"Don’t!" Aliana said that word more stern and firm than before, she glared at Maria, who was trying to approach the bedroom and see Iris for herself.
Seeing the look on Aliana’s face, Maria startled, she recoiled and lowered her head. All of the pack member were close with one another, like family, there was this special bond between them, they were bonding over their trauma.
However, things started to be different, not everything would stay the same understanding their current situation and now the relationship between Aliana and Maria, which used to be close, started to drift away.
"Aliana, you shouldn’t treat her like that!" Kaz reprimanded Aliana. "If the luna is crying because she lost her baby, Maria can help her!"
"How she can help her?" Aliana narrowed her eyes and stared at Kaz coldly. The two of them had been desperate to be on the alpha’s good grace because their last assignment had been completed and they shouldn’t be in this pack house anymore, but Cane had been very busy and he didn’t have time to pay close attention to the two of them, while the other servants and warriors felt reluctant to be strict with them, because they saw Kaz and Maria as their elders.
"Aliana, have you forgotten? It was Maria, who stayed by you when you lost your baby, she made you feel better. She had experienced with grieving mothers, who lost their babies, of course, she can help the luna!" Kaz argued with Aliana.
However, his argument didn’t make Aliana felt good at all. What he said only angered her.
"This is different case, Kaz." Aliana gritted her teeth, but her murderous eyes rested on the old man now, which made him took a step back. It startled him to see the hostility in Aliana’s eyes. "If I were the luna, I don’t want people, who hurt me to be by my side when I was down."
"We are here to apologize and move on from our old grudge, we can start new Chapter." Kaz was still adamant with the ideal ending for this dispute.
"That’s not up to you to decide." Aliana stared down at Kaz, who was being very stubborn now. "You can’t force someone to accept your apology, just because you apologized to them."
"The luna is not like her father, right? She will not hold grudge against us if we had a talk with her and made her understood..." Kaz grew frustrated because Aliana couldn’t see things from his point of view.
Aliana cut his words when Kaz started to downplay the situation and use the same statement over and over again. "Yes, the luna is not like her father, but I think after so many years of slavery, it’s you who had turned like her father instead."
"Aliana! How rude is that?!" Maria exclaimed, to be compared with that devil was a great humiliation.
"How can I be rude?" Aliana threw a dagger look at Maria and swatted away her hand in her grip. "You treated her badly even after you knew she had helped us during the slavery and now you demanded her to forgive and forget? The luna is too nice, if I were her, I would have thrown you out of the pack house long time ago."
"How can you say something like that to us?" Kaz was shocked to hear this words came from Aliana’s mouth.
"Because you never understand, even now, you don’t feel you are in the wrong. You want to apologize because the alpha finally punished you and you wanted to treat the luna well because she gave birth to the future alpha!"
"She gave birth to a baby girl! The baby is not strong enough! Grace has been keeping an eye on her! How she can be the future alpha?!" Kaz was furious, when he learned it was twin girls, he was very disappointed, but then he chucked it out because no matter what the baby was still the alpha’s flesh and blood.
However, what Aliana did next, left them stunned speechless.
A slap landed on Kaz’s face, which startled the five warriors behind Aliana, who watched from the distance.
Aliana actually slapped him so hard the old man took two steps back.
"How dare you talk like that Kaz!" Aliana growled and Zephyr needed to intervene because she looked like she was going to lose it.
"Al- Aliana..." Maria stuttered.
"Kian, escort the two of them out of the pack house, the alpha had ordered to not let them stepped in the pack house once the preparation for the funeral is done," Zephyr ordered one of the warriors, while he held Aliana back.
Kian immediately escorted Kaz and Maria away from the pack house. Kaz was too stunned to speak after the slap and Maria was crying her heart out, asking to meet with the luna and to see the baby.
"Are you okay?" Zephyr asked Aliana.
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