The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 641

Chapter 641: A SURPRISE

Joyce probably nine years old right now, but her body as light as a five or six years old child, she was malnourished and was very skinny, so did the other four children that survived.

Aside from Joyce, there was a year old baby, two little girl around the age of two and seven and also a young boy in the age of five. They were in poor condition.

Cane gave his waterskin to them, in which they gulped it down and finished it.

"I am sorry, it’s finish..." the boy said sheepishly, but Cane simply ruffled his hair, while Lou stood behind the alpha and watched those pitiful and dirty children. He had clamped his mouth and said nothing, but he stayed away from them too, as if he was afraid they would dirty his cloak, yet a complicated feeling fleeted in his eyes.

"I knew it! I told you, right?! I have told you that luna Iris will come to save us!" Joyce said brightly to the other children, she showed her undying fate for the luna, but Cane felt this sharp pang.

No. When he came here, he didn’t have any intention to save them. He also had broken Iris’s heart by telling her saving the children in the orphanage was not his main priority, because there were a lot of things that happened at the same time and he couldn’t spare his time and risk the other plan to come here and save them.

This was not a plan that he had planned. But, in a way, indeed, it was Iris who had saved them. If she was not craving for that Golden Seed fruit, Cane wouldn’t have come here in the first place.

"I can’t send the letter to the luna again, because the hawk didn’t return the last time I sent a letter. I think the hawk was caught by the monster or the mean royal guards."

Cane cradled the baby in his arms, he stared at the poor baby for a while and immediately knew they really need to hurry back, because the baby didn’t look in good condition, his lips had turned purple.

"I only feed the baby with water and any food that I can find... but, the baby doesn’t like it," Joyce said sadly. She had tried her best to take care of the other children, since she was the oldest among them, but even so, she was still nine years old and this situation was too much on her weak and small shoulders to carry.

"You have done a great job to look after them." Cane ruffled her hair and Joyce beamed, but then her eyes turned even sadder.

"Yesterday, I lost my friend when we were out to find something to eat. Monsters caught her..." Joyce cried again. "If she managed to escape the monster, she will survive too. She will be very happy to see you, alpha Cane. She always said that you are not as scary as you look and I agreed with her."

Cane had met with the little girl, but not in a way he wanted to.

Joyce then told him about everything that had transpired in the capital city and with the monster attacks. The first attack to the orphanage, the monsters managed to break the spell that was put around the building by a kindhearted sorcerer, apparently, the spell was not strong enough and there were so many monsters.

The first attack killed so many of them, especially children because they didn’t know how to hide themselves well.

After that, there were fifteen of them, but every day there would be someone, who died when they were out to look for food and the five of them were the last one.

"I thought, we are going to die too, but I believe luna Iris will not abandon us!" Joyce seemed to adore the luna very much.

"She will not," Cane said. It was him, who abandoned them.

They walked out of the building and reached the front yard, where they encountered with Deadeyes again. All the children were freaking out and hiding behind Cane’s back, seeking for protection.

Yet, before Cane could hand over the baby in his arms and shifted into his beast, it was Lou, who stepped forward and dealt with the monster.

It didn’t take long before he killed the monster and its body dropped dead with its head detached from its body, the sight was gruesome, but the children didn’t look as shocked as they thought, it seemed, they had seen worse than this. The fact was unsettling.

"You are a sorcerer..." The young boy stated and Lou approached him, he squatted down in front of him, so they would be on the same eyes level.

"Yes, but this is a secret. No one should tell about it, okay? No one should know." Lou’s expression then turned serios. "Or else, I will send you back to this place."

All of them nodded vigorously. They were afraid of his unnecessary threat, but the two years old girl came forward and tiptoed to give him a kiss on the cheek.

"I will not tell anyone," she said in her crisp voice.

Getting a sweet kiss from the girl, left Lou dumbstruck and speechless. He didn’t like children, okay?! They were annoying and noisy!

Lou cleared his throat and stood up. He then asked more magic stone from Cane. "Give me all of your magic stone," he demanded. "Hey! I have helped you this far, at least, pay me decently," he growled at Cane when he furrowed his brows.

But in the end, Cane gave him all the magic stone with him and the merchant created a portal for them to leave.

"It’s okay. It will take us to a safe place," Cane reassured the children when they looked afraid to step inside.

But, when Joyce took the lead to enter the portal first, the other children followed her step.

"You stay?" Cane asked when Lou didn’t budge from his position.

"There is something I want to investigate." He was still pissed when he learned the magical device didn’t work. He needed to know what was wrong with his baby. Yes. His creation was his baby! He wouldn’t be nice if someone was messing up with his baby!

Cane nodded and didn’t ask further, as he left the sorcerer there and entered the portal with the children.

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Kellan entered the throne room, where he met with Dexter, the head of the royal sorcerer, just like he had expected.

They always told him the king summoned him to come to the throne room, but for the third time, it would be Dexter, who was here. He didn’t know what he wanted from him, as they spent most of the time in silence. The head sorcerer would ask a few questions and then didn’t say anything again, before he sent him away.

Those questions were only trivial questions, but this time, it was different.

They had met a few times and Kellan would have this weird vibe from him, not to mention with the rumor around about how lady Cyan was actually a dark witch, she used dark magic, of course, the person she had chosen would practice the same thing. _{freewebnøvel.com}