It was a tricky situation when you have to face a double crosser like alpha Nolan. There were a lot of things that you could get from this situation, but if you made a wrong move, it would be you, who was being stabbed on the back.
"They are not born as a royal family. The idea of putting the baby on the throne is ridiculous."
The thing that alpha Nolan didn’t know was; it was Cane’s idea to put the baby on the throne, he and Koda schemed their way to make it happened.
"And for Koda to be the regent? Do you really want to let him sit on the throne and do whatever he wanted to do? That man is very greedy for power."
All of them did, including Cane. Who would be able to resist the temptation of power, everyone needed power for different reason. More so, it was also Cane’s idea to put Koda as the regent.
"Hm." Cane nodded. "And?"
Alpha Nolan smirked, he thought he had tempted Cane enough to consider this.
"The only person, who has the royal blood and suit to be on the throne is you, Cane. People might have forgotten about this, but I will never forget it." Alpha Nolan stood up, he walked toward Cane and stood in front of him, as if he was a father, who was lecturing their son about life. "If Leane was still alive, she will want the same thing."
How ridiculous of alpha Nolan for talking on behalf of his dead daughter when he didn’t even know what was Leane’s favorite flower.
"Leane will want to see you to raise in power and sit on the position that should be yours." Alpha Nolan kept edging Cane to think about all the possibilities that he could get if he became the king. "During your time in the capital city and what you have done to ensure the people’s safety, people’s heart goes to you, it will be easy for you to win the people’s heart."
That was rather true, the people in the capital city were very thankful for what Cane had done, especially when he was rumored to be in a good term with prince Kellan and helped with the construction of the orphanage.
Even after all this time, the people still saw prince Kellan in bright light and a perfect, kind prince. The irony of it made Cane felt sick.
"What is your plan?" Cane narrowed his eyes and alpha Nolan’s eyes lit up even more, he looked younger than his age right now.
He then gleefully told Cane what was in his mind. The plan to sabotage the Red Claw pack and the support from the Holy Kingdom.
"Do you know the Red Claw pack has their own force of magic user?" Alpha Nolan crossed his arms in front of his chest.
Cane knew the other secret of Red Claw pack, but not this one. "Force of magic user?" It could be considered as illegal to have their own force of magic user, aside from the magic user in the palace.
Usually, one pack would only allow to have one magic user, but a bunch of them? It could be a threat for the king. Not only that, the Holy Kingdom allowed the force of magic user belonged to the royal family only, because it was their pride as the magic user not to obey any orders from lower class, especially from shifter, the creature that deemed ’impure’, since they were half animal and half human.
If that was true, what Red Claw pack did, had breached two rules at the same time.
But then, to think about it again, it was pretty easy for Red Claw pack to house a lot of magic users, since they had the source of their power, the magic stone mines.
"How many magic users that we are talking about?"
Alpha Nolan smiled brightly to see the interest in Cane’s eyes. "A hundred, give or take."
A hundred magic user under your command was too much, but the problem was; how they could raise such force? Magic user didn’t bond to their leader like the member of the pack to their alphas, they were free spirit, who led their own life and could live individually.
"If the Serafim learned about this, you can see where this will go..."
Yes. Cane could see where this would go, but then after he got the confirmation from his spy about the Winter Moon pack and the royal, he knew where he would end up after they took down the Red Claw pack.
"Interesting," Cane smiled, which alpha Nolan assumed he agreed with his plan. "Tell me more how do you want to proceed this."
"Verry well." Alpha Nolan nodded. For this unity, he would offer his daughter again. Once his daughter mated with Cane, he would have him wrapped around his fingers.
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Iris stared at the gloomy sky, it was so dark and the black rain poured down the ground again. The storm was here and the angry howls of the wind made Iris felt anxious. She hated this so much. It would be a day without the sunlight and people grew restless, this weather made everyone felt very depressed.
"Is there any news from Cane? What happened out there?" Iris asked Aliana for a hundred times today, she felt lethargic and unsettling.
She learned from Eron when he returned that Cane had his own suspicion about alpha Nolan, which made her felt so glad that he didn’t put down his guard and his instinct was as sharp as ever.
Currently, they were only two hours away, but Iris felt they were so far apart, especially tonight would be the first time after so many nights they didn’t sleep together. It would be the first time they were separated.
Iris couldn’t help, but became very upset, especially when she grew clingy with Cane because of this pregnancy. Her emotions were all over the places. She missed him so bad. She wanted him to be by her side all the time and she cursed all the people, who had separated them like this.
"Don’t worry, apparently, the royal warriors only demanded for the alpha to hand over Sir Lou. They didn’t mean to attack us." Aliana scoffed when she said the last statement. What they meant that they didn’t want to attack them when they had destroyed five villages?
Iris didn’t feel easy even when she heard that. "Did Cane hand Lou over to them?" she asked sheepishly. Well, she didn’t mind for Lou to be dragged to the Capital city, as long as those warriors backed off and Cane could return unscathed. She was afraid if Cane really went to a battle and something bad happened to him, even though, she knew very well he would be fine in any battle, after all, if thing went south, Lu wouldn’t let Cane, as his vessel, to die.
"No."
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