The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 70

Chapter 70: YOU WILL BE WITH A CHILD

"How about your progress?" Cane asked her about the stones.

But, Iris grimaced because she still couldn’t figure out how to distinguish the difference while feeling the two types of stones she had with her. Yes, there was a subtle yet peculiar sense unique to each type, but she still couldn’t fully grasp the difference between the two.

Seeing the troubled expression on Iris’ face, Cane got his answer and didn’t ask further.

"Why do you want to get the air magic stone? Does that have anything to do with your curse?" Iris tried to ask about this again, but Cane didn’t seem interested in answering that question. He opened the carriage door and let Iris get inside first as he sat across from her.

The alpha looked out the window and from his demeanor, it was clear he didn’t want to be bothered, thus Iris didn’t say anything. She kept quiet during their entire trip to the east side of the pack, where there was a big tree on top of the hill.

Iris had been there thrice before. On very rare occasions, when her father was in an extremely good mood, he would allow her to roam around the village and town.

And when she was ten years old, a month after the fall of the Howling Wolf pack, her father was over the moon and allowed her to go out of the pack house.

That was the time when Iris went to the hill again, the place that she knew from Hanna. Her personal maid had taken her there for the first time when she was seven.

Iris was staring at the garden when the carriage passed the gate. There, she saw two villagers carrying bouquets of flowers and talking to the guards.

They chatted happily and when the carriage passed them, she could read a little bit of their conversation.

"...She is recovering. She looked healthy."

"Heavens! I am so happy to hear that."

Somehow, it brought tears to Iris’ eyes. Hanna had been telling her the truth, the villagers and the town people were genuine with their feelings toward her.

Iris felt like her heart was a little bit lighter, as if a huge burden had been lifted from her shoulders. Probably she was too sentimental about this, but the warmth in her heart was so real.

On the other hand, Cane saw her wipe tears from her eyes, but he said nothing.

Unbeknownst to them, there was someone watching the carriage move away, her eyes were so gloomy and her jaw was clenched. She balled her hands into fists until her nails stabbed her palms.

"Where are they going?" Aria asked Dalia, who was following her.

After her last conversation with Cane in the restroom at the training ground, Aria decided to stay away from him, in hopes the alpha would realize the void that was being filled with her presence, but from the looks of it, he was too busy with a lot of things to even remember to eat or rest properly.

However, he still made time to visit Iris for five to ten minutes every day, just to check on her.

Still, Aria hoped Cane would realize her absence sooner or later. Wise people said that absence might make the heart grow fonder.

Yet when she heard that Iris finally woke up, she couldn’t help seething. More so, when the alpha asked her to have a private meeting in the library where Redmond pledged his loyalty to her.

Things seemed to progress in Iris’ favor now while she was being pushed aside. The people loved her because of the sob story that Hanna told them.

So, what if she helped them?! Would they forget completely about what her father and brother had done to them?!

"They are going to the east side of the village from what I heard," Dalia told Aria. She was standing next to her, while holding a small box filled with many new accessories.

Cane didn’t lie when he said that she could do whatever she wanted. He gave her a lot of money to indulge herself in the activities she didn’t think she would be able to experience at all as a lowborn.

However, what Aria really wanted was Cane. She didn’t want anything else.

"I must kill you!" Aria said through her gritted teeth, she was very angry at this point and the flowers that she stepped on had been crushed, they didn’t look like flowers anymore. "I should have killed you a long time ago!" _{ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com}