The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter

Chapter 445: DON’T YOU WANT TO CHECK? Amee realized the unfair treatment toward Iris had started taking toll on her and with Sofia being here, it only escalated things further to the worst case possible, as you could see the contrast between the way they treated their own luna and an outsider who claimed to be carrying the Alpha’s firstborn.

Kaz didn’t even wait for Cane’s instructions or confirmation before he rallied people behind him to hail Sofia as the new mistress. Some of them were desperate to find another ’Luna figure’ aside from Iris, because they couldn’t stand her.

Not because she was not good enough, but because every time they saw her, subconsciously they would be reminded of Gerald. It made things hard for them, as well as Iris.

”I wish nothing for you two, but happiness, Luna.” Amee lowered her head and kissed both of Iris’ hands and then lifted her head back up to look at her. ”Don’t ruin yourself for them. I know Alpha Cane has a huge aspiration and from how I see it, this will not be the only pack that’s going to need your attention.”

Amee knew Cane ever since he was so young and with him eyeing those five packs, she could roughly see where all this was going. It wouldn’t be fair if the other packs got the new but ’nefarious Iris’ as their luna.

”Are you trying to tell me to abandon this pack and focus my energy on the other packs?” Iris concluded because the words Amee said implied so to her.

Amee pressed her lips into a thin line before she spoke again. ”We are broken, Luna, too broken to see our wrongs. I just don’t want to see our wrongs kill the good in you.”

Dead silence followed after that, as Iris didn’t say anything in response to what Amee confessed. She tilted her head to stare at Hanna. She finally let Will go, but was it the right thing to let go? Would it make your heart lighter? Make your life easier? Or, you just avoided the problem that would hunt you down with endless ’what if’s?

The serenity in the room was broken when Amee spoke again. She was still holding Iris’ hands. ”By the end of the next summer, you will be the longest mate for Alpha Cane. And Luna Iris, I hope nothing but for both of you to be able to see all the four seasons every year.”

Iris frowned because she couldn’t catch what Amee meant by that, which made the old woman smile gently as she explained it to her.

”Alpha Cane and Leane were only together for a total of ten months,” Amee said. ”Leane moved to Howling Wolf pack almost right after the two of them realized they were mates and she got pregnant a month later.”

Ten months. Their time together was very short.

”I didn’t mention this with ill intentions, Luna. I only want you to know more about Alpha Cane’s past and how he was, since I am sure, he never talks about himself.” Amee then added. ”If you don’t want me to talk about this, I am sorry to bring this up, but you can ask me anything about the Alpha.”

Iris shook her head. ”I want to know more.”

Iris and Amee ended up talking about a lot of things, which helped her see how Cane was when he was little and how mischievous he was until the previous alpha couldn’t even get angry anymore and turn speechless when young Cane, at the age of thirteen years old, rallied boys around his age to go to the Goffa mountain and set traps to catch a Geromine.

Under young Cane’s instructions, they managed to catch one and none of them were seriously injured, but Alpha Josh punished them all for going out of the pack unsupervised. Young Cane also managed to trick the guards and warriors in charge of patrolling the pack grounds when they slipped out.

And now Iris realized, Cane was very cunning ever since he was so young.

Amee also told Iris that when Cane was five, he refused to go to the early morning training sessions. As the heir, Alpha Josh was pretty strict with him, thus when he shifted for the first time at the age of five, he was sent to the training grounds and little Cane was not a morning person.

Therefore, the night before, little Cane slipped out of his bedroom to the storage room to get an extra blanket, but not before he put some strong aroma on his blanket and covered his body with it to mask his own scent.

Little Cane threw the blanket in the garden and went to an empty room where he slept until afternoon the next day. Meanwhile, the whole pack was in panic, unable to find him in his bed in the morning, thinking someone might have kidnapped him, since there was this unfamiliar, strong scent inside the room.