The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 67

Chapter 67: WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THAT POWER?

Iris felt like she was walking into a bright room filled with blinding light, where the colorful glass that lined the walls diffused the light and scattered it into various colors on the tiled floor.

It was a beautiful hall, but there was no one there except for her. She was alone, but at the same time, she didn’t feel she was alone, as if there was someone there to guide her.

But, guiding her where? She wasn’t going anywhere...

Iris looked around her, but this hall was almost empty and there was nothing to look at, except for the tall podium in front of her.

Thus, she walked closer to it. She had this urge to reach that spot and was curious about the blinding light behind it.

Her legs guided her there, even without her realizing it.

Iris climbed a few steps, leading to the podium, before she saw it.

There were five swords behind the podium and the glinting light was coming from them. Sword. It was a rare weapon in the continent she lived in because most of them were shifters or sorcerers, who didn’t need swords for a fight.

However, the urge hit her again. She felt the need to touch those swords. She stretched out her hand, but before she could feel the cold steel, the light that lured her there, suddenly burst before her eyes before the room started to spin.

Iris closed her eyes and whimpered, but in the next second, she felt a sudden burst of pain. It was so extreme, almost unbearable. She writhed in agony and curled her body on the floor, all the while surrounded by the blinding light.

She gasped for air and tried to breathe, until the pain diminished to a dull ache. Now, she only felt slightly uncomfortable since the light was no longer so bright. Soon she realized she was lying on a soft mattress.

That was the time when she opened her eyes groggily and looked at her surroundings.

She was no longer inside the almost empty hall. This room was so familiar to her and there was no sight of the five swords, but she found that same pair of dark eyes, staring at her in shock. _{frёewebnoѵēl.com}

It was so rare to see any emotions in that particular face. Could she consider herself lucky?

"How are you feeling?" Didn’t know what to say, he just asked the most common question.

"I... I am in pain..." she replied absentmindedly. The pain was still there, though it had reduced significantly. However, her body was very stiff, as if she had not moved from her position for a long time.

Cane creased his brows and then walked out of the room, which made Iris feel disappointed. She thought he would help her or something, but then not long after that, someone entered the room noisily and a second later, she could see Hanna’s face. She was bawling her eyes out when she approached her and hugged her.

"Oh, Miss Iris... oh, heavens! I thought I would lose you! You didn’t know how scared I was!" Hanna started crying and this made Iris’ head ache and the only thing that she could do was to pat her back.

"I am fine, Hanna..." she sighed. "But, you are almost crushing me..."

"Oh!" Hanna jolted and immediately released her body. "Oh, I am sorry, I am sorry! I am so thrilled to see you wake up, I didn’t realize that I am hurting you..."

"No, you didn’t hurt me... you will never hurt me." And Iris was serious about what she said. Anyone could hurt her, but Hanna would never do that. "How long have I been out for?"

Hanna helped Iris to sit down and gave her a glass of water, which she drank greedily. Her throat was dry and her lips were parched, but it was her body that felt extremely stiff.

"A month..." Hanna said uneasily. "It was like I was going to lose you with each day you didn’t open your eyes. I thought the healers were quacks for not being able to heal you..."

Iris stopped reading what Hanna was rumbling after she told her how long she had been unconscious for. A month?! No wonder her body felt so rigid.

But then, another thing that attracted Iris’ attention was the fact that this room was almost unrecognizable with the amount of flowers that filled every corner of it. The smell was so refreshing, but still, weren’t there too many flowers here?

Not long after that, Grace and Ardand entered the room, they checked on her attentively and talked to Hanna about the medicine that she had to give her regularly.

Iris could feel Grace uneasiness, but she didn’t pay any attention to that, because she was too tired and wanted to go back to sleep, yet Hanna didn’t let her. She made her eat first before she could have a shut eye.

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"The monster hunt will last for a week," Jace said as he perched on the windowsill in the library. Recently, Cane visited this place often, thus if he couldn’t find him in his room, training ground or his study room, he would come here.

It seemed, Iris’ obsession with books rubbed off on him, because he had been reading books about his curse.

The new moon was a week ago and without Iris there, the excruciating pain hit him double fold. He felt like his brain melted as every single bone in him shattered when he was forced to shift into the cursed lycan form.

He craved her presence and it didn’t sit well with him for having that thought. More so, he really wanted to know what was different about Iris. And how could her presence have such an impact on him. She was like a riddle that he couldn’t figure out.

"Thanks for the treasury, I think we will be good now. We can actually move to the Howling Wolf pack by next month at the latest." Jace had calculated everything and technically, the pack house in the Howling Wolf pack would be ready by next month. As long as Cane had wrapped everything up in this pack, they could go.

Someone that the alpha pointed out would take charge of the Blue Moon pack.

"What are you going to do with the warriors from the Blue Moon pack?" Jace put down the ledger in his hands before walking toward Cane, who was perusing the book in his hands.