cane put more effort to help her relax and get comfortable. Only after past midnight, his mate finally could close her eyes and her breathing became even, though there was still this small crease between her brows.

When Cane was about to sleep, there was this knock on the door, which alerted him. He immediately got off the bed before the noise woke Iris up.

"What is it?" Cane asked darkly, he closed the door behind him and found Haco was pacing back and forth.